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5x7 Folded Card

2012-02-19T20:52:00.001-06:00

Love Luck Laughter St. Patrick's Day Card

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2011-11-19T13:43:00.001-06:00

Family Highlights Christmas Card

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Stationery card

2011-11-19T13:33:00.001-06:00

Family Highlights Christmas Card

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It's been a LONG time!

2010-06-14T10:07:00.002-05:00

Well people, I knew this was gonna happen, but today I decided to make an entry to my blog after almost a year! I wanted to post these corner bookmarks for others to see how fun and easy they are to make. I'm gonna help my granddaughters make some since they love to read. So easy to make out of corners of envelopes. You can make them any size but these are 4" on either side and cut with scalloped scissors, then stamped and embellished.....

Vintage playing cards!

2009-07-30T08:12:00.002-05:00

Found these old vintage playing cards at the junk store and couldn't resist buying a pack of each for arting with! Beautiful scenery, etc. Great to alter and add to collages or cards and other artwork. Watch for these coming in your artwork soon!

Shelly's Blog Anniversay!

2009-07-27T15:42:00.003-05:00

Check this out my friends--www.shellyraewood.blogspot.com. Shelly is giving away some awesome art prizes just for signing up on her blog and noting her 1st blog anniversay. She does awesome work and if you don't win, you can always buy from her etsey shop....Good luck!

It's been awhile.....

2009-06-12T13:32:00.003-05:00

I haven't blogged in awhile. Summer is in full swing around here. Just been too busy to create, write, blog or anything. Cookouts with the neighbors, yardwork and the
baseball boys have moved in and now we are busy going to games. Grandkids got home from PA for the summer so we're busy doing fun stuff with them. BUT, here is a fish
hanglie danglie I did for a mingle on AAWA. We had to have a fish somewhere on the piece. I did a play on words and used a koi fish to represent my coy little Oriental gal....

Another altered art endeavor...

2009-05-26T23:09:00.002-05:00

Joined an altered rolodex swap which is another first for me. It will be a very cool set of addies and info on my art friends when I get the whole set of 31 in my hands. I'm thinking of suggesting this in another of my groups so I can add their rolos to my collection. When I finally came up with my idea, I made an original and then had it color photocopied and just embellished each individually. Made the info on the back ( addy, likes, hobbies, etc.) on sticker paper and stuck it on the back of each card. Made 32 of these!

I'm just "moo"ing along....

2009-05-11T17:19:00.002-05:00

I've tried my hand at Moo art and these are a few of the ones I did this afternoon. Once you get started on them, they are so quick and easy and fun. You can't do just one!! Anyway, several of these are for a swap in AAWA.

Happy Earth Day!

2009-04-22T20:24:00.002-05:00

It's Earth Day and I made this "Blowin' in the wind" ATC for a swap in honor of today. These are wind turbines on a farm in Iowa. Iowa is 3rd in the nation with wind power production. President Obama visited Iowa today to discuss future wind farms. They've taken an old Maytag appliance factory and turned it into a headquarters for wind turbine production. It's a great way to harness mother nature and make good use of it.
Remember to conserve and celebrate the Earth!

My latest endeavor....

2009-04-15T16:10:00.006-05:00

is altering spoons!! Two of these are for a swap in my AAWA art group. I found the spoons at a junk store--the older the better. Then I added images in the bowls of the spoons and used a high gloss finish/liquid laminate to fill the bowls with. Then it's just a matter of embellishing them with "extras" on the theme. They are quite fun to do and you can easily become addicted to making these. Let me know what you think!

Happy Easter to all of you!!

2009-04-11T15:28:00.005-05:00

I am busy getting ready for dinner at my house with 14-18 people coming!! That means I had to clean the house to make room for them---arrgh! It's supposed to be a gorgeous day so maybe some will go outside! No little ones for an egg hunt anymore though.

It's Mardi Gras Time!!

2009-02-18T22:19:00.002-06:00

These are some ATCs that I made to RAK some fellow artists with for Mardi Gras.
Since I made my Arti Gras Mask I was in the mood to make something else in the same theme. I had all these green, purple, and gold embellishments and paper sitting around begging me to make something from them!!!

Arti-Gras Mask-arade

2009-01-26T21:33:00.002-06:00

This is the beginning stages of a Mardi Gras Mask I am making for a mingle in my AAWA art group. I am hosting the swap and am having a lot of fun with this. Once you get started you just want to keep on going! It gets addictive. I will post updates as I continue with it.

I've officially created my first piece of jewelry!!

2009-01-17T23:06:00.002-06:00

Now this is my first attempt at beading/making jewelry and the only reason I decided to do it is because I wanted to duplicate a bracelet I bought. It is a team bracelet for our Waterloo Black Hawks hockey and I am giving it to a young gal who does alot of scrapbooking for me and our players. I will also make one for my daughter who is an avid BH fan. Not too shabby if I do say so myself!!

Our family Christmas picture

2008-12-22T14:50:00.002-06:00

While the grandkids are home, we got a professional picture taken for the holidays.
Grandma, grandpa, mom(Kari),Nicole,Katlin, and Kane. What a fine looking bunch of people, if I do say so myself!!

More Christmas Art

2008-12-21T13:33:00.003-06:00

Here I've decorated a white gift bag with gold embossed cardstock and embossed ornaments. In the end I added a gold embossed strip across the bottom, but didn't photograph it. It looks even better with the bottom piece as it ties it all together. Unfortuneately I sent it off before I took a pic!

This is a Nutcracker themed notebook for the Monthly Lottery in AAWA. It can be used as a holiday planner for wish lists, card lists, or to jot holiday recipes, notes, poems, etc.

Christmas happenings

2008-12-21T13:26:00.002-06:00

These are the stockings received in a Christmas stocking swap from AAWA, my online art group. There are 26 of them and I've strung them together and hung them on my banister. Nice decorating touch! Thanks to all for the great designs.

Time for Christmas!

2008-12-01T21:31:00.004-06:00

I've made a couple of Christmas corsages as part of a mingle in my AAWA art group.
It kind of got me going with some Christmas art and will hopefully put me in the mood for the holidays....

Halloween Campout!

2008-10-30T20:43:00.005-05:00

We had our annual Halloween campout this past weekend complete with costume contest and Jack-0-lantern carving contest! It was windy and chilly but all the better to make Witche's Stew! Everyone adds some meat and a veggie of their choice and throw it all in a big black kettle (a.k.a. cauldron) over a big fire........yummm. These are some of our friends in their costumes. Can you guess what we were?

Altered Cabinet Cards

2008-10-30T20:38:00.001-05:00

In the Halloween mood

2008-10-17T11:30:00.002-05:00

I've been in the Halloween mood and decided to make a couple of cards for the occasion. It's kind of fun to do something out of the ordinary because I don't usually do cards for this holiday. Enjoy.

Fall Decorating

2008-10-05T16:33:00.002-05:00

This is my favorite time of year and I just did some decorating outside along our carport. My husband built this flower box and I have elephant hostas growing in it during the summer, but now I've added some fall colored mums and pumpkins. There are also some red salvias showing beyond the hostas also.

Cake baking day at my house...

2008-09-10T12:50:00.003-05:00

Cake decorating is the other art form that I have practiced for 30 years. I have come out of cake decorating retirement to make my neighbor's daughter's wedding cake after much pleading and begging from them! So today I am baking wedding cake for 225 guests. Luckily it is a cool breezy fall day so baking is not heating up the kitchen too much. I do declare though this is my last wedding cake as it is a lot of work and I'm getting too old for this stress!!

I've posted several pics of the cakes I've done in the past.

Evening out

2008-08-15T11:46:00.002-05:00

A friend of mine called last night and coaxed me into going out to a card making class at a SU demonstrator's house. It was kind of fun to make 10 quick cards for a change. Had a good time catching up with some friends and getting some refreshing new ideas. I am also posting the Wild West Wand I mentioned yesterday from Joan W. , in my AAWA group. Awesome isn't it?

It's been a productive day...

2008-08-14T22:33:00.002-05:00

I finished a 3D shadow box for an inspiration mingle featuring a dalmation dog. It amazes me that I can sit around and rack my brain for an idea on something and all of a sudden the light bulb goes on and it all comes together!

I also received the Wild West wand in the mail today from Joan (AAWA). It is very awesome and I'm so happy to have been a recipient of her "extras." Another box came with a bunch of wine corks in it from Gloria H., another AAWA member, so now I can get started on my wine cork wreath as I have enough now. I'm very grateful for the generosity of some of these women.

I went scrounging today....

2008-08-07T18:26:00.002-05:00

at my local junk/antique store and found some old silver spoons. I'd like to try my hand at a spoon book that I saw in a recent Cloth/Paper/Scissors magazine. I also found some old lightswitch plate covers that I may alter. Then went to the dollar store and found some manilla folders for a cool project one of the gals in my AAWA online group showed us. However, my next project will probably be to make my wine cork wreath that I have been saving corks for. I have 173 corks and only need 27 more and then I will begin. Also went to a wine tasting last night and got to take home several bottles (empty!) with the coolest labels. It was a Rollicking Red Horse Play wine with the coolest horses heads on the labels. I just had to have them! Take a look...

Some of creative endeavors....

2008-08-06T14:19:00.001-05:00

These are some of the row houses I've made recently....

First things first

2008-08-04T08:22:00.000-05:00

I've posted a couple of pics of my stamp collection and how I have them stored.
This is in my basement where my "studio" is. Actually my worktable is our antique
pool table that is covered over with a huge sheet of plywood and table covering.
It works quite well and is a very large surface, which is normally covered in my
art clutter! No one has played pool on it for years now, but I don't want to get rid of it because
where would I art then? I will try to get some pics of my artwork up here shortly. Have a busy day planned visiting my mother and baseball game with visitors coming to town.

I can't believe I"m doing this!

2008-08-03T22:57:00.001-05:00

Here I was telling myself I wasn't gonna start a blog, BUT curiosity got the best of me!
We'll see what I can do with this now that I've started it. LOL...Feel free to tell me what you think and I am looking forward to joining the world of blogging!