Wednesday early in the morning like 2am

found some of my watercolour backgrounds have been making them into inchies. I also cut up the folder that came with Fred and Ginger box set to do a theme set of inchies or two. I have to investigate my fonts for helps with inchies too. I found a couple of tuts on inchies and read them. They are going to be my eyecandy for the summer. I suggest googling inchies for all kinds of inspirations. Hope to get everything finished tomorrow for swaps.

Later Tuesday

A couple of years in a row one of my yahoo groups did formica chip ornie exchange for xmas. I was thinking it over and they are just the right place for your inchies. With the Formica chip you can make an ornament or a fob for a key chain or ring or a dangle for blackberry, ipod or cell phone. You can get bookmark blanks and put a bunch of the inchies on the front and/or back in a theme would be nice. One thing I am doing is those stickers have a card inside so the store can hang them with would be perfect to alter then apply inchies. They're are long and thin already have a hole for fibres to be added. Small note books could be albums for them I have a couple and some ideas for them. You can make fabric ones and do a miniature quilt.....yikes I better stop now before I get carried away.

I was sitting in the sun and got thinking things through. Also went through embellishments sticker etc and have put the tiny ones aside for inchies.

These inchies are addictive.......yikes

I think I might have to do a 12 step program......lol as I spent the afternoon doing these little things. I did a double blue with a Woof brad 2 hearts and the initials of two doggies I know. This is for a friend...I redid the kitty on pink as the kitty in question is a boy and thought he should have a blue background I bought the greatest punches for 1" and a scalloped edge one 15/16" they look so good together.


I didn't get the swaps mailed as I was busy doing this and didn't have the energy to go to and mail them and the inchies.

Inchies have come to our ATC swap group and I was having fun tonight these are some I have finished. The Scottie and the sheep I will be adding some more to. I found I have about 7 small punches and a bunch of tiny rubber stamps and a couple of alphabet stamps tiny enough for an inch by inch format. I went to a store on Bloor West and found a 1"square punch and a 15/16" square scalloped edge punch. So I was punching stamping and cutting up a storm. Had so much fun.

Finished last months ATC

This is my newest ATC it's Called Refelections for March. Things did not go well for me in March so I am really late in send my Swap. I spent St. Patrick's day in the hospital with pneumonia.

Not too happy with it but this is what it is. That oval in the middle is a mirror when you scan mirrors they come out black so I tried a few things in Adobe and this is a lens fare.

I have a few more things to do for this and next month.

newest ATC's

This is my ATC for April it is to be stained glass or outline. This is done digitally in Adobe and texture noise and clouds were introduced into the mix. I have been neglectful again with this blog. I am going to cut down in my memberships in tagger snagger groups so I have more art time on the computer.

I was a rippin' and a snippin' again and have come up with a new thing for ATC and/or canvas. Will try it out and see how it looks. Veranda is a great mag for ideas for art not that I mean copy but putting colours together etc. It also has that sumptuous look Victoria used to have in its heyday

I will post more when I have the ReflectionS swap done.

This ATC was done for the outline of leaves wasn't very Happy with it but it looks nice.

Finish Fall swap

This is the finished ATC for my Images of fall swap. I have Twinkling H 2O's for a background Fall from a magazine on another piece of light card stock. The maple leaves are ones I scanned years ago and made tiny for ATCs It doesn't show up well in the scan but there is a sweet foamie in the shape of a black cat with sparkles on it. The words are from magazines and a sheet I purchase and the Jack o Lantern is from a cellophane Trick or Treat bag. I will be posting pics of some ornaments I learned how to make later on in October.

This is from Australia to me for the Faces Swap

Thanks Sharyn that I received today along with some neat goodies. I sent mine off to my swap partner and sent some goodies too. I really enjoyed doing this one.

Oh no I have found out about Geo Deco Thingies. Done with left over scraps and all kinds of stuff. I just got into inchies. Now something new to play with lol I have them corralled for the moment in a coin saver that coin collectors use. Here is a very well done tut on Geo Deco Thingies by Zeborah Loray I think I really would love to done one of these. The more I learn the more I find out I have to learn. That's what makes life exciting for me. You never know what is around any corner.

Faces swap.

This is my ATC for Faces. I sort of did a silk screen images of me liken to Andy Warhol. I made 4 different ones in the Inchies format. I tried different things filters in adobe to obtain the images. I will be sending it out tomorrow.

I got plenty of inspiration for doing new things as I went through organizing and sorting my stuff. Can't wait to start.

How Creative are you

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Wow don't know about that but I feel like I should live up to it. lol ;-)

Today I finished my ATC

I will upload it when I send it off to my swap partner.

The above kitty is the one I received this yearfor my birthday from DH . It is a vignette style done in Adobe Photoshop. I love noodling around with all the filters and things. This is done as poster edges. a pic of my bunny my first garden sculpture. He orginally took you on a tour of the garden. I have added on my own and others have given me the cutest things for the garden.

I will be adding more of these to my blog as time goes by.

What Number are you

Don't know if I agree with this but I am most of this but wow the company I am in.
Other Number 4's: Alanis Morisette, Johnny Depp, J.D. Salinger, Jim Morrison, and Anne Rice

You Are 4: The Individualist

You are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself. You are creative and dreamy... plus dramatic and unpredictable. You're emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt. Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel. At Your Best: You are inspired, artistic, and introspective. You know what you're thinking, and you can communicate it well. At Your Worst: You are melancholy, alienated, and withdrawn. Your Fixation: Envy Your Primary Fear: To have no identity Your Primary Desire: To find yourself Other Number 4's: Alanis Morisette, Johnny Depp, J.D. Salinger, Jim Morrison, and Anne Rice.

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I did some inchies

These are some inchies I did and will be putting on an atc for my faces swap. I really had fun silk screening with adobe.....lol I will be using a coin collector book to store them in These one's will be for a friend on a couple of groups that I belong to. She loves monkeys and it will be a great treat for me to send them to her. She will be getting some other surprises as well. Will post them after I have sent them.

I did this one for my friend who is coming over tomorrow. She is really a great gal and I have missed her. She has been travelling since last fall. Mostly in Las Vegas. I hope she likes it.

Didn't do Much Art

This morning I did some art in the way of doing a name tag for one of the ladies I was visiting today. She is a new member of our First Toronto Chapter and is 90+ young. She is very feisty for her age and lots of fun so is her lovely daughter.

This is the logo I designed for the chapter 6 years ago her name is Daphne. She is created out of punctuation marks. lol

Today I

Today I did some work on my next swap faces. I printed off some of the elements I will be using for it. The printer and I had words not very nice ones some time. I also printed some pics for a friend. She is a red hatter and it's one in her red hat. She is really pretty in the pic. She looks wonderful in the her red hats. She is a real Hat Lady and makes a perfect Queen Mother of our Chapter. I am going to do something with these pics for either cards or ATC s. The Hibiscus is really huge and so lovely. I really enjoy taking pics of the garden and other gardens. It's was one of my main hobbies at one time. I also would like to paint them as well. This winter when it's too cold to go outside.

Received this really lovely post card today .

I received this from a good friend in Oregon and I just love it.

She was making aPost Card from Camp with her stamping buddies. It is the regulation sized post card. I really liked the front and the back of it. I have some of the stamps by this person I was in Michaels when they were on for half price. So I had to buy some.

Today in going through my sorts I saw some really nice collage fodder for the future. I can't wait to finish and have everything in place. Working hard on it.

Thinking about the faces project today. I must get going on that.

I have been receiving some lovely ATC's

I have been receiving some lovely ATC's for my RAK I sent out.

These two yesterday or the day before and this one today. It was so nice of them to return the favour. I really love and appreciate them so cute. I am going to start to work on the Faces one for the next swap I could go so many ways with this one.

Well I have really gone to town on my other blog

and totally ignored this one sad to say. This was my lastest ATC I have done. It was call Day at the Beach. I also sent out this one as an extra for everybody. The ladies really enjoy it. I received some really nice thank you ones and some rak stuff. I am sorting and pitching to free up space and have a place for everything and everything thing in it's place. I really am enjoying the process this time around. I have a P touch labeler to label things to keep trace of it all.

Sunday I did a personal ATC of faces for me of the Afghan girl that was famous all over the world. She has haunted me ever since I saw her and I had run across a pull out from National Geographic and used those pics.

Lots going on in my life now.

I have taken up knitting and I have been to lots of wool shops lately going. On Friday I hope to see my idol The Yarn Harlot so. She is so funny and keeps me going doing my knitting along with my knitty friends on the internet and my SnB. I designed Wilberforce in the pic above for them I hope they like him and the name tags I made.

No 13

this is tricky