Tags and Bookmarks

Shel and Kim are co-hosting

 Inspiration Avenue's challenge for this week

the theme... Tags & Bookmarks.

This week's challenge got off to a

fabulous start when I

received this wonderfully delightful

tag by Kim in the mail!!
I LOVE it & thank Kim enthusiastically!

You can find more of her work

at her shop IMGIRL

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These are the tags I made for the challenge

Speaking of tags and bookmarks
IA is having a tag swap!
Check it out & join in!!
http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com/

a little bit of everything!

It's been one of those very long months that we all have when everything is hitting you at once.

my "net-book" stopped working needing an expensive repair, health problems, money problems, dealing with a major disappointment.... sigh.

But not all was a negative...

my friend Kim Collister was featured in

 Somerset Studio magazine!

I own some of her fabulous creations & was so

 inspired reading about her method for creating such artsy, encouraging tags 

that i thought i'd try my hand at them. 

Creating art is good therapy! 

 

I  mailed these out as a surprise gift for some 

very special customers as a little

 "thank you for your business".

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Here are some new pieces I've done with 

the palette knife!

 i discovered that 

i love painting with the knives

and can't wait to do more!!

Blueberry Barrens

Abstract in Blue & Brown

Abstract Knife Painting

Dreaming of Spring

and

for something completely different...

....

the IA team had a "Mandalas" challenge 

a few weeks ago

that i couldn't post due to the pc trouble

so here are my belated & most feeble attempts

Oh!! I almost forgot to tell you,

though you probably have guessed,

i have a new laptop thanks to my hubby

it's my early Christmas and birthday gift!

Hopefully i will catch up with the IA challenges

and show you what i've been doing in my journal

but that will have to wait till later.

take care!