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.

Creative Inspiration

Do you have a list of creative projects that's about a mile long?
Ever need a jump to get those creative powers working?
Well the heat here in the valley is trying to get me into siesta mode, but I am fighting back! 
I took a quick trip to Scrapbooks-etc.  to get into the creative gear and move forward to complete some projects. It's a bright friendly atmosphere and it's air conditioned! This is one of the most wonderful shops for creativity, so grateful that it is a local shop.
Here are some photo's of the trip that I took yesterday.
In addition to the merchandise and supplies for both fabric and paper arts and crafts, they have many projects and samples on display as well as large classrooms and die cut areas to create in. They even have coupons and specials frequently all that's needed is to be in the system!

A selection of the class projects on display

They have Flowers from fabric........

Shabby Fabric Flower

 Flowers from paper.......

Scrap Paper Flowers

 Quilted flowers.......

Shabby Rose Quilt

All created in this fabulous bright classroom.....

Large classroom

Live too far away or can't make it in.....,go here for a great tutorial It's a tutorial that was featured on a Tuesday Tutorial to make a cotton T-shirt! Have fun, I have so many containers of scrap fabric this might be fun to give a try, so.... if you give it a try please post a comment!

Hope you enjoyed this creative trip.....
Have a wonderfully creative day!

Fashion Slave

Fashion or Mode, what ever it may be, it's what we wear. 

We can celebrate it and enjoy the beauty, the charm and glamor it can bring,

We can also be addicted to it and we can scorn it. 

Or we can create it........

Create Fashion and link up to Moo Mania and make a real fashion statement!

Create

The earth is turning so quickly these days, as a result it has been difficult to find a moment to grab a handful of supplies and create a piece of art.
However this morning I moved into a new cycle and I found just a moment to create a fabulous booklet to record the beautiful thoughts I have throughout the day. I have had so many wonderful experiences recently I want to treasure them and and show my gratitude and give thanks for all of these wonderful bounties that have been bestowed upon me!

This is the Blessings Journal:

A small 4 x 6 booklet was covered with some found materials. Scrap for the front and back cover, some flower pieces left over from a previous project and an Artchix button used as the center of the flower.
In fact this whole project was inspired by Helga at Artchix and I want to say thank you. She has created a digi sheet with a list of the most wonderful information, Flowers and what they mean.  So while my book is more of my thoughts and blessings, you can be sure it will have several entries which include flowers. Please visit Helga here at My ARTistic Life.

House & Home

The challenge over at Moo Mania this week is:

Home

I thought I would just create a card and post it.

However the thought came to me to create a little box to house a collection of Moo's.

So... what do you think?

Tape in Pink

Instead of packing my overnight bag for the trip I am going on in the morning, I went to a Duck Tape Evening. I wasn't very helpful as I really never played much with the duck tape medium.

well needless to say I was hooked. 

I created an animal print rosette for the top of a pen and I was off.

The girls went on to create a wallet, which is pretty nifty, but I was on bigger and more exciting projects.

I even learned a trick or two that I can share with you.

If you have never created in duck tape, it is really easy and fun. Projects are put together quickly and I think they would be indestructible

So now that have created the standard pencil topper, I am on to bigger and better things. .

My favorite tip is the cutting board. I learned to make a very forgiving cutting mat. Simple. Use clear duct tape to adhere a one inch grid paper to the back of a clear flexible kitchen cutting board. This works so well. This is so helpful with creating projects with straight lines.

Once you make one item, you will have the need to plan for another. Hello Kitty is always a good choice.

 Love the look of this bag. It's so fun. I would love to take this into the store with this on, it has so much personality!

 How about some matching shoes. This is one project I will be making soon!

Have you created in Duck tape before? I would love to hear how you became acquainted with this medium and what you craft from it? You might create a pair of shoes or dress up an old pair! You may make clothes or hats! Please share! But before you get started......

Please enjoy more pink Saturday at Beverly's Blog, there are so many hidden gems among the friends there.
Thank you for visit and have a wonderful Pink Saturday!

Mom's Favorite Color

This has been a great Blog Hop it was really fun. 

Thank you to all who came for a visit!

Congratulations 

 as well, as I was the Mystery Blogger!  

Congratulations 

to disneylisa for winning the template of choice. 

Way to go!!!

Welcome to the Creations By AR Customer Blog Hop!

Come share a journey to discover what Mom's favorite color really is! If you are traveling in order you have come from Mary's blog...  Please stop by each one of the blogs that are participating, and make a comment. 

A lucky commenter will win a template from the wonderful Adele! If you are on Facebook you might check out Creations by AR and hit the Like button.

So on to mom's favorite Color....

Everyone in my family knew that mom's favorite color was green.

It was everywhere in our home. On the floors, on the walls and also on  the furniture!

To celebrate Mom's favorite color everywhere,  Creations by AR is having this Customer Blog Hop.

For this very special event I have created the One Drawer Card Organizer.

This is such a fabulous template!

It's the first time I have made it and so thrilled with the results... This is so easy to use and so very versatile. I know I shall be making this again. This first time I have kept it simple, in keeping with the look my mom prefers, by adding a few ribbons on it for embellishment.  You can, however add, a drawer pull or it can be made with many different patterns of paper!

Adela is such a wonderful creative designer. She has many templates available and they are so easy to use. Find them here.
Please join us on this hop for much more Creations By AR inspiration, your next stop is at Deb's, 
and find out what mom's favorite color really is!
The blog participant's are:
 Lisa Eisner - http://craftingwithprincesslisa.blogspot.com/ 

Jennyfer Leung - http://scrapalajen.blogspot.com/ 

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

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

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

Deb Speijers - http://www.atimetostamp.com/ 

Lenoria Kelly - http://lenoriaslidlbits.blogspot.com/ 

Rhonda Miller - http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com/

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

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

Lynn Clifford - http://heavenlycrafts.blogspot.co.uk/

Thank you for joining me today for this wonderful celebration of Mom! 
Please travel to all the blogs and post a comment! We love to hear from you!

Masterboard Inchies

I recently joined a swap hosted by a member in the Paper Traders group. The challenge was to create a masterboard  with inks and stamps and cut or punch the inchies from it. Then to make a little accordion booklet to mount them in. 

The supplies

So I gathered some supplies. Some glossy paper, ink pads, brushed and some fun stamps. I went with the spring fairy theme, as I wanted to make the inchies bright and colorful. I selected two wonderful stamp collections from crafty secrets full of flowers and fairies.I selected another set that had several floral images that I thought would add nice floral flourished to the project.

The Masterboard

 Inks in several brilliant spring colors were applied in random areas of the 8.5 x 11 shiny white gloss coated paper until the entire sheet was covered in color. Several stamps were selected at this time. The 1st layer of stamping was with background stamps such as the musical notes, both printed and cursive text in deeper shades of the background colors. Then with the deeper inks the fairies and the flourishes were added.

The booklets

While working on this project I came across a Graphics 45, 8x8 paper pad and thought the images would be a fabulous addition to the inchies, so I cut out a few of them and glued them onto the coordinating inchie for embellishment, with a little fairy dust added as a final touch.
The inchies were ready to mount into the prepared book.
I do hope the participants of this trade will enjoy these little creations, as they were great fun creating and assembling!

Color

It's so much fun to color. These two greeting cards were colored using chalk. It's so quick to use and the look is very smooth. For added depth of color , regular colored pencils can be used as an additional medium.
There are a few other embellishments used to decorate these cards, such as little jewels, stickles and washi tape!

The Garden of Paradise

Happy Ridvan

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established