30 Days of Creativity - Day 30 - A Stained Glass Mosaic Block

Well it's Day 30 of my "30 Days of Creativity" journey and I have something really, really special to share.  I've been working on it on and off for about two weeks now and I was finishing the last stage, grouting, this morning so that's why the post is so late... but worth the wait I hope... This is what the block looks like outside with the sun shining through it ...

But it also has small white Christmas lights inside and this is what i looks like plugged in...

I am hoping to use it outside on my patio in the summer - sparkling during the day and a beautiful lighted accent at night..

Here is some detail...

I LOVE covering things in glass... 

and now for the next step... what do you think about combining metal art with stained glass mosaic? Grin

Thank you for sharing this journey with me ... it took me to places I did not expect and I am so full of creative energy these days... I just may BURST!  I am leaving for a two-week hot holiday in the next couple of days so I will be taking a wee break from all this creativity - except of course I will have my small watercolor palette to play with so I won't suffer too much from creative withdrawal!

Cheers and please do leave me a comment letting me know what you thought about all this "creativity stuff" SMILE

Scrapbook Lynne

30 Days of Creativity - Day 29 - Some Truth Cards

It's Day 29 of my "30 Days of Creativity" (see original Post HERE) and for me this countdown is kind of like an adult version of the build up to Christmas... (I'm doing the happy dance 'cause it's only ONE MORE DAY...grin).

 Today for Day 29 I am sharing some Truth Cards... because, well it just wouldn't be ME if I didn't create one blog post related to The Brave Girls Club and Truth Cards - Here are four truth cards I created using different mixed media techniques that are all MEEE and that all have very personal meanings for me... ENJOY!

"What is a Truth Card?" you ask... well a truth card is an empowering message that speaks directly to your soul.  It is never hurtful or angry or negative, but it is always some sort of message or words that make you sit up and say... "oooooh!" or "AH HA!" or "I needed to hear that."...  

And then you create a small card containing those words or that message, using whatever you have on hand and whatever imagery that makes sense to you.  I have found that the entire time you are creating your truth card that message seems to be running through your brain, embedding itself deep in your memory so that you find yourself chanting those words over and over until they are part of who you are.

 

 You can create a truth card for yourself or you can create one to give to someone else.  No matter how you receive the message or how you share the message it is a very powerful thing!

Also, you create truth cards to share the love and with no expectation of receiving anything in return except to send it out there to make its message felt.  I LOVE making and sending truth cards because I know from personal experience that when you are struggling through one of those "life moments" getting an unexpected gift like this can really make a huge impact in your life. It has for me and I am now sharing the love...smile.

Thanks for stopping by to share with me again today and don't forget to leave a comment if this post moved you in any way (smile).

Cheers!

Scrapbook Lynne

30 Days of Creavitiy - Day 28 - Ornaments

Oh my ... Day 28 of "30 Days of Creativity"... (see original post HERE) I really didn't think I would make it...grin... but here we are with only TWO DAYS to go... and although it has been a lot of work I am being repaid every day with the enormous creative energy and multitude of ideas I am generating PLUS you must have noticed my improved blogging skills (smile).

 

So today for Day 28 I am showcasing Part 2 of the workshop I attended in Calgary on Saturday; the projects I created with Ms. Christy Riopel. (see Part 1 - Metal Art HERE)

Now, if you ever have the opportunity to attend one of Christy's classes, don't walk, RUN to get in!  She is CRAZY talented and her creativity, color sense and sheer joy in teaching make every class I've ever taken with her a wonderful, creative journey.  Plus she shares all that is going on in her art brain while she is teaching.  

So in this workshop Christy Riopel and Ilitia Hart collaborated so that we could create these truly beautiful tree ornaments and their complimentary boxes.

Christy taught us several techniques to color these clear balls and then showed us how to take the metal, a die cutting and embossing machine and adhesive to create embellishments to enhance these balls and turn them into something truly giftable; and if that was not enough she then showed us how to create unique paper boxes out of double-sided scrapbook paper to gift them in - Happy Sigh.

So thanks for stopping by again to day to share with me... and don't forget to leave a comment if you like what you see...
Scrapbook Lynne

30 Days of Creativity - Day 27 - Metal Art!

On this Day 27 of my "30 Days of Creativity" (See original post HERE)  I am sharing something brand new to me, Metal Art.  

This is our class project

On Saturday I attended an all-day workshop in Calgary with these two amazing women - Christy Riopel and Ilitia Hart.  Christy shared her mixed media/paper arts talent (you will see more about THAT tomorrow) and Ilitia taught me how to emboss and deboss on soft metal.

Here you can see the detail

Now it's not like I don't have enough to do on the creativity front but I have been hearing about this art form all year and I was able to get into one of these workshops and it was absolutely fantastic!  You can read more about Ilitia and her metal art HERE. 

This is what I made at home all by myself (smile)

So today I am sharing two metal art projects - the one we made in class and the one I made All By Myself the next day.

And do come back tomorrow, because I will share what I made with Ms. Christy.  Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to leave me some "blog love" in the form of a comment.

Cheers!

Scrapbook Lynne

 

30 Days of Creativity - Day 26 - One More Prima Girl!

On this my 26th day of my "30 Days of Creativity" journey (See Original post HERE) ... I would like to share one more of my Prima Girls... This Prima Girl Tag is particularly close to my heart because I truly believe her message, but it took me quite a few years to hear this message and then to let myself believe this message and then finally to absolutely know this message to be true!

I wish I could open up the heart of every single young woman I meet and POUR these words into her soul.  I know we all must walk our own path at our own pace and that "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear" but this particular lesson had such a huge impact on my life that some days I wish I could have learned it a tiny bit earlier in my journey and I just want to help someone else along their way!

Thank you for stopping by again today to share this journey with me... I would love to read what you think about all of this "Creativity"...

Cheers

Scrapbook Lynne

30 Days of Creativity-Day 25-A Christmas Cutie!

For Day 25 of my "30 days of Creativity" (See orginal post HERE) I want to share this Christmas Card I made using a new digital stamp from Handmade Harbour... The Christmas Robin..

To me this little birdie looks a wee bit guilty so my irreverent brain immediately thought of this Dyan Reaveley Christmas Stamp... and away I went...

As usual I colored him with my Copics, cut him out and used foam pop dots to mount  him and then stickled him like CRAZY.... I love how the white liquid pearls I used gives his hat so much dimension!

Thanks for stopping by to share with me again to day... now don't forget to leave me comment if you have something to say! (smile) Scrapbook Lynne

30 Days of Creativity - Day 23 - Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh

Today on Day 23 of my "30 Days of Creativity" I want to share a journal page I was inspired to create by a saying credited to Vincent Van Gogh which spoke to my soul on so many levels...

"There would be no Blue without Yellow and without Orange"

This page started with a background of some stencil work overlayed with various blue dylusion sprays... I added random stampings of some of my favorite Donna Downey flower stamps and then I stamped and cut out various of the same flower images from some beautiful Orange watercolor-washed papers that I had been saving from my brief foray into the world of watercolor painting... 

the dragonfly stamp is from Magenta and really says it all .... FLY.... and it just wouldn't be one of my pages if I didn't add those accents of Liquid Glass.

This random journal page makes my soul sing with joy and I do believe I want to try recreating this feeling on to a REALLY BIG Canvas!  Stay tuned....

Thanks for stopping by to share this journey with me today, and I'd love if you left a comment to let me know what you think about all this CREATIVITY so far... Smile

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera

30 Days of Creativity-Day 22-Fused Glass Christmas Trees

Today on Day #22 of my 30 Days of Creativity (see original post HERE) I want to share these fused glass Christmas tree ornaments I have been working on...

The actual cutting and creating of the trees was really quick and so fun, especially since I was working in the glass studio space of my local stained glass store in Airdrie, Alberta Muk-Luk Magpies Stained Glass Emporium where they let me use their scraps and rent the kiln to melt all my lovely trees.

But then I took them home with two spools of wire thinking "How hard can it be to bend some wire around some glass?"  Well... let's just say HARDER THAN I THOUGHT! grin - and I can see my hands getting a lot stronger as I do more of this.

But after all is said and done, I do love them - they are so bright and cheerful and whimsical don't you think? I can just imagine what they will look like hanging in the branches of a tree with the Christmas lights shining on them.

Some of these ornaments are already packed up to be sent off for Christmas gifts and others will be available at the Muk-Luk's store for sale and still others will be available for purchase by YOU in my Etsy Shop - so go check it out if you want love them as much as I do!

Thanks again for stopping by to visit... I cannot wait to see what I comes out of me NEXT... Smile (I'm a glass-melting FOOL these days)

Scrapbook Lynne

Wishing You Were Here (on Day 21 of my 30 Days of Creativity)

It's my 21st Day on my 30 Days of Creativity Challenge (see original post HERE) AND it is another Papercraft Party over at Handmade Harbour... I LOVE their digital stamps! This week the Handmade Harbour design team challenges you to create a card or project with Friends or Family as the theme and then to link it up to our blog using our linky tool.  And, if you use oneof the Handmade Harbour digital stamps on your creation you could win MORE digital stamps of your choice!

I chose this particular digital stamp called "Cocktails at a Beach Bar" because in just 10 short days I am leaving snowy, frosty Canada for Manzanillo, Mexico where I will be spending two blissful weeks beside the ocean in the sun (happy sigh!). And inside the card I stamped... "WISH YOU WERE HERE!" (grin) and I really DO wish you could be here with me right now! (Big GIANT Smile!)

I printed out and colored the digital stamp twice using my Copic markers, and then I cut out the curtains and banner and used foam pop dots to mount them above my digital image so it really looks like you are looing through a window into the distance... then using stickles I created the sparkly feel of sunlight on the water... happy sigh!

So please pop on by the Handmade Harbour site today to see what else my design teammates created this week and maybe consider joining our Papercraft party where you too could win the coveted Handmade Harbour Winner's Blinky for your blog!

Cheers... from the soon to be suntanned...

Scrapbook Lynne (grin)

30 Days of Creativity - Day 20 - Some 2013 Christmas Cards

On this my 20th day IN A ROW of creativity (on my 30 Days of Creativity journey - see Original post HERE) I am sharing some of the Christmas cards I have made this week...

This is one of Handmade Harbour's new Christmas digital stamps

I LOVE making Christmas cards and I send them out to people all over the world.

 

When I make a card I usually have a specific person in mind and I try to make them a card that they will cherish for years to come.

This is a Stampendous Stamp!

AND these Penguins WOBBLE!

Each card is a labour of love and I only make as many as I WANT to make, I never make cards because I HAVE to make them, and because of this I still love making Christmas cards 10 years in!

If you are lucky enough to be a recipient of one of my Christmas cards know that it was made JUST FOR YOU! (smile)

This is an Altered Dollar Store Card (the 12 card set WITH envelopes cost me $1!)

Thanks for stopping by to share with me again to day on my blog...

and if YOU, one of my blog followers, would like a hand-made, one-of-a-kind Christmas card from me please send me an e-mail with your name and address and I will make sure you get one... SMILE... (you can find my "contact me by e-mail" box on the right)

Cheers!

Christmas Card-Making Lynne

30 Days of Creativity - Day 19 - a WINTER Canvas

Good Morning Everyone from the Winter Wonderland of western Alberta, Canada.  Today is Day 19 of my "30 Days of Creativity" challenge (see Original post HERE) and it is full on Winter in my part of the world, so today I would like to share with you this canvas I made celebrating winter ...

I not only love this snowman Susan designed, but also the quote that she chose to go with him, except that we don't have three months of winter in western Alberta, we typically have SIX months of winter and sometimes winter is even longer than that.  So it's a good thing winter is such an incredibly beautiful season in this part of the world!

We also have very short days all through the months of November, December and January with the sun not really clearing the horizon until almost 9:00 am and it going absolutely dark by 5:00 pm, so we only get about eight hours of sunlight every day.  But when the sun comes out, as it does almost every single day in Alberta, it is blindingly brilliant and makes everything sparkle until your eyes hurt from all that sunlit beauty.

So on this canvas I tried to capture the feeling of that 90 minute drive I used to make into the city of Calgary every morning, leaving in the pitch black... usually with some sort of blowing snow around me... and driving for 45 minutes when at the same point in the drive the sun would start to rise and the light would creep across the prairies turning everything in its path to gold until that light hit the sides of the buildings of the Calgary skyline stretched out in front of me 40 kms away and turned it to gold in an incredible display of blinding beauty.  I don't miss the drive, but I DO miss those light displays!

I hope that one day you will experience the beauty of winter here in Western Canada, it is an experience that is well worth the cold!  

And don't forget we are in the middle of the Susan K. Weckesser 5th annual Christmas Love Campaign... another way to spread the warmth this cold month (grin).  And please DO share your handmade gifts on our Christmas LOVE Campaign Facebook page!

Cheers! Lynne Mizera

Susan K. Weckesser Design Team Member 

Products Used on this Canvas:

Unity Stamps - Susan K. Weckesser Snowman

Susan K. Weckesser digital stamp - City skyline

Rangers Stickles and Liquid Pearls

Acrylic Craft Paint and Watercolor paint

White Gel pen

  

30 Days of Creativity - Day 18 - More Prima Girls!

Today on the 18th day of this journey of 30 Days of Creativity - See original post HERE - I am sharing another of my Prima girls... Isn't she just so very LOVELY? 

Again I used 140lbs water color paper for my tag and modelling paste and stencils and dylusions sprays for the background... and painted my lovely lady using InkaGold paints... but it was missing something... not enough Ooomph... and I didn't think stickles were the answer this time (grin)... 

But did you know that Ranger makes a product called Liquid Pearls in the same wee bottle as the stickles? (of course I have the all - grin)... I just doodled my favorite doodle pattern all over the the card in liquid pearls and that MADE it!  And of course the sentiment is exactly perfect for my life right now..."It's better to take a risk then to miss a Moment of Magic"... and this journey has been sheer magic so far!

Thanks for stopping by to share with me again today... Please DO leave a comment and let me know what you think so far!

Cheers.... Budding "Artiste" Lynne