MEMORY DEX MONDAY - Week 3 - Back on Track!

 Good morning, friends!

I have two Memory Dex to show you today. In case you didn't watch the video last Monday, here is the completed card (but you'll want to watch the video to get the 'memory' behind the creation:

This week I was inspired by a sketch on Pinterest to create this card. I've gone through my Pinterest history and can not find the inspiration piece but I do show it in the video below.

I used elements and papers from Bo Bunny Sunshine Bliss and the Celebration Label Dies from Stampin' Up!

While both of these products are no longer available, search your stash and improvise. Use what you have!

details on how today's Memory Dex came together can be found in the video below:

Creative Blessings

~Kelly

WOYWW #732

 Good morning, friends! 

Can it be we are in another week already?! 

Temps here do not feel like summer but should arrive next week with the official turn of the wheel. I woke up to 52* F this morning and have been for the past week plus.

My desk this morning, left over from filming yesterday:

I'm featuring inspirational project from Joie De Fi. She is still experiencing pain that is keeping her from crafting. I check in about once a week to see how she's progressing. Please keep her in your prayers and if you want to help her out, go watch her videos or just let them run in the background while you're crafting. The support will be much appreciated.

Other things this week:

I went to a lovely wedding on Saturday of dear friends. The bride is my barista. I love them both. I'll share pictures and info next week.

Have you heard of Grid Journaling? I hadn't either until I sat in with fellow artist Kim (aka SouthpawStudio2123) She goes live every Monday afternoon with her friend Lisa Jameson. This week, Kim introduced us to Grid Journaling. Usually, I'm just moding but this week I decided to play.  The concept is basically to get away from the 'blank page' fear and work in smaller spaces. I had a lot of fun.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground for all the details. Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

 Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

MEMORY DEX MONDAY - Bonus Week!

 Good morning!

Do to my oversight of not creating a video thumbnail for the color challenge Memory Dex card, Week 3 will run next week and put us back on track... aka 3 weeks of Memory Dex. LOL

This video is about creating the Memory Dex card for the Spectrum Art Creations challenge. Brian gave me yellow and green to work with. Once I found that out, my mind instantly went to a memory.  I hope you enjoy!

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW #731

 Good morning, friends!

A bit late to the game. Was a busy week and a half once Bob got over his cold. I think he was apprehensive about going back to work  in a new harbor. He's never worked this harbor before or with some of the people (though some of his original team are there as well). You remember sending your kids off to school with their jitters of new place/ new people. I spent the rest of his time doing lots of stuff with him.

He left this morning and arrived in time for the Captain's meeting with the boss. He'll be fine. Now I have to dive back in.

First thing I need to address is I have an ATC and I can't read who it's from. There is no address on the envelope. I'm showing all the ATCs next week but if someone can tell me who sent the ATC with the brightly colored flower/ heart and says WOYWW is where the (Heart) is I would love to be able to give credit as well as send one back.  Thanks for your help!

The work table is buried again... LOL ....  I have FINALLY fine-tuned the filming corner and couldn't be happier with the space...

I have room to work. The carousel bag on the left needs to be gone through so I don't have 3 different containers of the same items. I'm also going to try the bag for a bit longer to see if I like it. Things are usually in the way, preventing the bag from spinning. I may wind up going back to my coffee mugs lined up along the back ot the table. I should have taken a picture of the shelving behind. I'll save that for next week.

Then this is the window ledge to my right:

From left to right, you can see my larger scissors, my urn full of craft sticks, my Tim Holtz ephemera books then the ink pad storage I made from the $Tree items. I thought I'd shown that before but can't find a picture or a post so I'll include that next week.  Then the cube for my ink spots. Above that is my SU ribbon holder then a letter box above that with favorite stamps I seldom use just like to look at. LOL 

My project for today is to go through all of my ink spots and make spots from the re-inkers of colors that are missing and ink all the pads good so they'll be ready when I need them. I took time a couple of months ago and sorted all of my ink spots into boxes by color - NOT the color families like SU uses. This enables me to pull out a variety of shades in any particular color.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground  for all the details. Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Challenge Pieces

 Good morning, friends!

I'm getting ready to head out to the garden but wanted to get this post up.

I completed a couple of challenges last week so thought I'd show you what I've been making. I'll drop in the video at the end that talks about them a bit more.

For Cara Brandon's May Mini's I got all three challenges done. We were to do ATC coins, Page Tabs and Specimen slides. My page tabs and slides will work beautifully with my June journal challenge.

And here's the video:

Creative Blessings!

~Kelly

CARDS AND OTHER PRETTIES

 Good morning, friends!

Kateri, one of the Spectrum Art Creations & Friends FB group moderators, went on a cruise to Europe last fall and took some amazing photographs. So she offered up a challenge for us to create something with any of the photos. Our deadline is today - her wedding anniversary.

I chose four of the photos to manipulate into pretties (at least in my opinion). Note that while I did do the castle on Friday and the other three on Saturday, I didn't wait til the last minute. I plan everything out in my head for days before actually creating the project(s).

Since it's Monday, let's start with the card:

The background is of a terra cotta roof. Do you see what's hiding between the tiles?  I also used a Vintage fashion paper doll from Spectrum Art Creations... similar to this pack HERE.

I created the font in word. I may swap that lady out for one backed in white rather than black but I wanted to help draw out the item on the roof.

Next I used a photo she took of some mushrooms:

I placed the photo to the back of the frame then printed a second photo to fussy cut out just the mushrooms. I distressed the edges of the fussy cut pieces with a brown ink then layered them on top of the background photo with dimensionals. At the base of the photo, I mimicked the ground cover with some dried moss and pieces of acorn then added a couple of plastic ants, Tim Holtz tiny bone pieces and a gnome charm. (If you click on the photo to enlarge the image, you will see the tiny gnome hiding amongst the ground cover). I added a lady bug to the larger mushroom.

To make the layers fit into the frame, I put a double layer of dimensional tape all around the parameter of the photo. The tape is hidden by the frame. This gave me a bit of breathing room between the glass and the display. I simply eliminated the two pieces of cardboard backing that were in the vintage frame.

Number three:

This photo was of one of the many beautiful art pieces Kateri saw on her travels. The owl seems to be warding off a crow/ raven flying past him. The raven is on the back side of the votive cup. I printed the image on vellum and adhered to the outside of a votive cup from Dollar Tree then added French Gimp Braid Trim trim from Spectrum Art Creations.  (Note: they appear to be sold out of the brown but I've linked the white, which you can dye any color)

Here's the votive with an LED candle:

Finally, the largest piece:

I loved the picture of this castle and knew I wanted add more dimension. 

I used a black shadow box frame. First, I printed the photo out at 8x10 onto photo paper and put into the frame. I printed out a second one on photo paper so that I could fussy cut out the bird. I mounted him on two layers of black cardstock, cut him out then set aside. 

The castle was printed again but on Vellum and left to dry for a couple of days. I didn't want the ink to move/ smear. When it was dry, I fussy cut out just the castle (away from the sky/ tree background) then adhered to the outside front of the glass with Aleene's Spray Adhesive. Then I put the bird in place over the one on the print with a strip of black dimensional from Stampin' Up! The dimension appears to change depending on how much or little the frame is reclined. 

I'll be back on Wednesday for the weekly blog hop. Wait til you see my work table!!! Before AND After shots coming!

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW #728

 

Good morning, friends. 

Wow! 14 consecutive years of a blog hop is pretty amazing. I've made lots of friends. I can't let this anniversary without a Thank You to the woman who brought me here - Shaz Silverwolf. Sadly, she is no longer physically joining in each week but she will always be with us in spirit. 

Friends have come and gone. We've met new deskers along the way. Some of us (cough) haven't been here every week but the weeks we are we are left to question "What took us away?" and we're always glad we found our way back. Miss Julia made a comment this morning about being a Brownie Girl Guide. I am a Lifetime member of GSUSA. Her comment had me searching for this very appropriate song for this week's post:

Okay.. 'nuff of that. Let's get on with this week, shall we?

It's been a week. I've been working hard on the studio. In fact, I finished the work table... I'll show that next week with the new set-up. I also went through the 2-drawer filing cabinet and the paint shelf. Pitched a lot of stuff I've not used since the initial put-away when I moved into the studio almost seven years ago. Time to pitch and make room for the supplies I am using. 

So here's my desk this week:

You'll see remnants of the next round of cabinet cards that will post in today's video, as well as a selection of trims on the left I've been using for the project. Tucked just underneath the cards on the right was the scrapbook layout sketch that inspired the layout. Today's card is the one on the top. There's a sheet of stickers from Japan just above the photos. That is where I cut out the bundle of letters as well as the ink/ quill from in the bottom right of today's card. Here's a close up:

I'm working on ATCs. I make them in sets of 12 and aside from mine, a couple are already spoken for. I  will have a total of 9 left to trade. If you're interested, let me know in the comment below.

Bob's friend that had the triple heart bypass is home and doing well. When Bob gets off the boat this morning he's headed there to check up on his BFF and spend a couple days with him. Kevin is used to being active and I'm pretty sure he's going stir-crazy already LOL

No new flower pictures this week. I'm so glad I planted Clematis. I absolutely love them. 

With all the rain we've had, I've not done anything about a garden this year but I did spend some time weeding in the front flower bed in hopes of getting flowers for there. They didn't make it last year. 

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground  for all the details. Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

 Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly