Silly and Cheery

Here's a playful creation for Valentine's Day.

Not quite a one layer wonder but pretty close.

And I say that with my tongue in my cheek.

This card is SOOOOO PINK!

I would have made it larger but it was just too much pink in the photo- didn't look that way in person.

I stared by using some raspberry Adirondack ink on the circle background stamp. I found I got a better image if I misted the inked stamp with some water. You can see on the bottom left where I didn't do that. Guess the wetter ink seeps into the rough spots on the paper.

Then I used watermelon Adirondack ink to stamp the center image right over the circles.

I love these funny flowers from paper Smooches, and one of them seemed appropriate with the saying (Chocolate Baroque).

Perky Plants stamps from Paper Smooches

Chocolate Baroque Words of Love rubber stamps.

The little red hearts art first stamped (some old Martha Stewart images) and then some red Stickles were added.

Sp speaking of silly and cheery-

I was shopping in Target the other day. My daughter wanted a Valentine gift for her boyfriend, and I got the biggest kick out of all the different Valentine's candy they sell.

Some of its pretty silly.

These Lindt chocolate frogs are adorable.  Love what the box says-Kiss a frog and find your prince.

I think someone couldn't wait to get at this guy. He's a hoot.

Not to insult you if you are a fan, but would anyone really want Duck Dynasty chocolates?

I will admit I don't watch the show.

I love this big fish.  I would have bought it for the hubby if he ate chocolate.  You can't fully read the label but it says You're a Keeper. Ha-ha.

I got him this though. Gummy worms and jelly fish.

They had all these Mickey things on sale.  They looked lots of fun. 

I guess whatever you want you can find it.

And if you want a good -wow-look at all the candy-

like me-

you can go check it out.

Hope to see you again soon.

Doors

Yesterday was so much fun. I came home from work and played for several hours in the playroom.

I mentally needed that playtime.

I find if I don't get art time for several days I start to get distracted and lose my focus to do other things.

Then I just get plain cranky.

Funny how somethings can be so important to your mental health.

Are you like that or is just my own weirdness?

This is my original background. I used some Distress paints and a Crafter's Workshop stencil.

Its called well rounded.

Then I stamped this awesome B-Line image several times in brown ink.

Doors of the world.

I love how it blends into the background yet gives it a little bit of a pop.

Then I added this lovely bicycling lady.

She's from a set of stamps in the Travel Girl line from October Afternoon.

She's lots of fun.

Here's the top edge of the page. You can really see the doors here. And my writing. At the top you can see the word open which I repeated. I made them by using these little circle stickers that have been in my stash for years. 

I'm happy with how those little circle letter words look against the checkerboard Dylusions border images.

I'm off to open those doors.

Well, off to work.

Glad its Friday.

Glad its almost the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.

Art Journal Every Day

Friday the 13th. Oh my. 

 I'm in a  holly jolly mood lately and have been making more holiday themed journal pages.

The color of my photo is kind of icky...its those dark New England days- by the time I get home from work its already very dark. Using non-natural light doesn't make my page colors very true to life.

Doesn't show the sparkles on my ornaments very well either.

But this page makes me laugh, and it was a lot of fun to make.

The ornaments, candy canes, star, moose and deer are all images from Paper Smooches, as are the words I repeatedly stamped. The holly is from Dylusions.

The color on this page is pretty poor too. You can barely see the stenciled trees- stencils from Stencil Girl.

Same page, I enhanced the colors on Photoshop so this is a bit more purple than the real page but closer in color than the view above,, but you can see the sparkling lights (image from October Afternoon) and the trees a little better.  Plus I had stamped some white snowflakes, and you can see those here too.

So the college girl moved home for the mid-semester break tomorrow! 

I am excited and not. Yes, it is true, you can have an emotion and opposite of it at the very same time. She's gonna need a few days to readjust.

Me too.

And then come January when it is time for her to go I will be SOOOO sad.

They're saying we might/will get some SNOW this weekend.

Not the little dustings we've had, but real snow.

Got to watch the forecast because you just can't trust those weather people until we get right there.

Maybe though we'll end up with a white Christmas.

Maybe?

Plus its suppose to come tomorrow night right when one of my co-worker's is having a holiday party which I am looking forward too-and he lives over an hour away from me.

So I'm off for another day of work.

Meeting some friends for an early dinner which I am looking forward to too.

Hope you get to do something fun today-

whatever it is that tickles your fancy.

Are You?

So the question I beg to ask is are you perfect too?

This card is photographed way too much on an angle but oh well.  

That's what happens when its rainy and dark and you try to photograph under a light.

What a silly owl! I love him.

I die cut the circle for the moon and then I hand cut the branch out of some paper.

And this card, with brown distressing-needed a little more depth- and even a blop of glue that leaked out-

 is just perfect.

Sometimes I think what I make isn't good enough for anything, but sometimes I think it is ok.

More than ok.

Pretty good.

In my own style.

Messy,

slightly off,

never a straight line

I say just do what you do and make it look like you mean it.

Nothing I make looks like they came off a store shelf.

They are

ME!

Thanks for stopping by.