I was able to upload the photo to my gallery at www.splitcoaststampers.com Not sure why Blogger wanted to argue.
In any event, here's the link to the ATC in my gallery at SCS
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1250582?cat=500&ppuser=32055
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Food and Art
This month's theme at the Ink Spot is Food. Deciding on the design for my ATC was easy. I love chinese buffet. A friend of mine and I once made a trip to OK City from Peoria IL for a writers conference. When it was time to eat, we managed to find a chinese buffet for every lunch or dinner stop we made. There was even one right across from the conference hotel where we were staying. I can eat at a chinese buffet seven days a week.
For this ATC, I took my color cue from the take-out menu of our local chinese buffet in West Plaines MO. - Diamond Head. They've been rated the Top 100 Chinese Buffet's in the country.
I used red and black. The dimensional items are from my Photoshop program.
For this ATC, I took my color cue from the take-out menu of our local chinese buffet in West Plaines MO. - Diamond Head. They've been rated the Top 100 Chinese Buffet's in the country.
I used red and black. The dimensional items are from my Photoshop program.
Blogger is arguing so I will come back and add either the actual photo or a link to where it can be seen. Thanks for stopping by.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Valentine Postcard
I participated in a Valentine postcard swap with my Scrap and Stamp yahoo group. I've found I like working in collage. Something about the mixing of textures and prints and colors just sets the imagination into overdrive.
What are you creating? Please link me to your page and let me see.
Creative Blessings
Kelly
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Valentine Countdown
Today begins the first of 27 printable downloads from TenTwoStudios over teh next 14 days. Lisa Vollrath always has awesome stuff for us to play with. Every day she'll reveal a new valentine printable. If you can't wait til the 14th to get them all Free, you can purchase the collection now. Here's the link to get you started: http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/
I've spent the last couple days making collage valentine postcards for a swap and for friends. I'll get the pics taken this afternoon and, should the dial-up cooperate, uploaded here.
What are you creating for the Day of Love? Tell us what you're doing and link us so we can peek at your creativity.
Creative Blessings
Kel
I've spent the last couple days making collage valentine postcards for a swap and for friends. I'll get the pics taken this afternoon and, should the dial-up cooperate, uploaded here.
What are you creating for the Day of Love? Tell us what you're doing and link us so we can peek at your creativity.
Creative Blessings
Kel
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A New Year!
And a new quest to nourish my artistic soul. One of the ways I’m doing that is by participating in a challenge at http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ The idea is to determine how many Christmas cards you will need to mail in November of 2009 and divide it by 11 months.
I didn’t get any Christmas cards mailed this year. Instead, I sent New Years cards. Nice, but I’d rather remember my family and friends at the beginning of the holiday.
I didn’t get any Christmas cards mailed this year. Instead, I sent New Years cards. Nice, but I’d rather remember my family and friends at the beginning of the holiday.
My pledge is to make 10 Christmas cards every month between now and mid-November and to have them done by the 25th of the month. I don’t mail 110 Christmas cards but I do hand out to close family and friends as well as the 30 cookie/candy trays I give to area businesses. So yeah, 110 should cover everyone easily.
This month’s card was inspired by a calendar swap I was in last fall where I made the page for January. This card is a more labor intense version of the calendar page. I started these on the 24th but several stages of drying glitter later, it wound up taking me 4 days! I hope you like
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Coming back to life
Hello everyone.
Man... I can't believe it's been so long since I've been here.
Back in the spring, southern MO and N. AR were inundated with more than their share of rain. Our house sits on a bit of a rise. However, MO and AR are famous for their underground springs. The water table rose and seaped into our basement from underneath the house.
My office/art room, storage room and quilt room/sparebedroom are all in the basement. Everything had to come up off the floor. In the office, we would up taking out all the base cabinets as well as my scrap cabinet. After cleaning up the water and giving the concrete floor ample time to dry out, we replaced everything. This time, the cabinets were all risered on treated timbers, giving approximately a 2" air space and (hopefully not but just in case) water flow for future issues.
It took most of the summer to put everything back into place and I can get to everything much easier than I could before. (Did I mention I hadn't unpacked everything when the water came in and so there were wet boxes of stuff to deal with as well?)
The art space is back together just in time for NanoWrimo. www.nanowrimo.org If you've not heard of this, it is a crazy 30 days when thousands of us join together on line and in our local communities to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. This is year number 6 for me and I am determined to ket that pretty colored tracking bar.
If you want to keep an eye on my progress, check out http://cauldroncafe.blogspot.com
Once I'm through November, I'll be back to Creative Saturdays and getting some new stuff posted.
In the mean time, tell me what you've been up to. Link me to your blog so I can see your work.
Creative Blessings
Kelly
Man... I can't believe it's been so long since I've been here.
Back in the spring, southern MO and N. AR were inundated with more than their share of rain. Our house sits on a bit of a rise. However, MO and AR are famous for their underground springs. The water table rose and seaped into our basement from underneath the house.
My office/art room, storage room and quilt room/sparebedroom are all in the basement. Everything had to come up off the floor. In the office, we would up taking out all the base cabinets as well as my scrap cabinet. After cleaning up the water and giving the concrete floor ample time to dry out, we replaced everything. This time, the cabinets were all risered on treated timbers, giving approximately a 2" air space and (hopefully not but just in case) water flow for future issues.
It took most of the summer to put everything back into place and I can get to everything much easier than I could before. (Did I mention I hadn't unpacked everything when the water came in and so there were wet boxes of stuff to deal with as well?)
The art space is back together just in time for NanoWrimo. www.nanowrimo.org If you've not heard of this, it is a crazy 30 days when thousands of us join together on line and in our local communities to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. This is year number 6 for me and I am determined to ket that pretty colored tracking bar.
If you want to keep an eye on my progress, check out http://cauldroncafe.blogspot.com
Once I'm through November, I'll be back to Creative Saturdays and getting some new stuff posted.
In the mean time, tell me what you've been up to. Link me to your blog so I can see your work.
Creative Blessings
Kelly
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Happy National Scrapbooking Day!
Yep -
Today is the official day for creating permanent memories in archival safe albums.
I never really thought about not having photos around for future generations until I began teaching scrapbooking at my local Michaels Arts & Crafts. I began working on redoing my wedding album and was horrified to discover pictures (only copies) of that memorable day were already beginning to deteriorate. They had only been in that 'magnetic' album 20 years! What would be left of them by the time my grandchild was old enough to look through the album? I became a advocate for preserving those pictures.
So today, I'll work on an altered album for a special man in Texas. While it dries, I'll work on my granddaughter's First Album. What else can I play with today? Who knows. But when I'm done, I'll share.
Creative Blessings!
Today is the official day for creating permanent memories in archival safe albums.
I never really thought about not having photos around for future generations until I began teaching scrapbooking at my local Michaels Arts & Crafts. I began working on redoing my wedding album and was horrified to discover pictures (only copies) of that memorable day were already beginning to deteriorate. They had only been in that 'magnetic' album 20 years! What would be left of them by the time my grandchild was old enough to look through the album? I became a advocate for preserving those pictures.
So today, I'll work on an altered album for a special man in Texas. While it dries, I'll work on my granddaughter's First Album. What else can I play with today? Who knows. But when I'm done, I'll share.
Creative Blessings!
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