Art Can Change Your Life

I love to create and share art. It's fun to look at paper and images and cut them out and glue them together adding a touch of glitter or other small dazzling embellishment and completing an ATC to share or trade.

This is the latest Marie Card created for Pink Saturday!

Pretty Pink Marie

I look forward  to the ATC swap once a month to meet up with friends to see the creative outcome of the current month's theme. I really enjoy getting to know the friends in the artistic community.

It's a wonderful world wide community as well. 

Recently I joined a swap to create 2 ATC's for a partner. The theme is "My stuff, Your stuff...." Participants gathered stash to send to their selected partner and create two ATC's from the exchanged stash.

Wow did I get stuff... I spread some of it out so you can have a peek, well what do you think?

I am really looking forward to displaying the little works of art that will be created from this stash!

"My Stuff...Your Stuff"

 

I have begun the creative process by putting some of the papers and images in little groups.  It will be fun to share the ATC's that will be made from this package of goodies. I can hardly wait to hear what you think!
Such a great Pink Saturday! Please visit Beverly for more inspiring Pinkness!
Thank you for your visit!

The Journey

We're all on a journey. 

Some are fortunate to have a destination others move in one direction after another.

The journey for Moo Mania began with a blank substrate 

to which a shimmering green paper was applied.

Black diamonds added with a map of Paris in the center. 

Add a woman with soulful eyes and finish with the title.

 Another journey taken was a 4 x 4 swap.
This fashionable vintage lady is awaiting her train which will take her on an unlimited adventure.
She has everything she needs with her - watch, map, ticket and her desire to explore places of which are unknown to her.

Thank you for taking a journey to visit today and share my paper journey.
It would be wonderful of you to leave a comment and share a wonderful journey of yours.

Come to Tea!

Life is delicious, especially if you can step into a Tea Party all in Pink! 

What a wonderful way to celebrate the season!

Thank you, Alice, for the invitation. 

The Earl Grey tea with sweetened vanilla is so very yummy,

the strawberry biscuits are delectable 

and this cake to pretty to cut!

Happy Pink Saturday!

For more wonderful pink visit Beverly at How Sweet The Sound!

Let's Get Crafty

I am thrilled to participate in another Creations by AR Customer Blog Hop.  This blog hop's theme is: "Let's Get Crafty"as you may have noticed if you have just arrived from Carmen's blog. The blog hop will run from September 19 and comments will be accepted until midnight Eastern time on Sat., Sept. 21.
There will be one blog hop prize (winner's choice of template). The winner will be randomly chosen from the comments on that blog), so please leave a comments on each blog. Please visit (and Like!) the CbyAR Facebook page and leave a comment there too!

With the cooler weather coming many of us are gearing up for the craft season to begin.
This year my goal is to get a little more organized. So for this hop I have created the Folder Organizer to arrange some sewing supplies in, such as fabric remnants, beads, ribbons and buttons as well as pins and needles. This organizer is quick and easy to make and keeps things so much more organized.

It's available on the Creations by AR site and is fun to make. I have made it from the Graphics 45 Gentleman paper line to match the guest room, which is also the sewing room when visitor's are not using the room.  The template is easy to download.
To begin grab 3 sheets of brown paper(the color that I used) and 3 sheets of coordinating  12 x 12. Follow the directions that come with the template cutting guides. With a bit of folding with a bone folder and some glue you will be organized in moments!

The organizer base

The directions for this wonderful organizer are easy to read and construction is quick, before long, you can be whipping up several of these for all different purposes. As I was putting it to together I thought this would even make a nice holder for a crafty friend to hold ribbons,dies or even handmade cards for different occasions.

Thank you for visiting and please leave a comment, as they are so nice to read.
Please visit Mary's blog next to see what craftiness is going on there.
And for more inspiration from the participants of this wonderful blog hop please visit:

Lisa Eisner - http://craftingwithprincesslisa.blogspot.com/

Diana Auberle - http://kreativfenster.blogspot.de/

Raissa Spatola - http://www.raissastamps.com/

Carmen Mitchell - http://carmenscreationss.blogspot.ca/

Gigi Lorenc - http://sunshinelollipopsandbutterflies.blogspot.com/

Mary Roberson - http://handmadeheartfelt.wordpress.com/

A Bit of Altering.....

The first moment I laid eyes on coffee cup sleeves, I thought..."what a fun substrate to do a bit of altering on".
Well, I finally took the opportunity and joined a swap with paper traders, I had made the commitment....

Altered Coffee Cup Sleeves

Pictured here are some of the sleeves that were created for the trade.

The first sleeve was inspired by this cameo as well as the vintage papers which were at hand. The combination of black with pink is so pretty. Using the soft brown paper printed with vintage ads as well as a piece of cotton  lace as  contrasting elements.

Cameo Side

Ad Side

 This next is a sleeve inspired by the bathing beauties of a wonderful Graphics 45 paper collection.  It was fun selecting the papers to use for this beach themed sleeve, as the colors are rich and images are perfectly sized for this project.

Side 1

Side 2

Another sleeve was inspired by the elegant color combination of the primary collage paper selected as the main element. Aqua and sand with a few jewel tones for contrast. The flowers look so pretty on top of the neutral colors of the backgrounds which are dictionary text and sheet music.

Side 1

Side 2

Graphics 45 have several fun collections, I could seethe dancers printed in this one dancing across the coffee cup sleeves looking wonderful against the gold that this sleeve was painted. It almost makes you feel like dancing!

Flapper Step

Quick Step

There are so many ways to alter a coffee cup sleeve. This is just a start.  One of the most fun things about this project is that the coffee cup sleeve can be bound together in a little book. This is a great tutorial on a coffee themed album which is you may find fun and inspiring or if you like something a little more elegant this may be your latte.  I hope you have a try, because if you do you may not be able to stop at just one!

Paper Flowers

Beautiful flowers bring tremendous joy to our lives as they adorn our world with color and as they perfume the air around us with scent.  Picking out flowers for a hostess gift or for the home to decorate for a special occasion can be the highlight of an event.

Heirloom Pinks

A wedding is truly one of the most joyous events and picking out flowers for it a most special occasion itself.

Contemporary Pinks

As I love to create paper flowers I stumbled on these glorious bouquets for a bride made out of....paper!
So gorgeous in their arrangements I had to share these with you!

Poppy Love

If you have never tried making paper flowers, give it a try. It's fun and can give a room so much beautiful color. Who knows, you may even find yourself making wrist-lets and corsages for your next special event!

Please visit Beverly for more fabulous Pinks....And have a Happy Saturday!
(Photos from Paper Wedding Flowers)

Debonair

The latest challenge on Moo Mania ....Beards... 

A little altering of some men who needed some beards...

For more challenge 42 moo's click over to Moo Mania where many bearded fellows are featured.

Here Comes the Sun

I've been Mooing again...The challenge ?

 Sun!!!!

So much radiance at Moo Mania, please go  for a visit.

The sun never looked brighter.

Princess Pages

Hello Friends...
It seems that the summer just began...how can the fall semester of school be starting already?
Alas, as the last moment of summer break will be behind us, the beauty and creativity in our lives can continue and we can celebrate these every day!
Celebrating every day is important and when we radiate happiness we bring more happiness in our lives.
If sadness overtakes you draw a picture of something you love in your favorite color.
Post it some where you can see it ...it should make you smile. Afterward, take a walk in a place where you will be among a crowd of people. Smile at them, they will smile back at you.
After a short time you may find that your sadness has left and a feeling of joy has taken its place.
The power of attraction!

My little group of wonderful art friends had our monthly swap.
We changed up again and altered 4x4 cards. The theme was Princesses with the criteria to use the Princess storybooks available at Target.

 I was having trouble finding them, but I managed to pick one up at the last minute. I also found a box of small coloring pages that are packaged with tiny markers.
I colored a few to put on the  little collages it was such fun! I love the Disney princesses. Take a look.....

3 Dimensional!

Who ate my slipper?

Shall we dance?

Out from the stain glass window.

Off to the castle.

Celebrate Pink Saturday with Beverly and her guests at How Sweet The Sound. There is so much Pink Saturday fun!!
Thanks for your visit....
Have a Wonderful Day!

By The Sea

A little Moo art to share today. Graphics 45 makes it so easy to do a collage. They create the prettiest paper packs. The challenge for this fortnight is: By the Sea......

Please join the challenge by creating a a piece of moo art and linking it up at Moo-Mania. For this challenge one of the friends posted a great video to create a moo card on an ATC. It's a fabulous look at creating two pieces of art that go together and coloring with copic markers. Please post a comment to let me know if you were able to view it and what you thought.
Thanks for visiting today!

Pretty In Pink

It's an Art Swap Saturday!!
Such a great time to visit with like minded souls who love to create and swap Art.
This week there was a bit of a change up. Instead of doing an ATC, it was decided that we would alter a mouse or a rat trap. Oh how fun this was.... I set out to do a black and pink pirate collage, and low and behold it turned out to be a sweet silhouette.

 

Swapping Out

Swapping In      

What a happy Pink Saturday!! Please visit Beverly at "How Sweet the Sound" for more wonderful Pink Saturday Posts!

Hometown Landscape

After a trip home to see the family, my nieces brought me tiny chocolate bars with colorful photographs on the wrappers, perfect for tiny works of art.

 

 Perfect for this weeks Moo Mania challenge. "Landscape" I love taking a drive up Lake Shore Drive. It's a beautiful drive in every season. This little collage captures downtown on a beautiful, sunny, summer day.