My Lips Are Sealed

I promise I am not going to go on about how I had to get up and go back to work today.

PROMISE!

Instead I want to show you snippets from  the last 3 days, my weekend (shhh-and end of my vacation!). 

Makes me SMILE!

I didn't expect much, but I enjoyed this film. I enjoyed spending Friday afternoon with my hubby too. We had cool rainy weather and sitting in a movie theater was a good choice.

And Saturday I spent my day having a blast taking 2 classes with Dina Wakely.

We made some fun journal pages. I had my first try using Pan Pastels (oh super nice), Gelatos (like Lipstick) and learned some great techniques

Here's a couple of the pages I made.

I highly recommend taking a Dina class if you ever get the chance.  I'll show you a few more views from those classes once I finish up couple more journal pages I started in class.

And then yesterday the hubby took me out for breakfast and then we went cruising in the boat. We were going to go fishing- but no one, along with us, was catching much of anything. So we took a cruise out to the Isle of Shoals, a group of several small rocky islands that are 6 miles offshore. Some are in Maine, and some are in New Hampshire.

I love how they feel rustic, New England and historical. And it was a gorgeous day!

It was a fantastic weekend.  I hope next weekend is as nice-especially since it is a holiday weekend here in the US.

Thanks for visiting. I am off and on my way to work!

It Should Be a Fabulous Day

I am wrapping up this week with a great day planned. At least I suspect it is going to be a great day.

First of all I am off to take 2  arty classes with Dina Wakely.

You can check out her blog here: Ponderings

 I get to play in my journal all day and I suspect learn some fun new techniques. I have been lucky enough to take classes with Dina twice before and I really really got a lot out of them. I just hope that now she is working for Ranger Inc. it doesn't becomes a big sales pitch.

Plus she's going to be at my favorite craft store so I image I will want to do a little bit of shopping too.

Not that I should. I did buy some new paints for myself the other day.

But who's gonna tell on me if I do get a new little gizmo or two today?

And tonight the new season of Dr. Who begins on BBC America. With a new doctor!

Curious to see how Peter Capaldi plays the role. I have been watching Dr. Who since back in the early 1980's when our local PBS station played the episodes on Saturday afternoons. I think I have seen every episode ever made, well at least a lot of them, and I have my favorite doctors. Wonder where this latest incarnation of the Doctor will fit in.

Next week I should have some photos of my classes today-or at least the creative results of them. And maybe even an opinion or two of the new Dr.

Have a fantastic day!

Card Play

I don't think my cards are anything special. There are many of you who make beautiful complex cards and mine are just kind of simple and basic. But they're fun to make, and just right kind of play  after a long day of work.  I send most of them them off to my daughter at school and to my mom who lives a couple of hours away, and they always appreciate them, flaws and all.

I haven't put up much for cards for awhile so today you get a bonanza.

Yeehaw!

Special little features I really like:

top card-, I made the purple letters in the do you part. I made them with the brush end of my Copic marker, and then outlined them in black. Then I cut them out, and I really like how they came out. I also like the white paint splatter. Peacock by Chocolate Baroque.

I love the bright colors and the hand doodling with a gold pen. It makes the plain green background a little more exotic. And I really like the peacock feather paisley images from Chocolate Baroque also.

This owl image is also from Chocolate Baroque.

Love this new set of stamps from Dina Wakely. I brushed some watercolor along the bottom of the card and then added this bird. I really like how that looks.

I used some brown paint and a wood style stencil (Prima) on some cardboard.  Then I peeled the top layer off the cardboard to use on this card as a background. It was a great way to get the cardboard effect without making the card too heavy in the front.

I like the butterflies which are from the new butterfly Tim Holtz strip die. And I like all the color in this card.

Circle image from Chocolate Baroque.

Hope you enjoyed this little peek at some of my cards.

An Art Adventure

The other day I had a fabulous art adventure day! I took a class at Ink About It in Westfield, Massachusetts with Dina Wakely! She is an excellent teacher and all day long we played and dabbled with art journaling.  

And as I forgot-thanks Penny for the taking this photo.

Look at the 6 pages I made that are jammed packed with all the new techniques I learned.

Dina really knows how to fill the day-not only with techniques but with good chatter and wonderful stories.

Can you tell I had lots of fun by my hands?

Maybe you'd like a bit more close up view of the pages I made.

Then we bound them into a book.

I HIGHLY recommend taking a class with Dina if ever get the chance. You'll have a blast and learn a lot and really enjoy your day.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend.