No Internet??? .....will make CARDS!!!!

What do you do when you have no internet connection???
MAKE CARDS
What else...
Well I did do a few other things... but you get the idea...
Not having a connection for a few days... was really driving me crazy for many reasons...
#1... No e-mails
#2.... Didn't know what everyone was doing???
#3. Blog..??? What was going on??
#4. Orders to fill.??? Hopefully no one will get upset...
#5. AND THE MOST FRUSTRATING!!!!
I had decided to do the Splitcoast Challenge of DARE TO GET DIRTY!!!
I had just completed the CARDS!!!! And was waiting to see who the Queens were going to be...
And EDNA was making everyone wait... UGH!!!
Oh well.. I will check in the morning and see who the winners are...
In the morning... NO CONNECTION...
UGH!!!
So I waited until today 3 days longer... to see who the winners were...
And low and behold...
GUESS WHAT???
I was one of the 12 Queens... WOW
I was really shocked...
And prizes plus...
I am so very excited...
Can hardly wait to get them!!!
I will take a picture and let you see all the goodies..
So sometimes I guess it does pay to be patient!!!
WOW... love it..
So in between all this anxious stuff... I did gather up some things... and make some cards to share with y'all... The one up at the top.. .
5.5 X 8.5 inches... a huge card... but I needed it for the paper, for the punched area... and also for all the flowers... Pendants, and Cuttlebug things... love them all.. Navy was screaming at me.. an old time use to be #1 color for me...
So I had fun... and of course my daisies... love them..
I will show you how to create these punched papers... I promise..

Okay... I had a few friends over... Marie and Beverly... and we always get into trouble... so today we made flowers... using the Tim Holtz Die... and I used white paper... and also a really pretty turquoise/teal paper... which you will see next..
I used 4 layers of the largest flower... and three of the medium/large pointed flower... if you have the die, you will know the ones I am taking about...
Rought them up and layer them... it is that easy...
I made a border of Strawberries.. .from a Spellbinder die... and then painted them with H20's... a martha punched area... and then I used a Cuttlebug folder(37-1610 floral screen) to create the background... After creating it, I used Bundled Sage (Ranger) to color the paper... then using a black ink pad, accented the edges...

I tried red ribbon... but the reds clashed... so I used a RUST RIBBON!!!!
Love it...
All the layers... the colors... LOVE IT... Hope you get inspired to create with these colors... Christmas... but not really!!!

Okay... I told you about the teal flower... this is also made with the Tim Holtz die... and the background is also made with a Ranger Embossing folder...

Getting away from those colors... I needed a break for a while... I get hooked on certain colors... and that can be a problem for me.. I will stay in that space forever..
So I broke it with the Yellow, Black and white...
WOW loved doing this one.. .
I used the Embossing Plus folder... Lace Door... 20-00283...

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Okay... resume the card discription...


and then used the Grand Lace from Spellbinders... and some pretty black and white print from K and Company... the yellow flower I used a Spellbinder to create too.. and cut each of the two flowers in half to create one large HALF flower... !!!
I used the Cuttlebug folder 20-00297 Polka Dots to make the center...
Huge color change... and then..

Had another change..
From yellows.. .to reds again... but this time
TEA BAG FOLDING!!!!
Of course I love tea bag folding.. .have you ever done it..
You start out with 8 squares... all with the same print... and then use the same fold on all 8 pieces.. making sure each one is exactly the same...
I used a split medallion for this card... and also used the center of the Lace Door (20-00283 ) and also a very delicate cut out of an old timey post card..
The back ground... made with Cuttlebug folder 37-1604 Swiss Dot... and then red ink pad to highlight the DOTS!!!!
I also designed the Tea Bag papers... love doing that too.
If you are into Tea Bag folding... write to me.. tell me your interests...
I have tons of Tea BAg CD's... I think I created over 40 a few years ago.. .and am trying to find the time to redo them all.. new cards... etc. etc..
e-mail me at ... bongem@earthlink.net

So many people ask me about me adddress.. .it is not bong em..
it is bon for Bonnie ...
and GEM for my hubby... whose name is Glenn E. McLain
bongem

Okay... another tea bag card... this time I made a wreath... adn also used some K and company papers..
Used the Embossing plus folder... ELEGANT ELLIPSE
20-99254 in yellow.. mounted on black..
Oh yes... a loop punch by Martha... too.

A little more serious...
Christmas card.. One of the more delicate Embossing Plus folders...
Blooming Bouquet 20-00258
And I used one of Martha's punches for the corners...
BUT I used the WREATH from
PRETTIES BY BONNIE...
It is in the Christmas Combination..
It is a digital Image... and that means no postage for shipping... and also the best part...
it is instantly in your hands and ready to use..
But there is one more really neat thing... my favorite yet..
YOU CAN DECIDE ON THE SIZE!!!!
I painted this one with my Twinkling H20's... and cut out the outter edge only..
I used Antique Linen for the background color.. .and love the richness of this card..

I keep on sneaking in a few Christmas cards... as the season is coming up.. and I love to have a lot of cards on hand..
At this time, the program is not allowing me to write under this card... so I will do it up here..
The card underneath here... I was doodling ...and then I cut it out... I used a black bic pen... and also my gold gel pen... and the a Ranger Embossing folder... and a Martha Stewart Flower edge and corner set...
I also used Bundled sage and a lime shade??? can't remember the name... sorry about that..
Anyway... two or three greens for the background..
Inky fingers plus.. love it.
I colored the leaves on my doodle in greens, teal and of course the gold and black.. in real life ... all these cards look entirely different... but you get the idea... and hopefully the energy to go and create some of YOUR OWN...
Love sharing with you.. and hope t hat you enjoy these...
I will be working on a tutorial this week... so that will be next... hold on..
Thanks for coming to visit... I love it..
I live.... I create... I am..
Love, Light and Peace..Bonnie

Zen Dazzle Doodles

WOW... today the challenge was to do a zendoodle... and of course I love doodling... and the ZEN doodles are a favorite too..
In fact I have published a few books on these ... check them out by going to the right side of this blog and you will see a place called MY BOOKS ON SALE ... in fact it has a one of the many doodle book covers there... just click on it, and it will take you to my publisher and you can see and order any of the books you desire...

Or You can go to my Blog that is called ART BETWEEN THE PAGES by clicking on that picture in the right column also... and all the books are listed in there... There are quite a few of them... I love to doodle... and just might do a couple more of these books soon...


The top card is created with a ZEN DAZZLE DOODLE from the book called Zen Dazzle Doodle Snowflakes... and in this book I have created 34 of these doodles... I love doing this... as you can see...

I started out doodling when I was a kid.. I didn't like school and I needed to do something creative while WASTING all that precious time in a class room.. learning things that I didn't want too.. so by the time I got to High School, I was well on my way with having a few hundred really nice doodles... sometimes it might take a week to finish ONE doodle to my liking... but as I got into high school and college and then graduate collage I was well on my way to a doodle an hour... still taking notes and all that good stuff in between... I actually did start to like school... but hey... you have to when you want to learn something to help people..

Anyway... I was going to school for my degree in Psychology to become an Psycho therapist... and I already had a degree in art.. so when I got out, I mixed the two... and used them both and at the time, art therapy was just becoming a way to reach some of the people I was working with... so I applied this to my work... and it was a huge help to me and my patients..

I started also to analyze my own doodles and wow... what an eye opener that was... yikes.. anyway... talk about healing self... I started right then and there... although I did know what was on my mind thru the doodling of most of them.. so it was not that huge of a surprise... But it did help me greatly to become a better person for ME... and also to know who and what I was and to help others better.. which was the original goal..

When we left our home in the northeast to move, I grabbed my doodles as a prize possession... and knew that some day I would do something with them... most of those I have not even used... as I started to doodle to pass the time... and was not really very well physically, so I used that doodling as a pass time... I have to have my hands doing something all the time.. knitting, spinning, something.. so I doodle... ESPECIALLY when on the phone!!!!!

Anyway... hope that you enjoy seeing these... and please look at all the books I have published... I am proud of them.. and hope you will enjoy seeing them all.. You can buy from Amazon or any other book store in the world... Thanks so much for taking a look..

Have a fun filled day... and pick up a pen, doodle a little and you will be surprised at how much you can enjoy it... don't stress over what it looks like.. just doodle...

Love, Light and Peace..Bonnie

Color Challenge colors for this week....

Betty asked me to make some samples up for this weeks challenge… and of course I said YES… sure would love to…

So the colors are so very pretty… Some that SU is retiring.. so here they are… Blush Blossom, Cameo Coral, Ruby Red, with caramel or cocoa as dessert… WOW.. what fun this is going to be.. So off to my play area… and grabbed all the colors… and sat down to think about what kind of card I wanted to create…

Well the card that Cathleen(ctorina) did the other day was really sticking in my brain… so I had to try that technique of punching.. that was one thing that my card would have… and all of a sudden 10 different ideas came flooding into my brain.. and trying to get them all down at once was next to impossible… so that is why I ended up with two cards for this.. but that is okay…One would be pretty and sweet and delicate… and the other one artsy and fun… I let the colors speak and I after it was all over… I had inky fingers… and a mess in my studio… and it was all 100% FUN…

Hope you like them…

I drew the flower from a card I fell in love with about 3-4 months ago… and I can not ever tell you who’s card it was… The paper lace, of course it made with a Martha deep vine punch… and the word space is made with Spell binders… I used my Twinkling H20’s to paint the rose… used just a little tiny bit of olive green on the leaves… other wise the leaves are cocoa…

I also used the Dotted Swiss Cuddlebug on the background… and the rest as they say is history…

Thanks again Betty for asking me to sample out this delightful color challenge.. it was a lot of fun…

I hope that you all have fun with this one too.. I hope the gallery is filled to the hilt with all kinds of wonderfully OUTRAGEOUS CARDS…

This card just had to be made… It was something that has been bugging me a long long time… do you ever have that kind of thing happen… well these wonderful colors really allowed me to get it all down really easy…

I used a Tim Holtz distressing pad on the white 5x7 card… then I took a piece of blush bloom and tore the edges and then distressed that with some Opaque white from Copic (it is in a jar) and using my finger spread it all around the paper… then I made the ruby red strip… and using a maker… made the tulips… and then outlined them in white gel.. and then distressed the edges with Black soot distressing pad by Tim Holtz… and also some white copic on that too… Then I stamped some critters with WINGS on Cameo Coral and Blush Blossom, and after distressing them with inks, I chose two that really stood out and mounted them onto the black area…

I then cut out a “Pretties by Bonnie” image… and put part of it on the side… (the black flower and leaves) I wrote the word WINGS… added a few Blush Blossom dots… and took some pictures of it.. .

Two very different cards… and I have to say I totally enjoyed using these colors together Betty.. they were fun to use and play with… GREAT together…

Thanks for taking a look and also thanks for leaving any comments…

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie

Pretties by Bonnie

I just wanted to share with you, that the other half of my blog is open... and it has all kinds of cards in there to view... I think some of them have been on here.. but you might see something a little different too.. here are some of the newer cards I have made... but please take a look over there... Just click on the button to the right... It say Pretties by Bonnie ... it will take you right there... enjoy yourself... look at everything... go thru all the folders.. and inspect it all....

These are just some samples.. you can see them over there a lot larger...

Thanks for taking a few minutes to visit... and thanks for stopping in to say hi... love it when you come here...

Love Light and Peace...Bonnie