The Monday Creative Blog Tour

Hello Everybody and Happy Monday

I've been invited by Wendy to join the Creative Blog Tour. 

The tour is full of blogs by incredibly talented and creative 

people, writers, artists, scrapbookers, needle artists ..... and

more. And, they are all sharing a little bit of their 

creativeness. I'm a Cardmaker/Scrapbooker/Altered 

Artist but have more recently been delving into other 

forms of mixed media art. 

Now it's my turn to share with you a little about my 

creative process.

1. What am I working on?

To enter the occasional challenge of blogs I like to 

follow, and I have wanted to send in a few pieces that I 

have made in the past to a few magazines, but have 

never had the courage to do so.... 

I definitely want to have the courage to submit at 

least one of my projects for publication. Here's a 

little peek of some of my latest work.
I cased from the very talented Gabrielle Pollacco,
and this would definitely not be this piece that I would 
submit to a magazine..

This piece was made from the inspiration of a very talented 

lady Narelle Harrison...

2. How does my work differ from others of it's genre?

I suppose my work only differs from other depending on 

the mood I am in and what the piece is that 

I am working on, at that present time... Like the Altered 

Cigar Box in the examples above at the beginning, is 

Shabby Chic, and the Altered Journal above, is more 

Mixed Media, but if I am making a Card, I am more 

Shabby Chic, and then if I am doing a LO, I am more

on the Grunge/Distressed side of Paper crafting and I 
love dabbling into more and more of the Mixed Media 
side of things...

3. Why do I create what I do?

My process depend totally on what I am creating at 

the time, so if I am creating a LO I will look at,  what, 

why and where and also if it is a commissioned piece or 
not, (more often then not its for my album, then I look at 

what the challenges are at the time on my fave blogs....) 
or if it is my own, I know what its for, why is it a 

special occasion  i.e. birthday wedding or anniversary, 

if its of children or adults, and where the photos are 

taken... With all this information I know the whole 

basis and background of all the information I need 

except is it female or male... 

Then I look at the papers I intend using, and keeping in 
mind any specific colour requests or are prominent in 
the photos, then hopefully with this process the creative 
juices are flowing, once I look at the papers and photos 
if then I have no success with this process, I will find a few 

challenges on my favourite blogs or a sketch... 

If all else fails look at the expressions on the faces in 

the photos and go from there....

 4. How does my creative process work?

I originally started scrapbooking, when my second 

child was born, 

as I had so many photos, I had developed and

decided that scrapbooking was the was to document 

all the milestones of the children's lives, and it also 

gave me a creative outlet as I had alway done a craft 

of some type all my life...It was another way to deal 

with depression as well, as give me a sense of self 

worth and helped me deal with loosing my own 

Independence, when I had to give up driving and 

became wheelchair bound all in a short space of 

time due to my health...

Well that's a little about me. Now I'm looking forward 

to us creative bloggers continuing on into the blogosphere 

so I am going to nominate Archana Joshi and Jennifer Waugh 

to keep the ball rolling next Monday the 15th September.

Archana is a talented paper crafter and the owner of Crafty City 

and is also on several Design Teams Memory Box, Heartfelt 

Creations and Die-Versions Design plus several Facebook 

group, Secret Garden, Back to the Shabby World and 

Archi'sDesign...

Jen is a very talented crafter that has been on a few Design Teams, 

like Megs Garden and her latest feet by getting a DT member for 

The Scrapbook Shop, Tomorrow's Memories, and Zeus and Zoe...

Thank you for stopping by.

Keep on Crafting!!!!