My First

DIGI DARE

the dare ...

1. list 5 things that consume me right now

2. use only 2 sides of the layout for journaling etc.

3. include on photo or extraction of an item that consumes me

4. include the words "right now" somewhere in the layout


I listed what consumes me right nowbut couldnt bring myself to really journal it... maybe another time...

credits: I used Maya's new kit BLUE MOON from Scrapbook Graphics ribbon and frame from Hung Up On Love by Aneta Branch AKA Sweet Made at ashaleeandsweet Stamped Word Art from Lie Fhung's ARTiculate Soul Searching at Ztampf I used Lily Designs Dark Angel kit from After Five for the the layout within the layout and that layout can been seen here http://tinyurl.com/ccoxwz fonts: metalic avacodo malapropism

And With That

I played a bit.. a little digital paint!
hmmm I had two others.... but between the new computer, the old computer, the laptop and two externals, I don't seem to be able to locate them.... another time I guess

Yes, More!

as, I was saying... I've been doing...just not posting... so I continue my efforts at catch up... last week I took my husband and his carpool partner (gal lives in the next town over and works in his office) to the sac airport so they could fly off for meetings in SLC.. I figured this was a good opportunity to go out with my camera in search of my muse!
SO.. as I left the airport, I drove in the opposite direction from which I had arrived. (knowing i could make a circle and not go too far out of my way) I headed to woodland, then to knights landing. Once I crossed the draw bridge on the other side of Knights Landing, I decided to take a detour... and turned onto the levee road.
Almost immediately there were lots of great things to take pictures of... unfortunately, the road was too narrow to pull off and driving DH beloved Dodge Charger, I wasn't up for off-roading LOL... Pretty soon I came upon a turn in the river and a wide spot in the road, so I stopped. I pulled off at the edge of a gravel drive. I could see a house down a way and I could hear a dog barking.
I got out, walked up and down the road snapping photos and just as i was finishing up an elderly couple came walking up the drive. The gentleman engaged me in conversation as the lady crossed the road to retrieve their mail and then she came and joined us. Bob and Marty were a very interesting couple, originally from New York, she was 75 and he was 78. We talked about life and love, home and family, the US and the world, art and history, politics and religion... in all we talked up there on the levee road for more than 3 hours! I'd probably still be there if I didn't need to "pee" so bad! LOL

Here are some of the pictures I took

Did I Say Christmas Card?

well this is what I came up with... this is a full spread... obviously it gets folded in half to create a 5x7 "portait" card... If I upload to the lab today I will have them next week... just in time for mailing.... I think they'll look great on pearlized paper.. what do you think???

outside

inside

btw new playlist 4 songs... i know way past due

aka The Prince of Latvia

Most who know me, know when I'm in a funk whether personal or creative, know that if I can bring myself to create I generally will do so with somebody-else's photos, or ones of nature that I have taken... this is one of a couple recently done with photos of an on-line friend... Thanks Kris for the photos!



credits
Urban Boy by Ashalee Wall at Ashalee and Sweet.com

Emotion

Way back sometime last year it seemed everything I scrapped came out DARK and foreboding... I remember trying to do a layout with a beautiful Pink kit that Doris had made and it came out DARK... Then I started another layout and titled it "HAPPY" no matter how hard I tried to lighted it up, it just seemed "SAD" so I put it aside. Well, I came across it last week and played with it a bit... this is what I came up with




BTW new music on the play list... all by Morgan Clamp from his "I NEED YOU/YOU NEED ME" CD. Check out his music at MySpace or iTunes

Bridge Over Calm Waters

Yesterday I decided I needed to go on a photo outing. I knew exactly where I wanted to go. On the river less than 40 miles from here (up the mountain)there is a state park with a 150 year old wood covered bridge and in the 15 years I have been here,I have never seen it! So Off I went... here are some of the photos!

I dunno the pictures are nice and clear on my computer.. but the slide looks fuzzy to me...

The Last Scrapper Standing

Those of you who know me know I'm not a competitive person when it comes to my scrapping.. it's art..for heaven's sake.. not sports.. anyway.. It seem I have entered about one challenge per year... never making it very far I might add... sometimes I have been booted and sometimes I just stopped...or as some of you may prefer to say..QUIT! LOL Anyway.. I did start the Last Scrapper Standing Contest at Divine Digital. Royanna always comes up with the best contests!
The Challenge for week one was to create a layout with 5 close up photos of the same object, none of the photos could show the entire object... it had to have doodling, graph paper, a quote, at least 10 embellishments, 50 words of journaling and be made of at least 50% product currently available at Divine Digital...
Whew! That was tuff.. but I made it through to the next round (there will be 5 in all) Here's the layout I submitted



Journaling:
Some how, in the process of growing up, we seem to loose sight of the simple joys around us. I am so grateful for the opportunity to regain this vision as I watch you grow up. I love to see the excitement on your face when you discover new things in the world and when you discover new capabilities you didn’t know you had. I just love you to pieces!

credits:
5 close up pieces of Rylie with a frog
Doodle Hearts
Graph Paper Overlay
Quote: I Love You To Pieces
Journaling: 80 Words

Border Mask:
Power Border
by Julie Mead available at
E-scapes and Scraps and Cottage Arts

Heart Doodle Brush:
Janita at Seishido

Sequins:
by Tandika Starr from the
2004 BCA from P4D

Graph Paper Overlay:
Scrapdrawers Scrapover Overlays
By Doris Castle (currently retired from catalog)

Frames:
Edgy Frame Clusters (re-arranged)
by Lucie Goikoetvea at DD

Heart:
self created

Papers and Elements:
2 papers
2 butterflies (4 total)
1 bow
1 ribbon
1 cardboard

Where I Live and Breathe
by Royanna Fritschmann at DD

fonts:

jailbIrd JenNa
Times New Roman
Tracey

I'll be back in a couple of days with links for those credits! Off to SFo for a couple!

And The Angels Sang

Well if that wasn't the cutest thing! On Wednesday I got to pick up my adorable grandson from day care in Hidden Valley Lake, meet up with my daughter at her office at St Helena Hospital, join her husband and go to the Discovery Land Preschool Christmas Pageant in Angwin. Rylie was an Angel... really... he WAS an angel! And he played his part well! I took 123 photos.. something with the lighting in the chapel though.. every single one of them had major red eye... I have never had a problem with red eye and this camera before... but then.. I generally do shoot outdoors... hmmm... I also seem to have a problem with digital noise in this batch... dang it! Oh well... he's a dozen photos.. OK it's really only 8 and I have gone edit wild with one... LOL.. that's me!

Looking

As promised here are some of the photos I took while out looking for my muse the other day.... nothing spectacular.. just photos around the area... a burning rice field, the Sacramento River, some uncooperative sheep, and a persimmon orchard...
Now I'm out of here for a couple of days, maybe I'll come back with some great photos... and then maybe not...

"One"

Have you ever gotten a song stuck in your head and all you want to do is play it over and over? Well, I'm listening to Joe Cocker in my head and on my web! I'm thinking the lyrics might serve as inspiration for something....

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One life

One...

I had forgotten what a genius this guy is! (my opinion) Yea, I suppose I should give U-2 some credit here too....

Dirty Little Secret

Revision of yesterdays post. I torn it down to the two back elements flipped it over and started again. More art therapy. The item in the lower part of the layout is my arm. I wanted to make a layout, showing the damage I had previously done to my skin through my compulsive actions. Looking at the photo was too painful so I covered it with splatters. I don't think it matters much because I know what's there and I put it on paper... and that was the objective... to put it on paper and out there for the world to see!

I Dunno!

Just something I put together tonight... er... this morning... created entirely with brushes... not one photo was harmed in the process... threw them all together in a little slide show.... I do have a fav... but thouoght I'd share them all... 2:30 am... I probably really don't know what I'm doing.... LOL.. alas, life would be boring without my little antics eh?

Is it REALLY Art?

This is just my lame attempt to get the song "Nothing at All" by Travis Pickle on my blog. "Rock You" is the only place I can find it. It's NOT on their album... so, enjoy! I love this song! This gals voice is haunting!

Our Past...

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward.

- Kiyoko Takeda

ACTION!

Some of you may know that when I get a creative block I often go out begging for other peoples photos. I don't know why, but I always find them so much easier to work with. Thanks to an old friend of mine, I didn't need to go begging this time. He has the coolest action photos of his family... I have never had an opportunity to work with such photos before and I think I'm addicted. Take a look at what I have done with his photos

Little Things

Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things!

Queen of Uniquity

It's been a while since I have been over to DAQ (Digital Art Quirks) so you cn imagine my surprise when I recieve notification that I had two new comments on a layout I posted back in October 2006. They're so much fun over there.. here's one of the comments:

Thu April 5, 2007 5:27pm
Today, you are the queen of uniquity!

LOL thanks indy bev... what a great mood lifter! maybe even a motivator! I love ya guys! here's the layout.. made from a photo I took at the 2006 west coast VCOA national meet. you may have seen it, but look at it again and think "queen of uniquity!"



hey I think I'll even wave my DAQ blinkie!

Play List

Yes... ok... it really was time to give 'ol Alice Cooper a break. Radio JULZ has put together a new play list. This list goes out with a personal dedication to the luch hour DJ(S) "A kind soul is inspired by Angels!"
Enjoy! ~J

Memories

This, for an old friend... thanks for the inspiration I took these photos while taking a drive down memory lane in my home town not too long ago. I have many a wonderful memory around this bridge. Being there, the sounds of the birds above and the water rushing below, together with the sweet familiar smells almost made me forget the past 35 years... and I was 13 all over again!