21 Days!

I did it~ I completed 21 days!
I can't believe it's gone by so quickly!
Here are the last few pages I did:

Day 18

I had fun with this one, piled layers of gesso onto my page first and then just started building it up with layers and layers of scrap pieces of paper (have a whole box full I keep) and images and paint, lace, stamps, etc.


Day 19

Something simple. One of my all time favorite vintage images,with some nesting stuff, some wings of a butterfly I found one day during my nature walks, some paint and there you go!
Day 20

Another collage, felt a bit autumn, even though we are in our spring now...liked the colors and feeling of warmth-very much that warm glow you get when you are accomplishing something.
Day 21~!!

It feels good to get to the end! Just a few phrases and quotes I liked and that to me were quite appropriate. I drew this little bird and painted it in and added some feathers.
Then With 21 pages I thought about how to finish my project off and this is what it looks like:







Thanks to Rhonna for the challenge!

Congratulations to all the fellow 21-ers who completed the challenge!! And thanks for the inspiration and comments here!!! Going to try comment on some of the blogs later! Off to clean now! {bleaughhh!}

Day 16 and 17{and small giveaway}

It's day 16 and 17 for me.
I love these two quotes from Rhonna
Its so true, most of what we achieve or don't achieve begins with our attitude.

I used this picture out of a magazine as it is so bright and cheerful.

Day 17 "Strong reasons make strong actions".

I decoupaged a A4 mixed media paper with this beautiful napkin i found and then found this lovely door frame photo in a magazine, cut it out and stuck a photo i took of The Eiffel tower while I was in Paris and then decoupaged a mannequin over it and put some black lace on the frame.
I also did some more ATC's for trading.

If anyone wants to trade ATC's with me, I have my collection HERE.

ATC Giveway

I have put together a few ATC packs. Each pack comes complete with a card -already with a ATC info sheet on the back for you to write your ATC title, your name, the date etc.
A vintage image or two, some background pieces of paper, ribbon, flowers, wording, stamps like birds and Paris stuff and each little pack comes with one my tags I have made.
I am giving a few of these away, so if you would like to enter, please fill in your name and blog address or email (so I can contact you) in THIS post before the 1 October. I will announce the winners on the 2 October.

Have a great weekend!

Day 14 and 15

I did some drawing and painting for a change...and a bit of decoupage for the 21 day challenge on Rhonna's blog.


I can't believe only a week left! It's been a good challenge. I learned a lot about myself and also had fun learning new techniques, like on Roberta's blog. She has some awesome techniques.
I must say that art allows me to express what is really happening inside of me better than anything else. Sometimes I don't even understand what I feel myself and after wards I look at what I have created and somehow the mood comes across.

Today was a gorgeous day, the sun shone and I took my kids for a bicycle ride down by the river.




Tomorrow is a public holiday here and so we are spending it together as a family. I think I might only get to post on Friday again. (and then play catch up again!)

Catch up 21 challenge

I'm a bit behind in posting my 21 challenge journal pages..but doing it now, got day 14 and 15 to do still.

It was such a beautiful day today,Spring is really and truly here, {and then I say that and tonight we get hit by a giant storm, blowing in polar beers and seals from the Antartic! }Oh I hope not...last time they made such a mess! LOL!
I know that a lot of you are going into Winter now..I feel for you, I really do, I HATE winter. The ONLY good things about winter is being able to drink hot chocolate and not feel guilty, snuggling and watching movies, and eating-anything and everything in sight! ha ha.




I love summer...not spring which is what we are in now because I suffer from seasonal hay fever and it is terrible! But only for about 4 weeks and then once all the pollen and spraying has stopped, I can breathe again!

I love summer reasons:
*wearing slip-slops
*waking up with energy
*getting more daylight
*heading down to the beach
*lazing in the sun, reading
*working in the garden


What's your favorite season? And why? Would love to hear!

{day10} and FREE Blogwear and more

{Day 10}

Here is my page for day 10{click to view larger if you wish} Imagination is not a problem for me...sometimes it is too active! And I like to live in the present not the past...so day's 10 quote was very suitable for me.
I have made a digital layout for Designs by Tina-with her new kit Indian Summer, it is a truly gorgeous kit!


Here is my LO with it: (my boy!)
I have some new stuff in my Etsy store
I have these ATC backgrounds-in digital format. You can print them out at home and design your ATC's on them for swapping and fun!
Also some new Marie Antoinette tags printed on high quality 200GSM mixed media paper-three in a set for only $3.25 and I have a special at the moment-

Choose any TWO sets of 3 tags and get a Third set of 3 of your choice FREE!!!($3.25 worth free!)

OR

Choose any 3 sets of tags (3 or 6 in a set) and get 2 sets of 3 for FREE!!!(that is over $6 worth of free tags!!!)


And then I wanted to show you what I created as a journal for my 15 year old niece..
She loves it...it's the kind of thing I would of wanted at that age..maybe without the skull though!
And lastly I think I am going to start creating FREE blog wear. It's quick, easy and fun!
So you can click on the label in the sidebar that says "free blogwear".

My one today is made from vintage images and commercial use brush work I purchased from Rhonna Farrer. If you use my free blogwear products, all i ask is you take the little button below and put it on your blog and link to my site please as well as give me credit on your blog. Thank you.

Just right click on the header and background and open in a new window and then click "save as" by right clicking on the images. Then you save to your PC or upload to photobucket.
The blog background was made with a 3-column blog in mind,like mine is. I am not sure if it will fit a 2 column blog, but you can try! Also they are in png format.

For blogger, you can click on layout, then click on "add a gadget" and then
you can choose HTML/java script and put the code below into the box and click save.

{note: it comes with the blog button credit already on for you}
Otherwise do the other way by saving to your PC as I mentioned. I hope you enjoy it and would LOVE to hear your comments!!

{day 9} 21 challenge

Enthusiasm. Something that has been one of my goals this 21 challenge and so far so good.
It definitely helps lead to success.
Enthusiasm leads to motivation, which in turn leads to action=success!


How are the rest of you 21-ers doing with the challenge? We can do it!!!

Digitally,
Jen, my sis, has a freebie using my vintage clusters on her blog.
Thanks Jen.

{Day 8} 21 day challenge

Day 8...


Rhonna thought was about living a creative life, it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't matter, what matters is that you have done it and accomplished it! Its about breaking old habits and forming new ones and letting go of fear.


I just love that there are so many of us doing this challenge, each with different goals, but at the end of the day we all just want to be our best selves. Thank you for the support and encouragement to those who have left comments. I still can't comment on some of your blogs, especially the ones with the box and then it says" choose a profile" I choose google account and hit submit and nothing happens, the box empties and no comment shows up. I tried signing into blogger first, going back to the blog, refreshing it, etc etc, nothing works. Have no idea what to do, it is only those blogs with the choose an option block and big block for comments, like this:
Anyway if you know the deal , would love the solution. Tried to look on the blogger help pages, but couldn't find anything.
will be back with my day 9 tonight.

{Day 7}-One week done!

I used some of Rhonna's products I purchased, brushwork, vintage images and stickers.

Day 7
Today's quote: "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. " Dale Carnegie

Today I did my journal post digitally, printed it out and worked on it some more with stickers, pen and journaling. SO glad the weekend is over, I love weekends, but not this past one... due to it being a difficult date. I feel like I failed a bit lately, but as Rhonna said on her blog, failure is no excuse to give up! And so I press on....
I love what she said for day 6...when you feel like giving up...do what your best self would do!
That struck a cord in me...my best self...I have two selves...my everyday self and my best self...I want to be my best self everyday! What a great thought! A HUGE thought and such a motivating one!

Looking forward to Tuesday...to be being my BEST self and to not giving up.

{day 6} 21 Day challenge

Oh why did I bother getting out of bed this morning? SUCH an opposite day to what I had on Friday...nothing much to journal about...here's wishing for tomorrow....

and....

I KNOW I can do it...just need to take each day at a time.

{Day 5} 21 Day Challenge

I hardly ever use my pc on the weekend never mind blog! But Rhonna's challenge is still on going even over the weekend, so I thought I would stick to it and be CONSISTENT.

It's not an easy weekend for me as it is 6 months since my brother passed away. I am battling to hold it all together, to stay positive, to stay consistent. I have relapsed since Friday due to this, but I know tomorrow, Monday, will be better as then I am back in routine. Weekends are hard, I loose focus cos I have no routine or direction. I haven't given up, I just need a breather and tomorrow will be back on track.
I have, however been creating and this has helped a great deal. It makes me feel worthwhile to know what I creates inspires others. Sharing my story is not always easy, but I feel if it can help someone else, then I need to do it.

I have tried to leave comments of a few of the 21-ers blogs, and it asks to choose a type of account, which I do, and then write my comment and press "post comment" and then my comment disappears and it does not end up on the blog I just commented on! It is so frustrating!
So if one of the blogs is yours, please tell me what I am doing wrong, as I would love to comment on your posts!
Treasures
Michelle Roycroft { I wanted to tell you that I Can help you with your blog !) give me a shout
scottshandmadecrafts
They all ask for the same format, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.

Can anyone help or tell me why I can't post?