I GOT TO MAKE SOME CARDS

While I have been out of action, I have had sooooo many beautiful cards from friends, so I have started to make a few simple cards to send out as RAKs and in various colours. It was so nice, not only to make them but to send them on to friends who have really enjoyed receiving them. I am hopeful of getting some Christmas Cards underway later today.

VINTAGE OPTICAL LENS

I have a special project coming up in which I want to use some Vintage Optical Lens, so I had a little play with this one and it was a good thing that I did. I had forgotton that Dimensional Magic will fade dye ink colours, which it has done on this little collage that I made, so I will have to either use sepia tones or another method of fixing the collage to the glass, mmmmm thinking....................

WOW.......7001 VISITORS

It is quite amazing the number of people who come for a visit to my little place on the web. Thanks to everyone who drops by and leaves so many lovely comments for me, it is really uplifting.

Cheers, Rob

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY BLUE AND PURPLE

This is my Blue and Purple beeswax collage for Mixed Media Monday:

http://mixedmediamonday.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/purplesblues/

Thanks for looking, hope that you enjoy it.

DANS MA MAISON IL Y UN CIRQUE

I have finally had a play with ripping, tearing and glue today and managed to make a house for the challenge on the Dans Ma Maison Il-y- site:

http://dansmamaisonilya.blogspot.com/2008/10/dans-ma-maison-il-y-un-cirque.html

It is so good to create something, hope that you enjoy it.

ANGEL OF SIGHT TO LOOK OUT FOR ME.

In the next few days, I have to have some more quite involved eye surgery. I have had this image which is the "Angel of Sight" for quite some time. This afternoon, I decided to make a collage from it to put beside my bed, so that the angel can look out for me, in the hope that I'll have a successful outcome from the surgery.

ATCs FOR A SPECIAL SWAP

Therese....Brown Cream w words

Rhondie....Wings

Trish....Blue

Wendy....Nature Study

Anne.....Red Black Gold

Chris....Purple with wings

Heather....Words

Niki.......Sewing

A group of my friends recently had a swap which involved making a small star book, and then making each other ATCs to match the theme of the book.

These are the ATCs that I made for them. I also got some beautiful ATCs in return.

A BUSY COUPLE OF DAYS.

I have been very busy in my workshop, had a few things to catch up on. I am going to a 3 day Stamp Camp this weekend, and so have been making some ATCs to swap at Camp. I have also made lots of individual ATCs for some friends, all to different themes which I will scan and add later, I am very happy with them.

I have also made this page for a Chunky Book for a girl who has left our group and is leaving to bo back to New Zealand to live. There are some beautiful pages arriving from all over.

IN MY HOUSE THERE IS AN ELF.

Here is my entry for this weeks challenge on "Dans Ma Maison Il Y"

The theme for this week is to include an Elf in my house, so here is my elf house although the scan doesn't really do it justice.

Have a look at this lovely site and some great artwork on this addy:

http://dansmamaisonilya.blogspot.com/2008/08/dans-ma-maison-il-y-un-lutin.html

GOLD CARD

Thanks so much Mary Beth for this Gold Card Award. Much appreciated.

I will award it to some of the beautiful blogs that I visit when I get the chance.

DANS MA MAISON ORANGE

Here is my entry for the challenge on the Dans Ma Maison site. This is the first time that I have done this challenge and have had fun doing it. I love these houses and am running a swap on my group called "In This House". I have used texture paste, Golden paints, serviettes, images and beeswax to make this "House".

You can check out Anne's challenge site here:

http://dansmamaisonilya.blogspot.com/2008/08/dans-ma-maison-il-y-du-orange.html

AUGUST SKETCH CHALLENGE

This is the card that I made for the August Sketch Challenge on Boomerang Stampers List, I really enjoyed making it, although sketches usually don't suit my style.

GOTHIC ARCH B & W WITH A TOUCH OF RED.

Here is my entry for the Black and White with a touch of Red challenge for this week over at Gothic Arches: http://gothicarches.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/black-white-and-a-hint-of-red/

"I LOVE YOUR BLOG" AWARD

Thanks so much for nominating me for this award Danielle http://dansnark.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-award.html I'm so happy that you enjoy my blog, even though I haven't been too prolific lately with the challenges. As you mentioned, I love Gothic Arches challenge too, but haven't had the time to focus on doing them every week.

Here are the rules (or guidelines, as I prefer to think of them):
1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Link to the person who nominated you.
3. Nominate seven blogs you love to read
4. Link to those blogs
5. Let those bloggers know with a comment that they've been nominated.

People I've nominated - please don't feel obliged to do the same. These memes are fun to do, but sometimes they can feel a bit like a chain letter. I can talk for hours about the blogs I love to read and why, but the people I've nominated shouldn't feel pressured to do the same.Seven blogs I love to read! (Only seven? That's hard.)

I would like to nominate the following blogs to receive this award.

Mary-Beth http://myjourneyintoart.blogspot.com/,
Bethel, http://bethelofbethania.blogspot.com/
Anne, http://creativesharing.blogspot.com/
Carol, http://carol-creative-expressions.blogspot.com/
Martina, http://artymarty62.blogspot.com/
Adrienne, http://adriennegoodenough.blogspot.com/
Linda, http://atclindab.blogspot.com/

Hope that you enjoy all of these blogs, each one has a slightly different focus, but each one has lots of lovely artwork and interest.

A GREAT GIVEAWAY.

I love Anne Le Toux's blog and artwork, and at the moment she has a giveaway of one of her beautiful collages, so go along and leave a comment for her on

http://bullesdorees.blogspot.com/2008/08/cadeau-plein-de-bulles-ou-giveaway.html

and you will have a chance to win.