Greetings! Thanks for dropping by today. Just a quick post for the current Alpha/Dictionary Challenge at The Craft Barn where the letter this time is "Y" with a twist. We need to include yellow on our project. Unfortunately, I missed the previous challenge of "B" while traveling about, but hopefully I can catch up with that one too. Since my name begins with a "Y" and I once had "Y" as a nickname where I worked, I looked forward to working on this challenge. While browsing through the dictionary, I came across the word "yellow jacket." Seemed fitting! As a child, yellow jackets seemed to be drawn to me. My dad would tell me to sit perfectly still and not show my fear and they would not harm me. Didn't always work! But, today, I am for some reason drawn to "bee" images. I love them. And so, I chose to use these bees and bee hive by Character Construction. They are the closet thing in my collection to yellow jackets. Behind the letter "Y" I matted the letter with a piece of white card stock that I stained with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Stain. I just received a number of bottles of DS from The Funkie Junkie Boutique and must say that for small projects, I will never need to worry about having the right color of card stock on hand again. Amazing product! The hive and bees were water colored with Distress Markers and, also new to me, I added a touch of Gelatos! I must be very far behind, as I only learned of Gelatos this week. I have been studying online tutorials and cannot wait to really give them a "go!" Well, must run. Have a big weekend planned with family and lots to do before then! I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Hugs, Yvonne
Time for another challenge over at The Craft Barn for their Alpha Challenge. This time around, we are focused on the letter "U." I had several ideas, but others had already selected the same word. Hopefully, the word "unicycle" was not yet chosen, but it is okay if it was. I chose an image from Artistic Outpost for the unicycle. Metal sprockets by Idea-ology were added for a touch of sparkle. Thanks for dropping by. Yvonne
Greetings! This post is in response to the current Alpha/Dictionary Challenge at The Craft Barn where our challenge is to create a project around the letter F and specifically between Fe and Fr. I chose the word "Fish." The fish images are by Paper Artsy and were water colored with Distress Markers and distressed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Burlap string and Copper Liquid Pearls complete my page. We will soon be at the half way point! My book is starting to take shape. Thanks for stopping by today. Best, Yvonne
Greetings! My post is for the current challenge over at Craft Barn's Alpha Challenge. This week, the letter is "K." I was so surprised when I went through the "K" section of the dictionary to see how few pages there were! I never realized that before. A number of the words I might have chosen I knew had already been used, and perhaps the one I chose is as well, but not that I am aware of. I chose the word "king crab!" I love king crab! I can still remember the first time my dad brought home king crab legs! Yum!!! The images are by Paper Artsy, were stamped with Black StazOn Ink, my go to ink, and water colored with Distress Markers. Continue to love this challenge! Thanks for dropping by. Yvonne
Greetings and Thank YOU for stopping by. I truly appreciate each one of your visits. Today, I am sharing with you my lasted page for the Alphabet/Dictionary Challenge over at The Craft Barn. This time, we are to use the letter "A." If you are seeing this challenge for the first time, I am making a "book" of pages for my overall project. I chose the word "aerialist" which means one who uses the trapeze, high wire or tight rope. The images are from Oxford Impressions. So vintage like, aren't they?! The images were stamped with Black StazOn Ink and water colored with Distress Markers. The edges of the images and panels were distressed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Vintage buttons and a bit of seam binding complete my page. I hope all is well with you and yours. I was happy to learn today through an x-ray that my 13 year old standard poodle has NOT had a recurrence of lung cancer. We are so thankful to enjoy her every day that we have her in her elder years. Take care. Yvonne
The weeks are slipping by quickly! It is already time for another letter of the alphabet over at The Craft Barn for the Alpha Challenge. This time, the theme is the letter "W." There is a caveat this time, though. We are to include circles on our project. My mind immediately went to the word "Wheels." The steering wheels, collage image and sentiment are all by Artistic Outpost. A touch of Idea-ology gears and some chrome Liquid Pearls and my page for my Alphabet Book is complete! Thanks for all your kind visits. Yvonne
I am so glad to have found the Alpha Challenge by Craft Barn. I really look forward to sharing my finished book with family at year end. This week, the challenge is the letter "R." I chose the word rabbit. The rabbit collage image and the sentiments are by Artistic Outpost. The small rabbit is Gecko Galz and the metal accents are by Tim Holtz. Thanks for stopping by to take a peak. Hope all is well. Fondly, Yvonne
I truly am enjoying the Alpha Challenge that The Craft Barn is offering this year. This time around, we are to create our project using the letter "P." For those following by blog, you know that I am crafting pages to create a small book. For my take on the challenge, I chose the word "pigeon." I love this pigeon image by Artistic Outpost, and it seemed perfect to me to also stamp the red phone booth, also by AO, along with a welcome to London sentiment and the "Pip, pip, Cheerio and All That Rot! The Keep Calm, Carry On was cut from ribbon and layered over the phone booth. I'll be entering this at Artistic Outpost's Referral Program, too. Well, time to pay bills, so I must say goodbye for now. Thanks for dropping by. Hugs, Yvonne
Greetings! I wasn't planning another post today, but I discovered a new to me challenge that is about to close and I really wanted to give it a whirl. The challenge is offered by The Craft Barn and the challenge is called Alpha/Dictionary Challenge. I missed the first week, but I plan to go back and create a piece any how so that I have a complete alphabet set at the end of 2013. This week the challenge is to create a project around the letter "C." You will want to check out the blog site for full details if you are interested. I have always loved dictionaries and spent more hours than I care to admit as a child entertaining myself reading them. As mentioned in a recent post, I rescued an old dictionary that was going to be thrown away at work before I retired. With another recent post, I finally gathered up the courage to tear out a page. So, to join in this challenge seemed like the next step. I have decided to create an alphabet book that will be 6"x6" with a half inch edge to bind the pages together. For this page, I chose some beautiful vintage inspired images from Oxford Impressions and colored them in with Distress Markers. The red seam binding is merely for effect for the photo and will be replaced as I add pages to my book. Thanks for dropping by and I hope you have a great evening.
