Weekend Fun!

First of all, Happy Mother's Day to all my blog friends!! here is my Mother's Day card for my Mom:

Front - heart from Tim Holtz new die cut

The paper is "cloth paper" made by gluing thin pieces of napkin to a cloth base, drying, and ironing flat. I also put some shimmer mist on it and Lumiere paint. I used 3 different napkins. This piece folded over a thick card that was meant to hold 2 photos. I also stamped the leaves across the top.

Back:

Inside the card I put two photos, one of me as a child, and one of me now. It reads: 

I got all my good qualities from you, Mom

Isn't it lucky you had more than enough for both of us?  

(from the internet)

I made this card last weekend at our local stamp club annual workshop. It was one of the projects, and I think I will make this fabric-paper again, it was a lot of fun! Here are the other projects we made last weekend:

 This is the card I presented, a tri-fold card. Most of the participants were able to do 

this with not much trouble.

This is a bead doll that went with the fabric-paper card, 

but I'll find another use for it. Easy and fun!

This didn't have anything to do with stamping, but one of our members works with glass, so this was a fun out-of-the-box project. We started the day with this, let it dry and finished the day with the grouting. It's supposed to be a bird bath, but I may use it for something else. 

A "milk-carton" box. Will make a great gift box! 

We colored the white ribbon with markers then 

spritzed the ribbon with water. Nice effect!

This was a simple card to make, just put the white cs through the embossing folder, then the blue ellipse. Swipe the tops with color (I used distress inks), put it together and add dragonfly stickers to the middle.
It made a neat effect.

This one came with a circle cut from a post-it, we stuck the circle on the card
and brayered over the card with blue.
Then using yellow and purple distress ink, I added the color with a sponge.
Then stamped and embossed the mice and the reeds. Simple but effective.

This is the Sunflower card. It came already stamped with the 1/2 sunflower on each side.
We embossed the flowers with the cuttlebug and folder
after we used watercolor crayons to color the flowers. Then we cut the flowers out.

Opened up:

The inside was pre-stamped as well, I added the word BLOOM. (Michael's - $1.50!)


I bought 2 used stamps that day and used them on these metal tags.
This was fun! But you have to buy a "squisher" from Memories
to squish the metal down over the paper tag. Might get one!

We also made this very easy necklace. I used a Tim Holtz stamp and distress ink

The cover of this is raised so things can float inside.

This last one is a crayon resist. We colored the image that was pre-stamped onto Chrome Coat paper (apparently the only kind of paper this will work successfully with) and colored one flower with a light color crayon (I think mine was tan). Then we rubbed distress ink all over the image and wiped it off with a paper towel. The white flower popped out! Stuck on a jewel, mounted on black, then the card, stamped BLOOM and done! Fast and easy.

Well, I hope I got all the instructions correct! It was all from memory, and that seems to be on and off these days! But we had fun, and got a LOT done for one day!

Batles ATC Swap

Haven't been up to much lately, getting ready for a stamping workshop where I will be showing how to do a Tri-fold card to 22 people. Other than all that preparing and cutting, I have made 3 ATCs for a Beatles ATC  Swap for http://bockel24.blogspot.com. The Beatles were my favorite group when I was growing up, and I've done a few artsy things before with this theme!

here they are:

Love, Love Me Do

 

Rain

Eleanor Rigby

The first two are using Tim Holtz products, the last is a Meer Image stamp. Can't remember who made the sun. So now they will by flying off to Germany!

March Journal Pages

Here it is a glorious Spring day, and I'm uploading photos on my blog! Waiting for my daughter to wake up (visiting from Toronto) so we can spend the day having lunch and shopping, and going to our favorite haunt, Chapters + Starbucks. A perfect day! The temperature is supposed to go up to 23 degrees (Celsius!) which is about as good as we got all last summer!


So here are my journal pages for March. A bit if tweaking this month. 

 The image came from one of CJ's magazines called "Bust" - instant love!

The black strip with flowers was some fabric tape I got for Christmas.

 I love B&W images so I can color them with my Copic markers! 

Thought I'd do a border of swirly stamps - I have a lot of these!

I found the dress (headless) in a magazine - looked very Caudine Hellmuth-ish to me!

I added the bird head (drew it) and colored it with Copic markers. the beak is a magazine cut-out

Thought I would try a mostly stamped page - all is stamped except the people images and the birds on their heads. Turned out OK! I think I'll do more of this type - I do have a lot of stamps that need exercise!

OK-off to have a bath and wake up CJ! 
I hope everyone's day is as glorious as mine is!

More cards

Here's another Stampscapes card I made yesterday:

 The skeleton angel is from Meer Image.

A little while ago my friend Therese at Art-just do it! 

sent me some lovely paper that she bought on her trip to England. I made several cards for my Stamping Club using the paper as the background:

strange looking - distorted - don't know how that happened!

Thanks for the paper Therese!


After a week of sun and warmer weather, we are back to miserable! At least no snow. . .yet!

Still at it!

Looking around my stamping room for images that would go well with Stampscapes, I found my Meer images nudes that I had bought many years ago. If you go scroll down the link you can see all the wonderful images that they have in this theme. Now I want more!!

 I also went out and bought a waterfall, because I wanted to try the water effect which I had never done before. I think I have pretty much depleted the stock of Stampscapes my local stamp store has, time to order online!

Lots of mistakes in this, but hopefully if you don't look too hard you won't see them! I have 4 more nudes in the set, maybe I'll play with them today! I'm pretty happy with the way the water turned out, with practice I'm sure it will get better!


Hopefully everyone has seen the Doritos Video (if not, see the link at the top of the page under my banner). To get the video to go VIRAL we need to post it to as many people as possible, and to put it on facebooks and twitter about it! Thank you to all who are helping these kids make it happen!!

Back to playing, then back to real life tomorrow!

More Stampscapes!

I have done 2 more Stampscapes cards. I'm looking through my stamps to see how many I can combine with this style of stamping!

The squirrel and the leaf are popped up

 I've had this man for quite awhile - only used him once!

Off to see what else I can come up with! Only a few days left of March Break - it's been fun!

Stampscapes

And now for something COMPLETELY different! I have dusted off my Stampscapes stamps and have been busy playing with them this week!

This was stamped over a photograph. . .

as was this. . .

and this!

I love the otter in this one!

The wolves are from a SU set of stamps.

That's it for now! I'll probably play some more today!

Don't forget to watch the Doritos Video!! (see above post)

Exciting!!

My DD and her boyfriend have entered a Doritos contest, and have made an awesome video! I would love for everyone to see it, and since I have no idea how to pop it on my blog, you can go HERE  to see it. They get points for every "computer" that views it, and more points if you are out of Canada.

If you love the video, please send the link to everyone you know, and put it on your facebook! Also, if you could click on 5 stars, and "fav" on the video site, that would be absolutely wonderful as well!

I realize I am biased, but these two are awesome filmmakers, as is evidenced quite nicely in this little video!
I know they would love to hear you comments as well, which I will forward to them!

Thanks for watching and voting!!!

Marlynn at Honeysuckle Breeze blog gave me an award!! 

Thank you, Marlynn! There are rules associated with this award. You have to:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it in your blog.
3. Link the person who nominated you.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that no one would really know.
5. Nominate seven "Kreativ Bloggers"
6. Post links to the seven blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them.


OK, 7 things that no one would know....

1-I do most of my journaling, including backgrounds and collage from my bed while watching TV. Mind you, I'm not sure what I'm watching while I'm jounaling! I kind of tune out. But its a comfy place to be.

2-My first cat ever was totally black. I found her when I was at summer camp when I was about 10. She was tied up in a paper bag and dumped in a stream to die. I rescued her after hearing her cries. Her name was Inky and I had her for several years until one day she just disappeared. Someone told me she had been kidnapped.

3-I once met Telly Savalas at a restaurant in New York City when he was still on Kojak. And I met Peter Ustinov in Toronto. Still waiting to meet Johnny Depp. . .

4-When I was a young teen one of my favorite groups was  Lovin' Spoonful. At 14 years old I moved from CA to Canada, where later the lead singer from Lovin' Spoonful, Zal Yanofsky, opened a restaurant in the city I moved to (Kingston, Ontario). Later, I taught his grandson. I got to know his daughter, and his first wife, and often went to his restaurant (Chez Piggy) before he and his second wife died. He was always popping in and mingling with his customers! He was quite the crazy, but very nice, guy. What a strange co-incidence, to leave CA and a CA band, to find the lead singer in Ontario!

5- I'm going gray. No, really!

6-I love old Kurosawa Samurai movies, especially ones with Toshiro Mifune.

7-at one point, when I was a teenager, we had for pets; 2 boa constrictors, a coati mundi, a flying squirrel, a skunk, and a wooly monkey. Oh yes, and a dog and 2 cats. I don't go in for exotic pets anymore though.

My 7 nominations:

1-Samantha at http://www.journalgirl.com -wonderful journaling
2- http://blueridgelady.blogspot.com-love her journals - fantastic!
3-Mary Ann at http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com -one of my favorite blogs
4-Linda at http://atclindab.blogspot.com -talk about creative!!!
5-John at http://john-alookin.blogspot.com -I love John's hand drawn journals - wonderful! I wish I could do this!
6-Judy at http://judywise.blogspot.com  -another wonderful journaler. I wish I could do what she does too!
7-Leslie at http://lesliewood.typepad.com   -check out these beautiful pages!

I'm back!

Don't know how many of you missed me, but I've been "out of it" for a little while - who knows why. I've been suffering from back pain for about 4 weeks now - it was excruciating a few weeks ago, and FINALLY! I can go through a day and not miss the pain pills. At first I was keeping up the daily journaliing, but my back suffered greatly from it, which of course, made me not want to do it, though I did think about it a lot! The pain was just too much though. Also, it made me depressed of course, and with a lot of stressful stuff happening at work, it all culminated in not posting, and not journaling. So now that I'm on the mend, I'm hoping to finish the last page I started (about Feb 16th or so) today, and I have uploaded all the pages before that. So sit back with a cup of coffee (or tea, or a glass of wine!) and take a look, I hope you enjoy January and half of February!

January 2010

oh, and I forgot the excema on my hand that I was battling with for the last several months -it made doing anything with my right hand very painful! It's much better now, almost (dare I say) normal. But I still have to keep it moist and bandaged all the time.
I enjoy using my Copic Markers on B&W pictures to colorize them! THESE are the ones I use, they seem to be a bit cheaper than the others. I got a bunch from my dd for Christmas.

I went through my stash and used of bunch of things I have had a round forever for the border. Image from Altered Pages.

Interesting page, still using stuff up. New dragonfly from Altered pages.

I used two of my old ATCs on this page

Girl from Altered Pages, other images from Nancy Baumiller. Stamp from Tim Holtz. I want to use more stamps in my journals.

My daughter and I went on a trip to Boston/Northampton for the weekend. We took a small plane from Toronto Island. It had propellers. I was TERRIFIED!! It was to get CJ a tattoo from a well-know tattoo artist that she admired. He was only in Easthampton for a short while as a visiting artist, and she got his last day. She will need 3 more visits, though, to complete the tattoo. Maybe when it's all done I will post it.

February 2010

After the tattoo (the next day) we went back to Boston for one night, and went to the aquarium.

The trip back wasn't quite as scary!

 

This is not one of my better pages, I think you can see I'm fading fast!

 

 This is my last page, I totally forgot it and had to come back and pop it in. It is black. It started out bright yellow with pink circles! I guess that says it all! But I really like it.

That's it for now. Hopefully I can get back on track and start making more art! I have joined a Stampscapes Yahoo Group and so I'm hoping to get back into Stampscapes as well. This link will take you to the Stampscapes Gallery. Find me at Cameron, Linda and you will see some cards I made several years ago.

Bye for now!

Check this out!

I came across a lovely blog that is celebrating her 1st year blogiversary - she's giving away a huge pile of blog candy! If you are interested, get right over to HERE and check out her blog! I better think about mine - I think it's coming up in February!

The end of my last journal

Here are the final pages of my last journal, November to December. I ran out of pages on December 7th, and silly me did not have a new journal ready. Well, actually I did, but the paper was all wrong and it just wasn't working so I had to make a new one, then Christmas crept up, and well, you know! I am also having major issues with my right hand (of course!) I have extreme eczema in the palm of my hand, and over Christmas it was so bad I could hardly use my hand without a lot of pain. So it's better today, and hopefully will keep on getting better!

So here they are, I hope you enjoy them!

And the two Sookie Stackhouse book I read in December:

That's it for now!

Happy New Year!

Another year gone, another year older! I started my new journal on the 31st, Number 5.

Here's my New Year's Page:

  Still needs some journaling, but the sentiment is there!


Here is my new journal cover, I made this one the same way I made the last one

Here is my first page

Will be posting all my pages from November '09 to December '09 in my next post!

Last card of 2009

Here's my last card of 2009! My Step-Father has a birthday on the 2nd of January. The family always goes out to brunch on the 1st to celebrate both our birthdays, and I always make him a card. Here it is!

 

My friend Marg will recognize this card style, because  she made me a card very similar to this for my birthday! I liked it so much, I copied the style and made one for Noel. Happy Birthday Noel!