Since you asked...

This weeks Prompt from 

A Dash of Sunny is
WE TEND TO SMILE IN THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE

(Cheeky Challenge 33 Jewels/Gems)

My Word is My Bond

In this world of many cares

it's easy to lose track

of things that are important,

And you may never get them back.

My home is filled with treasures,

In my garden Magic grows,

But there's one thing much more precious 

than the rarest of all those.

"Honesty" is palpable within

these dusty walls.

For without it things like "trust" and "love"

cannot exist at all.

So when some one takes the time to ask

"What's important in your life?"

I simply tell them "Honesty"

*but my husband says "my wife"*

(:D Sorry ...couldn't resist that last line :D)

Enjoy :D XXX

When getting messy isn't an option...

Try digital art!

That's what friends kept telling me, so I thought it was time to get stuck in :D

I have all the graphic programmes you could want, but had fits of technophobia everytime I tried to use them.

A couple of days ago my very talented friend June Mac of Dezinaworld

shared some amazing free images (all her images are free of charge), and I found she has been running a weekly Cheeky Challenge

 Now you know I'm not shy at jumping headlong and wellied up into a challenge, so being half a year behind, I thought it would be a great chance to work on my digi skills.

Rather than just join in from now, I am going to make a Cheeky Challenge art journal :D

I already have an out of date A5 desk diary to alter...

 and the full years challenge prompt courtesy of June,

so today I have made my first 2 pages which I am going to print off and stick in the diary.

 Week 01 Rags/poverty/homeless

Week 02 Wildflowers

I have used a mixture(cos that's what digi collage is about) of images from Dezinaworld, Daisy Trail(serif), Itkupili images and my own photos.

I'll try not to bombard you with my new project lol, but I'm sure some will find it refreshingly lighter than my other projects :D

Enjoy XXX

Life in Progress...

Well hubby is finally back at work, though he is doing half his day from home. Time to get back to creating.

First up is an A4 card for a work colleague of hubby's who is moving on....he is an Elvis impersonator!

Background paper from Dezinaworld called Madi Gras(I changed the colours in my graphics programme), and the silhouette was a clip art image I cut out and used as a template.

 Still need to bling the King and the legend will read "Elvis has left the building"

*which I think is funny for a leaving card*

Then I realised I hadn't share many of my Documented Life  Project journal pages,

so here are some of the most recent...

The ink splat raven is from a Poe Digi kit

Hope your all having a lovely, creative summer :D XXX

Mmmmmmm.......

Not sure where I was going with this one. Had no time to craft this weekend and had to leave this card half finished, and when I came back to it this morning I'd lost the plot :) But after reading Mel's motivating speech over at The Butterfly Effect, I felt inspired to have another go at it.

I realised I had too many colours going on. The lovely lady( Dezinaworld image) had blue ribbons and pale pink flowers, so I coloured over them with promarkers, and now they match up with the ribbons and tag :D

The ribbon border is woven strips stuck onto a piece of card stock....V time consuming, but sometimes you just have to try things. The background is alcohol inks... I thought red and blue would make purple...but it made red and blue haha! So i blended over with a bit of green to tone it down a bit :D

I would like to enter this for the following challenges;

Dezinaworld Spotprize#Green and Purples

The Stamp Man#26 Alcohol Inks and optional sketch

Flutter By Wednesday#160 Open theme

Crafty Ann's Challenge#44 Get well/Thinking of you/just because

Also linking to the The Butterfly Effect blog where a ripple of inspiration brings a flood of creativity :D (and yes you can use that catchphrase if you like ladies)XXX

Fun Friday at Dezinaworld

It's Fun Friday over at Dezinaworld, and June has given us this gorgeous image, just for sharing our happy moments this week!!

I did have fun making this card, using my new alcohol inks for the 1st time(though I seriosly need lessons haha!) I stamped a butterfly onto acetate and coloured it with the inks too.

The middle layer is gold mirri board with pink and green ribbon criss-crossed over part of it. This gives a lovely effect, but can be quite expensive in nice ribbon, so I used paper ribbon. This also keeps the weight down for postage :D

Background: alcohol inks overstamped with new Kanban stamps

And this is the really fun layout we made last night at The Craftden...:D The photo's are my youngest aka Chunky Monkey when he was only 2 ....aaaaaaaah bless. He was trying to catch tadpoles (supervised of course!!! You can see the fence we had to build around this tiny pond because he kept jumping in it!!!)

Challenges I would like to enter my card for are;

Wednesday Stamper#At least 1 rubber stamp(butterflies)

Sir Stampalot July Challenge# Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up#26 Square

ABC Challenge#X is for crossing ribbons

Pear Tree Designs#55 Stamp something

A postcard from dear old blighty!!

Sunday Postcard Art asked for "vintage men", while Dezinaworld Spotprize Challenge want us to "celebrate our Homeland".

Being a "true blue Brit" the 2 went together perfectly for me :D

No matter how we advance in the worlds of science, technology and fashion, we will ever be known for our classically Victorian eccentricity!!

Add to that our veracious need to "collect" and "catalogue" everything on earth and beyond, and I was able to include "Butterflies and Dragonflies" for this months Stamp Man Challenge :D

The background paper and man in balloon are both from Dezinaworld, and I have "aged" the piece with Tim Holtz distress inks in Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy(as worn by any self respecting british explorer) and Aged Mahogany :D

Tag! Your it!

This week is Tag week at Try It On Tuesdays, and the required element is a Butterfly :D

My tag is made up from K&Co Blossomwood papers, and a pretty tag from one of June's picture tag sheets at Dezinaworld. A bit of matting n layering, distress inking just to highlight the delicate image. The butterfly is stamped onto patterned paper (Anna Griffin stamp) and cut out. The over stamping is also an Anna Griffin stamp.

Challenges I would like to enter are;

Try It On Tuesday# Tag Week(butterfly)

Take a Word#33 Insects(butterfly)

Anything Goes Challenge#42 Here comes Summer!

ABC Challenge# W is for Wedding

Theme Thursday# Summer

Dezinaworld Spot Prize challenge# Natural Beauty

Everyone's a winner at Dezinaworld!!!

June over at Dezinaworld has set up a wonderfully generous challenge this month. Anyone entering will recieve a voucher to use in her Collage shop. The only stipulation is that your entry must use a Dezinaworld image, but fear not, June has made several of her collage sheets available for FREE!
I have some Dezinaworld collage sheets already, but have chosen an image from one of the freebie sheets, to make a christmas card for my MIL.

I have enlarged one of the tags(12 on each sheet) to fit my A5 card, and the image is still perfect!!

I am entering this card for the following Challenges;

Dezinaworld# Everyone's a Winner

Stamp+Fun=CREATIVITY#20 "Christmas"

Totally Paper Crafts#41 "Tag It"

:D XXX

Vintage bag !

Does this count as back linking? I made a twinchie a few months ago for a challenge, but wanted to use it in another project, so I scanned it and have used that image(now 7"x7") to decorate a plain bag.

I have printed the image onto transfer paper and ironed it onto the bag, then glued on the buttons with pinflair. The images are from Dezinaworld/Art Freebies

I would like to enter it for a few challenges, but will totally understand if it is not accepted :D

This piece was inspired by;

Crafty Ann's Challenge#24 "Anything but a card"

Alphabet Challenge "V is for Vintage"

MAWTT#65"to do list" (I chose Vintage image/buttons/new technique)

Flutter By Wednesdays #123 "Anything with wings"

Anything Goes Challenge Blog#17 "Cute"

Thank you XXX

Dezina Oriental Birthday

Haven't made a birthday card for ages, and when I saw these "Quite Contrary"papers by My Minds Eye that Jen sent me I couldn't resist making a girly card. The oriental lady is a freebie from Dezinaworld. and their challenge this week is "stained glass", so I printed her out onto acetate, then mounted the image onto silver mirror board to get a very reflective effect. I fixed the acetate to the board with 3 button brads.
I have made this card for the following challenges;
Crafty Little Place# Recipe 1flower/2dp's/3buttons
Dezinaworld Challenge# Stained Glass
Flutter By Wednesdays#122 Buttons
Anything Goes Challenge Blog#16 Oriental
Totally Papercraft#34 Happy Birthday
Cute Card Thursdays#130 Tweet and Flutter(bird or butterfly)
XXX

Dezina dazzle

June Macfarlane of Dezinaworld has started a new challenge :D This weeks theme is "Ice Maiden". Can never have too many christmas cards so I used this image from Dezinaworld and just added loads of sparkle, easy or what??
Enjoy XXX