Good Bye WHITNEY I'll miss you...

saddened by this news I heard yesterday as I was waking up listing to the tv. I went on with my day and din't have it come to mind until I wanted to get new music on here. I picked some favs and feel her heavenly voice in perfect tune singing us a lullaby to comfort "our" souls. God Bless her and keep her.

Paper Iris Designing

For this Saturday at 6 PM EST live on Ustream I'll be making my own designs to share and the how to's of making your own.
Here is a link to jump start you with free down loadable patterns. Make a printed copy of the two that are public domain. You will need them to play along.





These two patterns are public domain and can found on the internet.

Paper Stumps

Paper Stumps:

'via Blog this'

A wonderful artist and GF...come visit her brand new blog...you won't be sorry.

Lindy's Stamp Gang Christmas Contest

(click on the title Lindy's above to go to the blog and contest)

Come play...vote...and enjoy!

Here are my two entries:
Angel Art Doll. An original hand sculpted air dry clay art doll head I made and painted. I deconstructed an old plastic doll and put this together with a hand made gown.
She sat and looked sad without her body and cloths, so I put this together on my live Ustream show (Saturdays at 6 pm est) on Christmas eve.

This is another original I made on a Ustream show of the lil' bottle brush trees altered into Angels.
The stacking wood band boxes are decorated and sprayed with LINDY'S Starburst sprays.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I wish you the very best Happy New Year for 2012 with much Peace and Love.

All the Tags for Tim Holtz 12 Days, and a few more I made along the way

I so enjoyed this year of Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas. I made a few like his the first few days and then realized I need to stretch my wings and do my own thing and enjoy being inspired. Some days I made more then one and had a blast. Hope you all get inspired to make some in your own style as well.
Peace and Much Love

here is a direct quote from Tim's blog and I think it's awesome.
so here they are bloggers...here they are, all 12 tags! looking back there sure were lots of techniques packed on these tags, what a fun time. i know many of you have left comments saying you're sad the 12 tags are over - well in the words of dr. seuss: "don't cry because it's over. smile because it happened.". here are his tags...FAN~FREAKIN'~FABULOUS

Here are a few of Mario's Behind The Scenes pix

AND...one of these Priority boxes is coming to me because I won...I can't believe it and I'm thrilled.

Here are my 12 Days of Christmas Tags....

and more....

and more.....

I'm not done yet...will be making more with all the fab techniques I learn and hope to send some out to family and friends real soon.
Again, Peace and Love and have a wonderful Christmas

"THE GIFT" Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas Day 12

Well, it's true. This is the last tag for the Tim Holtz Blog...but I won't quit making tags anytime too soon. It's truly been an adventure and joy. How awesome that we could share our lil' masterpieces on his blog...and I was able to find new artists that I might not have never found without his wonderful new addition called InLinkz I spent a lot of time browsing other's blogs, websites and Flicker....more eye candy then one gal deserves...it was so overwhelming in a good way.
My tag is truly inspired by Tim, and this is a "big one"...in more ways then one. I have an ongoing everlasting relationship with thee Angels...they are one gift to us from God that no one should underestimate. I adore the chance to do a lil' Shabby~Chic...and I took it as far as I dared...so much going on and I LOVE IT!
Also, the many new techniques I learned and applied making these tags has been invaluable and I will try and pass them on to other willing friends and acquaintances along my artful journey. Oh, and one other thing I should mention. I was fortunate to have a lot of Tim's products and at last stopped "treasuring" them and actually used them....that was so kewl. You know what else? I have seen so many more great products during this past 12 days and I know I'll be seeking them out to include in my array of goodies to play with.

TIM and Mario, a huge thank you FOR YOUR GIFT TO US...mere words can not express the pleasure and gratitude I feel....I hope you have a magical and wonderful Christmas and Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year
Peace and Love

Tim Holtz inspired tags Day 11

I went beyond beyond with this die cutting and shrink plastic....I think, or maybe not...I know a lot of peeps to pass 'em on too. This was FAN~FREAKIN'~FAB....it's been too long since I played this hard.

this is just 2 of the many lil' tags I made. size 2 3/4 X 1 1/4