ART on Friday

Another week has gone by - already the middle of January. Like many parts of the U.S., we face severe cold and snow this weekend. A good time to get some reading and creating in for sure!

Here are a few challenges I worked on this week.

Mary Oliver
I was shocked to hear of the poet Mary Oliver's death yesterday. She has penned so many beautiful poems. One quote from her that I love bears repeating:

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Another of her quotes I turned into a journal page:

Here is a link to more information about her life and work.



Take a Word Challenge
The theme at Take a Word Challenge this week was "Green and Blue". When I saw this quote I knew it would work with the colour theme.

Tag Tuesday
The theme at Tag Tuesday is "Mail, postmarks or Postage stamps"
I have hundreds of used postage stamps, so decided to use a few of these and created two tags.

FOCUS
My OLW is Focus and here is my second card.

Linking with:

Paint Party Friday

Inspire Me Monday

ART on Friday

The first Friday of the New Year - a perfect time to start fresh. I have resolved to make sure that I make time to create more this year - both art and writing. I need to focus on what makes me happy and ensure I just do it.

This week I started with creating my OLW canvas - to help me focus on the word all through the year.
My One Little Word is (appropriately) is FOCUS. (Check here to read how it found me!)

Focus Cards
I am starting a new project - a 52 card challenge, to create 52 cards to highlight my OLW..
I found some round playing cards (about 3" in diameter) and thought they would be fun to work with this year.
Here's the first.

Tag Tuesday

The first challenge of the year I joined was for Tag Tuesday. The theme for the next two weeks is:
New Beginnings.
Here are two tags I created:

CED

The theme for January at Create Every Day is Goals.
Although I don't do resolutions, but rather pick a word to represent the year, I do create a seasonal vision board, which does help me focus on the season ahead.
Here is my winter vision board:

Happy New Year everyone! 
May 2019 be filled with creativity, happiness and good health!


Linking with:

Paint Party Friday

Inspire Me Monday

ABC Wednesday - W is for Window

This week at ABC Wednesday, W gets the nod.

W is for Window

Here are 2 art tags I created:

ABC Wednesday - M is for Mask

This week at ABC Wednesday, M is our focus.

M is for Mask -which has several meanings. With Hallowe'en soon here, masks will be in abundance, from simple ones to cover the eyes, or ones to hide a face

To mask  means to conceal or disguise.

In art, a mask is used as a screen.

For health reasons, we wear a mask to protect and for sleep, we use a C-PAP to help keep our airways open.

I could not choose just one quote - so I created 4. art tags with my mask carved stamp:

Be sure to check here to see what others around the world did for M.

ABC Wednesday - G and H

Last week was a hectic one as my daughter got married on Saturday. Such a lovely wedding, such a beautiful bride.

Now I am catching up!

G is for Gravestone

H is for Hook

(For a longer look at my entry, check here as it was my turn to post on the ABC Wednesday site)

T is for Tea and Teapot

Day 20 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge.

I am creating art tags, using stamps that I have carved.


T is for  Tea and Teapot


Creating the Tag

The Created Tag

S is for Stop sign

Day 18 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge.

I am creating art tags, using stamps that I have carved.


S is for Stop Sign

Creating the stamp

The created Tag

R is for Rain

Day 17 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge.

I aq creating art tags, using stamps I have carved.



R is for Rain

Creating the Stamp

The Created Tag

Q is for Question

Day 17 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge.

I am creating art tags, using stamps that I have carved.


Q is for Question (mark).

Creating the Stamp

The created tags
I ended up creating 4 tags, with 4 different quotes

P is for Pencil and parachute

Day 16 of the A to Z April Blogging challenge.

I am creating art tags, using stamps that I have carved. And today, I couldn't settle on just one - both quotes appealed to me, so I had to create 2 stamps.



P is for Pencil

Creating the stamp:

The created tag

and P is for Parachute.

Creating the stamp

The created tag

O is for ONE

Day 15 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge.

I am creating art tags, using stamps that I have carved.

O is for ONE.

Creating the Stamp

The Created Tags

(I couldn't settle on just one quote)

N is for Net

Day 14 of the A to Z April Blogging Challenge.

I am creating art tags, using stamps that I have carved.

N is for Net

Creating the Stamp

The Created Tag