Good Day

When I awoke this morning my goals were to do something creative. For several days I had been thinking about some tags, so I sat down and made a tag that reflected traveling through Europe. Since I had done a lot of traveling throughout Europe while stationed there in the Air Force, I've always dreamed what it would be like to have visited these wonderful and romantic places in the early 1900's.

As I was rummaging through my paper I found a piece that I thought would go well on another tag I made, "Give your imagination wings" and has butterflies, dragon flies and a hummingbird - all the wings for your imagination.

My last two pieces were a couple of cards that I had been thinking about. A birthday card that would do well for a male and a "under the weather" card. I never seem to have one handy when I need it. It was a good day, I had fun and I loved dreaming about traveling in the 1900's. I hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think.

Busy Month

It has been a very busy month for me. I've had several medical appointments to followup with a problem I've been having. To keep my mind off these tests, I've had to find ways to keep busy. Since we aren't on the road traveling, my other keep busy projects are to shop! I don't think I know anybody that doesn't like to shop and especially for craft supplies. There were some good deals on Cricut cartridges at CricutMachine.com, so I picked up Batman, Superman, Old West and Dinosaur Tracks at $22.95 each. I'm hoping to make more children's cards with these cartridges! While blog-hopping and looking at other art pieces I noticed some wonderful paper - Graphic 45, so I was able to find a good on-line shop for that, Zutter came out with the Distrezz-it-All, a wonderful electric tool for as they state "achieving that shabby-chic look" without using sandpaper, and files! More browsing on-line and was able to find Tim Holtz products of clock faces, sprockets and gears, keyholes, keys, etc., wonderful embellishments. I finally found this wonderful paper - Mariposa. It is gorgeous - I'm really going to have a hard time cutting this paper!

When I wasn't busy catching up with e-mail and shopping on-line, I participated in a couple of swaps with my Yahoo group, ARTHavenCreations_Friendships. One swap was to create a blue tag no bigger than 5.5"x3" and embellished in blue. That was fun because blue happens to be my favorite color. The other swap was to make these wonderfully easy corner bookmarks. You take a sealed envelope, measure down 4" on two sides (forming a triangle) and cut across using your decorative scissors to make a fancy edge. Decorate the object in anyway you like and then swap with the assigned partner. These were fun, so easy and make wonderful RAKs. You can also make them using your favorite paper, make your own envelope, or cut a strip of paper roughly 8" long and 4" wide. Fold over, forming a triangle and seal with your favorite glue and decorate as you like. I'm going to attach pictures of the bookmarks and tags I made and later I'll upload pictures of the ones I received.

That's it for me today.

Always,
Kerry P.

Sooo MIA!

I'm so sorry to be MIA. Just when you think you've got a handle on things, life gets in the way! We are finally home and unloading the RV. It was a fantastic trip, we had a wonderful time and saw some awesome sites. Now to get back to crafting. I've been working hard to get my ARTHaven back up and running. Now I will work hard on posting every day and getting some of my pieces posted.

I was lucky and bid on some cartridges- picked up Independence Day and Summer in Paris. Both of the cartridges look like they have loads of interesting items. I also got most of the new cartridges - Just Because Cards, Create a Critter, Serenade, and Nursery Rhymes. I also picked up good deals on Give a Hoot, Preserves, Straight from the Nest, and Serenade. And finally, the long awaited pre-order for Picturesque - it was shipped and I received earlier this month. I'm anxious to try all the carts out and have ideas for quite a few.

So that's about it for now. Thanks for following.