Eremophobia: noun

The morbid dread of being alone
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Jo's Scrap Shack - FFC #21 "Favorite Technique" ( dripping inks and spatters )
Carolyn Dube - October's Colorful Gelli Print Party

 {my Sweet earth} - October Inspiration


I loved the color palette for October but my mind wanted to use them in a non Halloween projects and I wanted to use my new stencil I made ( inspired by Carolyn Dube ) by drawing an image on cardboard, and then outlining it with puffy paint and heat setting it to rise up. I planned on using it for my gelli plate but it got it's first run as a stamp on paper, and I LOVE how it turned out. This is the stamp I made, it's about 5 x 10".

I rolled on orange paint with a brayer and then stamped the paper with it.
Whatever didn't print I filled in with a paint pen.

I dripped ink sparay inks and made delightful splatters following the October color palette.

Susiebee Studios - Bouquet paper
Viva Decor - brown Paint Pen
Ranger - Dylusion Ink sprays, bubblegum pink, lemon zest
Distress Stain, vintage photo
Tattered Angels - popsicle, midnight blue
Golden gesso
Helmar - Liquid Scrap Dots
Faber Castell - PITT Pens, walnut brown,black
Reminisce white pen

gingerly: adjective

very cautious or careful

pronunciation

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Many of you know that I live in a small apartment which means space is a premium commodity so I have discovered that redecorating the same wreath base means a lot of saved space. One wreath form, and many little bags of embellishments or ribbon to change it out for the seasons.

So this is the summer wreath that has come down:

And yes, I am a matchy kind of decorator, so my wreaths not only tie into the rug at the front door but to the aqua walls in the stairwell.

And my new Fall wreath:

Notice the aqua eyes?

So you can see how I used the summer wreath form to create my little fall owl wreath here in this slide show if you want :)

Creative Inspiration Paints - Copper,Pumpkin, Fairy Dust

Cricut - Happy Hauntings , p.56

Viva Decor - Paint Pen

Ranger - stickles, crackle medium

Helmar - Acid Free Glue, Gemstone Glue, Liquid Scrap Dots

entering my Fall wreath in:

Craftin Desert Diva's - Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party # 15 

Jo's Scrap Shack - FFC #17 "Autumn"

All that Stickles - Fall/Harvest Linky Party

Bitten by the Bug - Anything (Fall) Goes! Use a Fall Theme on a Project 

malapert: adjective

impudently bold : saucy

pronunciation

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Anything But a Card - #27 Hit the Books

Creative Inspirations Paint - Got CI paints?

September 2013 Creative Dare - Share your Home

What's in my home?

GOD

First I used a brayer to coat the cover of the journal, ( I didn't want complete coverage, I love the Kraft paper showing through ) next using a stencil with paint, which I then outlined with a pearl paint. The Lord's Prayer was stamped on Kraft paper and then cut out, painted and also outlined with pearl paint.

I think one of my favorite parts on my art journals are the small bull nose clips that I add a cross to. I believe that the small cross embellishment makes a big impact. You might notice a small dot of Helmar 450  Quick Dry Adhesive over the opening of the ring, it helps assure that it won't open and let the cross slide off by accident.

Helmar - 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, Acid Free Glue

Guided - journal ( Walmart ) 

Apple Barrel - acrylic paint 

All Night Media - stamp

Ranger - Liquid Pearls, distress paints

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Creative Inspiration - paint

Viva Decor - pearl pen

Cousins - charm

Reminisce - white pen

Crafter's Workshop - stencil

Sakura - Glaze pen

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Have you read Divergent?

Here's my review :)

agonistic: adjective

argumentative

 striving for effect : strained

 of, relating to, or being aggressive or defensive social interaction (as fighting, fleeing, or submitting) between individuals usually of the same species

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Craft-room Challenge - Trees and or Leaves
Craftin' Boutique Challenge - Fall Challenge #6
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Anything Goes
Simon Says - Animal Antics ( crow stamp )

Cardabilities - Designer sketch #81

I had to make a quick card today because their birthday is tomorrow...well, today as you are reading this. I don't know about you, but a sketch, new products to play with and a little inspiration goes a long way!

I won some Creative Inspiration paints the other week and this was the first time that I got to sit down and play with them. The tree and the leaves are all painted in with the shimmery paints; with the leaves, scarecrow and crow being outlined with a glaze pen and the tree trunk outlined with a pearl pen.

I used my FAVORITE adhesive to pop up the leaves under the scarecrows feet!

Helmar - Liquid Scrap Dots, Acid Free Glue

Kim Hughes - Autumn Trees

Inspirations - paints

Viva Decor - pearl pen

Luminarte' - Twinkling H20's

Faber Castell - PITT pens
Sakura - glaze pen

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This came from one of my male friends yesterday, and I just have to share. 

it's titled "Words with dual meanings"

or as I see it "men vs. women"

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n. 
Female...... Any part under a car's hood. 
Male..... The strap fastener on a woman's bra. 
2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj. 
Female.... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another. 
Male..... Playing football without a cup. 
3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n. 
Female... The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner. 
Male... Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys. 
4. COMMITMENT (ko- mit-ment) n. 
Female..... A desire to get married and raise a family. 
Male...... Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one. 
5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n. 
Female.... A good movie, concert, play or book. 
Male...... Anything that can be done while drinking beer. 

6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n. 
Female.... An embarrassing by-product of indigestion. 
Male...... A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding. 
7 MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n. 
Female...... The greatest expression of intimacy a couple can achieve. 
Male..... Call it whatever you want, just as long as we do it. 
8. REMOTE CONTROL (ri-moht kon-trohl) n. 
Female.... A device for changing from one TV channel to another. 
Male... A device for scanning through all 375 channels every 5 minutes. 

jape: verb

to say or do something jokingly or mockingly

to make mocking fun of

pronunciation

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Simon Says Wednesday- Anything Goes

 Creative Inspiration - Inspired by: Anything goes

I free hand painted the tree trunk but used all sorts of odds and ends for the dots ( erasers, wine corks, the end of paintbrushes, etc. )

Recollections - glitter sticker letters

Viva Decor - pearl paint

Apple Barrel - acrylic paint

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Having a great time on vacation, Jamie and I are plowing our way through some Pinterest recipes, last night we ate bite size apple pies and at the beach I got to see my first Royal Tern.

Postprandial: adjective

occurring after a meal

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Paper Smooches - August 19-25 Cool Shades challenge

All That Stickles -"The Great Outdoors" Linky Party

I took the digi image and enlarged it for my horizontal card, knowing that it would pixelate but I had planned on outlining it with liquid pearls anyway. I also added an extra outline of stickles to make sure the original inked outline wouldn't show. I gave it a shot of Goosebumps too so when I inked in his color, he would have even more texture.

Coral was the hardest color to come up with, so at first I mixed stickles together but it wasn't quite right until I added a gelato layer over the stickles on the beak and feet, I love the yummy layers of yellow,orange and melon to get a wonderful coral color.

Paper Smooches - free digi
Viva Decor - Liquid Pearls
Ranger - stickles
Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots
K&Co. - pattern paper
I Imagine - Goosebumps spray
Recollections - glitter sticker letters

Borborygmus: noun

intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas

( well, this is one for the books!, lol )

pronunciation

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This is my first time entering a challenge for My Sweet Earth, a blog run by Susan K. Weckesser.

August Create to Live Challenge

using this for your inspiration:

The sweet ripe taste of ...apples. 

Up here in the mountains we are known for our crisp variety of apples so I was inspired to paint some apples...well, one apple anyway. We will be having an apple festival the last week in August so I wanted to have something apple related for sale in the Art MoB.

 I also wanted an apple related verse by Robert Schuller so I chose:

"Anyone can count the seeds in the apple but only God can count the number of apples in a seed."

My background is a combination of paints and stains, with the embossed lettering for added texture. Then the apple branch was painted on with acrylics and stains with an outlining of pearl paint.

Ranger - distress stains, barn door, vintage photo, peeled paint, brushed pewter

Viva Décor - pearl pen, dark brown

Plaid - acrylic paint, nutmeg brown

Apple Barrel - acrylic paint, Kelly green, khaki, yellow flame, white

Delta Creamcoat - bright red

Crafters Workshop - stencil, TCW261



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side note:
One of my little art canvas was used for advertisement in the Laurel Magazine for the Art MoB! :)

 You can see it here.
If you do go to the link to see it, mind giving me a like?
Thank you!~

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Simon Says - Monochromatic
Aud Sentiments - #87 Anything but a birthday card
Inkspirational - #33


what? 2 cards in the same week that are monochromatic? What is becoming of me?

I've really been trying ( honest, I have ) to use up my stash items, you know those things we hold onto for years and for whatever reason they don't get used but there they are, secretly mocking you...oh wait, I might be the only one who has stash that mocks them, lol Anyhoo....I have had these animal sticker letters since 2006 ( hangs head down in shame ) and when I saw the Inkspirational challenge, I just knew I could use them, with the letters of the inspiration piece inspiring me.

Blatherskite: noun

voluble nonsensical or inconsequential talk or writing; blather

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PaperSmooches - July 29- August 4th ANYTHING GOES challenge

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Anything Goes

 

 

Well, roasting smore's would make ME happy!

 I did a small amount of masking so that the smore's branch would appear to be in his mouth and a little bit of paper piecing to give the marshmallows some dimension.

Gelli print background

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper stamp set

Viva Decor - pearl pen ( branch )

Tulip - puffy Paint - ( leaves )

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdot ( marshmallow layer )

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Sheena - sentiment stamp

Ranger - Distress Ink

fard: verb

To paint (the face) with cosmetics
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Electric Paperie - eTeam picks challenge

Teresa Jaye picked the challenge this go around and it is

Use Papers from your Kitchen in a Collage

hmmm? I knew I had napkins I could use for this challenge because I collect and hoard napkins like I do pretty scrapbook paper, lol 

So I chose this one, because it had a retro funky feel to it.

I didn't intend for this to be so Autumn looking...but the turkey along with the color combination really brings that out. Maybe because I had Shaz's color challenge on my mind is the reason I took out this napkin to use but I did try and make it not so Thanksgiving looking by adding one of my favorite sentiments:

I dream of a better world where a chicken can cross the road

without his motives being questioned.

I used some Gelli print paper for the word strips, ( love the color layers ) and painted the background out first with acrylic paint and then added a layer of twinkling H2o's over it.

I used a pearl pen for the outlining and doodling of the edges, I love that you can get different effects from this particular pen. If I lay down the dots and then gently tap my board on my table top, the drops flatten out ( inside the turkey's body ) but if I leave them alone they hardened to a nice raised edged ( the outlines and drops ).

also entering this in:

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #46 Autumn Colors

Apple Barrel - acrylic paint

Viva Décor - Pearl pen

Copics -marker

LuminArte' - Twinkling H20's

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Paper Smooches -  July 22-28 Picture Perfect challenge

I was very drawn to the colors and to the sun, so I spritzed my background with 2 shades of ink to simulate the sun, and since it was a beach picture I was inspired to use the cute little whale. The front of the card was run through the computer to print out the sentiment.

After stamping, coloring and cutting him out I sliced my paper and slid him into the water, I could have masked it but I preferred the paper piecing route. I really like a little dimension on my cards.

Paper Smooches - Surf and Turf stamp set

Ranger - Dylusion ink sprays, Distress stains

StazOn ink

pattern paper - misc. from stash

Kubrickian: adjective

From Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American
Think: irony, emotional aloofness, deliberate pacing.

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Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #124 ~ Ice Cream

Bitten by the Bug - Celebrate National Ice Cream Month

Craftin Desert Diva's - Summer Linky Party #10

It was one of those crafting moments, when either your creation gets "filed" in the oh crap bin or you push on and make lemonade. So here I am, assembling my layers and I put the glue on the wrong side of the ice cream...:/.....what to do? Well, I smoothed out the glue and added glitter, lol I made 'glitterade' out of my mistake. Or as Charles Shultz said, I took a lick!

Cricut - Doodlecharms p. 107
Really Reasonable Ribbon
Viva Decor - Pearl pen
Ranger - stickles, Glossy Accents
Sakura - glaze pen
Fiskar - embossing plate
Big Shot

xenophobia: noun

 fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
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Cute Card Thursday - #265 Cakewalk
CARDZ TV - #28 Cute as a Button

Do you think a sticker has to stay in the way it was made? Or do you like to alter them? I buy sticker sheets for usually about ½ of them, and then have leftovers that use to drive me crazy because I felt I wasn't getting my moneys worth...now I love the left over stickers because I can play with them, change them up, alter them and it's fun!

 

Tip 'o the Day!

 Here, I had used half of this sweet little glittered flower border and had a portion left over so I used my hole punch to remove those flowers and put them on the cupcake as sprinkles. And if you look at the tag itself, those cute little bees were all cute out from the sticker sheet. ( I do recommend placing the stickers on a piece of paper before cutting, makes it very easy then. ) That big Happy Birthday sticker is another one I changed up, it was too big for the tag so I removed an element and then ran a line of stickles around it to hide where it was cut off.

So, alter..or leave in your scrap pile in case you might need it one day...which way do you roll?

 

Viva - Pearl Pen

Little Yellow Bicycle - striped paper, bees, sticker sentiment

Ranger - stickles

candy buzz - font

Cricut - Rock Princess, p. 77 ( cupcake )

Stretch Your Imagination, p. (tag )

Zig - marker
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Fantabulous Cricut - #156 April Showers
Chocolate,Coffee, & Cards - #37 Download

Sketch as is on left, and flipped on right

 

As you can tell I chose to flip the sketch over;

The umbrella was cut out of chipboard and then the handle was cut off so I could lift the canopy up for some dimension using Liquid Scrap Dots. Added some faux stitching to the canopy.

Cricut - Everyday Paperdolls, p. 42

My Little Shoebox- pink cloud

American Crafts - felt flowers

felt flower brads - misc.

Copic

Zig Writer

Assorted sprays

Fiskar - embossing plate

Petunia Bounce - font

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive

roseate: adjective

 resembling a rose especially in having a pink color

and

 overly optimistic : viewed favorably

pronunciation

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Jamie and I went on a hike today called Rock Hop, which Jamie and I had no problems navagating, but others....not so well...we had 2 such crossings, so there were some wet feet and pants for a few whose balance wasn't the best, or some who just strode through the water and didn't attenpt the rock hopping at all. Frankly I love rock hopping :)

 

Taking a break, waiting for everyone to catch up

Jamie taking pictures

the waterfall

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card #5 of 30 Mother's Day Cards in 30 days

Cricut Craft Room - Creative cards ( free cut for the week )
Echo Park - cloud paper
Really Reasonable Ribbon - lace
Ranger - Liquid Pearls, Baby Blue
Viva Decor - Brown Pearl Pen
Gabriola - font