WOYWW #203

Better late then never is my new mantra!  I seem to have lost track of time this week and Wednesday came creeping up on me.  Not been a good week health wise but here is hoping with the advent of the warmer weather the pain and "get along" issues will be resolved!

Okay why we are here!  My desk...my desk you ask... go visit with Julia at Stamping Ground and she will fill you in on what the big deal is about desks!

A wider view again showing the two clip-its that I am using.  It is a good way to have bling and embellishment at hand and readily accessible.  

Larger clip-it holds the longer ribbon/bling .  I have several of these button box holders that sit on top of the black drawers.  I love these things from IKEA.  This is actually two drawer cabinets that are part of the ALEX line that I stacked one upon the other.

Latest art journal page!  Cinco de Mayo is celebrated here in the southwest/south central states.  Cinco de Mayo is not only a Mexican holiday but a holiday in the USA celebrating a early Civil War battle and the battle of Puebla where the US and Mexico joined together to rout France..last battle the French fought in the Americas!  

Brick wall texturing and a large Margarita set the stage for the bright colors and banner of the page.  I love Dylusions ink and how bright they are.  Margarita glass is acrylic paint.

Want to see a couple tags I made recently?  I love the Tim Holtz style and enjoyed making these tags.  

Every one knows how I love purple...

Okay that is it for me!  Hope you can manage to make it around to my page this week.  I will try to be a little better next week and get here a little earlier in the day!  Have a great week!

Is anyone interested in swapping ATC with me this year?  Let me know.  I am going to start creating them soon...meant to get started sooner but...

WOYWW #202

Another busy week has just flown by at a phenomenally fast pace! I have been busy around the house and teaching my classes and creating fun projects.

Here is a picture of my desk this week. What a mess! I think I keep it a mess cause it motivates me to use the stuff scattered about.  Well maybe not this messy cause I am going to have to clean it up a bit to have my 12 square inches to craft in!!  See the whiskey container in the background?  I am going to make another storage container with it like the one in this post .  I love reusing and re purposing so stay tuned I will find a good use for that white tub too!

Thought I would share pictures of some recipe cards I made/taught in a class this week. The papers are mostly from an Australian company called Ruby Rock It called Cook and an Oklahoma based company called Farm Fresh.  I love the feel of these papers.  I don't have recipes on them yet you will have to use your imagination!

I like making pockets on the page so I can stick larger recipes in them that don't fit the 5 1/2"x 7" page. 

Okay that is it for me today.  Hope you have had a great week and I look forward to making it around to some of the blogs in the morning.  If you are wondering what this is all about go check out Julia' s blog Stamping Ground and she will tell you how to play! 

Update! Sorry there weren't any pictures earlier but I posted from my phone and I seem to be challenged when it comes to adding pictures on the iPhone!

WOYWW #201 and Circle of Friends Retreat

I can't believe I missed a pivotal post such as WOYWW #200 last week!  By the time I realized what day it was it had passed by 48 hours so I just wandered around through some of the blogs saying Hi and Bye!  What's WOYWW?  Go check out Julia Dunitts blog Stamping Ground.  There is a little clicker link in the upper left side of the page!

This is my desk this week!  Not much change.  I went away for a weekend retreat with a group of scrap booking and crafty friends at a local lodge and this is what it looks like today after partially unloading the totes.  The colorful book is a journal I worked in and there is an awesome card I made using a friends stamp!

What a mess...a lot of fun was had tho!

An up close of the card.  I really love this stamp and I am going to have to look around and find one I can call my own!  Girly Steampunk.  I used Graphic 45 papers for the card!

inside of the card!

 A few pictures of the Circle of Friends Retreat!

Entrance to the lodge where we stayed Friday, Saturday and Sunday till middle of the afternoon!

The lodge from the boat dock!

a Redbud tree in bloom.  One of the first this year!

Heather taking a walk around the lake.

My daughter Heather crafting and painting.  See a couple of her beautiful paintings in the back ground!

The Circle of Friends participants out on the boat dock.

A view of the lodge and people busy inside with their craft work!

Okay I think that is enough pictures for today.  Click on them to make them bigger if you would like a close up.  I am looking forward to blog hopping today so hope to be able to get around to quite a few!  Have a great week!

WOYWW #199

Happy WOYWW!  Whats WOYWW? Click on the link and go find out!  It has been another busy week that has just flown by!  I want to apologize if I didn't make it to your blog last week I promise to do better this week.  Last week so much was going on that I just was swamped!  To see what was going on check out the past weeks posts.

This is my desk this week.  I was cleaning it off getting ready to get down and do some awesome crafting when I got side tracked!  I have been having a lot of concentration and memory issues this past week and I haven't the foggiest...pun intended as to what is going the fogginess. 

I am trying to work through a list of things I need to get mailed out and I don't seem to have what it takes to get it completed!  Oh well maybe tomorrow!

Hope everyone has a great week and a Happy Easter!..

It was a fun and crafty weekend!

Yes, yes it was.  I am actually glad to be at home and not out and about running around cause I am really a home body at heart and this has been a busy week running Heather to her surgery and follow up on Tuesday and Wednesday and then doing something that was craft related for hours and hours each day the rest of the week.








It started on Thursday for me when I taught a tag making class making Easter tags with a group of women at Scrap That in Norman!  I taught 3 tags using Tim Holtz style techniques, stamps, and threw in a few 'extras' that made sure we had some fun.  Everyone seemed happy with their tags and said that they would book again next month for the 'group therapy!'

I think this purplish pink tag is a favorite!  I love the colored Easter egg popped up and given a 3d effect!

You can see the 3rd tag in this post...it was the furry one that my friend dubbed as creepy and since she took the class I had to cut her a paper rabbit out of a Starbucks corrugated cup cozy!






Friday was the painting class with Heather and the rest of the class mates at Scrap That!  I posted on that class in a previous post but I am so proud of my painting I am reposting it here!

Don't you love those yellow flowers!

Saturday was an all day crop at Scrap That! where 28 women got together to visit and share fun time doing what they like to do best...craft and gossip!   We all had projects going that were different so when you needed to exercise a bit we would wander around and check out what the next tables were doing. 

Heather was checking her text messages here but spent the day painting some canvases for her painting classes next month.  If you are interested contact Scrap That! at 310-3400 to sign up. 

I was busy trying to get some stuff done for classes next month too.  I was having brain issues though and seemed to throw more stuff in the trash then I got accomplished!  I hate it when I do that so I spent a bit more time wandering around trying to get motivated to create then I did actually making anything.   I did manage to finish another month in the Graphic 45 calendar pages! 

Anyway it was a good weekend but I am glad it is Sunday evening and a day of rest!

Painting!

My daughter held her second ever class teaching basic techniques to a bunch of us non-artist types on Friday night at Scrap That in Norman.  OMG!  I was so happy with how many people showed up this time and the awesome pictures that we made!  Here is a group photo she took of all of us.  Unfortunately one of the participants, Usha, husband came and took her away before the photo op! 

This was a landscape that was suppose to show the flower fields with bigger flowers in the fore ground...well mine had a little bigger flowers....Want to see a bigger picture?

)My daughter took this picture and she says the saying on the wall is not indicative of what she thinks of my art!!)  I am looking pretty frumpy in this picture me thinks!  I have lost a few more pounds and the camera has picked up how baggy my clothes are getting.  Not that I am complaining!

Heathers next classes are on April 13th and 27th.  I think I am going to bring a margarita, tortilla chips, and salsa for the one on the 27th...I might share but if you want to make sure you get one you should BYOB!!!

April 13th 1-4 pm 

April 27th 6-9 pm

Fun class and it was a lot of fun meeting new people and swapping stories and laughing and having fun!  If you would like to join us for one of the classes call Scrap That! and book your seat cause classes are limited to the first 15 students that call in!  Call 310-3400

Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 Audition

At some urging from family and friends I have decided to submit and "audition" for the Graphic 45 Design Team call this year and I would like to share a few projects I have created using Graphic 45 and other products over the past year.  Click on the link under the picture to take you to the original blog post for further information.

A canvas made using the Once Upon a Springtime Papers

 I created this canvas for the guest designer spot for Ten Second Studios last year using their Verday Paints and metals to make the flowers and butterflies!
 Don't you love the look of the papers with the lace and the watch?  Awesome feel to it!

Christmas Canvas

Cards!

Graphic 45 SteamPunk and Old Curiosity Shoppe Collections. 

A box easel card created with two of my favorites Graphic 45 papers combined into a box card for another Ten Second Studios project.

A Once Upon a Springtime card!

A fun 'girly' card

A few ATC's

Happy Haunting

Happy Haunting

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A couple chip board books using Graphic 45 papers.

I loved the Magic of Oz book that I saw on another You Tube video when the papers came out and I think the creator was a Graphic 45 designer...Here is my take on that book!

Magic of Oz book. 

 This book was a lot of fun but also a lot of work with all the different page styles and mats that were made.  I love working with tags and the book fit in with the love!


 To see the finished book in its entirety go to the web post shown here.

 I really love the idea of recycling things and when I watched a couple You Tube video's about recycling the left over cardboard tube on toilet paper rolls I fell in love with recycling all over again!

Nutcracker Sweet!  To see the entire book click here!

Nutcracker pages

back of book!

Tropical Travelogue Valise Chipboard book

 Recycled chunk of 2"x4" made into a Chunky ATC!
 

Tropical Travelogue Chunky ATC

Repurposed and Recycled Stuff!

This is an "unrecycled" rat trap!  It was a lot of fun to make and I plan on making a few more!

This canister is made using the new Graphic 45 French Market papers that I love and a whisky packaging canister!  Loads of fun to be had with this paper pack so I bought 3 sets...

French Market 

I can't end this post without sharing my calendar pages I have made so far this year!  Enjoy!

I really enjoy creating with Graphic 45 and would enjoy a chance to play with more of their beautiful products!