a mindful year

what's a good goal for life at any time? i strive to be more present and mindful, that's a good one for me.

for our midweek muse: resolutions.

background pattern paper is from the gecko galz namaste paper pack with a checkerboard pattern at base from a retired itKuPiLLi celestial backgrounds kit. the meditator and lotus are from a retired with wild abandon kit and a few other items (dragonfly, light effect) from various sources.

wishing you all a mindful year; love to all.

come to oui madame dress shop!!!

 for sunday postcard art: dressform/sewing --

all the fancy ladies visit oui madame! images from retired mischief circus kits, dress forms from with wild abandon, background paper from dreamz etc.

love to all.

keys

 for sunday postcard art: keys

images from holliewood studios, gecko galz, and with wild abandon.

love at all.

lavender meditation

 for sunday postcard art: lavender

images from pixabay, designs by aymara, holliewood studios, with wild abandon, and ItKuPiLLi imagenarium.

love to all.

night sky; paisley

the sunday postcard art challenge today is: night sky. with such a lovely theme i ended up making 2 postcards.

images from rhonda's originals, pixabay, tumblefish studios (words), miles beyond the moon, and itKuPiLLi.

images from with wild abandon, cryztal rain, miles beyond the moon, and pixabay.

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on the proper day and on prompt: today's "index card a day" challenge sponsored by daisy yellow art, is on the theme of "paisley." 

i printed a paisley image from the web, cut the pieces out and traced onto various gecko galz papers and cut out the pieces to make my own paisley pattern. underneath that is some watercolor spray inks and a stencil that didn't work out for a different project so it became the background for this one. the woman, word, and her crown are from ART TEA LIFE.

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last nut not least today, a birthday card i made for a friend today. she and i are both fans of the late, great shirley chisholm.

i pulled the photo and quote from the web. the paper and butterfly are from gecko galz.

that's it! love to all.

ICAD #16 ROBOT; three muses silhouette

the theme today for the "index card a day" challenge sponsored by daisy yellow art is "robot." i was shooting for something in the andy warhol department, design-wise.

robot image from pixabay and background paper from the gecko galz "graphical paper pack."
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and the theme for this week at three muses is "silhouette."

images from retired companies: tumblefish studios, floppy latte, with wild abandon. filter effects with photoshop.

love to all.

dressmaker's dreams

for sunday postcard art: sew what?

sewing background paper from dreamzetc. woman, key, word, rose and middle dressform from dezinaworld. remaining dress forms, butterfly and bird from with wild abandon (shop closed).

love to all.

two girls

for take a word: two

images from withe wild abandon (the dress forms); crowabout studio B (faces, crowns, moon and cat); holliewood studios (the background bits).

love to all.

this being human is a guest house

for three muses challenge: "illustrate a quote" (or perhaps a whole poem?)

this is possibly my favorite poem, by rumi. images from itKuPiLLi, holliewood studios and tumblefish studios, all at mischief circus.

and another by rumi that i also love.

images from miles beyond the moon at mischief circus, open clip art and with wild abandon.

love to all.

wish you were here

for "mail art" at take a word.
this started as a postcard blank anyway...

images by gecko galz (several digital kits), and with wild abandon (closed company).

i'm linking this to "anything goes" at eclectic ellapu.
love to all.

happy national unicorn day!

did you know that april 9 is national unicorn day? so for the take a word "black and white" theme i chose unicorns to celebrate their special day.

i appreciate that unicorns are typically full of color and glitter but they can be depicted in black and white as well of course.  the background paper is from the gecko galz graphical paper pack and the unicorns and butterflies are by with wild abandon (company seems to be closed, cannot find a link).

love to all, with sparkle and glitter!

meditating angel

for take a word, angel

images from with wild abandon, itKuPiLLi and miles beyond the moon.

wishing you peacefulness and much love to all.  may there be peace on earth.

things with wings at tag tuesday

for tag tuesday "things with wings:"

my winged lady is composed of a body/dress form by with wild abandon and a face and bingo hat by gecko galz. the rest are papers and bits and bobs from my stash.

com play along with our challenge!
love to all.

june gecko galz inspiration -- my first "peg doll"

here is some additional inspiration for you this month featuring some new products from gecko galz this month and some good old items from my stash. inspired by julie from magpie heaven blog I've tried my hand at creating a peg doll.

here are the details.

supplies: gecko galz "pretty portraits” collage sheet (new this month), gecko galz high tea paper pack, "with wild abandon" digital stamps, washi tape, heart punch, lace border, prima flower, lindy’s stamp gang spray stain. 

instructions:  this piece starts with a 6 inch high wooden peg (giant clothespin).  i “painted” the peg with a stain from lindy’s stamp gang.  meanwhile i cut out faces i liked from the pretty portraits collage sheet and also digitally added images from with wild abandon to sheets of high tea paper.  using modpodge i attached the papers from the high tea paper pack and then attached the faces.  on one side i added washi tape at the bottom.  on the other side i added a lace border and a punched heart.

i hope you'll be inspired to check out the new products at gecko galz.  there are always freebies available on the blog as well.

love to all.

summer holidays and such

our theme this week at tag tuesday is summer holiday.  as many know who stop by here much, my idea of a wonderful summer holiday is definitely time at the beach.  so that is the focus of my tag.

the vintage bathing beauty, the carte postale and the lovely sea-leafy background paper are all from gecko galz. there is some vellum script border from alphastamps.  the wings on my bathing beauty are from lunagirl. i finished the piece with some distressing, some fun stickers and ribbon.

i'm linking this up to several challenges:
summer fiesta at unruly paper arts
bright sunny colors at tagalong challenge
sun, surf and sand at bombshell stamps challenge blog
things with wings at try it on tuesday
things with wings and ribbon at really reasonable ribbon.

i also have an update on the gecko galz blog and a chance for you to win products from with wild abandon.  go to the blog and vote for your favorite DT creation using both gecko galz and with wild abandon products.  you'll be entered for a chance to win some goodies from with wild abandon -- and their products are stunning!  deadline july 31 -- i hope you'll participate!

have a beautiful week; love to all.