Cling Stamps and Journals

On a never ending quest for things to occupy my desire to be creative can land one in trouble.

A run to Michaels and JoAnn's stores over the quiet weekend lead me to finding several items that captured my imagination.

One of my past times that I find relaxing is making Greeting Cards.  So I purchased a few new stamps sets.  So many new and wonderful type of stamps are available nowdays.  I drool in that aisle.  Thankfully I knew what I wanted and my decisions were fast and furious. 

Plus once I move into the position of Home Alliance Coordinator I'll be able to enrich the lives of Hope Cottages clients with crafts if they are so incline to learn about stamping and making greeting cards!  Or just having fun with scrap booking! A perfect excuse don't you think for my purchase?  I'm sticking to that reason when I explain additional stamping sets to an already overflowing box of them.

I will be making cards for the next several days to keep me busy while my hand heals from the sprain. I plan on utilizing some of my kaleidoscope prints as the background incorporating stamping and other items onto the card.

The stamps set I purchased are vintage inspired along with some 'Steampunk' theme's.  I'm in stamp heaven right now! 

I also plan to use the stamps within my Journals.  A lovely book by Linda Woods and Karen Dinino, titled 'Visual Chronicles' has enlighten my choices for different and amazing options for journals.

Sketchbook Challenge

In my post on Saturday I had decided to tag along on the sketchbook challenge even if I don't draw a straight line or a circle very well.

January's challenge is what we (our self) consider 'Highly Prized'. That is a broad spectrum.  

So I drew a few things that mean the most to me to start and then as the month progresses I will take each of those items and expand.  That's the plan at the moment for me. 

 

The items I highly prized are:

things I love with  my heart 

- time

-  car 

- camera 

-  art 

-and yes it even includes

my kitchen aid stand mixer for cooking

I'm going to play and explore each area not only with free hand drawing but with any and all options available to me such as using my Rubber stamps, my photographs, my oils or acrylics,