When Life Permits I have A Little Fun

This just about sums up the new art adventure I'm doing. It's a Flickr group called CollagePlay and it's run by Nancy B at Something Two Crow About.We get a sheet of very disjointed images and you would be surprised at the wonderfully creative collages that come from this. These are my 2 first pieces and I love doing this. I'm at a point on my journey to being healthy that I have no idea from one day to the next what I will be able to do. So I am rolling with the punches and this is such a fun type of art to do and I can do it whenever I am feeling good. Love it!

Wings Gothic Arches

Late night try at Gothic Arches...The theme was anything with wings. my dragonfly stamp was calling my name and this is some Elizabeth Arden tissue under stamped and inked acetate. I used Staz On and then dye inks.

A Moment In Time Theme Thursday

This is my piece for time on Theme Thursday. I printed my photo on a tag and used Tim Holtz alchohol inks and some stamps. I did this a while back and it was on my blog I lost but I like it and wanted to have it here. As I've said I really like doing new pieces but occasionally I'm going to post a piece I really like from the "lost" blog and hope no one minds too much! :)

Parrots Like the Wildlife 3 Muses

This is my piece for the 3 Muses wildlife challenge...I read the funniest thing today..."parrots are monkeys with wings"... LOL! Having been aquainted with several parrots in my life I wholeheartedly agree! Anyway here's my vision of wildlife! Thanks for looking!

Tell Me A Story MMM

This is my piece for Mixed Media Monday. I took the challenge of Tell Me A Story very literally. It's a spread for a round journal I'm working on. It's called The Secret To Me. This is my third layout and I had already decided to do a page on reading and books. This old photo is me engrossed in a book! It was Father's day today and this is the second one without my dad and I was thinking about him. One of my fondest memories of him was our story time. Him reading to me or making up the most wonderful tales and then illustrating them in pencil. Thanks DB for the love of stories and the gift of art. 2 pieces!

Hope you all had the weekend you wished for and were able to do something fun and creative!

Postcard Theme Gothic Arches

I never realized how much postal related ephemera and stamps I had until I started working on this challenge for Gothic Arches. I do tend to collect things like that and suddenly the collection takes on a life of it's own. That's why I've spent a good part of the year sorting and purging! I've been busy today playing in my cool art room after a blazing morning clearing off my back porch. I've just relaxed and played with paper, glue and stamps.....no big expectations....just having some fun !

Boys Club Twinchie

I've done inchies before but never a twinchie.....that's just a fun word! This is for Small World Of Inchies & Twinchies. I used one of my favorite images. I've used it before. It was actually from the very first collage sheet I ever got. Now I have a portable file with all kinds of beautiful images. Life is good! Hope you all are having a fun creative weekend. I also hope you are cooler than here. We were 101 today!!!!!!

My First Blog Award....Whymsical Musings

I was given this lovely blog award by Becky from Whymsical Musings. She has been one of my favorite ATC artists for a long time. I have many beautiful little works of art from her around my computer that I got several years ago before I was able to start being creative again. It was wonderful to find her blog. Go check it out. You won't be disappointed. Her word verification fairies are just the most imaginative thing!

TGIF Secrets...A Little Birdie Told Me

My entry for Thank God It's Friday...The challenge is "secrets" ......I am trying to type and get this up before our power goes...Lots of thunder here this summer! I did an ATC with an image I've had for a while. I can't remember where I got it but I love her expression!

Three Muses Doors

Here is my piece for the door challenge at Three Muses. I've always been fascinated by doors, especially arched "hobbit" doors like this. One day I'll coax my talented but very busy woodworker husband to make one for my studio.

I did a photo transfer method that I learned this week from Lucy who learned it from Audrey. It was lots of fun and the most successful transfers I've ever been able to do. Thanks you both for sharing your technique! I learn a lot from Lucy...she may be my muse!

I cut out the vines from dictionary pages with my dusty Sizzix. The bee is from Basic Greys Wisteria stamp set..I love this set! Lots of gel medium and other fun stuff. I am loving this site... the muses are doing a wonderful job and bringing in all kinds of talent !

Numbers Mixed Media Monday

Here's my numbers piece for Mixed Media Monday challenge. It's another page for my project from the old "Lazy Thoughts Of A Lazy Girl" book. I had to skip the first chapter and go to the second since it was on bills. How perfect was that?

I am so glad to have had some time to do art today. It's been one of those almost artless weeks and I just can't stand that. Sometimes things are just out of your control and while I accept this I don't like it at ALL! Anyway I did get to play with some digital art this week thanks to Bev's great instructions to me for some baby steps and to Lucy, my patient wonderful friend for helping me learn some more amazing stuff at 1 am in the morning after we were done trying some transfers. So my first 4 layers are digital!!!! Thanks so much for the help!

Mona Lisa Eyes Three Muses

There is a new challenge site called Three Muses and it is run by three very talented and fun ladies. Ann, Bev and Marie. I am so happy to see their new venture. I think this will be one of my favorite places to play every Wednesday! Their idea this week was to use the Mona Lisa however we chose. I instantly thought of my sweet girl Penny who definitely has a Mona Lisa smile. Here she is in real life and then altered by me above...poor thing!

Lazy Thoughts Of A Lazy Girl MMM

This is my entry for lace on Mixed Media Monday. It is a series of book pages I am doing an ongoing art piece. The book is very old and so funny. The author was very opinionated for her times. This is the cover which I thought was perfect for lace. I used spackling paste and shimmer mists I made with hairspray. Fun! I hope to finish every title page I've started and make one large wall hanging. The next chapter is her opinion on children and dogs. Maybe I will be able to work a page in here and there for this challenge.

I have been creatively challenged this week with the all the mess we are making in our house! This has been going on since AUGUST! But we chose to do it ourselves so there is no one to blame but ourselves! Hah! The upside to not having a kitchen is that we got sent home with all the leftovers from a great party this weekend! Anyway I hope you all had a wonderful creative weekend. Mine was wonderful but not as creative as I would have liked! But there's always tomorrow! And thanks for looking if you are still reading! :)

Issues With Blogger

I don't know about if a lot of you are having issues with Blogger but I'm very frustrated trying to open blogs to view and comment on artwork and having the page shutdown. I found the answer here I believe... http://knownissues.blogspot.com/

"Some users are seeing an 'Operation Aborted' error message when trying to load their blogs from Internet Explorer. We're looking into this and will update this message when we have a fix.We apologize for the inconvenience.Update (May 26): We are still working on resolving this bug. This only affects viewers using IE to view the blog; for right now, blog owners can either move the Followers gadget lower in their sidebar, or remove it altogether. Either action will eliminate the pop-up dialog box in IE.We will update this post when a fix has been made."

I've also been told that hitting the refresh button may reload the page properly. Personally I'm tired of the problem and will be using FireFox as my browser for a while and see if I like it. I have some friends who really like it better than IE and say it's faster. I'll keep moving this to the top of my posts and maybe it will help someone else who has been stressed over this.

Dream Journal TGIF

Here is my piece for Thank God It's Friday.....I started this dream journal about a year ago and I'm was so glad to see this challenge and get it out and work on some more pages in it! I loved working on it and even used it when I had to redo my blog header. Now I have the perfect thing to work on this weekend! Thanks for looking and hope everyone has a fun creative weekend!

Problems With Blogger and Internet Explorer

I don't know about if a lot of you are having issues with Blogger but I'm tired of trying to open blogs to comment on everyones artwork and having the page shutdown. Some answers from here...

Here's the message from Blogger http://knownissues.blogspot.com/

Some users are seeing an 'Operation Aborted' error message when trying to load their blogs from Internet Explorer. We're looking into this and will update this message when we have a fix.We apologize for the inconvenience.Update (May 26): We are still working on resolving this bug. This only affects viewers using IE to view the blog; for right now, blog owners can either move the Followers gadget lower in their sidebar, or remove it altogether. Either action will eliminate the pop-up dialog box in IE.We will update this post when a fix has been made.

I've also been told that hitting the refresh button may reload the page properly. Personally I'm tired of the problem and will be using FireFox as my browser for a while and see if I like it. I have some friends who really like it better than IE and say it's faster.

This is for the cool guy with the cool tattoo! :)

Two great guys delivered the third and final part of my kitchen today . It was a long delivery and they were so good to find a way down our road. We made quite a few trips up our tree lined lane in my van since their truck wouldn't fit under the tree canopy and now all the cabinets are safely here! Phew! Along the way we found we all like some great music and good books......so here's a piece of art with a touch of Twilight and Anne Rice thrown in just for them. Thanks so much guys!

As Long As There Were Wishes

Here is my fairy for Wednesday Stamper. This is a Character Construction stamp and the rest is part of a master sheet I made and cut up in mosaic pieces. Thanks for looking!

Crazy AMigo One Fish Two Fish

Here is my bright entry for Crazy Amigos. I got a new bubble stamp today and was happy to get to use it for this challenge. Also inked my fish stamp for the first time. I have had that stamp for a couple years I bet and just rediscovered it. I am going through my stamps and it's like shopping at my own house. Gotta love it!