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Okanagan, BC, Canada
Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. Thanks for stopping by!

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Crafty Gals Corner, March - Anything Goes

Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner.  The theme this month is anything goes.

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(listed in alphabetical order)


Prize ~ 2 Digital Images

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Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

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I created my card using an image from Patti's Creation called  Parrot love.

 


 I coloured the image with Copics, assorted markers, and pencil crayons. To complete the card I added some flowers ,gems and a sentiment.  

Remember to pop over to Crafty Gals Corner  to be inspired by our talented design team.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.

Sunday, March 3, 2024

March Anything Goes Challenge at A Place to Start with Optional Twist/ It is Hip to be Square

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The theme of the challenge is anything goes with an optional twist "It is Hip to be Square"

This is the card I made for this challenge, a birthday card for my youngest granddaughter who turns 5 in a couple of weeks. She just loves unicorns.


I  created this card using a digital image from my stash and colouring the image with Copics, pencil crayon, Gel pens,  Nuvo, sparkle pens, glitter and then adding a birthday sentiment and layers of paper. The background paper is from Graphic Paper.

I hope she enjoys the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join us this month, check out the beautiful cards of our talented design team over at A Place to Start




Saturday, March 2, 2024

613 Avenue Create March - Anything Goes - Diamonds or Pearls


Time for a our March's challenge at 613 Avenue Create.  As always our challenge is "Anything Goes" and this month our optional twist is to use diamonds or pearls (add gems or bling to your project).  

Our generous sponsor this month is 


Mirtillamente's collection of digital stamps can be found here
Mirtillamente's facebook page can be found here

I am using an image from our sponsor called Lea from the 

LE OLIVIE collection




 I used a combination of copics, pencil crayons, gel pens and glitter pens to colour my lady. I also used diamond coloured gems to frame the lady and to give her some sparkle along with a pearl necklace and a glitter paper background. 

I think my sentiment fitted the card perfectly "You are unique. Let you sparkle show everywhere you go."

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Please join in the fun. Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Friday, March 1, 2024

Creative Artiste- Challenge March 2024

 Welcome back to Creative Artiste Challenges Time for our March challenge.  Your project must be Mixed Media and can be an ATC, tag, card, layout, altered art or an off-the-page project as long as you follow the challenge specifications. You must use at least 3 different mediums on your project to qualify for our mixed media rules.

This is my project for this month, an art journal page using a napkin from my stash along with my paints, inks, stencils, gel plate, glitter beads and dyes. 


To create the background to my art journal page I used my gel plate, acrylic paints (green, aqua blue, gold, white) and a stencil.  The wolf's face is an napkin that I got from a friend at a get together. I thought it was to pretty  to use as a napkin. 

Once I added the napkin adhered to the page, added more lines on the wolf to show off his face more. I also adjusted the ears size. I stenciled the leaves over the background and around the wolf's face, added a couple of butterflies, a sentiment and a flower I layered with some die cuts and added gold beads for the center. 

It was a fun project. Lots of colours to play with. 

 I hope you will join us over at Creative Artiste this month. Pop over to our challenge site to be inspired by our creative design team. 

Thank you for stopping by.  



Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Crafty Gals Corner, February Challenge - Add a Heart


Time for another Great challenge over at  Crafty Gals Corner.  The theme of the challenge is Add a heart. 

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(listed in alphabetical order)


Prize ~ 3 Sets of Digis

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Prize ~ 3 Digital Images


This is the card I made for this challenge. 



Using:  Love Birds
LeAnn's World 101

I think this is a cute image from LeAnn's World.  Love her wink. 

I add a couple extra hearts to the image, along with a die cut love.

I coloured the image with copic markers, gold leafing pen and several different Gel pens.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will join us in this challenge.  Remember to check out our blog to be inspired by our talented design team members and visit our generous sponsors' to see their stock of new designs.

Sunday, February 4, 2024

FEBRUARY 2024 - ANYTHING GOES w/Optional Twist: Color Challenge: Pick A Palette

Time for another challenge at A Place to Start. The theme for February is as always Anything Goes and the optional twist is pick a colour palette and create a monochrome  project.

I decided to create my card using the monochrome colour palette of grey and black.

This is my card. 


My Jazz Age card was created using a selection of rubber stamps from my stash along with several die cuts for the frame and music notes. The trumpet player I believe is an old rubber stamp from Rubberneckers.  I also used a rubber stamp for the record. I used Nuvo clear accents on the bubbles. 
I hope that you will join us this challenge. Create you card and enter it here. Have a creative month. 

Saturday, February 3, 2024

FEBRUARY 2024 - 613 Avenue Create - ANYTHING GOES W/ OPTIONAL TWIST "LOVE LETTERS"

Time for another great challenge over at 613 Avenue Create, as always the challenge is anything goes and this month's optional twist is "Love Letters".

This is my card I made for the challenge. 


I made this a simple card for this challenge using  alcohol inks, Love die cut, heart die cut and some gems. I had fun making this card and playing with my alcohol inks. I love the unique designs you can make with them. 

The large word dies and so easy to use for a quick card and can be the center of almost all designer paper, and mixed medias backgrounds. I added an extra  heart that I thought suited the background and added a Wink of Stella to give it  some shine. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope to see your art work on our challenge board.