Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! I can't be with my beautiful daughter today, but I can be with my wonderful mother! My DD will visit next week for a combined Mother's Day and her early Birthday (23rd! Hard to believe!)

Here is my mom's MD card for this year (we both love chocolate, but don't eat it!)



And here is another Journal Page- I seem to be taking a week or two to complete one page, that's how boring my life is!



I'm almost finished with my latest ATC altered book page for ABC Canada. I will post as soon as it's done!

Bread Art

Someone sent me a great link to a wonderful cause - Bread Art! If you make some art on a piece of "toast" 1$ will be donated to feeding hungry people in America. I have made three so far! Check the last one I made at this link. To see more of mine, just do a search for Lindart. Go to this link to make your own! Just click on Workshops and there you are! Have fun!

Easter Day

I was a bit "maudlin" on Easter Day, missing my DD terribly, remembering all the Easters we had together when she was little. I have all the EDM #s in a box, when I don't know what to draw, I pull out a number and draw what it says. I pulled out #2 - draw a lamp. So I drew one of my MIL's lamps. I love these lamps, they are very old, the shades have gold thread in them, though I couldn't figure out how to make it look like gold. I decide to put in all the surrounding bits too, so on the left is a painting that my Mom did of me and my DD, on the right is a painting from Singapore. There are two photos of DD as a child on the table the lamp is sitting on, and the chair is also one from my MIL. Lots of memories in this little drawing! If you want to see the whole of the painting of me and my DD, look here.



so - although I enjoyed drawing, I'm still a bit maudlin. . .

March Journal Page

I don't seem to be working as much in this journal since I started my moleskine journal, I guess that's to be expected, as I only have so much time! This month's challenge on Michelle Ward's Crusade No. 30 is called "Cat Got Your Tongue?" and is about writing on your journal pages. I have no problem with that! My pages aren't finished until I write all over them. The journaling often has nothing to do with the images on the page, but sometimes it does. I even journal on my drawings and paintings!

Another Moleskine page and some cards. . .

I seem to be averaging about one moleskine page a week, better than none I suppose! A few years ago I drew my DD in this same chair -it was horrible! I think I've improved a bit!

My 2007 drawing of DD

yesterday's drawing of same chair, different person! I see the perspective on the chair is still off -something to work on!


Some new cards for Altered Pages Kit

I have designed some new tag cards for Altered Pages, if you buy the kit from them you get cs, images, paper, ribbon and instructions!







She has all kinds of other cool kits too, check them out!

And my DD's boyfriend has a birthday coming up, so I made him a card. I'm sure he never looks at my site, so I don't think I'll be giving anything away!

Inside is a funny Groucho quote and another stamp of Groucho.
Hopefully he will like it!

That's it for now!

Moleskine Journal Pages

These pages are done with a pen and watercolour pencil. I belong to a group called Everyday Matters, and they have a list of 216 things (so far) to draw. So if it says EDM# it is one of the things from the list!

Altered Book pages

On my ABCanada group we are challenging each other with ATCs that we make and send to each other, then we use the ATC we received on an altered book page. I'm devoting a whole altered book to these challenges. Here are two of those pages:

This theme was "numbers", we could make any ATC as long as it had at least one number in it. The ATC was made by Pauline

The theme for this one was "white on white"

Here is a close up of the ATC.
This ATC was made by Mary-Beth.

Lots of Journal Pages!

I have finally uploaded my Art Journal pages from last July to the present. I actually have 4 journals all together now:

1: My composition book art journal
2: a new journal made from cardboard pieces, a little more creative, idea from Ingrid Dijkers
3: my reading journal
4: my Moleskine journal for drawings and watercolours

I don't know if I can keep up with all these journals, it seems like a lot to me! So far, my reading journal is the one that suffers the most. I have to play some catch-up with that one!

So here are the few pages from my Ingrid Dijkers inspired journal. It's the journal itself that inspired me, although I LOVE her style:














Here are the pages from my Composition Journal:

A very selfish post for Christmas - I just got so many wonderful Art Supplies for Christmas!!

The end of the Christmas/Birthday pressies are on the left, Feb post on the right

Journal Pages

I haven't posted journal pages for awhile, and these ones are different from my usual. I enjoy drawing and sketching, so i have a moleskine that I draw in. I picked it up in 2007, drew 3 pages, then dropped it for some reason. Well I've begun again, and joined the yahoo Group Everyday Matters, which gives weekly prompts. I did a few pages, then did the prompt for this week, which was to draw in they style of a famous artist or style of art. I chose Gustav Klimt. So here are my pages since I picked the journal up again on the 7th of February:

Happy Valentines Day!

A day late, I know, I've been so busy and so exhausted! Here is my card for dear hubby, he loved it!

The image is from altered pages.

We had a nice romantic dinner-scampi, salmon, spinach, tomato salad, and a Chocolate Torte for dessert. Yum!!

My mother's birthday was on the 12th of February, and here is her card:

Her card's images are also from Altered Pages, and in fact, is part of a kit I made for Altered Pages. You can go to the website and order the kit if you like! My daughter's Valentine's card is also part of the kit:


Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Happy Birthday. . .

to my crazy baby brother Ken! here is the card I made for him. I had the card already, but I modified it for him and it worked very well!

Blog giveaway

Here is the link to an awesome blog giveaway if you need some eyelets (I know I always do!!). I will update my art posts soon!

Day 11, 12, and Christmas Day!

We had to skip over Day 10, we are not sure what happened to the person with day 10, we all just hope she is OK. So, on to Day 11!

This was from Carolyn A,

It must have taken an incredible amount of patience and time to cut this all out - it's beautiful!! I have it as the background for my Nativity, but I think I'll have to use it for my small Nativity next year. I love it!


Day 12

Our last day of the swap. This has been so much fun! This one was made by Kristy, and is beautiful!

Inside was a double slide mailer, the kind where the box is as good as the insides!

Here is the inside with 2 removable ornaments

which are now hanging on my tree! What a great idea Kristy!

Day 13. . .

Now I can tell you what I got on my day, Day 4! Our hostess, Mary-Beth, was in charge of the days where we gave our gifts, and therefore would not have one to open. I had to keep it a secret, because everyone opened her gift on a different day.

It is a Button Angel!! Very pretty, and is sitting in my tree.

Thank you M-B, and all the participants in this year's 12 Days Swap.
I hope I'm in on the next one!

And now for Christmas Day pressies!

My wonderful DH and DD were very generous as always, and got me piles of new things to play with! I'm sure these will last me until next December!!

Still collecting the Distress Inks!

And I've wanted a distresser for quite awhile now! plus
a cool ATC background stamp!

Love these masks - now I have them all I think!

Grungeboard! Finally!

Love these stamps!

and these!!
And yes, I now have 2 crow stamps,
one Mounted and one UM! How decadent!!

Wow! I've already used some of the sprocket gears on my January journal page!

I love the paint daubers, wasn't sure at first, but now I know they will be indispensable!!
Haven't tried the Stickles yet.

Aren't they the best DD and DH? And my birthday is on
Thursday. . . I know there's more!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, best wishes for an
awesome New Year!!