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
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Ahh.... Corned Beef & Cabbage, pint o' Guiness... what a way to celebrate your heritage. Me, I'm a discredit to my ancestors. I prefer my corned beef sliced thin between 2 slices of homemade bread slathered in Miracle Whip. Cabbage makes better saurkraut unless you're frying it crisp in bacon drippings. Now, the Guiness... even this Irish girl has to conform to some tradition. LOL
Speaking of Irish, have you checked out Ten Two Studios lately? Lisa Volrath has another countdown in progress. http://countdown. tentwostudios. com She doesn't leave these Freebies up very long so spread the word then download the goodies.
Creative Blessings!
Kelly
Speaking of Irish, have you checked out Ten Two Studios lately? Lisa Volrath has another countdown in progress. http://countdown. tentwostudios. com She doesn't leave these Freebies up very long so spread the word then download the goodies.
Creative Blessings!
Kelly
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Busy Day!
I finally have made time to sit and catch up on some of the projects I've been wanting to do.
Last month I joined a monthly ATC swap through a rubberstamp store in Kirkwood MO called The InkSpot. http://inkspotofnatalie.com/index.html
Every month is a different theme. January was 'When I Grow Up'. Here's the ATC I made...
Can you tell what I want to be? I've always wanted to be a writer - even with all the crafting/art stuff I do, writing is my first love. I enjoyed having the chance to combine the two.
I've done other ATC's but I think this group was my favorite so far. February theme is St. Louis so I'm on the hunt for riverway images. The Coast Guard has a pretty cool site of Lock & Dam locations. I have the ones for the IL river bookmarked but am going to have to do a search for the Mississippi ones.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Ground Hog Day!
Can you believe it? That furry little guy saw his shadow today! For those of us who believe nature rules, that means we're in for 6 more weeks of winter. Personally, the three inches of snow we were blessed with on Thursday was the closest thing to winter we've really seen in this part of MO. I guess that means we're entitled to a few more days.
But that's cool. More days to hole up inside and play with the art supplies before Mother Nature beckons me to plant something in her freshly-warmed earth.
Check out the new link. Lisa Vollrath over at TenTwoStudios has some awesome clipart you can download for FREE. Between Feb. 1 and Feb 14th, she'll give you one new Valentine clip art image. All you have to do is link her page in your blog, on your website or broadcast it to a message board/loop. Aside from the FREE clipart, she has some awesome collections for purchase and cool project ideas. If you need some fresh inspiration, check TenTwoStudios out.
She is also connected with www.gomakesomething.com
Check it out and if you post something to your blog, let me know. I'd love to check out your creativity.
Blessings
KellyS
But that's cool. More days to hole up inside and play with the art supplies before Mother Nature beckons me to plant something in her freshly-warmed earth.
Check out the new link. Lisa Vollrath over at TenTwoStudios has some awesome clipart you can download for FREE. Between Feb. 1 and Feb 14th, she'll give you one new Valentine clip art image. All you have to do is link her page in your blog, on your website or broadcast it to a message board/loop. Aside from the FREE clipart, she has some awesome collections for purchase and cool project ideas. If you need some fresh inspiration, check TenTwoStudios out.
She is also connected with www.gomakesomething.com
Check it out and if you post something to your blog, let me know. I'd love to check out your creativity.
Blessings
KellyS
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