The Men In The Moon

Nancy Baumiller has a new set of goodies at Deviant Scrap....

Men In Hats! Who doesn't love a man with a stylish hat?

I LOVE Nancy Baumiller!

So I really have something to "Crowabout"! I'm happy to announce that Nancy has opened up shop at Deviant Scrap! (http://www.deviantscrap.com/)

The above piece is one I made using her new kit "Borders and Bits"
It's aptly named "Bird of Paradise"

Sometimes Life Is Messy

My newest pieces at Deviant Scrap. If you haven't checked out the site, you should! Go to http://www.deviantscrap.com/ and unleash your creativity!

It's Here! It's Here!

We're coming to rock the scrap world!

It's closer than you think!

The time is drawing nearer

I know you have secretly always wanted to run with scissors.

Soon you will have your chance........

Your chance to run with scissors!

Coming Soon!

Get ready for the digiscrap world to turn upside down!

A Winter's Night

The lamp is burning low upon my table top

The snow is softly falling

The air is still within the silence of my room

I hear your voice softly calling

If I could only have you near

To breathe a sigh or two

I would be happy just to hold the hands I love

Upon this winter night with you

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead

My glass is almost empty

I read again between the lines upon the page

The words of love you sent me

If I could know within my heart

That you were lonely too

I would be happy just to hold the hands I love

Upon this winter night with you

I used HGD Laurie Ann November Road and No Place Like Home, SherrieJD's Junkyard and Dianne Rigdon's Feed The Birds, all from Scrap Artist

Hop on over to Scrap Artist and check out the new altered art zine the altered art team has put together. It's free, and you can sign up to access and play in the altered art forum with lots of great challenges and hang out with some really creative altered artists! Click here to learn more!

Your Buddy Misses You

Life is a book that we study,

Some of its leaves bring a sigh.

There it was written, my buddy,

That we must part, you and I.

Nights are long since you went away,

I think about you all through the day.

My buddy, my buddy, your buddy misses you.

I've hit a speedbump on the road of life. I've been thinking about my friend Claire a lot lately. She passed away unexpectedly this past June. This is the time of year we would be talking of going on a roadtrip to New Orleans. It was one of her favorite places to visit (mine too). We always had a dream of going there and listening to Dr. John play the piano and sing our favorite tunes. Because we'll never get the chance to go (dying has a way of derailing future plans), when I saw this kit "Old Town" by Joe Designs at Oscraps I decided to take us there anyway.

The song "My Buddy" was one Dr. John sung on his "In A Sentimental Mood" album, and a personal favorite of mine. I thought it would be very appropriate to use here.

I used Joe Design's kit "Old Town" and Holliewood Studio's "All Hallows Eve", both from Oscraps

Daydreaming and I'm thinking of.....

A bubble bath! I LOVE a long, hot soaking in a tub of bubbles! I would love nothing more than to be on my own secluded island and go sailing in a tub of bubbly bliss!

Tangie Baxter and sherrieJD have a wonderful new collab kit coming out this week called "The Ultimate Art Doll Collection". I have had the priviledge of working with it the past few days and it is absolutely wonderful! The beauty in the tub is from the kit,(sssshhhhhh! Tangie let me post this piece early on the Scrapbookgraphics weekly altered art challenge....don't tell anyone!) so don't waste any time getting on to Scrapbookgraphics or Scrap Orchard later this week to pick this baby up!

In addition to Tangie's kit, I used Lorie Davison's "Ticket to Dragon's End" and "Little Fishi Island" both available at Scrapbookgraphics.

Lily Design's "Paint The Ocean" "Summertime" and "Baby Elf" from After Five Designs.

Laurie Ann's "Splash On" from Scrap Artist

Shakespeare's Atoms

Here's your geeky science fact for today. Inside of you there are over 200 billion atoms that were once a part of Shakespeare.......and dinosaurs.....and everything else in the Universe since the beginning of time. Who would have thought?

I used Glam Fairy's "Gone Too Soon", Lorie Davison's "Flying Dreams" and Phong's "Prehistoric- a Dinosuar Kit" all from Scrapbookgraphics.The background is from Lily Designs "Summertime Cafe" and "Baby Elf" from After Five Designs.The recycling symbol is from Vinnie Pearce's collab kit "Ecofabulous".

Monday was "Wash Day"

Growing up we lived far out in the country. We didn't have a clothes dryer for a long time in my early childhood (We did our laundry in an old tub machine with a wringer on top. At least the wringer was electric and not hand crank! Bonus points for anyone old enough to remember what a mangler was) Every Monday was "wash day". My Grandmother, Mom, myself and anyone else in the family old enough to help hung the wet clothes out on clothes lines to dry. We washed clothes for 9 people, and there must have been at least 20 drying lines strung across my Grandparents side yard. Sheets and towels in front toward the street, underwear on the back lines so nobody could see the "unmentionables" as they drove by. Needless to say, Tuesday was ironing and darning day.

These days I have a one-line "solar dryer" in my backyard for sheets and blankets. I guess old habits are hard to break!

I used Holliewood Studio's kit "Junkyard" available at Oscraps. The shirt and dress are from istock, with a lot of altering done by me. In doing this piece I found out what a wonderful tool the warp transformation is!

My Lost Weekend- Part 2

Tangie Baxter has a phenomenal new kit out today called "Wonderland". I spent all weekend lost in creating the type layouts I love...a little Tim Burton, a little mind-stretching, a little bizarre!

Created with Tangie Baxter's new kit Wonderland, available at Scrapbookgraphics. Alice is from istockphoto and The Mad Hatter is a preview photo from the movie.

What a Wonderful Weekend!

I had an absolutely wonderful weekend scrapping! All weekend long I created, ate junk food and simply vegged out in Photoshop. I had the pleasure of working with an absolutely killer new kit Tangie Baxter will have in her shop at Scrapbookgraphics tomorrow. I encourage everyone to stop by and pick it up.....you'll be glad you did! This is a page I did for my art journal. It is one of the happier pages in there right now. I hope to add many more positive pages in the future, and I think this is a good start down that road! :)

I used Tangie Baxter's Curious Adventures and Chronicles of Imagination from Scrapbookgraphics, Lorie Davison's Bunnies, Bees and the Bird's Big Balloon from Scrapbookgraphics, Glam Fairy's 3-D Alpha from Scrapbookgraphics, and Holliewood Studios Techno Times from Oscraps.

Dinosaurs are.....

Not something any rational person would associate with insomnia, but they seemed to work for me in the piece. I hate it when I go through bouts of insomnia, and I guess this too shall pass.

I used Phuong ton's kit "Prehistoric- A Dinosaur Kit" from Scrapbookgraphics

Glam Fairy's "3D Alpha#2" and "3D Frames" from Scrapbookgraphics

Lori Davison's "Flying Dreams" from Scrapbookgrpahics"

Flerg's "INDUSTR*E" from Scrapbookgraphics

Jofia Design's "The Bright Night" from The Shabby Pickle

The "Bee"52s

I LOVE the B52s! Hollie at Oscraps has a new kit, "Queen Bee" that seemed to fit them perfectly! I just LOVE this kit! There are so many pieces to play with, and the black/white/yellow color scheme is just killer!

I used Holliewood Studio's new kit "Queen Bee" available at Oscraps.

Getting back to "normal"

If there is such a thing for me. I have been working on some killer new pieces for Hollie at Holliewood Designs that I should be able to post tomorrow. I did some Art Therapy today at work (shhhh....the Boss is out of town) and this is what popped out of my head.

As an artist, I've always felt that you just have to throw your stuff out there and see what sticks with people. I personally think DaVinci must have thought the same!

I used Tangie Baxter's collab with sherrieJD "Brown Sugar", Tangie's "DaVinci" and "Museum Frames", Maya's "Art Noodles and Doodles", all available from Scrapbookgraphics.

The cubes were made with PanosFX's "Cube Action".

You Must Have Left In A Hurry

I'll be gone for a few days. My best friend since childhood passed away yesterday. This is for you Claire. Don't think you can walk away from 40 years of friendship by dying. Nope, it's not gonna happen. We have one more trip to New Orleans left.......promise. You always said that you felt peaceful there and wished you could stay there forever. I'll do my best to make that happen.

Love you.

Tangie Baxter has some wonderful weekly challenges at Scrapbookgrpahics. I love participating in them when I can. I love her new ATC kit "Brown Sugar". The colors are perfect for the way I think and scrap. Here is my entry for this week's challenge. Davinci knew the power of a woman. Just look at his paintings and drawings of women and tell me he didn't know he was in the presence of greatness. This is my small way of acknowledging his keen insight into women.

Last week my piece "Got Milk" was chosen as the "I Can Scraplift That" challenge piece of the week at Scrapbookgraphics. I waited all week to see what the other scrappers at SBG would come up with based on my work. I waited for someone to post a layout.....and waited.....and waited. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nobody took on the challenge to scraplift my layout. Oh well, I guess at least I'll never have to worry about imitations!