Off I go..

on my Artful Voyage to Mexico. Well I will be leaving
this afternoon to fly to Los Angeles and tomorrow I will
be getting on the boat. Excited and nervous at the same
time, did not sleep a wink last night. Looking forward
to doing some fantastic art and making new friends.
Will report when I get back :)

Sneaky peek...

So here are the 3 different ATC's that I made to swap on
my cruise. This is the first time I have made any so I am
not sure what to expect from the others. I have heard
people are making 160 or so to trade, I have made 70
and that was plenty enough for me.
In case you do not know, an ATC is an Artists Trading Card.

The 2 rules are that it has to be 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" in size and
they cannot be sold only traded, apart from that anything goes.

I have heard that Tim Holtz himself will be trading with us
on Sunday evening, how cool is that !

Happy October...

So in just over a week this is where I will be, soo exciting,

and nerve wracking all at the same time. I have not cruised

before and I am sharing a room with someone I have not

met but we have been e-mailing each other. I am really

looking forward to learning lots of new techniques and
taking time to be creative. I have even made some ATC
cards to swap, I know some of ladies on the cruise have
made lots of them, I am up to about 50 at the moment.
This afternoon I decided to try and make a few more
but I will definitely be done after those.

Another one...

Well I loved my project from yesterday so much that I
decided to have another go at it, here is my Halloween
version. I must say that I really did not have a lot of
halloween stamps, so improvisation was in order.
I actually used some of Tim Holtz's seasonal grungeboard
shapes and used his crackle paint on top of them, you
can't really see that in the photo. I was also very limited
on my Halloween paper but I found some with my
favourite colour in, Purple !!

I like the two I have made but that is it for me now,
so don't worry I won't be doing another post tomorrow
with my next one.

Play day today ..

I went to my friend Lisa's house today to make this cute Xmas
project. She had very kindly bought frames and papers, I also got to try out some of her stamps, she has some really cool ones. So we stamped, inked, painted and cut out whilst  chatting and ended up with a really nice xmas plaque.

After I had finished I was going to put the dowels in
that make it stand up and discovered I had done mine
the wrong way up !!
Thank goodness my husband has all tools known
to mankind, he used a drill press to drill holes at
the bottom of it and voila - it is now fine !

I am seriously thinking of making a
Halloween one now, what do you think ??

My next project ??

I have been waiting for them to get this letter in at Razmataz, I have been in there several times over the last year and they have had every letter except this one in. Well today there it was, just one lonely "M". I have to say that I hate the colour and almost did not buy it, but I started thinking about painting it or inking it or metal or rub-ons.
It measures 15" high by 15 3/4" wide so it is a good size.

There are so many possiblities to choose from, or you could ask me about it in 6 months and it could still look exactly the same !

Feeling creative...

Today I made myself a journal to do some art journaling in.
I am so proud of myself as I made it completely from
scratch, even though I have taken book classes before,
this is the first time I attempted to do this at home.
I did have a slight miscalculation in which I could not
fit in as many pages as I had hoped, but after all this
is my first one better luck next time.

I have had the decorative paper for quite a few years, I
have been saving it to use on something special.
I am seeing an idea for gifts here...