Chicken, Chicken, Winner Dinner

This time it's in a 4x6 recipe card. OPUS GLUEI's challenge this week is to include a chicken in your project.

I picked a recipe card. I've posted this recipe before. I want to get all the most often used recipes I use made into 4x6 cards to help clear some clutter in the kitchen. I have done about 6 and only have a million left to go....

I picked this one to coincide with Chinese New Years.

(I think it's the year of the Rabbit, but I don't have any rabbit recipes. And I don't think I want any.)

Images were found via the internet. I searched on "chicken" and "asparagus". Font is a free one found on DAFONT - Chinaone.

Feel free to download and add to your culinary arsenal.

Jingle Belles and Crafty Hazelnut

Don't fall over.

I have this week's card done.

Yup, it's only Saturday afternoon, and it's done.

This week's challenge was one that just came together easily. And oddly enough, I have, and used, the same image that Hazel used. Great minds and all, you know.

I have started using the HUGE stash of cards/envelopes. I have NO idea why I have so many different sets, but I do. SO, I figured that I may as well start using them. That's why this card has a card front adhered to the white card. Not sure I am in love with it. But, I am going with it. The cards are 6.5 inches by 5 inches. They are bigger than what I have been making. I'll have to find a new storage box for them. Up to now I have been storing them in a Christmas recipe box that I have. But that box won't fit the larger cards. Hmmmm.

Anyway, you can find the challenges for JINGLE BELLES and CRAFTY HAZELNUT on their respective blogs. Just click on their names and you will be magically transported there.

Just another day in the kitchen...

It occurred to me the other day that this might not be a normal shot in another household.

It is in this one.

Makes me smile knowing that I didn't dirty, or clean, all of these brushes.



WOYWW - #86

This week my crafty workdesk is also my office workdesk. I brought some things is to make a card during my lunch break. See my previous post for the card. Oh, heck, go ahead and take a look around at ALL of my other posts if you want to.

One of the 26 Goals (see sidebar) I have for this year is to send out Christmas cards. What better way than to have them DONE before Thanksgiving! So I am trying to participate in a card challenge or two. (See previous post for completed card.) This week I combined 3 challenges into one card. PINK & GREEN, BLING and a sketch.

Hopefully next week you'll see my Studio workdesk again. Cleaner, I hope.

You can see other WORKDESKS from this week HERE.

Jingle Belle's, Pixie Dust and Hazel Nuts

The challenge this last week for Jingle Belle's was PINK & GREEN.

Crafy Hazel wanted us to use BLING.

The Pixies gave us this sketch:

Here's what I came up with (after I rotated the sketch):

I am really liking this MERRY & BRIGHT stamp. I am not quite sure where I got it.

And I made the entry this week with a little time to spare too.



It's all coming together now!

Had fun last night painting with my girls. They have decided that they want to keep an art journal too. So we all painted together. I'll see if they'll let me post pics of their pages.

Milagro Heart Birdhouse

Key to my Heart is this week's challenge on OPUS GLUEI. You would think that with Valentines Day coming up I would make cards.

NOPE.

As I always do with these challenges, I was pondering my project, and then it happened. I went to one of those chain craft stores and stumbled upon a bin of birdhouses. Well, I saw this one and KNEW what my project was going to be.

I gesso'ed the whole thing. (Oops, I thnk I left that part out of my little write-up on the OPUS GLUEI blog.) It felt like it took FOR.EVER for the darned thing to dry. 

While it was drying, I surfed a bit through the Crafty Chica's flickr photos for inspiration. I love her style. One of these years I'll go on one of her cruises.

I found these hearts that she painted. I really like them. I added the rays.

And a bit of glitter.

I thought I wanted the whole heart done up in red glitter, but once it was on there, I didn't like it, so I tried to wipe it off, but it didn't all come off. A thin layer was left in some areas.

This I like. A lot.

So I glittered (with this method) the front and one of the sides.

BUT, I kinda like the painting without the glitter too. SO, I am leaving one of them without the glitter.

Depending on my mood, I can turn it to see either the glitter side or the not glitter side.

WIN - WIN