T Stands for How Can it be Time for TSFT Already?

  ⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

That is exactly what I feel like!  It can't be time already! It seems like I should have more time since it is too hot and humid here to even walk at 6:30 in the morning.  I have a lot more time. It still sneaks up on me.  I missed last week because I didn't even remember till late Tuesday night!

 Most of June and all of July as a hostess for Dare to Get Dirty on SplitcoastStampers, I have been making samples for the 46 challenges and some with multiples of cards.  There were lots of technique challenges, too.  So fun.  So, now that we are done, I can share some cards but not the details because you have to be a Fan Club member to see the challenge details.  It seemed I sent the cards out almost as quick as I made them, but luckily, I did take photos! Apparently, I haven't sent the Christmas cards yet though. But there will be no group photo this year.  Here is just a few:

My personal favorite!  Which card is your favorite?

I guess I better show my ticket to the party over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover.  They all kinds of abstract pictures on the wall of the food they serve, and I took all kinds of photos, but just sharing a couple.  We ate lunch there.  They open early in the morning and close at two, so we can get there and eat lunch before they close.  We liked it, and will be going again.  Good food, good service, and atmosphere was a diner. :)  And we found one closer to us!

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week!  See you next time!

T Stands for Ten Years of TSFT!

 ⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

It is finally time for our big anniversary party for T Stands for Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover with our host and hostess, Bleubeard & Elizabeth!  They have been holding these parties every week for ten years!  I haven't been here that long, but some of the others have been, I am sure. I joined 1/23/2018.  It seems like I have come for longer than that, but I just looked back!  So, I have only been coming for a little over 5 years!  It has been fun, Elizabeth!  Thank you!

Now, let the party begin!  First, I will show you how I made the ATCs I sent out.

I Water colored on the cardstock.  It was a watercolor cling wrap technique.  Puddles of watercolor, then blot with cling wrap. You are supposed to see lots of texture. I did mine wrong, but here is where the technique is demonstrated: 

cling wrap and watercolor technique

Then I glued the napkin over that.  Did I get this napkin in our swap last year from one of you?  Anyone recognize it?

Then I cut apart the piece.

I edged each piece with a black marker or ink. 

I then doodled around each one.

Finished: 

Now, to show what I got from my swap partner, who was so generous!  Oh my goodness!  My official swap partner was Mia in Greece! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Fat envelope sent priority!  Wow!

overview of everything!  Maybe those tea bags are my ticket to TSFT!

The ATC is very dimensional, and sturdy!  The one layer is up on dimensional tape. This is so beautifully done!  My photo doesn't do it justice.  She probably has a better photo on her blog. 

Lisca, look I have post cards!  A whole packet, plus a large one.  The one that says Greece is a large post card.  Gorgeous, gorgeous scenery on these cards in the packet!

This journal cover was handmade by Mia.  It is beautifully made.  I will treasure it.  

A note from Mia.

She handmade this child's apron.  But it fits me! LOL I love all the pictures on it!

Here is a close up of the larger post card, and those are book pages in Greek, to use in art. 

And neat napkins, bling, tea, buttons, candy!  It is like Christmas!

Well, I also had an unofficial swap partner because Jan and I know each other on another website: SplitcoastStampers.  So since I made 4 ATCs, we swapped, too.

So, I got a fat envelope from Spain, too!

Here is Jan's beautiful mixed media ATC.  Since it says Time for Tea, this is my ticket today to TSFT, although, I think there are lots of beverage references in this post.  Do you see them all?

These were some more goodies from Jan's envelope!  Beautiful dies and embossed panels.  Thank you, Jan for everything.  I can't wait to use some of these goodies!

This is really turning into a long post.  But I still must post one more thing!

This 8x10 art journal page is for both this month's **ART*Journal*Journey Challenge of 'Come Fly with Me', and our picture of a 10 for our Anniversary Celebration for TSFT.  I think it fulfils both.

I die cut and stamped the number 10, a total of 10 times.  There are ten birds on here counting the Flamingo.  I first put on color bursts powders, and sprayed water on it.  I made a complete mess even though I put down newspaper under the whole thing and plastic under the page.  There will be other pages with these colors! LOL I then put on a napkin with the flamingo.  I am pretty sure this napkin is from our swap last year.  Who recognizes it?  The reason I am not sure is because I was in at least two napkin swaps last year.  After the napkin came the die cut numbers, punched birds and stamping.  

Happy 10th Anniversary to TSFT, & Bleubeard & Elizabeth, and the rest of the t gang! Thank you for stopping by. Be sure and join us over at Altered Book Lover for this great TSFT Celebration!

 Have a great week.  See you next time!

T Stands for More Patriotism

 ⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

and into his courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
⁵ For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his truth endureth to all generations. Psalms 100:4-5

Hello everyone!  Welcome!  Just one more week to our big reveal and anniversary party over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth!  Are you ready?  My swap partner and I are ready and have been ready for a month!  We didn't want to miss the big celebration. As our hostess, Elizabeth reminded us last week, it will be our 10th!  So, she said besides some of us doing a swap that we should post something with a 10 on our post, since it is the tenth anniversary of TSFT.  So be thinking what you will do for that.  Just another way to make it special!  Hope you all can come next week.

We finally got some rain!  Thank you, Lord.  We needed it so bad.  Everything was just drying up.  For a whole week, I didn't get much walking in.  I was in my craft room more!  I have been junk journaling.  I am doing the July Challenge with DearJulieJulie on You Tube.  Another thing I have been doing is making samples for our big challenge at SplitcoastStampers.  Once a year we have DTGD, (Dare To Get Dirty).  It  is about 40 special challenges over a week's time for our Fan Club members.  I am one of the hostesses, so am trying to make samples for the other hostesses.  It will go live July 22nd.  Another project that I am working on is our VSBN (Virtual Scrapbook Night) Summer Challenges.  The Summer will go quickly with all of this going on, besides life happening!  

I will show you a few of my Junk Journal projects:

We were to make three tags as one of our elements.  We have a choice of bases, for example: Mystery, wrinkled, bubble, envelope, scrap pad, Texture, noisy, map, etc.  For these I used mystery.  Each tag has something hidden.  The first one is a hidden journal card, if you pull the top off; the middle has a waterfall inside if you untie and open it up; the third has a pocket in the side and inside is a little journal booklet.  I also used DJJ's digitals, planner papers, buttons, lace, & postage stamps & trims.  These will go in the journal when finished.

I thought I would show the July decorations that my hair stylist puts up.  She is so good about putting up decorations each month, and so good at it.

Now for my ticket to TSFT.  The only requirement to join T Stands for Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover is to have a beverage reference in your blog post, then you can link to Elizabeth's blog and visit the rest of the t gang all over the globe and see what they are all doing.  We hope you will join us: T Stands For Tuesday.

This is a photo from February 2015 from our trip to Kuai.  We took a Kayak trip and then a hike up to a waterfall, where we stopped and ate a lunch.  I swam in the pool by the waterfall.

Thank you for stopping by! I am thankful for each one of you. I hope you have a great week!  See you next time, dear friends.