Archive for May, 2007
May
25
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Uncategorized Yes, I’m on vacation. I’m visiting my sister. My mom drove in from Atlanta. Tomorrow morning is garage sale day. My sister, Cathie, and I got the inspiration to garage sale early tomorrow morning from Shabby Chic Junk (link on the side bar). I’m hoping to come across some goodies for my making my cards, or other altered art. We come from a long line of garage salers. My grandmother lived at those sales, and ohhhhh the bargains she would find. Hunting for that special item is fun, isn’t it?! I love old scrabble tiles, postcards and black and white photos. Leave me a comment. Tell me your stories of treasure hunting and what you like to shop for.
May
21
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Don’t you think this card has “girly girl” written all over it? The three little images were mailed to me to use in a virtual swap, over at the Stamp Shack (link listed on the side bar). When I pulled out my Bella images, I knew right away that this shopping Bella would go hand-in-hand with these images. Matching paper from ColorBok added such a nice element to the stamped images. My daughter wanted to have this card to mail off to a friend, but I couldn’t bare to part with it. Instead, I will make her several more so she can share them with her frien
ds.
In my second
card I used just
the virtual swap
images. Who
doesn’t love all
this pink?
May
20
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This card is one that I recently did for a spot
light technique swap over at the Stamp Shack (the link is listed on the right bar). The background is done with Pinata alcohol inks and gold metalic pen. The image was stamped twice; once on cardstock, and once on watercolour paper. The flower on the watercolour paper was then coloured with Tombow markers and blended with brush and water. The bumble bee was done in a similar fashion. I then took my circle punch and punched out a section of the flower and layered it on top of the background flower. This image is so perfect for this technique, don’t you think?
May
19
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Uncategorized Don’t we all feel like our “hobby” is taking over our lives when it comes time for self control? One of my favourite blogs is run by Julie at Paper Trufflez. Yes, it is a decadent site indeed. Sneak over to Julie’s site for money saving tips.
May
19
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Uncategorized My sister is a paediatrician and last August she mailed me her lab coat so I could paint on it for her. Well, it never got done, and since I’m going to visit her on Wednesday, I thought I had
better do it. I’m not sure if she reads my blog, so I’m
posting it in the hopes that I can surprise her. She designed
the lion on the left, and I did the rest with the help of the
internet. Painting on material is the hardest thing I have done. Hope she likes it.
I’m so excited about my trip. She lives in Mississippi so the weather will be warm. It will be a busy time because she have five children under 13 and the four oldest are boys who spend most of their spare time on the all star baseball and soccer fields, as well as local sports teams. My oldest nephew is in a musical and I’m so excited about seeing him.
My mom, my sister and her two children will be visiting for a brief period while I’m there. They are travelling from Atlanta. I feel so blessed to be able to see my family a couple of times a year. When I lived on Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, I would go years and years without seeing them.
Family is very important to me, and I have my mother to thank because she instilled that in me and my sisters.
