thinking of you

i needed to bang out a quick card to send a message to a friend.  i had a collage sheet from lunagirl already printed out and handy.  and of course papers and stickers galore... so this is what i made:

and off in the mail it goes.  the quote at bottom says "to live in gratitude is to touch heaven."  it shows up nicely on the actual card but not so well on the scan.

love to all.

flamingo party

it is week two of the "tickled pink" challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  its a challenge to play with pink and our sponsor is digi darla designs so the random;y selected winner will get some digis to play with.  here's my week 2 DT sample:

the digi here is called party flamingo.  since you can manipulate digis, changing size and such i thought why not reverse one and have 2 birds facing each other.  so that's what i did, colored them with pencils and gel pen, then decorated with pretty papers and stickers.  i think this card has potential as a valentine also.

well, feel free to join the fun, there is one week left.  enjoy, and love to all.

tickled pink at the cheerful stamp pad

the next two week challenge at the cheerful stamp pad is "tickled pink" so break out your pinks!  our challenge sponsor is digi darla designs.  a randomly selected winner will get a lovely prize from digi darla.

i used a gorgeous digi darla angel for my design team card.

she is colored with pencils and surrounded by various lovely papers.  this might be my first valentine of the season.  with many more to come!

i hope you will join the challenge.  love to all.

thank you cindy adkins!

i received this lovely tag in the mail from blog-friend cindy adkins.

it is so stunningly pretty and full of delicious detail.  thank you so much cindy!  you will get a special valentine from me next month!

it is awesome to share and swap with other bloggers and to learn from their work.  i have a couple more special gifts to post in the coming days as well.

love to all.

cheerful stamp pad challenge week 2

it is week two for the cheerful stamp pad  "white as snow challenge. our challenge sponsor is classy cards n such. and the challenge task is to work with the color white.

i guess i am still stuck on the "peace" theme.  i've used this hero arts stamp three times in a sort of a warhol style a la the tutorial from technique junkies.

i hope you will join in the challenge!
love to all.

2013 journal pages

last weekend i took a "journaling in the new year" one day class from wonderful local artist and teacher liesel lund.  we did several pages of art as well as additional written reflections.  it was just lovely spending a day with several other arty women and then gobs and gobs of fab supplies -- acrylic paints, markers, pencils, pens, glues and other collage supplies.  lots of inspiration.  kind of a perfect day!  here are 3 of my pages representing some of  hopes for 2013.  i used torn pages from magazines, acrylic paints, doodles with markers, glitter glues and such like.

you can even see the "journaling in the new year" handout in the photo above!  it is tucked into my notebook.
we sparked our creativity by pulling images from magazines that resonated for us and then collaged the pieces as well as decorated the magazine images with our own art embellishments.

i made a cut out of my hand with a magazine page and then decorated around it on this page.
thematically speaking as you can see, time for retreat, reflection and art are big goals for me in the coming year.  alas for time and (physical) space to do more of this.  i will somehow find a way.

i'm submitting this post for dawn's journal journeys blog as well, this month's challenge is "NEW" and my pages are  reflections for the new year.  i hope you'll check out her lovely art journal blog.

love to all!

cheerful stamp pad challenges are back!

welcome to 2013 and a new year of challenges at the cheerful stamp pad. the first two week challenge for this year is "white as snow" and you are invited to work with a background or palette of white.  use of snow is optional!

one nice new feature on the cheerful stamp pad blog is that you can see the next few challenges on the right hand side bar -- gives you the opportunity to plan ahead!

i decided to try a new technique from technique junkies called "white negative."

stamp credits: tree branch from inkadinkado; japanese script from mad rat rubber and peace stamp from hero arts.

our challenge sponsor this round is classy cards n such where you can find stamps, embossing folders, all kinds of bling and much more.  the randomly selected winner will get a nice treat from the sponsor.

i'm hoping for peace in 2013 so this is my happy new year card to all of you!  enjoy and love to all.