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

pronunciation

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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. 

Deco Art Blogger!

I am more than thrilled to announce that I am now an official Deco Art Blogger!!

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DecoArt assures its loyal and new customers that they can use our products with confidence.

All DecoArt products are non-toxic and user- and environmentally-friendly.

We make safe products. Our paints and specialty products are made in the USA to federally-mandated and industry-wide safety and quality standards as established by the Art & Creative Materials Institute (ACMI). ACMI employs one of the nation's top independent toxicology groups at Duke University. All of our formulas are reviewed and have been certified as non-toxic by this group.

So what can you expect from me? 

LOTS of projects using paint products that are made in the USA plus I'll always make sure that you know about all the current give aways. We crafters do love a chance to win some free awesome product, don't we?

Go HERE for the Multi Surface Satin Give Away!!

Good luck!

Paper Playtime - Use 3 different papers

Ch# 18 Use 3 Different Papers

Begins: Monday, Sept 2

Ends: Sunday, Sept 15

Sponsor: The Robin's Nest http://robinsnest-scrap.com/

Prize: $15 Gift Certificate

2nd Sponsor: My Craft Spot http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/

Prize: 1 Metal Dies Set or 1 Stamp Set (winner's choice) MUST HAVE USA ADDRESS


Another altered cardboard tube box. :)
I am discovering that the round shape appeals more to my customers than a square box shape. I now have all friends on alert for keeping strong cardboard tubes for me!

I hope that you can see that the third pattern paper was cut into a scalloped border, and since I believe in doing the things the hard way, I added the pearls and stickles to it after it was adhered to the the round box. Yes, I firmly believe in challenging myself to the fullest! lol

Cricut - Giant Flowers cartridge
Sassafrass Lass - pattern paper
Ranger - stickles, liquid pearls
American Crafts - ribbon

I hope you go over to Paper Playtime and join us in our Use 3 Pattern Papers challenge!

Frosted Designs - Numbers

Did you hear about our BIG announcement?? 

We now have our own STORE and KIT CLUB!!

Make sure to go sign up for the NEWSLETTER and COUPON ...

 because I know you don't want to miss out on anything!!

Go HERE to read all about it! 

And make sure to play along with us this week in our NUMBERS challenge.

 I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I love that Cricut gives us free shapes to try out because I hadn't a clue what I was going to create this week until I saw the freebie, now if I could just remember to write down the name of the cartridge....:(

Autumn Leaves - Stampology sentiment

Queen & Co. - bling

also entering this in:
Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Linky Party

drub: verb

to beat severely

 to berate critically

 to defeat decisively

pronunciation

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I brought my distress stains, pens, twinkling H20's and gelatos with me on vacation. Here is a recap of my drawings. 

My first one was drawn totally on the beach using salt water to spread the inks around. I had an awesome "experience" with this, you can go HERE to read about it, if you're interested.

( Ranger distress stains, Faber Castell PITT pens )

I drew this gull from a photograph that I took while at the Limes bar.

( Faber Castell gelato's, PITT pens )

This was inspired by my friend Jamie and all the fishes that loved to visit us when swimming out in the ocean, and the sand dollar on her waist is a nod to all the sand dollar pieces we collected.

( Ranger Distress stains, Faber Castell PITT Pens )
entering my mermaid in:
Artists in Blogland -  Show & Tell Saturday is a bi-weekly link party

I admit, I just wanted to play with my Twinkling H20's with the sea horse, this was inspired after the Black Ocean we visited which is why he is surrounded by black.

( Creative Imaginations - Twinkling H20's and Ranger distress stain, Faber Castell PITT pen )

We saw a jellyfish today...ugh! So glad it was a non stinging one ( no tentacles ) but had to make one with LOTS of tentacles just because it was more fun to draw!
( Imagine - Goosebumps spray, Ranger - distress inks, dylusion sprays and  Faber Castell PITT pens )

Frosted Designs BIG announcement :)

  An Announcement!!

All of you have been so patient while you waited for our big announcement... and here it is!!

Frosted Designs is opening our very own store and kit club!! 

Now you will be able to get your scrapbooking, card making, and mixed media supplies from us!!  :) We have stores in both The United States and Australia so we will be able to ship worldwide! The store will be open one week from today! We will be sharing information with you next week about some of the things you can look forward to seeing in the store, and starting in October, our kit clubs will be available!  In the mean time, be sure to sign up for our newsletter (using the form on the right sidebar) so that you can receive coupons and be the first to know about the products that are available!

Will there be changes to the challenges?
And to put your mind at ease... our challenges here at Frosted Designs will remain the same! We will offer a challenge every other Friday and you do not need to use supplies purchased from us to participate.... we just want to keep on challenging you!!  (However, the blog will be getting a make-over during the next few days!)

wooooo hoooo....right?

I am soooooooooooooo excited, I hope you feel the same way!

I hope you join up via the newsletter so you don't mss out on a thing!

Camp Helen State Park

 It starts with a beautiful stroll through the park, this use to be a private "summer" residence built back in the 1930's which sits on 185 acres.

It is surrounded by 3 sides of water, this is a rare fresh water dune lake.

 We then discovered it was .6 miles to the beach, did I mentioned we were carrying a LOT of beach stuff with us?

 It was worth the walk because it was the most un-touched, gorgeous walk through sand dunes.

There was an abandoned pier that we made "camp" under. By day 4 of the trip I am hugging any and all shade that I can find.

 My Nauti Girl purchase from yesterday was put into good use, filled with some frozen Bahama Mama, it was a treat to have after lugging all that "stuff" to the beach.

 A little friend was hoping for some treats and kept me company all morning....no treats though or I would have been inundated with dozens of noisy begging birds!! This one just kept walking up to me and looking at me in a questionable fashion!

Now, if you want to know about the most fascinating and SCARY feature about the ocean here, then you can read my article called Black Ocean...:) oh yeah...