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..
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...
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...
love dabbling into more and more of the Mixed Media
side of things...
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
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
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
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
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
Thank you for stopping by.
Keep on Crafting!!!!
