ATC Frenzy

BATHING BEAUTY in BLUE:
I created this one for the Wednesday Stamper site for which the request of the day be something BLUE. I thought my DPD Vintage Bathing Beauty might be appropriate with my Dutch Script over it. I then added a small piece of background cardstock with some contrasting colour and a little butterfly in yellow for added interest.


ENDLESS JOURNEY:
The first of these ATC's is one done with the Intuitive Watercolour technique. Not sure where I was going but I 'found' a dinasour in there! LOL So .... the words "where ... creativity is an endless journey" seems almost appropriate. You just never know where it will take you!

MOON and STARS:
The second ATC is done with a Watercolour and Salt technique for the background. I then stamped one of my favorite Digital Princess tree stamps over that, and then layered a small piece of background paper that I had created some time ago. Cannot recall how I did that now! LOL Onto that I attached a small charm with the moon and stars.



GLORIOUS:
Another ATC created using the Intuitive Watercolour technique. I saw a scene with the sky and foliage, leaves, flowers and thought it looked glorious. I added my Dutch Script to it (can you tell it is a favorite stamp? LOL), stamped my Wildflowers stamp several times, and then glued on some gold foil. I then stamped the word Glorious in black.

A wonderful productive day!

Well ... we had a wonderful productive day today, spending it with my brother and his wife laying down their beautiful new laminate flooring. Oh how I love it! Between about six of us we got the entire living room and hallway all done, along with painting and putting up all the moldings again so the whole thing is now complete. And oh so pretty!
Anyhow ... on with the art ... *smile* ... I am going to see what I can find to post new here tonight. I am so happy to be creating 'art' again and am enjoying the blogs and all that everyone has to share. There is so much to learn out there! If only a person could just create endlessly! But alas ... there is WORK to do ... and LIFE! LOL
This first one is an ATC that I created some time ago and I really liked. And I love Marilyn so ... this works for me! LOL The second one is a card I did recently using my new Mini Marigold stamp and my new Doodles. I love the effect of spotlighting and this seemed to work on just fine this way.
Anyhow ... off for a bit of rest now as 5:30 comes early and I have a TON of stuff to do tomorrow.
Hugs to you all,
Alanna

"Your artistic expression tends to show up in flamboyant bursts. When you are feeling creative, it consumes your every thought and action. But just as quickly as the muse shows up, it leaves you and you are back to your relatively normal self."

I am a Lily What Flower Are You?

Summer's Over!!

This is a poem I wrote many years ago when my boys were small. I know .. I know ... most of you do not know that I even write! LOL But I do ... or have. I am going to begin adding some of my writing in here every once in awhile and I hope you enjoy it. I will also add some of my favorite verses and poems that I have collected over time.
If you want to use any of MY writing please email me requesting it. I am most happy to share as long as you ask and give credit.
Anyhow ... this one seems appropriate at this time of year! LOL

Summer's Over

Silence is golden
So they say;
For school to begin
We parents pray.

July was hell,
August worse;
Kids fight
And parents curse!

"Quiet!" we yell.
"Shhhhh!!" we scream.
Of peace and quiet
Tired parents dream.

Alas the bell tolls ...
Let school begin.
Children laugh ...
And parents GRIN!

Alanna E. Campbell
Copyright August 18, 1988

Just a couple more ..... I am on a roll!!!!

Well ... okay ... these are the last two for today.
The SECOND card is another Intuitive Watercolour with one of my new DPD silhouette stamps on it. The corners are stamped with one my DPD Flourishes.

I created the FIRST card by scraping my ink pads across the cardstock in brown and black around the edges leaving the inside white. I then stamped the DPD Vetruvian Man stamp centered onto it in black, and overstamped with the DPD Dutch Script. A small piece of fibre completes the card.

Hugs
Alanna

Auntie Ruth's cards ... GORGEOUS!

These four cards are created by my husband's aunt Ruth Proud from Calgary Alberta. Both the drawings and the verse inside are her original work. I am honored that she has asked me to sell these for her, but am finding that I am concerned with calling them just 'cards'. Nothing against cards but these are WORKS OF ART! The detail in her work in incredible and these are finished inside with full colour printing as well (usually duplicating a portion of the image from the outside, and then they have vellum inserts with her own written text inside. So nicely done!

Here is what I am doing with them ... I am taking the cards and FRAMING THEM! Yup ... it is one way to get quality art prints without spending LOTS of money on them! Most of them measure 8.5" x 5.5" so they are a good size. The first one "Sometimes" is one that she made limited edition prints of a few years ago and many many of my friends and family really wanted it but it sold out, so this gives them a chance to still get it! So .. I figure they could be called FRAMEABLE ARTIST GREETING GIFTS!! Now how does that sound? And where can you get artwork like this for under ten bucks? LOL I think they would be awesome sent as a card for your loved ones to frame themselves or as GIFTS that are already framed!

If you are interested in purchasing them please email me at info@digitalprincessdesigns.ca and I will give you a link to see all the details on them. They are very Christian in nature and incredibly beautiful!

Hugs
Alanna
PS ... these are COPYRIGHTED 2007 CLAY POT DESIGNS so please please please do NOT copy them! The prices are more than reasonable so please respect her work as we would want others to respect ours!

And more ....

These two cards are created using the Intuitive Watercolour technique. I am really liking this! But it can get kinda funky! LOL
I am very happy with the first card. I found images of leaves in the watercolours and outlined them and then overstamped with black versafine and my Dutch Script stamp, and then stamped in my new Heron stamp behind. I love the effect!
The next one was fun! Again using the Intuitive Watercolour technique I 'found' the fish and seaweed. I hand lettered the words and added some little mini fish stamps that I have, and layered it up again, using a punch for the effect at the bottom of the blue.

Just a few more of my recent cards ...

These are two cards I did ... one was awhile back but I was quite happy with it. The Abstract Defined card was literally layers of torn background papers (some purchased, some of my own) and then layered over with the verse and ribbon. Three little brads added a little to it.

The second card is a more recent one. It was literally the garbage under my stamping. So ... when I am stamping I always have scrap paper on my table underneath my artwork. Any overstamping and so on ... practicing .. whatever goes on there. It can be a real mishmash of 'stuff'. LOL Anyhow ... I decided I liked this piece of it and tore it and layered it up. Voila ... LOL

Enjoy your day!

More new cards!

These are a few of the cards I have been creating in the past few weeks. I have several more and will add them over the next few days. I hope you enjoy.
The first and sixth cards were done using the Intuitive Watercolour technique wherein you randomly paint your watercolour and once it is dry you go back with a fine black pen and start creating images that you 'see' in the paint colours, hence 'intuitive'. This is a very kewl technique and I love that I can 'find' images in the paint colours!
The third card was stamped etc and then once the doodle bird was stamped on I used a real dragonfly wing over the image. I know it does not show up very well here but it looks kinda fun!
None of these cards show it but most have been accented with a clear shimmery pen which adds a very nice touch to them.
Hugs
Alanna

i'm baaaaccckkkkk!

Well ... here I am. After being away from my blog for a long long time I am hoping I will now have time to keep it up again. I have been pushing myself óutside' of my comfort zone and trying to have some fun creating again. Creating stamps is just not the same as creating a piece of artwork, be it a card, an ATC or whatever. I have always enjoyed using many mediums and sometimes think I am a mixed media or collage artist at heart! LOL So ... here are a few pages I have done in a 'journal' of sorts that I started. I bought a cheap hardcovered book and have started doodling and stamping and painting and embellishing pages. Not sure if it really means much ... LOL ... but I am enjoying it!

The page on the left was created using watercolour techniques along with stamping and just exploring what I can find for images out of the watercolours and drawing them.

The second page is again stamped but I smeared (literally) my ink pads across the pages first. It might be hard to see but the center piece is actually a piece of a napkin I had under my stamping that day that I just glued on. I then added REAL DRAGONFLY WINGS over the stamped wings on the dragonfly and covered them with a clear product to preserve them. And NO I did not murder the dragonflies for their wings! LOL They were actually pulled from the grill of my truck! *Grin* Okay ... so I guess maybe I did kill them! LOL ... but not on purpose!

The third page is a mishmash of images, stamped, painted, collaged. Not really sure I am happy with this one ... but live and learn.

Hugs
Alanna

I'm a Mazda!!! Go figure!

I'm a Mazda RX-8!

You're sporty, yet practical, and you have a style of your own. You like to have fun, and you like to bring friends along for the ride, but when it comes time for everyday chores, you're willing to do your part.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

This is kinda funny! Mazda's are actually my favorite cars! LOL .. Thought this was cute and I would share it with you.
On another note ... I am busy busy ... trying to get the new website up and running. Egad ... what a ton of work! And I have to do that in my 'spare time' along with finishing the renos on the house. Oh ... and I am making a quilt! Okay ... so ... I should clarify ... I bought the stuff to make a quilt! And I washed the tapestry that I am using for the basis of it. Nothing more than that yet. LOL The skies are kinda grey here today ... but Sunday we went for a ride with a bunch of friends on a Mother's Day annual run we take to Nojak, about two hours from here. It was a great day but I was beat when we got home! LOL This is a pic I took from the back on our way home. It really was so pretty ... but the pic does not show up the gorgeous mountains and how beautiful they were!

Hugs

Alanna

A NEW BABY!!

I just HAVE to share! One of my very good friends here just emailed pics of their new baby! Isn't he PRECIOUS???!! This photo was taken last night when he was one hour old! I am just so thrilled to see this little darling and now I can't wait to go out and visit! He will certainly be a wonderful addition to their little family of horses!
So kewl!

Kent's Bday Invite

Well ... after getting some other projects finished today I finally got to play with an invitation that I dearly need to get made for hubby's 50th bday bash in July. The image and the birthday verse are both new stamps I have created, while the words SMILE and FUN (on the tab once it is pulled out ~Next pic), as well as the tab itself were created on my Cricut machine. I am really loving that toy! LOL Tomorrow I get my newest toy ... a Cuttlebug should be arriving! YAH! Now ... if I could just find time to learn more about my Wishblade that I bought LAST YEAR! LOL

Anyhow ... what do you think? Is this an invite that guys might like? LOL

It's a Sunshiney kind of day!

hey ... the sun is SHINING! What a bright fun day it is here today! My house renovating is coming along very nicely thanks to family and friends stepping in to give me a hand, and I am ready to start uploading some new stamp images I have been working on. There are more incredible vintage images along with some just plain FUN stuff! LOL I am anxious to see your response to the new images! Lots of new verses too~! The image you see here is one of the new stamps as well. An image of a little church in the Williams Lake BC area on the Jacobson Ranch. I just LOVE it! What do you think of this one?
Okay .. am off ... need to run more stamps ... lol ..
hugs
Alanna

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Hey! HAPPY EASTER everyone! I have to apologize ... I have just not had any time at all to post on here for weeks. And yes Nancy ... I am back! LOL I know ... you said you miss me! LOL ... Glad to hear it!
This has been so busy for me this past couple of weeks with work, renovating the house, family and all that entails Mom came out for a week and a half and per usual there were not enough hours in the days. We THOUGHT we would have time to play ... but no such luck ... it was all work! I had so many custom orders come in that I spent most of my time on the computer working, and then running stamps when I could. Poor Mom just bustled about me trying to do what she could. She is such a big help!
The renovating on the house is ongoing. This past year brought the new lino I had wanted for so many years, along with new appliances, and all new paint in the kitchen, living room and bathroom upstairs. I also painted the entryway and the downstairs hallway. This year so far we have redone the downstairs bathroom (totally gutted it and started over!), and are now working on the three upstairs bedrooms. New carpet is supposed be coming in on Thursday but I took a bad fall yesterday in the yard, and have doctors orders to stay off of my sprained left ankle. ARGGH! I have STUFF to do! I can't see it happening! LOL I still have to get the two guest rooms painted and scrubbed down for them to lay the carpet in! I have the ceilings pretty much done but the walls still need paint. Two weeks later we begin on the master bdrm and the living room!
So ... now that I am laid up ... I am hoping I can get doing something creative to post here! I REALLY miss being able to create!
Hope the day is sunny and bright for all of you, and that Easter Sunday brings you lots of family, friends and loved ones!
Big big hugs
Alanna

WHEW!! I am baaaackkk! LOL

Well ... where to begin .... ? Back from where? Well ... I have just had a very hectic couple of weeks with a TON of stuff going on and I don't feel like I have 'been here'...
First of all ... We had quite the scare in the last few weeks. I had sort of hinted at it previously but was sworn to secrecy and as such could not really get into it. Our youngest son who is 25 was diagnosed with lung cancer at Christmas time. The shock was unbelievable and I was devastated!I had a very tough time with this and had a terrible time coping. It seemed that my world was crashing in on me. Believe it or not ... after two months of diagnosis and actually prescribing Chemo ... the hospital called him to say that a terrible mistake had been made! Thank heavens he had not begun the chemo yet! It turns out that someone had put the wrong results into his file!!! I thought stuff like that only happened on tv! As relieved as we are we do feel awful for someone else as they SHOULD have been diagnosed and had not been til this came up. Such mixed feelings. Anyhow ... all that said ... it is over for us ... and we are saying a LOT of thanks right now.
Okay ... so what else? Well ... we are still renovating the house ... new carpets are coming in April and I have three bedrooms to get the walls and celings painted and ready. It means moving furniture in a BIG way ... so I am dreading this .. but it will be so wonderful to have the house all fixed up. Once that is done we can start with the new moldings on the doors etc. Yesterday brought a new furnace ... what a relief that is! We were never sure how long the old one (about fifty years old .. no lie!) was going to hold up. They will come this morning to finish this up.
And then ... last week I had a mishap with a light bulb! LOL ... I was changing a bulb and had shards of glass drop into my right eye! At first I thought I could just swish it out with water and be okay ... but it really began to hurt. Hubby had to come home from work and take me to the hospital to have it cleaned out. What a process. Two hours of sitting in the waiting room before they did ANYTHING. Then they put dye into it and took a look to see what they could find. It was FULL of glass! Oh ... and they froze it ... that felt WIERD. You should have seen my eye! LOL ... I was sporting one of my business colours ... BRIGHT ORANGE! hehehe ... too funny. I was orange to my eyebrow and half way down my cheek! Anyhow .. that goes away fairly quickly and they flushed it out and sent me on my way with promises to see them the next day again. That entailed a visit back to the doc and then to the optometrist to insure they had it all out. More flushing ... more glass. Anyhow ... the end result ... it gets tired still ... and has taken to twitching uncontrollably ... *aggravating!* ... but no more glass at this point and no permanent damage that we can tell.
Okay .. enough rambling ... am off to run stamps and try to get some artwork done today ... I bought new shelves for all my inks yesterday and am doing some clean up in the my studio ... hmmmm ... get to work Alanna! LOL
big hugs to all ...

BLOG CANDY WINNERS!!

DID YOU WIN? I had a tough tough time choosing the winner for the Blog Candy this time!! WOW !! Anyhow .. after much thought I would like Dianne Davidson to contact me to have her OH CANADA set shipped out to her! And ... because it was SOOO tough ... I am awarding a second prize of 20% off of this set to Peggy Ford if she would like this set!!! Please girls email me to claim your prizes! For the rest .. thank you for
Big hugs
Alanna

Dreaming with your eyes wide open ... ?

Well .. not much for dreaming for me last night! WOW! Talk about éyes wide open! LOL I did not get to sleep until after midnight last night and awoke to darling hubby Kent sneaking out of the bedroom at about 3:20 this morning because he could not sleep. Well .. that was it for me ... try as I might ... I was not wide awake and wheels turning. Up I got ... and he went back to bed! Shortly after ... son Shane was found prowling round the house! Had to be something in the air as they say! Kent slept til shortly after 5:00 ... while Shane and I got breakfast ready and lunches packed. Took them both to work at the mill at 5:45 and came home to see what I could accomplish today! It will be a busy day for me as I have meetings and appointments all day, along with finishing up some more orders, seeing the accountant, getting info on a 'new to us' car (the motor is done in our Intrepid which is more expensive to fix than to buy another one, hence me driving men to work in the early morning hours!), working on arranging a family reunion for hubby's family, and on and on the list goes! EEK ... and I am EXHAUSTED! Okay ... off for a bit of a nap before the first meeting!!!
Hugs
Alanna

About the Blog Candy!

WOW! you girls are gonna make this tough on me aren't you? LOL You all have such good reasons as to why you should win this, but I am glad I have some time to think on it. Now .. if I were rich I would be giving all of you one but seeing as how that isn't the case .... LOL ... only ONE set will be given for this. I am however giving another (key word being ánother') set away to someone very special who has earned this over and over again!! Diane Armstrong certainly worked hard on the Postcards for the Troops project and because of that I have offered to send her a set of these stamps. I am sure she will put them to good use! Conrats Diane on all of your hard work!!

I would also like to say a big thank you to all who have signed my guestbook and blog notes! It is always so very nice to hear your thoughts on my work. I hope you are all doing well and please stay in touch!
Hugs,
Alanna

Collage ... Princess Style

This is a collage card I did while teaching a class last year and I really love it. Not too often I am this happy with my work .. but I find this one really fulfilling. What do you think?
Hugs
Alanna