Is it spring yet, I am longing for my flower gardens

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Not sure what these are but they were my mother’s day present from my youngest son and his wife last year. So pretty.

flowers

Is there anything better than lilacs … the perfume, the colour and they are one of the longest lasting spring flowers.

lilacs

These are apple blossoms from the crab apple tree at the old country house. Those apples made the best apple jelly in the fall.

apple blossoms

How pretty are these apple blossoms. They grow on an apple tree beside our little rental house. What a beautiful surprise that first spring.

apple blossoms

March Life Book 2016

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Late again, so many musts and wants to do makes for a very busy year so far. March Life Book 2016 brought fabulous lessons.

Praise for the present with Mary Beth Shaw was so much fun to create with stencils, brushes, sponges, acrylic and water paints and I could go on. This piece was actually done in February but got missed in the posting.

roots

Roots and Ground, Wings and Light with Tamara Laporte brought us another great face, a face of colour. I love the serene look on this face.

water colour

I love water colours, they are my favourite paint and this graphite and paint mail box are one of my favourite lessons this year. Angela Kennedy brought us a face but I wanted to do the mailbox, like the one I had at the country house with the wild roses growing around the post.

simple things

Layers of love with Rae Missigman was a pleasure to create. So many different layers and neon colours to help make the piece shine. This was a great way to get my fingers dirty.

love layers

Lady of Compassion with Shiloh Sophia was done with acrylics, keeping them transparent to give them a watercolour look. Our lady is a bit abstract and was done in a different technique.

sofia

Digital Pages for the Just Art Challenges part 2

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Colour my world
This was created for the colour palette challenge. I love the sketches of the old European buildings.

Memory
Memory was made for Gabbi’s challenge this month. The kit used: Gabbi’sDesigns Children’s Carnival mini kit

Valentine to the group
A card for my Valentine challenge made for the site members.

Winter Morning
Winter Morning is my progressive scrap challenge entry. Photo was taken one cold, frosty dawn.

It's all Greek to Me
G for Greek … this piece created for the A to Z year long challenge

Gay Paris
The first of two pages created for the magic wand challenge. Love this vintage mime image.

Hot air balloon
H is for Hot Air Balloon, another page for the A to Z year long challenge.

Snow Day
Snow day is the other page created for the magic wand challenge. Very different style from the other.

Digital pages for the Just Art Challenges in February, Part 1

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broken promises
I slipped this one in here … I created this piece in January just because, it’s not a challenge piece.

Valentine
A valentine for my valentine challenge. What would February be without a valentine.

E - Eastern Box Turtle
Turtles are my favourite animal, being a turtle myself. This was done for the A to Z year long challenge.

Calico
The journaling says it all for this little one. This was a scraplift challenge.

Spring
With heaps of snowbanks all around us spring was still just a whisper. Created for the variety challenge.

Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh is my favourite artist. This piece was done for the quote challenge.

When we were young
This piece was done for an ad challenge. We chose a vintage ad and used that as our scraplift.

Circus
This exciting, vivid page was created for the colour wheel challenge.

February was a busy month so I’ve split it up into two parts.

Digital challenges at the Just Art site for January

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So many challenges so far this year at the Just Art site, come and join in the fun here: Just Art Scrapbooking

B is for Ballet
We have a new year long challenge … A to Z … I haven’t done A yet. Loved doing this B – Ballet page.

D is for Dragon, Arty for short
This is my D page and here is my bubble blowing dragon, Arty once again. He keeps whispering in my ear that he wants another adventure.

C is for chickens
Isn’t this rooster a proud fellow? This page was a joy to do in the middle of our winter.

Dance
Dance was done for the main monthly challenge with a fabulous dance kit from Jilbert

Happy New Year
Of course we had to bring in 2016 with gold and glitter and a bottle of champagne with Gabi’s Turn of the Year kit

cooa
Coco Chanel has always been one of my favourite designers. She introduced us to the little black dress and the chanel jacket.

Blue Winter
Blue winter was done with Gabi’s wonderful template … brrrrr, glad winter is almost gone now.