art from the well

there is one more week to join the "1st thanksgiving" challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  I've made another tag to encourage your participation.
i started by using alcohol inks to color the glossy tag.  i used distress ink on some tissue paper and then stamped my lady cornucopia (mad rat rubber) onto that, ripped it and glued it to the tag.  i added other various goodies until i'd come to some satisfaction with the piece and then added a lovely ribbon.  
please consider joining the challenge!
love to all.

aha!  i just realized i had one more card i'd made which i'd never posted! here's another image from the wonderful june at dezinaworld:
enjoy the festivities and don't eat too much candy!  happy hallowe'en.
love to all.

i needed a bit of cheering today.  so i colored this sweet digital image from cs designs and made a little ATC for pink saturday.  i also included this piece in the faith grace & crafts pearls and lace thursday challenge.
enjoy; love to all.

vintage image from clearly vintage.
images on above two are from dezinaworld.
all the rest of the embellies are various items from the stash.
enjoy!

love to all.

it is time for another challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  this time you may make any kind of creation representing thanksgiving.  use your own imagination and creativity to bring forth a creation representing the holiday of thanksgiving or your thoughts about gratitude.  i'll be making many more cards for thanksgiving in the coming weeks (after i get done finishing up my hallowe'en creations!) but for now here is my tag. 

i used some packaging materials for the background, some decorative paper, vintage images from paula's kits club (no longer in business) and a raffia bundle.  autumn is a lovely time to enjoy the wonderful squashes and root vegetables, to bring out your sweaters and to cuddle up with hot tea. it is also a good time for crafting!  please consider joining this challenge.

love to all.

p.s.  i just learned of a wonderful gothic arch giveaway at martinas stempel gewerkel blog.  you must check it out!!!

we're playing hallowe'en creations for one more week at the cheerful stamp pad.  you can make anything -- card, ATC, wall hanging, whatever, as long as it is about hallowe'en.
this time around i did some stamping.  the marching jack-o-lantern is from american art stamps and the cat on the jack-o-lantern is from 100 proof press.  the rest is layering of colorful seasonal stickers and papers.  feel free to join the challenge!

love to all.

in my quest for fun spooky seasonal images i visited another favorite website, june's dezinaworld.  dezinaworld has wonderful vintage images at reasonable prices plus lots of cool freebies on the dezinaworld blog.  i'll be sharing more hallowe'en cards with dezinaworld images over the next little while but let's start with this:
love this scary creature! poor little trick or treater! and this:
all the images on these two are from dezinaworld sheets.  the background contrasting paper came from a martha stewart set.  other stickers and bits are random items.
i'm linking these up for 2 challenges: cupcake craft challenge #163 "halloween" & forevernight challenge #12 "trick or treat."

i'm doing some stamping too, stay tuned for that.
enjoy and love to all.

if you stop by this blog much you know i am a cindy adkins fan.  in addition to her wonderful BLOG she has done an online blogging free seminar and she is also an incredible artist, encourager and friend.  in the process of her designing my blog button based on my original art we had this email dialogue going about being an artist and she was very helpful to me. later while browsing her etsy shop i found something that was directly on point to my artist's journey.  i'm going to show you that little treat LATER.  for now i'm sharing 2 pieces of art she sent gratis with my order.



delicious, yes?
more hallowe'en goodies tomorrow.
love to all.

they're pretty much all over blog land now -- hallowe'en challenges everywhere.  here's another place to share one of your fun or spooky creations:  the cheerful stamp pad. double double toil & trouble and cook up whatever kind of hallowe'en creation you'd like then please link up to our challenge.

here's my DT sample:

this is another image from gecko galz. i've used colored cardstock and other goodies from k & company for embellishment.

enjoy hallowe'en and if you're making cards anyway (you know you are!) come on and join this cheerful stamp pad challenge.

love to all.

over the past few days i've been gathering interesting hallowe'en images.  then yesterday morning i had a delightful time searching through all my goods looking for embellies and papers and such that speak "hallowe'en."  so get ready because that's mostly what i'll be making and posting over the next several days!
this gecko galz image is actually a vintage hosiery ad! i suppose a witch might value smooth legs though i myself prefer to stay away from it.  what a hassle! simple black cardstock, coordinating paper from a martha stewart set of h'ween papers and a few other seasonal goodies.

i'm linking up to pink saturday (hey, she's wearing pink --such a fashionable witch!) and also to the drunken stampers hallowe'en challenge #76 and finally, a new one for me, the 2 sisters challenge blog #60.  for both of the challenges any hallowe'en creation counts so check it out.

more to come.
love to all.

here are the four beautiful encouraging words magnets i received last week per the recent gingersnap creations art swap.  i got two inspiring pieces from my blog pal vicki romaine from the cheerful stamp pad.

i understand from vicki that she got one of mine too though i do not know which one.
the next beauty is from paula akers.  you can find her wonderful art at her blog..

what great words for those of us who create! now last but not by any means least, a beauty from deb corder whose lovely works can be found at freckle face printworks.
this swap was great fun.  check out gingersnap creations to get in on more of the fun.  special thanks to ali manning who coordinated the US players for this swap.

love to all.
p.s.  please grab my blog button at far right and link back to my blog! (yes, i know, i'm so excited about it...)

earlier today i mentioned the awesome online class by cindy adkins whimsical musings.  in class 2 she talked about the value of having a blog button and she has offered her services to create them.  i wrote her, found her rates supremely reasonable and inside of two hours, voila!  my new blog button!
i'm so thrilled!  i sent her some of my art and this came back.  you might remember this card i made recently; it features an image from moonlight journey from the black americana heritage sheet.

if you'd like to grab my button (please do!) you'll find it on the right hand side of this blog.  i feel like a REAL art blogger now!

love to all.

dear blogging friends: you MUST visit cindy adkins whimsical musings because she is sharing amazing information on how to
*blog from the heart
*improve look and feel of your blog.
*have more followers
*other really good stuff

i just checked it out today for the first time and we're on lesson 2 already so come on over!
love to all.