Coupon Stocking Stuffer

I thought this would be a neat idea!!
Wouldn't this be a great stocking stuffer for any little girl or boy? If you like them feel free to use them too. Click image to enlarge and then save to your computer.
The challenge this week on the alphabet challenge is G for green and gold, and I thought this would be something to make for the challenge and would also be of great use. I plan on printing out several for stocking stuffers. I made this digitally using printshop22. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Little child....

the innocence of youth.....the joy in their eyes as they behold the glittering lights, and their temptation to grab everything on the tree....

Christmas is such a joyous time when its shared with little ones....it helps us remember the real meaning and feel the true spirit of christmas...

this is my entry for the soartful challenge....the holly background was provided and I did some digi magic with it and came up with this....thanks for looking and have a great day.

Dreams

Do you remember what made for a perfect day when you were a child? It was doing the things you loved most. As we get older our dreams may change, but whatever they are, we still want to enjoy and be inspired by the things around us.

This is my entry for the art creations friday challenge. Background image was provided and I used printshop22 to add a few things. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Hope

It is such an important part of our life....
When we are going through a rough patch in our lives

we have hope that tomorrow will be better....

When we look into the eyes of our children

we have hope for their future....

When we have an illness or injury to ourselves or a loved one

we have hope that tomorrow will find us all healthy again....

When money is tight and the bills keep coming

we have hope that a raise in our income will soon be near....

When a loved one is far away

we have hope for their safe return....

Hope is essential for the well being of our mind and souls. This is my entry for the art creations friday challenge this week. The lovely lady image was provided and I digitally altered it with printshop22. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Betty Butterfly

Have you ever thought of what a blog would have looked like 100 years ago?Well, this is how I would imagine it...the lady would be constantly praising her husband and all his virtues....she would be avidly preparing his 3 hot meals a day....raising his children and thrilled when she found out another was on the way....she would talk of the best way to hand wash the clothes down at the stream and sharing her recipe for lye soap....even brag about how many eggs the hen lay or how much milk she managed to get from that old milkcow today....

but secretly she has dreams...of enlightment and freedom to express herself...of exerting some small form of independence for herself....

and so she begins to blog....she has to word things carefully so as not to upset her husband, and while the males of the land may not understand what she is saying, women like her are reading her blog and know and understand what is written between the lines....

ahh, how times have changed !!!

The lady image was provided for our challenge this week at soartful challenges, and I couldn't resist making this little mock blog page and thinking of how it would have been done back then. Hope you enjoyed it, thanks for looking and have a great week.

Remembering the 60's

Do you remember the 60's....when peace and love was the chant of many songs across the radio?? when flower power was flaunted as the way to a better tomorrow? I found this adorable little girl's pic in the public domain, (its posted here on my blog along with some other images I came across and wanted to share with you all)....and this little girl with her garland of flowers reminded me immediately of those days. When I seen the background image for the challenge at artcreationsfriday this week it just seemed as if they belonged together...

so that is how I came up with my entry for this week. I cropped and softened the edges of the photo, added it to the background and then added a few words and some daisies. I like how it came out, hope you enjoy it as well. Thanks for stopping in and have a great day!!

B is for Blue...

The theme at the alphabet challenge blog this week is B is for Blue..... and decided my "B" needed a Bouncing Baby Boy to go with it!! This was all done digitally with images provided with my printshop22. Thanks for looking, have a great day!!

Thank You.......

There are so many generous and creative bloggers out there, I'm still finding new blogs everyday to enjoy and get inspiration from....this week cora at digital2fortuesday has given us 2 more images to play around with and I chose this image below to do some digi magic with.....and this is what I came up with....cora, this card is for you....for your generosity in sharing so many wonderful images with us.....
and is my way of saying thank you for sharing....

Have a great day everyone and a big thanks to all you creative souls out there.

An Award and Some Challenge Entries

What a wonderful surprise!! The creative and talented Mizmollye at shezadoozy has given me an award!! My first one too!! The Splash Award....I hope you go check out molly's blog, she writes the most wonderful tales and is so inspirational in her crafting, I don't think there is much ,if anything, that she cant do!! Dolls,jewelry,crochet, that is just a few of the amazing things she does and shows us. And she writes the most awesome stories that she shares with us. I love logging on and seeing that she has a new post...if you haven't checked out her blog please take a moment and go look,you'll be glad you did!!

The Splash Award is given to "Alluring...Amusing...Inspiring...Bewitching and Impressive" Blogs...

The only rules are 1. To choose nine blogs to forward the award to 2. Post the award and the links on your blog and 3. Link back to my blog. I read so many wonderful blogs that it is hard to pick but this time I have chosen these blogs to pass the award to:

1)Sharon at: http://shardonexclusives.blogspot.com/

2)Terry Lee at:http://allthingsterrylee.blogspot.com/

3)Elaine at:http://misselaineous-love2junk.blogspot.com/

4)Sue at:http://junkinlady.blogspot.com/

5)June at:http://artfreebies.blogspot.com/

6:Cheryl at:http://cheryl-cherylscreativeatcscards.blogspot.com/

7)Peggy at:http://wwwpeggysamusement.blogspot.com/

8)Libby at:http://simpletosublimepapernapkinpoetry.blogspot.com/

9)Dawn at:http://the-feathered-nest.blogspot.com/

so please stop by and visit these amazing blogs by some very creative and talented ladies,and get some inspiration to jumpstart the day!!

I also want to post some challenge entries, my internet is working at the moment but who knows how long that will last....

this is my entry for the artcreations friday challenge, the girl image was provided with the challenge and the background is from june at art freebies

this is my entry for the soartful saturday challenge, the background was provided, the lady was one of the images from the public domain that I posted on my blog

and this is another journal page, all images are from my stash that I have clipped out over the years from books and such,with a touch of lace added to it...oh wow, long post I know....oh, I also recievcd my package from artsnarks, I won the drawing there a couple of weeks ago and got my beautiful piece of art in the mail over the weekend....but I forgot to take a pic so will show you that in the next post!!

Thanks again molly for the award!! And thanks everyone for stopping in, have a great day!

Moody Blues!!

I've got the Moody Blues!!

The Internet Moody Blues!!background,ribbon flowers used for hat are from June at dezinaworld, lady is from public domain,created digitally with printshop22....

I want to disown my internet!! But I'd be lost without it!


It is giving me fits here!!


I can hardly get on anymore, and when I do it seems to go right back down!!

I understand that everyone is going to have problems once and a while, but this is getting to be a daily thing...and since I cant be on here just when ever I want to (you know what I mean: family,life, housework,life,errands,and did I mention life?) then it seems to be my fortune of late that every I get on here that it goes down again...sigh....blah,blah,blah...sob,sob,sob...

okay, enough of that,gotta hurry and try to post this while I can....have a lot more to share with you but its to late tonite...will try to crank this thang up again in the morning and see if I can get caught up....I am behind on the reading of your great blogs too and cant wait to see what everyone has been up to....take care and hugs to all my blog friends!

Dancing Beauties

This is my entry for the mixedmediamonday challenge, the theme this week is pink. I got the image from the public domain and used it to digitally create this piece.

Thanks for looking and have a great week.

Fantasy and Hope

This is my entry for artcreationsfriday...they provided this beautiful lady's image this week and I have digital altered it to create what I imagined her thoughts to be...
Thanks for looking and have a great week.

Life is a Highway

How's that cold,cough for me please,lets take your temperature..... We've had a little bit of sickness around here this week, not the flu but still a bad cold with a slight fever, causing krissa to miss a couple of days of school....and since she loves to share I got it too! Ahh, you know what I'm talking about, huh....so anyway, we kind of took care of each other, and if you have little ones you know what I'm talking about!LOL...so not much time for blogging this week.....

so much to do,so little time..... The challenge this week at mixed media monday was maps. So had fun with a journal page and this is what I came up with. The image is a digital from cora at digital2fortuesday that I colored in, the papers are from some of my scrapbooking stash.

Did a few other things this week that I'll try to get posted this weekend, but falling asleep as I sit here typing so best find that bed and pillow before I conk out here....ok, am I the only one or has anyone else fell asleep while sitting at the puter desk? and I'm not sitting in a recliner or nothing like that, but I can get comfy enough in this chair here that I doze off....but I have to admit, I think I could sleep just about anywhere, should have seen me yesterday almost asleep on the floor in the playroom while Krissa played nearby...what can I say, my head felt like it weighed a ton,she couldn't go to school because she was still a little bit sick and at least I'm no more that 2 feet away so I can still keep an eye on her....

Enjoy the weekend everyone and thanks for stopping in.

Dreams and Pearl-ish Delights

I won the september drawing of the luxury antiqued background set and a collage sheet of the painted ladies from June at DezinaWorld, and I have been having the most fun playing around with them.... they are the most fabulous things!! please be sure and check her site out,she has a drawing every month and all you have to do to enter is create a challenge piece from that month's challenge...and we all love challenges,dont we!!
and I have a few pics from around the house...
some of krissa's paperweights.....some lights in her bedroom

did I mention that she loves lights and lamps.....she has at least a dozen in her room....if we go thrifting she is always on the lookout for them and if she has to choose between a lamp and a toy, the lamp usually wins....and she dont turn just one on a time, nope,she wants them all on!! when she is home I am constantly checking her room and turning lights out....she's not afraid of the dark or anything....she just likes them.....she is collector of a lot of things and I'm trying to get her to pare back some of the things but she wont have any of it! LOL...oh well, she takes it naturally, I'm the same way on things I like....

Thanks for stopping by, and wishing you a great week ahead.

Graveyard Bash

You're Invited to the.....

Graveyard Bash!!

october.....the time of year the goblins come out to play....sometimes they want to scare us, but they definitely want to play and party!!!

the challenge this week at SPA is bones and skeletons....so thought I'd show my "bones"

having their yearly celebration ...

Thanks for looking and have a great week!

Joan C

Joan Crawfordthis is my entry for the soartfulsaturday challenge this week. All images are from june at art freebies.

Zlightly Zetti

I had so much fun creating this piece!!the challenge this week at Three Muses was zlightly zetti ,first I created the digital piece above..then made a journal page out of it.

I'm slowing getting my journal pages done, I'm really enjoying the process and then being able to go back and see what I have done so far.

Thanks for looking, and hagd!

FUN

Krissa loves having her birthday parties at the skating rink, 2 hours of fun for all the kiddies

and us adult kids have fun just watching them and picking them up off the floor....This is my entry for the sophisticats challenge blog, I think I met the requirements for the sketch they supplied for us to use. I used some personal pics from a couple of years ago, and used printshop22 and some of their clip art to make this. Although the pics are older ones, this digital piece was done today.

and on a side note, I've been watching hoarders on tv while I did this....hmmm,all these craft things I got around here, think I would fall apart if I had to part with them! But it really makes me realize I need to keep a handle on things - I don't want no dump truck here taking all my stuff out!! Dont know if you watch it or not, but they had a 7 yr. old boy on there, my heart ached for him....so hard for him to part with things....and the older man on there tonight was just as heartbroken to have his stuff leave.....now paranormal is on, and I'm hooked on it too....

Take care everyone and thanks for stopping in.

She Ponders....

I have enjoyed a creative sunday......

this card was made using the blue beauty collage sheet from june at dezinaworld....I love the vibrant colors....I used the collage sheet to digitally create this using printshop22....

its been rainy here most of the weekend so not much time outside....today I made a huge pot of homemade soup....good thing is I've got supper for tomorrow night already done!! When I make a big pot like that we will eat on it for a couple of days then I will freeze what is left over......its a great idea for those nights when everyday life is more hectic than usual, just grab it out of the freezer and heat it up!!! quick and easy....

then I played around with this image of the little football boy from cora at digital2fortuesday....

I think this turned out well....a great card for that birthday boy.....

had to resist the urge to frill it up....so kept it pretty simple knowing that flowers and ribbons and such probably wouldn't be what those tough little guys would want...lol....

Got a few more things started but they still need a few more touches....is it just me or does everyone suddenly get a mental block when your in the middle of creating something.....I start out having an idea of what I want to do,and knowing that along the way I'll make several changes until I get something that I'm satisfied with.....but sometimes I have to leave it half way done because I cant decide what I want to do next.....then later,maybe an hour or a day, and sometimes a week I'll go back to it and can finish it off easily.....guess I just have to step back and ponder-like the lady in the top card-and clear my brain (or what little bit I got up there!!lol) to see what the project needs....

Thanks for stopping in and have a good day.

Rock of Ages

Rocky the challenge at mixedmediamonday this week is your favorite music or song... I love just about any kind of music but the first song that came to mind was Rock of Ages....it was my dad's favorite gospel song....I was young when he passed away so my memories of him are vague, and although I had a wonderful stepfather, I still missed the father-daughter bond that I wish we could have shared as I grew up and had kids of my own....his nickname was rocky but it didn't have anything to do with the song....so this is a tribute to my dad as I imagine him in heaven singing with the angels....

Thanks for looking and have a good day.