For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

 Tattered Florals Necklace Back in February... Tim Holtz posted a  Tattered Florals Challenge  on his blog and offered up some awesome prizes to five lucky winners.   I chose to make a necklace for a lovely friend who had a birthday this week and now that I've given it to her, I can post it on my blog. ...and here's a couple of close up shots. I cut my Tattered Floral parts from upholstery fabric samples using the Tattered Florals Die and the largest two rounded petal flowers. I cut several of each layer and dyed them, along with the Crinkle Ribbon, with  Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers  Distress Inks, as well as Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint Distress Stains.  I put the Stains and Inks on my non-stick craft mat and misted them with water and rubbed the parts through the inks. I scrunched them and dried them with a heat gun until they were almost dry. Then I used a Long Fastener and layered up the flower parts along with a flow...

What a Wonderful World This canvas was created for Tracy Weinzapfel's Mixed Media Mondays  March Creative Dare . The challenge is to create a piece of artwork illustrating one of your favorite song AND to incorporate a button. I took a day off of work today and spent a good portion of it at my art desk playing in my paints and working on my canvas. One of my favorite songs is "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.  I am always in awe of this wonderful and beautiful world we live in, so that is the song I picked,  ....and f or the button portion of the challenge I used little tiny red buttons for the roses. I'm thinking I should have used some modeling paste  or artist cement  to build up texture in my tree.  Oh well, I'm not going back to rework it. It really was a challenge to photograph once I finished, because I added just a tiny bit of Perfect Pearls  and even though it looks great in person,  it doesn't tr...

Liebster Award - Thanks Lori! Lori at Lori's Happy Place nominated me for a Liebster award a couple of weeks ago. At that time I was super busy and not feeling so great, so I put this post on the back burner until I could get it posted and nominate some of my favorite little blogs! What is a Liebster? Here's some information - THE AWARD This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you've been nominated, you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these new blogs. ACCEPTANCE Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog, post the award onto your blog, give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know that you have given them the Liebster Award! So I want to say Thank You so MUCH to Lori at Lori's Happy Place who nominat...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? Good morning everyone!!  I'm up and at it, getting kids off to school.  I can't believe that it's been a full week since I sat down at my desk...but it's been a busy (and rough) week and I've been productive in other ways. I actually spent some time at my desk last night playing with DecoArt Americana paints and a canvas. It was very relaxing and I even remembered to snap a picture to post over at Julia's Stamping Ground for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday?   You should check it out and play along! I do have to say it was a bit of a challenge though, as both of my Quality Control Officers, Sneakers and Momma, kept walking across my desk to check on my progress.  Luckily I managed to keep them from putting little cat footprints on my canvas. I have something in mind for Tracy Weinzapfel's Mixed Media March Creative Dare and I'm hoping that I can translate my vision to canvas.  So f...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? Really not doing a lot creatively yet this week, as I really haven't had the time.  BUT, I have been doing a bit of what I call busy work, and have been cutting out tons of die cuts to add to my stash.  I like having a bunch cut out and ready to go when I need them.  I can do a few at a time and then come back later and do some more. I was busy getting things done this evening when I remembered that I needed to take a picture for WOYWW (What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday), so I grabbed a quick shot.   I think I've got a pretty good stash cut out now and it's time to clean up my desk so I can inky! I've finished my March Tag for the 12 Tags of  2013 and you can see it still sitting on my desk on the right at the back...and now I need to get my Tattered Florals challenge done.    I know what I want to do...just need to get it done!!   I also need to get hopping on my March Challenge for Tracy Wein...

March When Tim posted his March tag for the 12 Tags of  2013  I knew I was going to have to do some major improvising because although I have a lot of Tim Holtz products in my stash, the only things I had this time was the Foliage and Memo Pins.   It took me a few days to wrap my head around it... but in the end I'm really happy with how my tag turned out  and it was nice to have some creative time at my art desk. Thanks for stopping in and feel free to leave me a comment and let you me know you stopped by! Anna I didn't have the Fringe Die so I  cut my grass by hand.  I looked at the picture of the die and sized my grass to match  Tim's.  I had Green Co-ordinations but not the Kraft one...so my grass is green on both sides of the fence.  I sanded the paper first and then gave it a good dose of Walnut Stain Distress Ink before cutting.  Then after I put it on my tag, I gave it a little hint of Picked Raspberry. ...