Take a Word #49 - Walls

Take a Word #49 - Walls

This week our theme word is "Walls".

Include a wall or part of a wall in your artwork.
Have fun!
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4" x 6" Postcard.
Clip Art from Flickr Collage Group.
Quote from The Quote Garden.
Inks from Stampin' Up!

Take a Word #45 - Butterflies

Take a Word #45 - Butterflies

This week our word is BUTTERFLIES.

Can't wait to see what butterflies mean to you.
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Butterflies... and Sweet Dreams...
Pattern Paper is K&Company.
Stamps and Inks are Stampin'Up!
4" X 6" Postcard size.

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Take a Word #44 - TIME

Take a Word #44 - TIME

This week the theme word is TIME.
We hurtle through time,
the years pass and the only constant is the clicking of the clock.
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My piece is 4X6" Postcard.

Stamps: Stampin'Up! and Recollections.

Take a Word Challenge #26 - Memories

Take a Word Challenge #26 - Memories

I am looking forward to sharing some great memories with you all.

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"God gave us memories that we
might have roses in December."
~J.M.Barrie~

Cardstock and Inks are Stampin' Up!
Pattern Paper is DCWV.
Clip Art from stash.

Postcard:

Take a Word Challenge #25 - Travel

Take a Word Challenge #25 - Travel

The theme word is TRAVEL. Have fun with it!
Can't wait to see where we are going with you!
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You might not want to get in this car... just saying. ;O)
Anyone got Roadside Assistance? Ya mind calling them?

Take a Word Challenge - #24 - LACE

Take a Word Challenge - #24 - LACE

Bring out your lace (or laces!) in any shape or form.
Have fun.

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My take was of a *different* shape & form for sure. ;O)

"Greek, Sir... is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can."
~Samuel Johnson~

Take a Word Challenge #23 - UMBRELLA

Take a Word Challenge #23 - UMBRELLA

The theme word for this week is UMBRELLA.

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Clip Art, Ink and Sharpies)

Take a Word: Blooms

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Take a Word: Blooms
I've missed this challenge for faaar too many weeks.
Feeling dusty & rusty... lol.
Actually with the head cold I feel 'sticky' more than anything else, ugh.
Happy to be back in the saddle again bringing a greeting card to the table.
Digi-Stamp (unknown), Marker colored (SU!) and added the Paper (Green Tara) and Metal ($ store) Flowers. Matted and then added to the Textured Purple Card Base (Deja-View)

Take a Word #17 - Door

Take a Word #17 - Door

This week the theme is DOOR.

Any type of door in any type of art is most welcome!
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Simple Postcard.
Every WALL... is a DOOR.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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Take a Word # 15: BLACKBIRD ~Guest Designer~

I'm the Guest Artist this week over at Take a Word.

The Take a Word Challenge is posted on Mondays each week.
It is based on a one word theme to take you off into your imagination.
The Challenge is open to all kinds of art, there are no rules, no rights or wrongs.
The idea is just to have fun. .
What are you waiting for?
Check the Blog out

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Take a Word # 15: BLACKBIRD
The word I have chosen for that week is BLACKBIRD.
I love blackbirds in art and I find myself needing to give them an airing every once in a while.

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Handful of cherries is a pictures I tore out of a Food & Beverage (LCBO freebie) Magazine.
Blackbird was provided for another site's challenge, now part of my stash (unknown origins).
All mounted on Cereal Box Board and inked, inked, inked! (Stampin'Up!)
Fine Line Sharpie used for outlining.

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries.
and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
~Joseph Addison~

Take a Word #14 - Vintage

Take a Word #14 - Vintage

The one word theme for this week is VINTAGE.

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"If we could recapture 1950 value without losing
modern chice it would be a very wonderful thing."
12X12 Vintage Cutouts by Melissa Frances

Take a Word #13 - Botanical

Take a Word #13 - Botanical

This week's theme is BOTANICAL. Include anything resembling plant life in your design and have fun with it

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I'm late!
But it's done:
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
~Astrid Alauda~

Take a Word #12 - Butterflies

Take a Word #12 - Butterflies

This week the theme word is BUTTERFLIES.

Real, altered, morphed ... show us your butterflies!
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Background from Ceremony Share:
http://cemerony-share.blogspot.com/2010/04/freebie-31.html
Stamps: SU! and unknown
Ink: SU!
Butterflies: McGill Punch

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

~Rabindranath Tagore~

Take a Word #11 - Beauty

Take a Word #11 - Beauty

Beauty is the one adjective that can be attached to almost anything so the sky is the limit!

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A little Da vinci and a lot of Glimmer Mist & Ink.

"Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart."
~Kahlil Gibran~

Take a Word #10 - Zetti

Take a Word #10 - Zetti

This week the theme word is ZETTI.

To those who are not familiar with the Zetti style may I say that it is rare for any two people to agree on a definition. Think whimsical, think maybe a stripey leg, wings or a pointed hat.
Just have fun with it!!!
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I was working on a few other steampunk-ish projects last night before I went to bed.
When I woke up I made my Zetti out of scraps on the table.
To me the Zetti style is alot about making things fit that don't *quite* and the mish-mash of the made-up... collage, doodling... this'n'that.
Soooo... this is what I came up with:
Zetti Steampunk
Background was Black & White I sprayed it down with 5 colors of Glimmer Mist.
Images are all scraps off of Collage sheets I was working with.
Doodling... all me. :O)
Stamp Set is Stampin'Up!: Sense of Time.
"An unhuried sense of time
is itself a form of wealth"
~Bonnie Friedman~

Take a Word #8 : Celebrate!

Take a Word #8 - Celebrate!

One of my favorite quotes and a way of life around here. :O)
"There are exactly as many special occasions
in life as we choose to celebrate."
~Robert Brault~

Take a Word #9: Music

Take a Word #9 - Music

Artist Postcard.
Clip art and Stampin'Up! Wheel.

"There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden,
but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
~Minnie Aumonier~

Take a Word #7 - CHILDHOOD

This week's word is CHILDHOOD.
Share your memories with us!

I made a 4X4 for this challenge...
It started with a photo of my 2nd son, Robert, taken at the park this past summer.
Which already seems soooo far away with all the snow we have... *le sigh*
I cut around his body and added some fleurs from a garden ad.
The quote:
There is a garden
in every childhood,
an enchanted place
where colors are brighter.
the air softer,
and the morning
more fragrant than ever again.
~Elizabeth Lawrence~
I also added a few paper fleurs around the quote with black Sharpie Centers.
Very SUMMER!

Stay Calm & Merry On... (+ Good News!)

I've seen this phrase on an icon that's floating around...

"Stay Calm & Merry On"
My Mantra for this Month!
Though I have not updated recently I am far from unbusy.
I managed to clear away most of my Design Team work up til January 1st...
though it seems fate has other plans for me!
I recently jumped in to a few of the challenges at Scrap Our Stash and I won!
I won the Monthly challenge with the Halloween Layout I did of William the Explorer.
So I've been invited to be a Guest Designer for the month of January.
Then...
I also won the Pagerize #4 Challenge.
Which means one of MY Layouts becomes Challenge #5 and I get to choose the winner who becomes #6. What fun!
I choose the "da' boyz!" layout to be pagerized...
I figured it has a variety of embellishments and a few unique things.
The New Pagerize Challenge is up Go check it out!
Then...
I found out I was a Finalist for the Design Team!!!
I am delighted to have been selected to join this team of wonderfully talented Ladies.
I'm still sitting here like a deer in headlights over all the excitement.
Then add...
Look to see me over at Take a Word the week of February 7th.
If you want to create a sample yourself... let her know.
This is a fantastic challenge Blog, all art is welcome!
See what I mean by Stay Calm? All this excitement... I'm dizzy.
Then of course there is the usual December-Month Hoopla. :O)
I need to catch up on the photos for my December Daily... will post when I can.
Today was a Baking Day...
I made 2 4X batches of Biscotti for Teacher's Gifts.
4-Cinnamon and 4-Cranberry/Cinnamon.
I'm baked out!
Then packaged it all up, one kind each in a holiday theme Ziplock Baggies with an ingredients list enclosed, nestled in a white treat box and Tagged for the 2 schools.
This year we went and had our Family Christmas Pictures done while dressed in our Steampunk wear minus the guns and goggles. lol... ie. Dickens style Victorian. I used the Boyz individual shots on the Gift Tags. Printed, trimmed, green inked the edges then attached to red Cardstock that had been red ink edged... a little curling ribbon and Voila!
Another year's gifts DONE.

'Naked' Biscotti: not yet chocolate drizzled.
Cranberry Cinnamon on the Left, Cinnamon on the Right.

mmmm... chocolate drizzled Goodness!

Cinnamon up close...

Cranberry/Cinnamon up close...

All packaged up!

Close Up of Younger 3's Tag...

Close Up of Eldest's Tag...

Take a Word #6: MAIL

Take a Word #6: MAIL

Lovely word again this week...
I made a Postcard (bonus MAIL art too! lol).
"What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying a warm human hand-clasp."