After the Thanksgiving Tornado

Guess what? The Thanksgiving "Tornado" (or feeding frenzy as it sometimes called) is over and the kids and grand kids are all back in their designated places. We had a great time, there was a lot of eating, laughing, hugging, football watching, cooking, and singing (singing because it was my youngest daughters 43rd B-Day). They all left, except they left the grand kids, but the good thing was they came back on Saturday and got them. lol So that left some time on Sunday for Susan to "read" and me to greet my, to long ignored, Muse of Creativity in my studio and Play, Play, Play.
Below you can see some of the things that were created from "Play Time".

I had received my order from Paper Whimsy (see sidebar for link) on Saturday and it was like money burning a hole in your pocket until you can use it. I got Luminers, gotta love 'em. They are wonderful. I used them and my Perfect Pearls combined to make some backgrounds (seen below). What fun.

If you like them, feel free to save them to your computer and use them anytime you would like. Well got to go make art "stuff". I am just full of creative ideas and my Muse calls. Have a great day........................

Some more Backgrounds

These are "faux" Patina strips on watercolor paper, and in the middle is paper dye and Perfect Pearls on watercolor paper. When I have scraps of paper left over I "alter" them and when I have enough I "weave" them all together to make a full page and then I can use them as backgrounds for tip-in pages for Altered Books, or as backgrounds for Collages. Plus they are just to much fun to make. I get to experiment with all of my paints and stuff. A lot of the techniques are from a terrific book by Julia Andrus called "Paper Transformed", (with a few experimental alterations by you know who?)/

These are Rangers Alcohol Inks on plain Card Stock.

These are some ATC Backgrounds. I used paper dye, Perfect Pearls and Luminers on watercolor paper. They will be backgrounds for my "I Wanna Be A Star" Series.

Alcohol Ink

Just click on the picture to make it bigger, you know just for a better look and to download if you so desire. Yes I am sharing these backgrounds with anyone that would like to use them. You can see the gold stamping better when you "make them big". Just click on the pic and then right click and save to your computer or just seclect print.

These are Alchol Ink on plain white card stock and watercolor paper. The ink was dripped on right out of the bottle. Then when dry alcohol blending solution was dripped on top. These will make beautiful backgrounds for ATCs. On some of them I sponged lightly with gold.

Backgrounds:"Perfect Pearls" and Luminers

These are 2 of the backgrounds I made yesterday. They are on hand made paper that has a lot of texture. I used Luminers paint and Perfect Pearls. The purple, pearl and turquoise is done on white paper. The pink green, copper and purple is done on black paper. The reflective quality does not show up very well. They are really "glitzy" in person.

ATCs and Alcohol Ink Backgrounds

6 new "I Wanna Be A Star" ATCs.

A big tag (4x7") named "Dreams"

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY THANKSGIVING. I hope you are with family or friends today and enjoying this time to love and be loved by them.

I have a little "EASTISM" wisdom to share with you for today. "Eat a lot of Turkey, you can never get enough natural trytophan, then sit down to watch FB and so to sleep and sleep right through the "clean up". Works for me! lol. Hope it works for you.

Glad to say I have finished more "I Wanna Be A Star" ATCs and will be posting as soon as I get time to scan them. I have been working on a lot of great back ground projects, but you know it just takes time. Also I have been "Gathering" for the 3 Altered books I am working on. I love "Gathering" it is very inspirational and rewarding. I get more ideas than I can handle at one time so I just write them down in my little "Works to be done" journal. It really helps to keep my brain clear to keep working on my current projects or I would never finish anything.

We have had some double edged (good & bad) news this week, my best friend who lives in San Jose, CA. has cancer under her tongue, but she had surgery yesterday and the good news is that they could remove it "all" orally. This is incredibly wonderful news considering what she was told 2 weeks ago when they found it. Originally she had tonsil cancer in 1977 and was over radiated, so she could not have any more radiation and they thought they would have to go in through her chest to get this tumor. But she got a second opinion (which everyone should do) at Stanford and they were able to do the surgery orally. This is a blessing because it was so much less invasive. She has a wonderful attitude and I believe this is a major part of the battle with any illness. She will have physical therapy to learn how to talk and swallow again. She is such a fighter that she surely will kick this round of cancer just like she did 30 yrs. ago. So this is a major Thanksgiving blessing for her friends and family.

Well gotta go COOK you know.

The Traveling Journal

Some of the pages were done with Golden Glazes and some of the pages were done with Perfect Pearls and Perfect Medium. I love both of these techniques. Maybe I should do another post where I tell how I used them. But not today, because I need to get this journal on its way around the world. Wow! This is so exciting.

The traveling journal goes on the road today!

This is my first traveling journal of my very own. I have participated in other traveling journals but this one is mine, and when it gets through "traveling" to California, Canada, Austrilia and Maine it will come home to Oklahoma. I can hardly wait for it to come back, even though it might take 10 months to a year to return. I think I am going to send out some more through another group called 1001 Traveling Journals. This one that I am sending out today is with some friends of Serendipity from California.