Woo-Hoo! I have some exciting news to share! I was chosen by Cheryl and Meagan at Ten Second Studios to be one of their monthly guest designers! When they put out the call for people to apply for the design team I didn't think I stood a chance but I love their products and projects and decided to give it a try! Over 1000 very talented people heard the call which makes me humble to think that I was one of the ones chosen! Starting the first Thursday of April (and every Thursday in April) I will making projects to be displayed on the TSS site.
I have always been a crafter and loved to sew but now I actually give thanks for the medical problems that allow me to stay home and play all day. I have found a whole new life, friends, and ways of expressing myself since retiring. Due to my medical training I have found I bring a lot of detail into my work. I started out as a scrapbooker/paper crafter in 2008 and have expanded over the past few years into a multimedia crafter/artist. I am willing to give any medium a try and have a blast learning new techniques. My favorites right now are grunge and vintage works. I like to recycle or reuse found items like toilet paper rolls, whiskey packing containers, cigar boxes etc. As most of you know I am at my happiest getting all inky and covered in paints and glue!
There will be a a new guest designer every month so follow along and check out all the awesome projects we will be doing.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
WOYWW #145
I have some good news to share but can't tell anyone right now...Oh WOW! It is so hard to keep a secret! Enough wiggling and giggling and on to the reason of this post!
Welcome to my blog. This is Wednesday so this post must be about WOYWW! Whats WOYWW you say? Well click this link and be transported across the pond to Julia's blog Stamping Ground! and she will appease your curiosity! I guarantee you a good time!
This is my workspace today...What a mess! I will be cleaning it up a bit in the morning cause I have some projects to make for...shhh! Anyway it will be getting sorted out post haste!
Sorry about the picture quality the battery is dead on my good camera and my cell phone struggles in artificial light! Lots of fun things on my desk to look at tonight. I received my WOYWW button from Julia today and I was oh so excited to get it! Thank you Julia! I went to a class tonight and started scrapbooking again. I decided I need to try and get some pages made so I can send them to the kids at Christmas and they can put whatever pictures in them they want to. I love the book they gave us that has all sorts of layouts in it cause that is my main problem with scrapbooking is figuring out where to put what!! In the upper right you will notice a trinket chest I found at the local hardware store. They were billing it as a sewing box but I am in the process of altering it to hold my grunge and ideology bits and pieces.
I thought I would share this tag with you tonight. It is another of the stained glass/mosaic butterflies that Sir Timmie introduced us to this month. So much fun making them! Stampin'Up! makes this gorgeous doily stamp and another stamp sets of nothing but doilies that I think I am going to be using a lot. I just love the black lace look on the manilla tag...Yummy and rich looking. Wish I could photograph it like it really looks.
Well I guess I will call it done for the night and go to bed! It is 2:00am here and I am tired tonight. I didn't get the opportunity to visit all the blogs last week so I am going to try hard to do so tomorrow. Have a great week.
Welcome to my blog. This is Wednesday so this post must be about WOYWW! Whats WOYWW you say? Well click this link and be transported across the pond to Julia's blog Stamping Ground! and she will appease your curiosity! I guarantee you a good time!
This is my workspace today...What a mess! I will be cleaning it up a bit in the morning cause I have some projects to make for...shhh! Anyway it will be getting sorted out post haste!
I thought I would share this tag with you tonight. It is another of the stained glass/mosaic butterflies that Sir Timmie introduced us to this month. So much fun making them! Stampin'Up! makes this gorgeous doily stamp and another stamp sets of nothing but doilies that I think I am going to be using a lot. I just love the black lace look on the manilla tag...Yummy and rich looking. Wish I could photograph it like it really looks.
Well I guess I will call it done for the night and go to bed! It is 2:00am here and I am tired tonight. I didn't get the opportunity to visit all the blogs last week so I am going to try hard to do so tomorrow. Have a great week.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Easter Tags
Everyone likes Chocolate Easter bunnies right? I do!!! I decided to use the Tim Holtz Bunny dies and make a couple Easter tags the other day. I love the big die but it is really big on a tag and dominates it so I had to make one using the smaller Mover and Shaper bunny too.
This Bunny was cut out of the Chocolate Chip Stampin Up! cardstock and mounted on a tag from the Core'dinations Distress Cardstock pad. I can't remember the name of the manufacturer of the print paper but it fit well with the colors I chose.
I was playing around with attempting to do a sky with clouds and came up with this tag. I still have a lot to learn but it was fun making this tag. I love the little Mover and Shapers bunny and he looks like he is guarding the bling egg!
I am going to teach these two tags and the one from the previous post to a class in Norman this Thursday. I hope they like them!
I was playing around with attempting to do a sky with clouds and came up with this tag. I still have a lot to learn but it was fun making this tag. I love the little Mover and Shapers bunny and he looks like he is guarding the bling egg!
I am going to teach these two tags and the one from the previous post to a class in Norman this Thursday. I hope they like them!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
WOYWW #144
***UPDATE***
I have turned off word verification again! If you have to verify you aren't a robot please let me know so I can call Google. I was told that since I run a Mac it might be resetting itself!!! BULL!
Thank you everyone for your kind words and support this past year or so that I have been a WOYWW blog-hopper! I really appreciate all the comments and helpful hints that you have unselfishly given and look forward to more input in the future! I received addresses on all the blog candy prizes so it is officially closed and I will be mailing them out this week. Want to join in the fun and find out what WOYWW is? Go visit the Queen Julia's site at Stamping Ground and join us as we hop around the globe checking out one anothers blogs each week.
This is a picture of my desk this week...yes I have been 'creating.' I received my copy of A Compendium of Curiosities Volume 11 and I was motivated to try a couple techniques and I have been having fun the past couple days! I think that why my Mojo disappeared was I was being 'encouraged' to do projects that I really didn't buy into and didn't like. Instead of saying no and blowing it off I think my creativity went walk about. One of the quotes of Tim Holtz I read on the back of a picture card he sent with the book was... "I truly believe that life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself" I think one thing I am adding to my bucket list is to create things I like and not try to do stuff that I don't just because others think I should. TH goes on to say "Now it's time for your creative your journey, time to embrace your imperfection, live the life you've imagined, and embark on an artistic adventure. What you'll discover will be wonderful-what you'll discover will be yourself..."
The desk is a little messy but that's okay...you should see the floor! I have been going through stuff and reorganizing and I have stuff I will be selling or giving away soon. On my craft sheet you can see I am working on a tag to give to a friend I was in a swap with earlier in the year.
I also have finished 3 other tags. Here's one and I will post the others tomorrow. This one is my version of the March 2012 tag that Tim Holtz showed on his blog on March 1.
Well I think that is it for today. I am going back into my craft room for a bit before going to bed. We are 6-7 hours behind the UK here in Oklahoma so I try and post at night before I go to bed. I hope to read a lot of blogs tomorrow. Have a great day!
I have turned off word verification again! If you have to verify you aren't a robot please let me know so I can call Google. I was told that since I run a Mac it might be resetting itself!!! BULL!
Thank you everyone for your kind words and support this past year or so that I have been a WOYWW blog-hopper! I really appreciate all the comments and helpful hints that you have unselfishly given and look forward to more input in the future! I received addresses on all the blog candy prizes so it is officially closed and I will be mailing them out this week. Want to join in the fun and find out what WOYWW is? Go visit the Queen Julia's site at Stamping Ground and join us as we hop around the globe checking out one anothers blogs each week.
This is a picture of my desk this week...yes I have been 'creating.' I received my copy of A Compendium of Curiosities Volume 11 and I was motivated to try a couple techniques and I have been having fun the past couple days! I think that why my Mojo disappeared was I was being 'encouraged' to do projects that I really didn't buy into and didn't like. Instead of saying no and blowing it off I think my creativity went walk about. One of the quotes of Tim Holtz I read on the back of a picture card he sent with the book was... "I truly believe that life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself" I think one thing I am adding to my bucket list is to create things I like and not try to do stuff that I don't just because others think I should. TH goes on to say "Now it's time for your creative your journey, time to embrace your imperfection, live the life you've imagined, and embark on an artistic adventure. What you'll discover will be wonderful-what you'll discover will be yourself..."
The desk is a little messy but that's okay...you should see the floor! I have been going through stuff and reorganizing and I have stuff I will be selling or giving away soon. On my craft sheet you can see I am working on a tag to give to a friend I was in a swap with earlier in the year.
I also have finished 3 other tags. Here's one and I will post the others tomorrow. This one is my version of the March 2012 tag that Tim Holtz showed on his blog on March 1.
Well I think that is it for today. I am going back into my craft room for a bit before going to bed. We are 6-7 hours behind the UK here in Oklahoma so I try and post at night before I go to bed. I hope to read a lot of blogs tomorrow. Have a great day!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Blog Candy Winners!
Well it is Monday night and I received 2 addresses so far so lets try this again. I drew 2 more names to replace the one's that didn't respond. I tossed all four names in the hat again and drew the names out in order of WOYWW prize, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st place. To be fair to the two that had responded I decided that in the drawing they couldn't drop lower then the positions that they had already been drawn into and they would be part of the drawing for 1st place....here's the results.
WOYWW winner is:
----Jude--crafts-international
3rd Place:
---Kay...505Whimsygirl
2nd place winner:
---Karen
1st Place Winner:
---Jozart
Jude and Kay please email your addresses to okienurse.blogspot.com
WOYWW winner is:
----Jude--crafts-international
3rd Place:
---Kay...505Whimsygirl
2nd place winner:
---Karen
1st Place Winner:
---Jozart
Jude and Kay please email your addresses to okienurse.blogspot.com
Friday, March 2, 2012
Blog Candy Winners!
I decided after some deliberation as to how to handle the blog candy drawing I assigned every entry a number and then went to Random.Org and generated the winning numbers. I had a total of 360 entries into the contest and decided to give a total of 4 prizes since there had been such an awesome number of new followers join my blog! After generating those numbers I wrote the names of the 4 persons on slips of paper and drew first the WOYWW prize winner, then winner 3,2,1.
Drum roll please!!!
WOYWW prize winner is:
-----Maggie C--http://silvercrafter.blogspot.com/
3rd place prize winner:
-----Jozart---http://jozartdesigns.blogspot.com/
2nd place winner:
-----Karen---http://whatsthisiseethen.blogspot.com
1st place winner:
-----Sue K---http://suesstampingstuff.blogspot.com
YAY!! Everyone has till Monday to email me their snail mail addresses as to where they want their package sent to. If I don't hear from you by Monday then I will assume you don't want it and will draw another name. They are some really good packages so send your names in quick!
UPDATE:!!!
Guess you need an email address to send your info...dumb me! Please send it to
okienurse@gmail.com
Thanks everyone for becoming a follower and playing in the game. I wish I could send everyone something but unfortunately it would be impossible!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
WOYWW #143
I have had a couple of questions regarding the blog candy and confusion when it will close so....I am shutting down the blog candy at midnight, PST, March 1st and announce the winners the next day. This is only a day later than I had first said and I am sorry if there was some confusion and don't want anyone to feel left out so it is open another 24 hours so you can get your name in the pot. I have had a remarkable turnout on the comments and followers so thought that I would add an additional prize that is open to WOYWW members only. So what is WOYWW? It is a group of snoopy artists/crafters that blog hop on Wednesday all over the world to see what everyone is doing! Visit Stamping Ground the home of Julia the founder of WOYWW and check it out!
Now to my desk...still nothing to show...mojo is still gone walkabout and I have been unblocking stamps, cleaning out drawers, reordering the cabinets and hopefully will come across something that stimulates my creativity again. I have never had this problem since I got into paper arts and alterations so it is a concern.
This is a picture of the drawers on the left side of my desk. I was reorganizing the stickles, liquid pearls, stains etc into color groups. Decided since I was reorganizing to have a go at the desk drawers also...sad huh!
Guess that is it for me. Not very creative with my blogging either! Good luck on the drawing tomorrow!
Now to my desk...still nothing to show...mojo is still gone walkabout and I have been unblocking stamps, cleaning out drawers, reordering the cabinets and hopefully will come across something that stimulates my creativity again. I have never had this problem since I got into paper arts and alterations so it is a concern.
This is a picture of the drawers on the left side of my desk. I was reorganizing the stickles, liquid pearls, stains etc into color groups. Decided since I was reorganizing to have a go at the desk drawers also...sad huh!
Guess that is it for me. Not very creative with my blogging either! Good luck on the drawing tomorrow!
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