One of Our Holiday Traditions

Decorating the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving -

Jody's Tree

My tree - I managed to get this little one up on Thanksgiving, and my big one is almost finished.

Credits to LivE for the template and Cosmo Cricket for the digital papers.

18 More Days to Christmas -

and I've got so much more to do! I did get some Christmas decorations made. These were featured in Somerset Studio Magazine, Readers Submissions. These little cuties were by Kandi Ali Watkins, and I fell in love with their little faces, so I had to try my hand at making some.

My Many Blessings

November is a month where our thoughts tend to be about what we are grateful for. I have so many many things to be thankful for. Here are a couple.

Credits -

Jack - O - Lantern!

 

Credits to -  Template - Shabby Princess, Stitching - LBA, Sprague SF, Flergs
Nancy Baumiller - Primitive Halloween; Staple - Anna Aspnes

My Favorite Halloween Ghouls!

 

Texture Overlay by Kim Klassen, Frames by Carina Gardner.

She Art Girls

Seems like I've been busy with too many projects and too many things going on here. I did finish a couple of She Art Girls. I've been doing the She Art Workshop  By Christy Tomlinson. these girls are really fun to put together. anyway - here are my first two -

Art Journal Conversion

I've been working on Roben Marie's Art Journal Conversion  class. These are covers for small journals.

The next thing is to sew the books!

Halloween Babies

I made these using a digital kit by Nancy Baumiller.

The kit is called A Primitive Halloween I transferred the images to cloth using 'TAP' transfer pages.

Needmore wanted in on the fun.

 

Photo mask and Bokeh overlay are by Shadowhouse Creations.

Reach Out

Another Sprague Weekly Challenge - Hand It Over

Supplies used - Cosmo Cricket -  Circa 1934, Circa 1934 Candy Candy, Fleuriste;  K Pertiet -  Stick Pinz; Font -  Angelic War

AJC 2011 # 41 Fear

Credits to  -  L Murphy - Fragments antiqued; Tangie Baxter - Studio Box 1 ; Jodie Lee - Floral Beauty; Graphics Fairy. Fonts - Sidewalk, Crack Babies, Laundromat, Diesel. Downcome and Postino Std.

Today's Photos

This morning I went out to see if I could pick up some pecans from Mom's tree. I had picked up a few and heard a noise by the door. I turned to see what it was and a young wren had  flown into the glass door.

Tom went out and picked it up and put it in the window sill. A few minutes later it stood up.

Two adult wrens came into the pecan tree and the little one flew off.


Then on my way out to physical therapy I saw these guys -

 

 They were in the church yard next to McDonalds! 

Credits- Artistic Frames by JodieLee

I've Been Featured!

My Zentangle was featured in the     Artisan Notebook EZine thanks to Tangie Baxter -

 Mine  is the one on the left. Or you can see it in this post - Zentangle

Just a Random Art Journal Page

What Color Is Your Day?

Southern Fall

Here's another layout for the Sprague Weekly Challenge

Credits -  Paper used as background overlay - Cosmo Cricket , Frames - Leora Sanford , Brush - Fantasy Brushes, Leaves, Stitches, String - Liv E

Necessity is -

the mother of invention. It all started with an ugly cable wire strung across the wall right at eye level.

 

The idea for the design came from this post -  Art Journaling 101 - Faux Printing on Dictionary Pages

It is made so you can take it apart and change the papers on the panels.

New Kids

Lately I decided to try my hand at sketching some things. Here are my latest -

and now I'm trying to make them into stamps -

It's fun -the stamps turn out so different than the drawings!

Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts

I don't usually recommend books, but this one I do. I found this as a Staff Pick in my local library, and when I found out it was based in the small corner of the world I grew up in, I had to give it a try. The timeline is back when the economy was worse than it is now. It's about a young girl down on her luck and the goodness of people living in the small towns of middle America. so if you want a short read - feel good story, check it out. And if you are passing through the area, look around, you just might see my heart.

Comments

I've been told that there was a problem with posting comments using Internet Explorer. I think I've got the problem fixed now! ;D

Mail Art x 2

I've got some  file folder mail art to share, now that they FINALLY reached their recipients! I sincerely hope they enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed making them!

Art Journal Caravan 2011 # 15 Color

I just realized I hadn't posted this - I think I did it back in May. This was a fun journal page.

 

Credits - Tangie Baxter -  Parcel 10, Parcel 2 ; AJC Journey 11, ; WaterLo AtTheDesk - paint, brushes, pencils; Font - Outlines

Butterfly

Here's another layout for this week's challenge at Jessica Sprague's

 

All Papers are Cottage Arts Nature Series, the quote is from Kelly Schaeffer, Overlay is Jodie Lee's Junkmail Overlay. Template is by Linda Roos/In The Making Designs.

S is for September

I haven't made a scrapbook page in ages! This was for a challenge at Jessica Sprague this week.  I thought I would try to get some scrapbooking done.

Zentangle

The Adventure Quest at Scrapbookgraphics is to do a Zentangle, or Mandala, or the combination of both. I did a Zentangle. I had no idea where I was going with this, I just began with the tree and went from there. I haven't done this since the 70's! LOL I didn't know it was called Zentangle either. Here it is in progress and finished - (I think). I might color it next.

Open Up

This art journal page is a message to me - open up is something I need to do -

The background was covered with squares of paper and cloth, then acrylic paints to give it texture, a little stenciling, the girl was painted and cut out of another paper. The house is by Tangie Baxter .

Be Present

I really like this art journal page. The leaves are made from pieces of a linen cloth I use to blot paint and ink.

All put together -

Here it is all finished - the cover is floppy and I'm not sure I like it that way, but it was a fun project!

Now to wait for the inspiration to work in it.  So many choices - quotes, lists, thoughts, pictures, or maybe I'll give it to someone . . . who knows?

Mixed Media Mayhem cover

Front

 

 

Back

The cover is made of canvas, I really like the way the canvas took the paint. Now to sew in the pages!

The last of the Mixed Media Mayhem pages -

There are a few more of these but this is all I'm going to post.