Fluffy

Welcome to Tuesday! Are you ready for another twisted challenge? We are thoroughly enjoying the artwork created from our themes and I can't wait to see what you do with this one. The theme this week is "When Fairies Go Bad". Think of fairies being where they shouldn't, unwanted fairies and fairies up to naughtiness.

I haven't had an original idea in my head for Fluffy Fatbottoms Twisted Tuesdays for the last couple of weeks and this week when I saw faeries, I said Yippee, I love faeries!!! And, when I post my next piece, you'll see that I love this image, the look on the child's face is priceless. Hope you like it!!

whew

I had so many commitments lined up and due to a funk that appeared out of nowhere, I got behind. This weekend has heralded the disappearance of said funk and the reemergence of my creativity. Thank G_d!!! I hate not being able to function, not even my housework was getting done and in a household of 3 men, that's a no no, esp for the bathroom, that I mentioned in an earlier post. LOL

Anyway, I had 2 cards to make, one for a friend who's ill in the hospital and another for a friend who suddenly lost her mother early Saturday morning. Unfortunately the details of these cards are lost in the scans.

for my friend in the hospital


for my friend who's lost her mother

your 3 words

I found this video on Jillian's blog this morning, love her art, but what she said about this made me want to see what it was about. She cried, I cried. Hope you watch it, maybe leave me your 3 words

I have many:
I miss Mom - passed away in 1984 from metastatic breast cancer
Just do it
Get over it
I'll be fine
I love you

art day

I actually got some art AND housework done yesterday. I got the dreaded bathroom clean, again, why does it never stay that way? and my pages for a 12 Days of Christmas Fat Book swap in which I chose Day 1. What a moronic thing to do. Being the 1st page, you'd expect something spectacular instead of mediocre, well it's not mediocre but not spectacular either. Oh I forgot, I still have to add some colour to the partridge.
I have that wonderful 12 Days of Christmas set of stamps from Stampington that I use every year in some way, shape or form, and this time I cut out the partridge and 2 pears and foam dotted them to the tree that I designed in The Gimp and had printed out on the paper that I had already printed the text, Porcelain font out on.

At one point during this, I thought I had ruined it but maybe it turned out O.K.. You can't see it in the scan but the stars are gold, the harlequin b/g is stamped in gold and I rimmed the page in gold Krylon.

tagged again

well I was going to do a tag but just as I was uploading a pic, blogger crashed on me and I lost an hours worth of 'work'. So instead, I'll leave you with this oldie. This was also a gift and the recipient loved it, thank goodness! Enjoy!

tagged again

I love being tagged. It means that people think enough about me and my art to want to send other people to see. Thank you so much Suzy for tagging me with the 7 random and or weird facts about me tag.

Here are the 'rules'

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself (on your blog, we all want to know them).
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I went prematurely grey. I coloured it for about 10 years then decided that I like the grey which is almost silver and stopped colouring. I am also letting my hair grow out, that's how much I like it! LOL

2. I hate to cook, love to bake.

3. I don't think there is anything that I'm terrified of except being away from my family.

4. I've only ever had 1 pet in my life, a little Heinz 57 dog when I was about 10 yrs old.

5. I can't stand shopping for clothes. I'd much rather my DH do it for me. My shopping is for my 'art'. LOL

6. My mom taught me how to knit, purl 1 knit 1, in a lunchtime and I taught myself how to crochet in about a month. I crocheted a baby blanket for my 1st baby.

7. i'm extremely shy in new situations to the point where people think me a snob.

Hope I didn't bore you! I now would like to tag these 7 people

Alice K at Yellow House Studio
Britta at Enjoyland
Deborah at Cards and Things
Kathy at Altered Antiquity
Kelly at Artsy Visions
Pauline at paruscircle
Wendy at Crafty Butterfly Stamping Blog

Have fun with this ladies!!!

And another blast from the past!

see

told you I'd have something new soon! LOL

This is a spread I did in another artists music deco. I was stumped on this until a friend steered me in the direction of Broadway, after that it was easy. LOL I had a vision for this spread but I don't know that I pulled it off very well. The poster is actually a windowcard and I wanted it to look like it was propped up in a shop window in the Christmas season. The letters are glittered to mimic the huge production number in the movie where everything was glittery gold. Yes the movie, I never did see the play. :'(

my apologies for my absence

a lot of not so nice things have been happening in my household recently, a fried laptop, a fried monitor, not at the same time, dead t.v.last week, a son who wants to go to his university of choice this weekend to check out the open house, a mouse in the house, just a bunch of things that's sapping my energy and I've not been able to get much art done. I hope to be able to rectify that this weekend but only if this feeling I have doesn't turn into the flu.

If you've managed to read this far, thank you for your patience with my rant and please check back. There will be new art soon.

In the meantime, I'll leave you a pic of something I did ages ago.

another spread

in a music deco. The theme of this deco was music legends. The owner started off with Mick Jagger, the next artist did Elvis and I did Ella Fitzgerald, know for her scat singing, among other things. She had such a full life I couldn't include everything I wanted into the spread so I went minimalist and included just a few facts. The scan didn't turn out well due to the fact that the page before was so dimensional, my spread wouldn't open properly. LOL

I did it, I did it

Fluffy Fatbottom's Twisted Tuesday's challenge today was for wicked witches and here's my attempt. It feels so good to get something done!

me bad

I have been such a bad blogger lately! I haven't been able to do any art this week and I'm so swamped with swaps, I'm frightened now I won't be able to do a really good job just so I can get them finished.

Please be patient with me while I get everything straightened out and get some art done to show. Thank you!

finally

I got the challenge for Fluffy Fatbottoms Twisted Tuesday fish challenge just in time for tomorrow's challenge!

A FISH OUT OF WATER

If you do things differently–or try new things–you sometimes feel like “A Fish Out of Water”–So, we want you to use a fish image–and have that fish doing something totally different than swimming comfortably in water.

I was tagged

I was honouered by my dear friend Heather at Creative Solace in a middle name tag and it goes like this:

Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had. When you are tagged you need to write your own blogpost containing your own middle name game facts. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and to read your blog.

Well I don't have a middle name and ever since Heather tagged me I have been wracking my brains to come up with one that I would have loved to have and still can't come up with one. After many, many years of hating my name and wishing for anything else but the one bestowed upon me, I have finally accepted it.

But I do remember that I was supposed to have been called Leslie until my Mim put her foot down and said no! LOL What's strange about this is that my dear friend Heather's middle name is Leslie and there's no way I could do as good a job of this tag as she did.

L - loving
E - energetic
S - supportive
L - learner
I - intuitive
E -emotional

Lame eh? LOL

Now I'm supposed to tag as many people as there are letters in the name so I'll try to pick artists who's work I really love but don't get to often enough.

Karie
Linda C.
Beth A.
Dianne
Gayle P-R
Jane

Ladies have fun with this!

P.S. - can you tell I'm trying to get caught up all at once? LOL

world cardmaking day

was 2 days ago but because of my silly schedule, I wasn't able to to do anything for it, shucks, I missed all the fun! So yesterday as I was doing a bunch of catch up I did these 2 cards for Halloween. I had got a big sheet of chipboard accents at the dollars store, gotta love the dollar store! and i did this with some of them. These are just off a 3 x 3 format.

music deco

my spread

my sign in tag, the owner supplied the basic white tag and we are to decorate it


this is my page in another artist's deco. Her page featured Louis Armstrong and was so delightful I had a hard time figuring out what I was going to do until I heard a song by Frank Sinatra. Now, I was born to and raised by older parents and the only music I heard in the house was 40's and 50's 'stuff', swing, jazz, big bands, etc ... and I loved it all. Frank for obvious reasons was and still is one of my absolute favourites.

4 x 4 Friday

The theme for 4 x 4 Friday this week is Black and White and while I love this combo, I struggle with it. I think I over did this one. Enjoy!!

now for the deco

I love doing decos and for those of you who don't know what a deco is, it's a small to medium sized, handmade book made by an artist and passed around to other artist for them to decorate in the theme the owner has chosen. The owner does a title page and the 1st spread to start off the deco, adds a sign-in page, a send home to page and any guidelines she wants the participants to keep in mind.

The Yahoo group that I belong to where the members also love to do decos is Byhandartists and right now we're starting off a music themed RR. I wracked my brains for a music theme for this but couldn't come up with anything that I really wanted to do until last Friday when I was at work. A Barenaked Ladies song came on the radio and my mood lightened, I got a smile on my face and all was right in my world for those few short minutes. I thought there's my theme! What music means to me! This what I came up with.

The book itself was gifted to me by a wonderful lady and I couldn't decide what to make with it til this deco came up, and it's perfect as it's in my favourite colour combo, it just spoke to me.

4 x 4

I was working on a music themed deco this weekend but while I was at my desk I kept seeing these bits of images and paper 'floating' around and I got an idea for the France theme on 4 x 4 Fridays. Because the image of what this should look like when it was done I had no problem putting it together. I think it's missing something but not quite sure what. But overall I like it! Sorry the scan's a little lop-sided! LOL

once again

I apologize, my real life got in the way.

To the ladies who won in my name calling contest!, sounds bad eh?, LOL, your goodies are going out in the mail tomorrow! Sorry to have not been able to get them out sooner.

I am making art and will share as soon a I have something finished. I am involved in a music deco RR on one of my groups and I had a very had time finding direction for this one but it finally came this morning and I'll have it together today and ready to go out tomorrow, TG! I'll scan and post when it's ready.

And finally this link has been making the rounds but in case you haven't seen it, here's true altered books.

It's a beautiful day here for the 1st day of fall, I hope it is where you are too!

my apologies

for not posting the winners of the Name the Art Doll Contest yesterday as I said I would. My real life got in the way of my art life and I couldn't get near the computer to do anything!

So without further ado, oh BTW the name I had picked out for her was Merry Christmas, and would you believe that I had a science teacher in grade school who's last name was actually Christmas and his wife's name was Mary??!!!!Boy that was fodder for our juvenile minds! LOL

My lovely little miss's new name is Princess Angel Snowflake of Christmas the First ! Thank you so much Suzan for the wonderful name. I knew I wanted something unique and that's what I got.

While I won't be using any of the other fabulous names, I really loved Angelheart from Nancy Maxwell James and Angel Eve from Suzy.

I want to thank all of you who entered my little contest, and even tho I didn't pick yours, please know it was a very difficult decision! I loved each and every suggestion. And I do hope you'll keep popping in to see if I have something new! LOL I hope you don't mind but I'd love to link to your blogs so I can check in on all of you?!

So Suzan, Nancy and Suzy, could you please email me, through my profile, your mailing info so I can get your prizes off to you as soon as possible. Thank you

Oh and thank you all so much for the lovely comments you left about my art. It thrills me to death to know that someone really likes what I do! LOL

Have a wonderful day everyone!!!

contest

I was gifted with this very special lady by a good friend of mine, thank you so very much, earlier this week and I need a name for her. I have one, very obvious but it suits, I think. I would just like to get some more suggestions.

Suggest as many names as you'd like, in separate comments tho please and on Monday I will pick a name and the winner will receive 2 atcs and a few other little goodies. I may pick more than 1, if I like the names, it may be hard to pick, in which case, all I pick will receive the same. Does this make sense? LOL

I'll tell you that this little miss is so me, I adore Christmas, my birthday is Christmas Eve, I have a thing for snowflakes, my screen name has angel in it and I love angels and fairies! LOL

Good luck and have fun!

it's been a busy weekend

I got some atc's done, worked on a fashion quotation theme deco, altered a small clipboard a friend and I picked up for $1 at Michael's, did laundry, ironed, repaired some work pants and moved in some new furniture, well DH and his brother did. Wow, no wonder I'm tierd! LOL

This is one of the Fall theme atc's I did for a seasons swap that's coming up. I saw these packs of glittered fall themed leaves at Wal-Mart for really cheap and this idea, plus a couple of others came to mind so I had to get a pack. Love fall colours, I wish we had more leaf change down here but we only get yellows, little orange and a very little red.

another atc for blue

ear bug anyone? LOL Little more success with the glue but I can see in the scans that my bling placement is a little off.

more atcs for a blue/asian swap

Love doing Asian themes!


The second one has no words but if you think, I'm sure you can get the reference. Had a real problem with glue on this one, I'll probably redo it but I really like how it looks!

Sept. mingle

for the ongoing swap on Byhand group. Once again we had some fantastic options.

Sept 3 Labour Day (US & Canada)
Sept 9 Kite Festival (China)
Sept 11, 1885 D.H. Lawrence Birthday
Sept 12 Rosh Hashanah - New Year (Israel)
Sept 12, 1944 Barry White Birthday
Sept 13 Positive Thinking Day
Sept 13 International Chocolate Day
Sept 15, 1890 Agatha Christie Birthday
Sept 16, 1925 B.B. King Birthday
Sept 16, 1956 David Copperfield (Illusionist) Birthday
Sept 18, 1939 Frankie Avalon Birthday
Sept 19 Hippocrates Birthday (Greece)
Sept 21 & various other days Apple Festival
Sept 21 International Day of Peace
Sept 21, 1934 Leonard Cohen Birthday
Sept 21, 1866 H.G. Wells Birthday
Sept 22 Oktoberfest (Germany)
Sept 22 Yom Kippur (Israel)
Sept 25 Moon Festival (Hong Kong)
Sept 25 Tet Thrung Thu (Vietnam) Harvest Festival
Sept 25 National Comic Book Day
Sept 26, 1774 Johnny Appleseed Birthday
Sept 28, 1901 Ed Sullivan Birthday
Sept Save the Tiger Month
Sept Native American Month
Sept National Honey Month

Flower of the Month: Aster
Horoscope: Virgo Aug 23 - Sept 22
Color: Aqua
Birthstone Mod: Sapphire, Trad: Sapphire Mystical: Agate
Number 9 (use #9 or any number that starts with the number 9, example 9,
92, 99, 900, 9,000,001 etc)

I chose to do the Kite Festival. Unfortunately it was the only event that spoke to me!

The background is gesso painted on water colour paper then painted, the blue is acrylics and the green is Twinkling H2O's, it does have a bit of sparkle to it. I then stamped a flourish in metallic blue across the sky to give 'wind' movement. You can't see it in the scan. I stamped the asian images on Basic Grey paper that has a cherry blossom pattern to it, cut them out to make kites, attached gold metallic thread for the string and blue floss for the tail and attached them to the page. The text is cg. Hope the recipient likes it!

I hosted a

Anne A 1
Anne A 2

Anne A. 3
Beth A
Carmen G.
Carolyn A.
Chris S.
Darcee R
Heather R.
Joanne R.
Judy L.
Kathleen M.
Krisy LB.
Linda T.
Marg H.
M-B J.
Mikki D.
Nancy C.
Nancy C. inside
Pat G.
Therese M
Wendy K.

White on White Fat Book swap recently. I wanted to share the gorgeous results. A few of the participants have already got there books bound but not me. I have no idea yet so I'll stew on the ideas for a while.

I think I'm back!

LOL The computer is in the living room (we have a small condo and while I'd love to have a dedicated office, it's just not possible right now) and my art space is just that, an art space! Yippee!!!! While I loved having the laptop there, it was too distracting and I would get next to nothing done. Last night when I was cleaning up, I got the itch to create, so I did an atc for a swap on one of my groups, had already done one, and started on a '4 x 4' for the same group that has to go out Wednesday!

Happy Labour day to all and yipee the kids are back to school tomorrow! LOL