tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56532673936128918132012-02-07T07:26:00.843-05:00"altering life one paper at a time...." I believe the moment you stamp on, crumple up, tape to, or ink up a piece of paper you have begun an "Altered Journey." Join us as we share many ways to enhance your "Altered Journey" to make it a fulfilling experience for you.Bev Coffarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06664972811139254975noreply@blogger.comBlogger1491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653267393612891813.post-44679817431222470282012-01-14T20:12:00.000-05:002012-01-14T20:12:06.593-05:00

 Our Church is having a "Snowman" contest for the month of January. So today two of my grandkids came over to create their snowman. I gave them the base and they were very busy designing their own work of art. While they were working on theirs I created this guy. Not a keeper thats for sure....he looks like a cross between William Penn and a bird. I was wondering what I was going to do when I

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It was an absolutely beautiful day here for January 6th. We had temps way up in the 40's, the sun was shining and the air was still. Perfect!! After work I decided that the best way for me to enjoy the rest of my day was to take a shopping trip. I didn't get out for the earlier after Christmas sales so I thought I would see if there was anything left out there. I was pleasantly surprise to find

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I spent about 4 hours in my studio today, it felt so good. I did a layout in an altered book that is way over due to a group member, and I did a niche in an altered book again its way over due. It felt good to get these two projects done. Tomorrow I am going to get a layout done for the "Faith booking" group that meets at our Church. Last month we did a family page and this month I am going to do

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That's IT!!!! I need to take charge of my life....I think I have just been floating by. I miss my artsy fartsy time and I am determined to gain it back. So now I have said it and u have heard it.....lets begin. I have discovered "Pinterest" and I believe it has become my inspiration. I see all the wonderful projects that r being done and I am feeling inspired to take them and make them my own.

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This is our next page in our Faith Album. We will be working on this on Saturday, May 6, 2011 @ 10:00 a.m. Everyone is welcome to join us, I just need to know you are comig so I have enough kits made up. You will need to bring a wallet size ink jet photo of yourself with you. The technique you will learn is how to create a transfer from a photo. Hope to see you.

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On Saturday,March 5, 2011 @ 10:00 a.m. we will begin our "Faith Journey" at the Lander United Methodist Church with an introduction to what this group is all about. You won't need to bring anything to this meeting. This page is a sample of what you will do at the April meeting. So you will need to bring a baby picture of yourself and a basic papercrafting kit. This kit should include: a paper

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 back cover  front cover  This year for my Round Robin Altered Book, I decided to use the title "Baby". I am hoping to see all of the ladies put in a baby picture of themselves, a little about them as a baby, and of course their artistic altered abilities.   To begin with I covered the outside of my book with gesso, two layers is what it took to successfully coat the black cover

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My Journal for the Round Robin Art Journal GroupI belong to a group of ladies who have formed together to do a round robin art journal. Starting this month we are to create our journal and then post in it several times throughout the month. Including with our journaling we are hoping to add some art work ie: photos, doodling, clippings from magazines, newspaper etc, some inking, whatever we may

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Good Morning All, Finally I am getting my act together and am going to get the new groups up and running. This year I am bringing back a favorite, birthday club, and adding a new one, Round robin Journal. First up: Round Robin Altered Book For those who haven't done one of these before this is how it works; You will supply your own book (a sewn binding is best) and to start you will do the

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I remember 12 years ago Joe and I went to Clarion with my little pigmy buck, Leon, to get him a mate. Leon rode very nicely between us in the front seat of the truck, he was approx 1 year old. When we got to Clarion at the farm, I picked out this very cute little black doe named Lena and she was to become Leon's lifetime mate. All the way home from Clarion, Leon kept butting Lena and they

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I picked up my 3yr old grandson from preschool: Me: Hi Cedric, I heard you practicing your music for the program on sunday. It sounds really nice. Cedric: I am not going to be a turkey!! me: oh....well you would make a cute turkey. Cedric: but I am not going to be a turkey. ...me: why not I would love to see you be a turkey. Cedric: nope!!! me: but its thanksgiving and the songs are so cute.

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I fell in love with the Create-a-Critter cartridge as soon as it came out, but waited until it was on sale to buy it. I was so happy participate in the Black Friday sale that cricutmachine.com was having. I cut my turkey out at 5.5 inches and used the Imagine More Cartridge for all my colors. I added stickles to the feathers, crystal lacquer to the comb, beak, and feet. I did my stitching with my

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DCWV is giving away paper that measures 12" x 24" great for our Cricut. Check it out here. http://dcwvinc.blogspot.com/2010/10/say-what-giveaway-today.html#comments http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2010/10/dcwv-12-x-24-paper-stacks.html

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DCWV is giving away paper that measures 12" x 24" great for our Cricut. Check it out here. http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2010/10/dcwv-12-x-24-paper-stacks.html

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Here is the finished project. I have had so much fun making this, my first 3-D canvas project with various sizes. A couple of close ups of the layers. The pieces of canvas I worked with are a 12" x 24", 12" x 12", 5" x 7"and  8" x 10". This is the upper right hand section. The flowers I worked with in this project are Prima Flowers that I bought in a canister from Paper Wishes. These are white

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OH my I am so stuck on the canvas projects right now. There is so much you can do with those. I have decided I wanted to do a 3-D Mixed Media Canvas piece. So I rounded up the different sizes I needed and some paint that would match with my theme in my living room and set to work. Here are the beginning stages. For texture on my canvas I used some textured scrapbook paper, fibers, and

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It was really windy and darn right cold here today, but I didn't mind at all. I had a great day all planned with friends to work on some canvas pieces we have been wanting to do. We got our inspiration from our local hospital's gift shop gallery. They had these canvas pieces with birds and looked really cool, but we decided to make our own. When we were at convention Robin seen these bird prints

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I just wanted to let you all know I am still here. I have been exceptionally busy lately and am loving it. I have had family events and a convention.....lots of fun there. I also have been doing some projects but I am sorry to say I can't post any of them yet. I have done a card for a card exchange, trading card for exchange group, worked on an altered book, did a layout for a design team, and I

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I entered a challenge called "Mission Impossible", its on a yahoo group. Someone in the group sends you a package of supplies and the challenge is to see what you can make with it. I received a very generous package of papers, chipboard, buttons, flowers, ribbon, a bottle cap and a slide. The first project I did was for a Round Robin Altered Book Club I am participating in and I can't show you

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I seen this project on Above Rubies Studio, and I thought I would try and see how they go.  I tried using some finer papers and I found the papers that works the best for me are scrapbook patterned papers. The finer papers seemed to smoosh to much and cardstock was just too heavy. The glitz you might notice on the flowers is my gold shimmering mists. Now to find just the right leaf pattern to go

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This might just be my favorite page in my Paper Bag Album so far.This page I have labeled "Time" I used some vellum that has clocks on it, a stick pin with a clock on it, and the metal letters to spell out "Time".  I love to use Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel on chipboard and then stamp into it. Such a cool look, then I rub ink over it to make it look aged. The chipboard element, on the left,  has

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This is what can happen when a group of friends get together on a Tuesday. Robin, Cindy and I get together on Tuesdays to scrap or whatever it is that we might be working on at the time. This week I had all these flowers that I had cut out of white cardstock using my cricut and this is what we came up with. I had just received in the mail on Monday my new Tim Holtz Ink Pads, so all of these

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Here's another page in my Paper Bag Album, this album is so much fun I am already planning on doing another. The Circle is an Accordian pull out, that is held closed with photo corners. Lots of room for pictures there, again the tags are all double sided for what ever I should decide to do with them. A photo could also be put behind the tags. The little tag on the flap also comes out for some

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.......and I rescued this cat and gave him a good home.....we all know I can't live without my Tim Holtz ink applicator, I use it for everything. Well.....I couldn't find it, I knew what happened to it....THE CAT...I just got used to making sure everything was put up for Max cause he will chew everything, not just a little either he makes sure it is destroyed. Then along comes the CAT, what Max

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This Photo Wallet will give lots of room for more pictures in my Paper Bag Album. I will place this wallet inside on of the bags. The frame you see is a piece of chipboard that I inked with versamark ink and embossed with white ultra thick enamel and then stamped my Hero Arts script stamp in it while the powder was still hot. You need to let this cool completely before trying to remove the stamp

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Here is the next page that I have finished for my album. I didn't mention earlier that I start each page by distressing the edges of the bag with Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk ink pad, and I finish each page by spritzing them with Gold Shimmering Mists. This page has a "Slider Card" incorporated into it.  I seen it on a web site and thought it makes a cool addition to the album. The punched half

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Here is the card I did for an Exchange Group I belong too, the theme was Mother's Day/Flowers.   Here are the directions: Ink corner stamp with Color box chalk chestnut roan ink. Stamp on the lower left hand corner of card. I colored mine with Twinklin H2O's. Use Tim Holtz ink applicator tool to ink around the outside edges of card with chestnut roan ink. For the Bee: Cartridge; Paisley pg 25-

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I finished two more pages in my Paper Bag Album I am working on. I am still using the collection by Basic Grey, I will be using that collection through out the album. The butterfly you see is a piece of chipboard that I colored with Colorbox Pink Pastel Chalk Ink and then I inked with versamark a script stamp by Hero Arts and embossed with white powder. Over top of that I cut out a vellum layer

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Donalda has a fabulous blog candy going on right now!! Be sure to stop by and enter for a chance to win these gorgeous flowers, lace and pins from Wild Orchid Crafts!

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Page 1 Page 2 I was feeling the need to work on something different and I remembered about this Paper Bag Album that I had seen awhile ago and thought there's my new project. So I walked up town to the grocery store and bought a bag of paper lunch sacks and came home and got started. I have been having so much fun and my creative juices have really been flowing. That's something I have been

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Class Day Saturday April 10th, 2010Flowers are  beginning to show up in gardens everywhere, and also in our studio's. I love to add flowers as embellishments on cards and scrapbook pages, and even more fun are the flowers that I have created to match my paper perfectly. For class this month you will only be limited by your own imagination as to what you can do with the flowers I have pre-cut for

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Read: Lamentations 3: 37-58 Our lives are filled with effects of the world. Pain and suffering from not just sickness but also by the way other people treat us. We also suffer because of the way we treat others around us. We also live in constant sin because we choose to, yet by the grace of God we are forgiven. We allow ourselves to become angry, anxious and cruel. We are human and we find it

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Read: John 13: 36-38 In this chapter, Jesus is with His disciples eating the evening meal and then He washes their feet. In these two verses, He predicts Peter's denial. In verse 36. Peter is being curious and asks Jesus, "Lord where are you going?" Are we not all curious? When one of our loved ones is going somewhere we may ask "Where are you going?" Sometimes they may answer and sometimes

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Read: Psalm 102 and 142 When I read these two Psalms it seemed that they were both saying the same thing to me. They do have a similar message. In both passages there is the crying out of man to his God. He tells the Lord of all the troubles he must endure and that his fate is to cease to exist. He then goes on about how God will endure forever, that He will always be there. When I thought

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"Words That Heal" Read: II Corinthians 1: 23- 2:11 I am reminded of an old song that the words went like this: "It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away." How very important it is that we consider the effect of what we say. When I first read our Scripture for today, I thought what am I to learn from this? As I researched further I found that the Apostle Paul had

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"God Will Deliver Us" Read: 2 Corinthians 1: 8-22; Psalm 6 As Paul writes to the Church in Corinth, verse 9 states: "Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead." Verse 10 in part: "On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us." We all have many trials and tribulations in our

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Read: Psalm 51 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. David truly felt remorse for his sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and for killing her husband. He knew his actions hurt many people but he also knew his actions were a sin against God and how God wanted him

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Read: Zechariah 9: 9-12, Psalm 24, 29, 103; I Timothy 6: 12-16, Luke 19: 41-48 To enter the Lord's temple, you must know and believe in the Lord. You must be able to admit in front of a group of people that you believe in Him. He will give you eternal life if you do so. If you know who God is He will rescue you, help you, and be there for you forever and always. If you do not know who Christ is

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Read: Mark 10: 46-52 In Mark's account of the blind man we see a determined man who wants something from Jesus. He continues to cry to Him louder and louder, till Christ brings him to Him. We are to be like this man each day crying for Jesus to make us whole, to make us like Him. To feed us His spiritual blessing. Too many days we are in the dark, lost and looking for answers. We need to cry to

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Read: Mark 10: 32-45 A true servant must serve unconditionally. Sometimes we may think we are servants, but if we are honest with ourselves we fall short of true servanthood. To be a servant it takes more than love or being humble or doing nice things for others. It takes sacrifice and true giving of the heart. One must always remind yourself that others are more important and that sometimes it

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Read: Mark 10: 17-31 What do you need for eternal life? Do you have to be rich or poor to have eternal life? Jesus shows you His love, you do not need money to have eternal life. Jesus told a young man to go sell everything you own and give it to the poor. This challenge exposed the barrier that kept the young man out of the kingdom, he loved having money. The young man came to Jesus wondering

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Read: Mark 10: 1-16 Children were coming to Jesus. Jesus lets all people come up to Him and tell Him what they want. The disciples didn't want the children to come and sent them away. Jesus didn't like this and He said "Don't tell them to go away. Let the children come to Me." He said that "anyone may come, if they want to come to Me for something, let them come." The children came and Jesus

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Read: Psalm : 118, 145 "With a mighty hand and an out stretched arm; His love endures forever. For the life that's been reborn. His love endures forever. Sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, Forever God is faithful, forever God is strong, forever God is with us. Forever, forever, forever. " Coming from the song "Forever" by Michael W. Smith we can see that we can trust in God and

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I admittedly really struggled with the verses I was assigned this year. I was assigned my reading before I left for my recent trip to visit Auschwitz, the infamous death camp used to exterminate 1.6 million Jews in World War II located in Poland. I read and re-read my verses trying to find some inspiration before I left and couldn't come up with anything. After returning from Auschwitz, I stared

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I just entered to win this fun blog candy. Debbie has a beautiful blog and you may want to visit to sign up for the blog candy yourself and check out all the beautiful eye candy too. Here's the link:http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/

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"Love" Read: I Corinthians 13: 1-3 What Love means to us:       Respect one another.       To take care of someone or pets.       Going to church to pray for people, so they can be healed.       Think about everyone, not just yourself.       Put God first.       Help out others, not just your parents, but others in our community, including those less fortunate.       Education.       Help

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Read: I Corinthians 12: 12-26 God teaches us that the body is a complex system of parts and that every part is important. No matter what comparison you make one part is not more important that another part, for without all parts working together the system will eventually fail. This stands true of the Church. The Church should not be thought of as a physical building but a body of organized

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Read: Mark 8: 1-10 Jesus used parables as an illustration of a situation to tell His disciples. The story of feeding the hungry is one. A version of this also appears in Matthew, Luke and John. In Mark 8: 1-10 four thousand have been with Jesus for three days and were hungry. Jesus told the disciples the people had to be fed before they went home. Seven loaves of bread and a few fish were found.

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Read: Mark 7: 24-37 There are times that you don't feel God is listening to you. Or that you are not good enough to have God's help in a problem. But God is always there to hear your problems and to help you. He makes the deaf to hear and the blind to see. Jesus can also help those with bad spirits to get rid of them if we ask Him to. I believe that God is a good God and He wants all to be

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All the pieces for this card are cut from "Easter 2010" Cartridge. I used my gypsy, you can also your design studio. Select two of the bunny's and set the height at 4". Flip one of the bunnies and move him over beside the other, slightly overlapping at the tail. Weld them together. Then cut. Select 4 of the grass and slightly over lap them and then weld. I then set the height at 3/4" The smaller

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March 12th, 2010 Read: Psalm 91    "for He will command His angels concerning you, to guard you in all your ways: they will lift you up in their hands, so you will not strike your foot against a stone. Do you believe in angels? Do you believe in angel visitations? Have you ever had an experience that could only be explained by an angel visitation? There is reassurance with us in the Psalm, if we

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Read: Mark 7; 1-23 Jesus said it does not matter what you eat. But you have to buy from the market until you wash your hands. You should obey your parents. Do what they say. You should never kill or murder, always obey the 10 commandments. Prayer: Dear God,  Help provide food for the needy. Please forgive the people that disobey the 10 Commandments and their parents. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

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Read: Psalm 42, 43, 85 As the deer panted for the water, so my soul longeth after thee. You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship Thee. excerpt from "As the Deer" by Martin Nystrom The song "As the Deer" has always held a special meaning to me. For as I sing the words, the song becomes my prayer to grow closer to God. In Psalm 42, the Psalmist is searching for God. He has been

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Read: Psalm 78: 1-39 God gave the people of Ephraim so many blessings. All the food they could eat and water they would drink while they were in the wilderness. After the people kept on sinning and refused to believe in miracles. Many times God held back His anger, but they only followed Him with their words and not with their hearts. It is so true today. How many times has God held back His

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While trying to decide which of the 4 possible Scripture suggestions to use for this devotion, nothing seemed to fit until I looked at Psalms 70. The Psalms usually have a notation under the chapter number. That notation under Psalms chapter 70, reads: "For the director of Music, of David, A petition." Psalms 70: 4 reads: "May all who see You rejoice and be glad in You, may those who love Your

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So I went shopping at Joann's again and found another one of these glittery decorations like I did for Valentine's Day. I love it when they are 50% off, it cost all of five dollars. Well kinda, then I had to get some accessories to go with it. Total for this project is under $15.00. To start I layed out a border, I used some lace I received in one of my prizes from One World One Heart Blog Hop

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I am sharing the Sunshine Award. I was recently bestowed the Sunshine Award from Susan of http://piecesoffatesusan.blogspot.com/ . Thank you Susan I consider it an honor.Now to pay it forward........ This award goes to people I believe post interesting comments, and do art that I like. UNFORTUNATELY, I can only pick 6 people/blogs and there are a couple of Hundred blogs that I love. Basically it

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This is a journal I made for a "Journal Swap" I entered in. The cover is made with wallpaper and chipboard. The frame I found in Michael's in one of their dollar bins. The "Memories" is a wooden piece, a friend gave me a package of these wooden words for christmas. The chair and table are stickers I found at a scrapbook store. The beads inside the frame are from Wal Mart and the vintage photo I

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This cat was found at our barn and the poor thing was just skin and bones. I brought him home because he was so loving and thought I would see if he survived. Well he was pretty sickly and rather gross but within a month I could see he was going to make it. The next test for this cat was to see how well he would handle my three Australian shepherds. So now and then I would let the dogs in the

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I know Valentine's Day is over but I thought I would share the card I made for my February Card Exchange, you can use the technique for another card very easily. Here are the directions:Cut kraft cardstock to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", fold in half.Use Colorbox chestnut roan chalk ink and Tim Holtz ink applicator tool to age edges of front and inside of card.Cut red cardstock layer to 4" x 5 1/4", tape to

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Congratulations to the following bloggers who won my gift of Trading Cards and Tags on the One World One Heart Blog Hop:Carole: http://www.peascorner.blogspot.com/Robbin: http://robbinb.blogspot.com/Peggy: http://wwwpeggysamusement.blogspot.com/Feel free to stop by their blog for a visit, you are sure to find some beautiful artwork and inspiration.

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Two more Valentine Presents finished for two very special girls. Sydni likes bunnies so I put a bunny on hers and Kara likes the "Peace" sign so the little charm hanging from the ribbon has a Peace sign on it. Kara's also has an image that I stamped with my new Peachy Keen Stamps. I just love those flowers, so cute. These will look cute in the girls rooms.

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My beloved Valentines are my 7 grandkids. They make my world go round. This altered canvas is for my 3 yr old grandson. This past summer his Mom and I took him for a day out with Thomas the Engine. He stills talks about it, we had a great time. Anytime spent with this three year old is a great time. So I thought for his room I would do this canvas with a picture of Thomas on that day. The canvas

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Core'dination's Cardstock Classes 1, 2, and 3The card with the heart will be the first class of the day on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. All of our classes for this day will be some of the different ways to use Core'dinations Cardstock and I am sure you will have a good time experimenting with this wonderful paper. For this first class you will also get to experiment with Tim Holtz

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To begin our Altered Books we have to do the front and back covers, the sign in page and the first layout. This is my first layout, from here the book will leave my hands and I won't see it until the Round Robin has completed the circle. Its always very exciting to get these books back and see what the other artists have done with the theme. I look forward to working in the other girls books,

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This is the "Sign In " Page for my Round Robin Altered Book. The paper, fibers and the tags are by Basic Grey. The photos are some clip art I found in my stash ( I can't remember where I orginally got them from).The "dream " tag is from Tim Holtz, the lace I crocheted and the sign in tag is from the Cricut Cartridge "Fabulous Finds" page 122 . I thought it would make a cool place for everyone to

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I love Artist Trading Cards and have hosted a Swap Club for the last 6 years, these are a couple samples of ones I have created for these swaps. I currently have another one going that began last month. What fun these little works of art are. Here are 5 tags I have created for you. I love to rubber stamp and these all have different techniques incorporated into them. Some of my favorite stamps

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I am participating in a "Lottery" on a Yahoo Group and the theme for the Lottery is "Love". The way this works is any one in the group can make something for this "Lottery" using the theme and at the end of the month some lucky person will have their name drawn from the hat and they will receive all the projects that have been submitted. I thought this sounded like a lot of fun, this is my first

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A new Round Robin Altered Book Club will be beginning in February, and this is the actual book that I will be sending around. A week or so ago I posted a picture of the book I would be using to demonstrate the techniques to you. My title is "Vintage Art", these are the front and back covers before I have actually put the book together with the inside pages and binder rings. I started with a 8" X

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I made this card for my "Hello" card I needed for the Cricut Card exchange I am participating in. Here are the directions for you:Cut white card stock to 5 1/2" X 11", crease with fold at top of card. Ink front and inside edges with Versafine Vintage Sepia using Tim Holtz's ink applicator tool.Stamp snowflake (Hero Arts_A3233 fancy snowflake) with Vintage Sepia randomly on front and inside of

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Ok this is what it looked like a few hours ago.....then with some love and lots of creativity I finished with a beautiful wall decoration for my entry way. I started with going to Wal Mart to look for something for Valentines Day and just like my trip to Joann Fabrics I came up with nothing. So I bought a 16" x 20" piece of canvas and came home and went to work. I am not going to give you all

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I was looking around in my local Joann Fabrics for some Valentine Decorations and was very disappointed in the selection they had. But I spotted this heart and thought it had a lot of possibilities, and it was 40% off so it cost me all of $5.00. What a find I thought. So tonight I was ready to tackle my project, I knew I was going to hang it in my office, so that was my inspiration. I started

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It must be the lack of sunshine.............why else would a person not be able to come up with any creative energy! That isn't all true, but having the whole day at home I should have been able to just get lots of projects either done or at least started. I did get my cleaning done, and then for the whole afternoon I wasn't able to concentrate on anything. Finally after I went and fed the horses

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Here are a few past "Trading Cards" that I have made for our "Trading Card Club" in 2007. So here is your invitation to join me as we start another year of sharing with each other our artful creations in the form of "Trading Cards". Its simple just email me to sign up. This year will run as all previous years, I will give you the technique or theme and you will make a card to everyone on the

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As promised we will begin another "Altered Book Club", although this one has a twist to it. Instead of using books, we will be making our own board book to use for our projects. Here is a sample of one I have begun, to use each month to show you our techniques. The plan is to meet on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 at which time I will show you how to start your book. In the meantime you will

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"Colorbox Backgrounds"On Saturday, January 9th we will hold our first class of the year 2010, the first one of the day is "Colorbox Backgrounds" and it begins at 10:00 am. You will need to have a brayer with you to use for the day and also please bring your own adhesive. You will create a 8 1/2" X 11" sheet of designer paper and use a piece of that to make one card. This class can double as a

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I wish everyone a blessed, healthy, successful, and Happy New Year. For me its time to settle down for the next four months and dedicate myself to getting a lot of scrapping done. Before I know it spring will be here and I will be back to working in the yard and then it will be fall and the holiday season all over again. My life, as I am sure yours too, is very busy from spring till the end

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this makes three days in a row, we are on a roll.I thought I would share with you tonight the tree I have in my office at work that I decorated with the snowflakes from the Cricut cartridge "When Its Cold Outside". These snowflakes are beautiful and very intricately designed. I must admit it did take a little figuring out to get them to cut nicely. But it certainly was worth the effort. I will be

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Hi Everyone, I thought I would share with you tonight the Cricut houses I made this year for above my mantle downstairs. They are really cute, although I am giving them to Jill, I feel they are too small and they get lost above the mantle. So next year I am planning on making some bigger ones. The possiblities are endless with these houses you can make them to suit any holiday or season. I

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but here we go again. Are you taking bets on how long it will last.I thought I would share with you all tonight my 2009 Christmas Card.At the last two conventions I attended in Ohio I had been eyeing the Copic markers.....well needless to say it doesn't take much to convince me I needed them, so last fall I did purchase two sets. This is my first project with them. I just love the way they blend.

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so many false starts!!! I am not making any promises this time, lol.I had a great day today went and had a thanksgiving lunch with a very special preschooler, Julia, and then watched Gina at her swim meet practice. She is getting to be quite the little fish.So how are all of you doing on getting some Christmas shopping done? I am seriously going to start mine this week. I do have a little done

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Wow it has been forever once again since I have posted. I thought last time I was ready to get back into this. I guess it was a false start..........so lets try this again. I have a busy day today...hopefully though I will be able to post a project tonight. Have a great day.

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I want to thank all you who entered the challange and hope you had a great time playing along. I know I had a wonderful time seeing all of your creative talents. The winners name chosen from the random drawing is Susan. Congratulations and I will get your package out to you very soon. Check back soon for the next Challenge and I hope you will all play along again. Here are the entries:SusanCarole

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Happy Father's Day to all the Father's out there and especially to my very own Dad. Here is the card I made for Father's Day this year. It was also a sketch challenge on Let's Scrap (lsc103). This car is from a set of stamps I bought from Stampin Up when my friend had a party. I stamped it with black ink and then water colored it with my water color pencils. Then I tore the edges of the paper on

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Here is the picture of the prize for the "Handmade Paper Challenge". As you can see you will receive if your name is drawn, four 12" x 12" papers, two 8 1/2" x 11" papers, four border strips, two journaling circles, fibers, two flowers, and two brads. I hope you are all working on your hand designed papers and getting ready to put your layout together. Remember the deadline is June 30, 2009 at

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Next week you will be creating your own stencil to take home with you with the help of the Cricut. We will also be using our watercolor crayons which we haven't had out in awhile.I have been playing around creating a new look for the blog, Ihope you like it. If you find any quirks with it I sure would appreciate it if you would let me know.I am also planning a shopping day for any of you that

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We haven't had a challenge in quite awhile and I thought it was time to get one going again. Your challenge is to start with a piece of white paper and design your own scrapbook paper from it. You may use any mediums you like. For mine I used stamps and ink pads. You may make your layout a single or double page, 12 x 12, 8 x8, 8 1/2 x 11 or 6 x6. Rule is no commercial printed scrapbook papers

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Good Afternoon,I am so excited, I just joined an online scrapping group a couple of days ago and they have already put up one of my layouts in their Feature Lineup. You may check it out by going to "Lets Scrap" you can find the link to in in my right hand column. If you are looking for inspiration for your scrapping layouts this is the place to go, they are just full of ideas. You may even want

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Wow just look at the last date that I posted to my poor deglected blog. I feel sooo guilty. Hopefully we are off to a new start. I am all moved, whew. That was a job, but fun. So now its time to get back to work. Classes did officially start last week but as you can see I didn't get it posted. I have a pretty nice schedule lined up for you, I am sure you will like them as well as I do. So without

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Have you worked with the marl watercolor paper and markers yet, if not here is your chance. I just love the way you can blend with this paper.The first time I saw the paper at convention was a few years ago in The Artful Stamper booth (http://www.artfulstamper.com/ ) and their cards are absolutely beautiful. So of course I had to give it a try. I do admit though I haven't used it in a while but

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Card Class - "Cricut Card" I've had my cricut for awhile not and have not taken the time to make cards using one of my cartridges, so now we have it. They really are simple but you can add so much to the cards to dress them up. I have cut out four different designs for you to choose from and then added stamping to dress them up. Although it is calling for some snow early this week we will still

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Oh my gosh do you even remember who I am. I have been a very neglectful girl and I am so sorry. Have had a lot of things going on and just haven't been able to concentrate on one thing. I'm back and hopefully will be able to keep up now for awhile. In class this week we will be working with the Making Memories Grommet Setter...which by the way is very easy and adds a wonderful embellishment to

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Wow talk about procrastinating. I did a wonderful job of that this week. Here is the card for tomorrow mornings class, this is a fun technique, be ready to be loose and carefree and to doodle away the morning. We will also be using my rectangle nestabilities, just can't get enough of those things. These cards really do look like we used bandannas to make the background, don't you think. Hope you

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Its finally here, surgery day for Sophia. Early tomorrow morning Sophia will have her heart surgery that is so needed. I am asking for all of your prayers for Sophia, her family and the doctors. This will be a very stressful time for all of them. I am in awe of all the people who are praying for Sophia and who have also put her on prayer chains. I thank each and every one of you, God is

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OH no, what ever shall we do, the Inkadinkado birds are not included in this weeks class. I am switching to stickers this week, aren't they cool. Sometimes the stickers available are just not quite right, but you do like the design, so fix them. We are going to use our ultra thick embossing powder to make the stickers just right for our card designs. I did though have to include the

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Well as promised here are the cards using the Spellbinders "Nestabilites". Did I ever have a good time playing with these and I love the results. Wouldn't you know the Inkadinkado birds have shown up again in this class, bet you are hoping I find a new favorite soon. I have a box of scrapbook paper scraps that you can choose from to use for your background on your card and then you can choose

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I received in the mail today a wonderful fun package. I had ordered a set of Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Dies and a brown journaling pen. So of course I had to play with them and I had to do my trading cards so I justified the time spent in my studio playing today. They are marvelous and so much versatility with them, now I am regretting ordering one set. I didn't have the Wizard Die Cutting

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Oh my gosh will you be able to handle it, to have the card class posted before Sunday evening? I have a family gathering on Saturday and Sunday afternoon so I thought I had better get busy and get them posted. I have had so much fun playing with this set of acrylic stamps that I bought of Inkadinkado's. So here we are featuring it in another class. This week I wanted to see what Inkadinkado was

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I had a good time while away the last three days with Jill and her family. Learned a lot about and with Cedric. lol We had a couple of doctors appointments, visited Waldameer, Presque Isle, Tom Ridge Center, The Zoo, and stayed in a "Seriously nice hotel" this was Sydni's description, you would have thought it was the Hilton. Missed my dogs but they did fine and were very excited when I did come

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They are everywhere......store closings. I feel so sad for everyone who has had to close their beloved shop over the last two years. There sure aren't too many independent shops left. What will ever become of our economy. I certainly don't have any answers.....do you? On a lighter note....here are the "Inchies" that were turned in for our "Inchie Club" the "TICS". Its never to late for you to

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