Art Journal Page 1

The Instructions: Take a minute to connect with your feelings and draw or paint them.

Hah!  Who knew joyful was spelled with two j's?  I am leaving it though, it really doesn't matter...
This page was done using the Stampin' Up watercolour crayons and a thin black marker.  I didn't worry about everything being perfectly even, art isn't about perfect.  Sometimes girls just wanna have fun!

Challenging Myself

My Friend Jo inspired me to scrapbook about me.

She scrapped a page using one word to describe her year.

My word is Self.

I am learning the new My Digital Scrapbook software from Stampin' Up, and will post my digital pages as I do them.

When the year is up, they'll be printed into a book for me to keep.

My first digital layout!

Woo Hoo! Yipee!!!

Yesterday My Digital Software arrived from Stampin' Up.

And here's my first layout. Double click on it for a better view. I'll have to learn how to size these, I was so excited, I just wanted to get this one up on my blog.

I love this program, I can't believe how many different things I can do with it - cards, calendars, scrapbooking layouts. I can save them onto disks with music and recordings and... well, the possibilities are endless! Just imagine what I will be able to do with my photographs, and then I can play them on the TV screen, print them... ooohhh, I am in HEAVEN.

Stamp Club!

I love going to Stamp Club. Great friends, great ideas, getting lost in colour, and getting wired on Sue's fabulous coffee...

The watercolour roses technique - love it! I will post the finished card. The watercolour paper wasn't dry enough to mount at club.

A Creative Space

Ahhh... a space to work, with natural light coming in on the left.

I decided to do a sketch challenge from Splitcoast Stampers, and used the sketch to make a card in landscape and portrait orientation.





Looking at the card in portrait format, I can see that it needs "a little something".

Hmmm... I'll take a photo of the card when I figure out what it needs.


It was fun to work in a space that was cleared, and where I had everything I needed within reach!

The Books

I am not good at math. Even with a calculator. Even after working in banking for over 20 years. My mom, who is a math whiz, can add up a list of numbers faster in her head than I can with the aid of a calculator. Mom, I inherited your creativity, why not your math skills?
So, today's thoughts are about how intimidating math is to me, today was the day to do the books, pay bills, balance the accounts. Not the best way to spend my time, but it's one less thing I don't enjoy done.

Today was also awesome, I got my new Stampin'Up! Catalogue - so my creative juices are flowing and I am spending the evening devouring the catalogue page by page.

Sunday and Stamp Club

My mom really liked this picture, so I thought I would use it for today's post. Daisy had just licked my chin when this picture was shot - no, I am not kissing her on the nose.

Are you getting sick of puppy pictures yet? Sorry, I'm not!

I had a great day today - it was Stamp Club at Sue F's and I made some lovely cards with Sue F and Kathy.
Sue has a great eye for colour combinations and the cards we make are beautiful.
Thanks goodness Sue's really patient, I felt like I was all thumbs today! One of the cards I made today is posted on my photo blog.

Kathy's back was really bad - hope you are better soon Kathy!

Colour !

Izzy came for a visit yesterday, and was kind enough to bring my new order of Stampin Up papers and stamps and BigShot. We had a lovely visit, and did some creative brainstorming down in my tornado of a craft room. I felt so inspired, that when she left, I was busy stamping and colouring and assembling.

Here's a card I made for a 16 year old, putting together colours I normally wouldn't, and I am quite pleased with the result. I am pretty sure she'll like it too.