Sky Watch Fiday

Grey skies today - at least no snow like Alberta was getting - just lots of rain.
Here are a few clouds from the last week:

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Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up

I was able to do some creating and do some writing. I also read and connected with some friends. I am currently taking two writing courses and an art course. I have worked on all three through the week.

MADE
This art course involves journalling about our connections with God. As it says on their site:  "exploring what it means to be a person who makes things who believes she or he was, in turn, made by God."
We are creating an altered book and I have been preparing pages. 

We had to choose images that had meaning for us, glue down and gesso the pages. I will be working on the images this week.

52 Card - Altered Playing Card Challenge
This is a new challenge that started last week at Claudine's blog. The cards you see above were the first task - gesso the backs of a set of cards. It will be interesting to see in the weeks ahead what we will do with the cards.

ATCs
I've been working on a number of sets of cards for swaps and trades at Atcs For All ( a fun place to share and create ATCs)

Using postage stamps:

Day of the Dead

Cats and Bugs

Photography
And of course, I took some photos of flowers in our garden - they won't be around much longer.

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Inspire Me Monday

Creative Every Day

Shadow Shot Sunday

Another overcast day. I'll have to look back for some shadow shots today.

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Sky Watch Friday

As I was watering our gardens this afternoon, I couldn't ignore the beauty of the clouds. We have already gotten warning of a heat even tomorrow - the hottest day of the summer (over 40 C humidex).

Here are the clouds from 3 vantage points from my driveway:

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Shadow Shot Sunday

Times for shadows! Today is a bit overcast although it is supposed to be a warm day. Yesterday, tho the sun was bright and shadows were in abundance! (and of course I'm loving the beauty of our gardens)

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Sky Watch Friday

Today is time to share our skies. This week has been wonderful for sky watching. Here are some skies from this week:

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Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up

This past week I finally took time for creating some art. I have missed it - but writing has taken more of my time the past few months. I will hopefully will take more time for art each week.
 I have signed up for "MADE", which starts Sept. 1. The challenges at Collage Obsession start again in September as well.
I also want to work on my drawing skills and hope to do a daily practice in September.

Mixed Media


I had fun creating 3 mixed media pieces in response to Jane Davies challenge (see here for my post on it)

I used modeling paste in each of these, through a stencil. Love the effect of this on the pieces.
( Just discovered a new challenge at "Mixed Media Monthly Challenge"

ATCs
I completed 2 sets of cards last week for swaps:

Butterfly APCs

Art Therapy (inspirational quotes)

Photography
And, of course, there are still flowers from our gardens to capture!

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Creative Every Day

Inspire Me Monday

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge