Easter Eggs ?????

 I am sure that you have all not only seen these but also used them in a few 'crafty' ways...  Well I had some of my dear friends over a few days prior to Easter and we made so many fun and Wonderful things... we all had to bring a few things to the table...  and we all did... 
This one just sort of evolved... as we were talking about these wonderful eggs that another friend... Kim by name had made.. they were so perfect in all ways... 

 They too were plastic eggs... but she had a secret and we  knew the secret... but we didn't have what it took...  


Anyway... Sande and Marie ran up to Sande's house to get the multi colored plastic eggs... LOL.. 

 Meanwhile, I dragged out the alcohol inks.. and a few blenders with felt pads... and we all had a blast...  I think everyone made at least one... 


But you see... I can not be satisfied with just making one... I had to figure out how to get an egg that I really liked... and so.... up to the Dollar store I went the next day!!!!  

 I bought a dozen the size of a regular egg... and then a dozen that were about twice the size... Oh man... was I going to have FUN... 


And I did...  
I had to open the French doors... as I can't stand the smell of the inks... but that was okay... it was a glorious day... nice and warm and sunny... took the smell right out of the room... 

 I got a lot of them made... and was thrilled with each and everyone of them... 


But then reality set in... what the heck was I going to do with all these eggs... ???? REALLY what was I thinking when I did all these eggs... other than to have a blast and use some of my alcohol inks???  


Oh.... I forgot to send my Mom's Easter card on time... I was so busy that I forgot... so I decided to put a FEW into something else and send it to her... come back tomorrow to see what I put it in... so cute too.. 


Anyway I wanted to add a little something

to each egg... and I am also trying to use up things in my studio... so I remembered the gold stickers... I think I bought enough for the rest of my life... and I most likely will not use all that I bought... ever in a million years...  

So on they went... I had a blast creating each egg to look entirely different... 

I also decided to send a few to another friend who will love making these too... she lives in Michigan...  and is recovering from Back surgery... so this will be a fun thing for her to do for next Easter.  

I hope that you have a super nice day... and thanks so very much for stopping by for a little EASTER spirit... a little late... but hey... put this into your to do list book for next year.. they are fun to do... and so many other ways to decorate them too...  they look like marble when you see them... or maybe alabaster... anyway... they don't look like the plastic ones... that is for  sure..

Have fun... See you tomorrow...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie    

Flowers and more

 I really do enjoy playing... and so I created a few more things using Pretties by Bonnie Flowers and a few other things...  I love making background papers to use .... and most of the time, I flip through them prior to making more... as they are nice and dry and ready to use... wow... I loved this background... and then I stenciled the harlequin  using a little of the MELTED CHOCOLATE spray by Dyan ... which I love... I love all the colors... so very delightful to use...  Then I added the pretty little posies that I colored with my Distress Markers... love them... do you have yours yet??? Better try them... they are really delightful to use...  

 And of course I love frilly too.. love the polka dots on the background... and the punching method... and then added some leaves and flowers using my Pretties by Bonnie Daisies with a dot...  Since I love daisies I am so loving this one... so very delicate in all ways...  

I am loving the purple and greens together more and more... love the tones of this one... delicate, strong and pretty... also another Pretties by Bonnie flower and leaf piece...  

Hope that you like them enough to take a look at the new class when I release it .... COMING SOON to your computer.... yes it is on line...  YEAH...  it is taking me a long time to up load it all... but it will be on line...  

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you tomorrow... I have posted something from Easter... hope you enjoy it...  
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Anything GOES!!!

 Today being MONDAY is usually a day where I plan to play all day long... which is generally what I have done... but I had to make a pumpkin pie first... and that is where the creativity started... I don't use wheat at all in our diets... so I needed a nice crust... what shall I use???  
So I used some Sorghum flour, Buckwheat (which is not wheat and is gluten free YEAH!!!)  and then I had some older coconut flakes that I knew I would not be using for cookies etc any time soon... so I threw that into the Vita Mix... and made coconut flour...  wow... I hope it tastes good... most likely we will love it.. anyway, when the pie came out of the oven... it looked like chocolate pie crust with the pumpkin pie... how glorious it will be to have for dinner...  
 Okay... then I hit the studio... and the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is..... you guessed it... ANYTHING GOES!!!!  Oh My goodness... what a day this is going to be... 

 Well as you can tell already by the picture above... I got out my Dyan Reaveley Sprays... and then a stencil to create the blotted look... I love that look... then I had to use my Tim Holtz stamp set that I just received... so I stamped that... and then went over the entire stamp with my white gel pen!!!  Love the look...  it makes it really pop...  of course the white gel pen filled in the areas... you can still see where the stamp is!!!  


Then I got into trouble... I wanted a perfect butterfly... 
and none of mine worked the way I wanted it to look... so I drew one... and then colored it with my Distress Markers, and then added liquid pearls to the butterflies wings... I love it..  The Butterfly has a heart... that is the red 'dot' there... when it was larger, prior to down sizing it to fit the area, it was a lot larger... but the butterfly has a heart... 

Since I had been playing with some flowers for an on line up and coming class... I used a few of them for the side of the page... 

Oh I forgot to tell you that this is another journal... all filled with Pretties by Bonnie    flowers, leaves and critters...  I have been working day and night on this class... and hope to have it done soon... and then it will be on sale right here... and also on my Etsy store hopefully anyway...  

Well Anything did GO today... I had a blast... and it is almost time to clean up my work space and start on another project.. but dinner is slowly by surely creeping up...  and so many a small project...  

Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit... and also thanks for all the wonderful comments you all have been leaving me... I certainly do love reading them...  Hope to see you tomorrow with more goodies...  Have a fun time and enjoy the day...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie   

Honeybees

 Honeybees came into my mind today when I read the Sunday Stamper Challenge... the theme... MEN.... well I was reading some of my hubbies magazines as I was sitting out in the sun this morning... debating what to do for this challenge... as the theme is a huge challenge for me.. I am really more into feminine things...  so I had to really stretch here... but this is the my feelings today too...  so it is a real combination of thoughts...   

 WE all know that the honeybees are very very important for our experience... in so many ways...  they help to pollinate our plants that help us eat... they are monitors of so many things...  and they are dying out...  some have called collapsing hive disorder...  but I call it too many chemicals in our lives... too many sprays on things that create problems for humans as well as the tiny little insects...  honeybees are basically dying out... and Albert Einstein stated years ago, that when the bees are all gone... humans will be gone in a years time... so we must start to really take a look at what we are doing...  


Most bees are sort of MALES... there is a queen... what a life...  huh??? Anyway... so my theme is covered... the stories I have been reading about naturally protecting our hives will be addressed this week... as things have to be addressed with our bees...  
Bees are very important to our food production on the farm here...  we count on our honeybees...  as all our seeds are heirloom open pollinated seeds... and they NEED bees to help to create the pollination process...  HELP... don't use chemicals... don't buy things that chemicals have been used on to kill bees... and also in the future us...  Apples is a huge one...  I know that I have seen a couple of advertisements on TV by Burts bees and showing the apple tree in the background... yikes... how true...

Don't spray things on your plants that will kill the bees... protect them...  

My little flower here was made with Tim's new Flower die...  love it... I also used some of his word tissue paper to create the flower... I ran it through my zyron and thus it was strong enough to create the flower...  Love it...  colored the leaf with one of my newest toys... my DISTRESS MARKERS.... love them too..  

Well... my page today for my journal...  think positives for all the bees of the world... we need them all.. Thanks for stopping by today for a visit... and hope to see you tomorrow too... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Organic Eyes

I did this a few months ago in my journal... as I was trying to create something for the Altered Alice Challenge.. and I loved the eye... so I used it... but on an entirely different character...  

THE QUEEN of HEARTs...  Yes!!!

Oh well.. I do have fun creating different things don't i??? 
Hope you do... 
Thanks for stopping by...  
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Mr Snail

A special page in so many ways...  I have been wanting to do another challenge for Inspiration Journal and this month it is watercolor... a favorite medium for me to use ... and also wanted to try this other technique.... and so I combined them both...  

One the left had side of this journal page... I used my gelatos for create a water color effect... using brown, yellows, and then down to a pale yellow...  I used all kinds of paints (twinkling H20's, Distress stains, Mini misters, Ink pads, Gelatos... you name it) and made a few more leaf stamps using the pink eraser material... and a nice sharp knife!!!!  Love doing these...  I stamped about 100 of them.. so I got carried away... what else is new???  

Then I started to play with the other part of the page... 
I used some egg shells... and even though they were brown eggs, I used the insides of the eggs and glued them onto the paper... (separate piece) and then went to town painting, misting and adding gold Twinkling H20's... and making this really yummy background... 

Then I took some other leaves and a snail and watercolored them with H20's also..  I love these watercolor paints... as they have the mica in them too... always makes everything pop and shine when they are dry... love them.  

Okay... the snail... the meaning of the snail was that in college when I was an art student I was not allowed to use my name until I got my degree... so I used a snail as it was easy to 'sign' my name using any size brush to create the snail logo... so thus the snail.. but I read this really cute little short story that was just a passage from a book... the book is called   ... are you ready for this... 

The Sound of a Wild Snail EATING.... by Elisabeth Tova Bailey...  
If you get a chance... read it... wonderful story... all about her healing and also becoming friends with a SNAIL.... so very unique and loving... Get the book...   Love it...  

Well my story for the day... a true one in so many different areas... and all about healing, loving our own spaces...  and enjoying who, where and what we are not matter where we are at this time... Love yourself.  A very hard thing to do at times... but we must all move into this direction...  

Hope to see you tomorrow... and thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit today... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

New Challenge opens up!!!

 Compendium, Vol. 2. 
WOW!  I guess we are going to be having a lot of fun with these challenges... 
I happen to have taught a class on this last year... and had a lot of fun with it...  There were so many gals that wanted to take the class that I had to run it for two days...  over 35 gals had fun making boxes and creating flowers with the Tattered floral die Cut... this one we did like on page 66... but I did take it a step further and we made a stencil so that we could stamp over the flower... so very much fun.  

 You can see the over lay a little bit better here in this picture... 


And THEN... of course I had to add a flower... this one was made from Kitchen parchment paper...  with a little bit of Mini mister with some perfect pearls in it.. . Prior to the Perfect pearl misters coming out!!!!  Love those things...  Do you have yours yet???  perfect for so many different occasions... 

AND then I needed a bow to wrap around the box... so I used my Distress inks to get a yummy colored bow by using my work sheet and 'smearing' inks on that to pick up with my seam binding...  love it all... 

Try this fun technique... I guarantee you will realize that the die cuts are not just for ONE thing... there are so many uses for these great things...  

Prior to Linda posting the challenge today for Tim's newest   Compendium, Vol. 2.     On Studio L3.... I had to get warmed up, so I created a few pages in my journal...  (time difference really mounts up... can't waste a precious moment in the studio and not do something...  )  SOoooooooo I played... just what I needed to do too...  

Face Value

 I love drawing faces.. so to get a little warmed up I drew a partial face.. and really wanted to get into the next page though... as I wanted to use some of my new Distress Ink Markers... wow... I love them... one of the reasons why I love them, is that they are gushy... filled with lots of ink... that is super nice... do you ever open up a marker and it is brand new and it seams dry already... or the color doesn't go on smoothly... well these markers do work GREAT... and also another factor is that I know what all the colors look like, so I can use them in the best ways...  
I used the markers on both of these pages.. .

 I yesterday I made some new stamps for an upcoming technique class... and had to cut the leaves out to see how they would look on a page... so I combined the three most important things on my to do list for the day into one page...  

Make a leaf stamp, stamp using it... and cut the leaves out and use them.... 

Then to use my markers.. which I did on the leaves and also on the background paper... and then I made a tag using a die cut and some grunge board...  also used Distress powders on the branch and larger bird... and then added some fluffy green stuff... can't think of the name of it.. Flower something ... for the leaves on the branch...  I will think of when I go back into the studio...  

I also used some stencils and mini misters to create the background on the 'tag'  area...  

Love doing my journal... everyday I try to do a page... today I could do two!!! What a fun experience this all is... love it... 

Well got a few farm chores to do... transplant some tomato plants... and then start planting all over again.. everything that we planted in our gardens got zapped with the heavy frosts we have had the past two nights... we were unable to cover it all... as we had too much planted!!!!  Such a shame... but nature is like that... and we took a chance on planting it all this early...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit ... and I hope you will stop by Studio L3 for a visit too... and then go to Tim's sites and check them all out too... have a fun day... and create something FUN...
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie     

Love LIFE

Love self... 
Love others, 
Be loving... 
But most of all.... 

LOVE LIFE...  
Just a short little page... and fun filled with papers...  
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Love is all around

Love is all around us...  in all way... ALWAYS... 

Enjoy your day... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Joy

Life is about
 CREATING YOURSELF
to be who you want to be... 

Thought huh??? 

Enjoy... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A spring NOTE

 I love playing with new TOYS... and these are two new toys that arrived this week... YEAH.. just in time for another Tim Tag review...  


So... I started off a little different than I had planned... but that was okay... I was playing... 


I used some Inks and then Embossed with the music folder...  


Then I colored the areas I wanted to highlite and then had tons of fun doing one of my favorite things... MAKING FLOWERS... wow that die cuts so many little flowers that a sheet of 12 x 12 paper made over 17 flowers...  tons of fun!!! 

 I used different brads in each one of the flowers and then used liquid pearls to accent the brads for a pretty center...  Dogwood blossoms are not as dimensional as these flowers are... but the color and the centers are like this HUGE dogwood in our backyard... it is over 30 feet tall... and the color is breath taking plus...  just glorious this week... with the cooler temps and the rains... this tree is just SCREAMING  LIFE...  

Here is a close up of the flower...   Love it... 

Well.. I am sharing this tag with you today... as it is for the Simon Stamp and Show Challenge of making a Tim Tag...  which this is 100% a Tim Tag...  Not 100% like the one that he created for the 12 Tags of 2012... but similar to it...  

Hope that you  have a very pleasant day... enjoy the flowers in your area... (hopefully there are some blooming )  Our azaleas are just so beautiful this year... I will have to wander out and take some pictures and share them with you later...  Thanks for stopping by for a visit...  see you tomorrow with more goodies...  I have so many things that I have been doing recently to share with you... wish there were more hours in the day to create, share and do all the fun things on the computer...  Thanks so very much for all the great comments you leave on my blog... I truly wish I could visit your site and leave a message too... sometime soon I hope to have a real connection to the internet, vs this dial up... My neighbor and I are working on it...  hopefully soon.  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

My LUCKY and favorite number is 6

 Trying to get back into the swing of things is sometimes a hard thing... but I am trying to get it all done... Today being SUNDAY.... it is time for Hels Sheridan's Stamper Sunday... and since I didn't do her challenge last week and felt horrible about it... I HAD to do it this week...  

I love the theme... my favorite number is 6 and it has always done well by me... and so I call it lucky too...  I used one of Tim's numbers... and hammered it a little and then used some alcohol inks and colored it... then sanded it off what was needed... funny how we do things... but it is all fun, isn't it???  LOL...  anyway... I then had fun making the dress form... I used some of that honeycomb paper... and cut the form out... and glued it onto the form I had cut out of grunge board...  what fun... prior to doing all that gluing, I did use some distress inks on the honeycomb... I used Antique Linen... for a lightly used look.. or a little more vintage look...  

I used a few colors on my background... and then embossed it and then colored over the embossing with Coffee archival ink...  love the look of that... then added some Martha lace... and a few flowers and leaves around...   

 Some Just Rite pretties... love these particular stamps... so nice with this dress form...  


My neighbor and I did the same tag... and yet hers and mine look nothing alike... I love them both... they are both rich in color... and the honeycomb on the dress form was fun to do...  


Such fun... 

I tucked a few little bows around the form.. one on top and one on the bottom... just for that frilly look of the honeycomb...  

Well the weather was really wonderful here today... and hope that you all had a wonderful Easter... I spent most of the day creating an Etsy store...  so much up loading.. I had a hard time with it...  but dial up is not fun no matter what... wish I had a faster speed of internet service... this 45 kbps is SLOW....  
but it is better than nothing... at least I can share and see a little bit of stuff...  

Which brings me to the end of this blog... Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you all real soon... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Journey

Journey along the road of life is an awaken time... for the soul...  and for everything around us...  

Make your journey special...  
do something special...  NOW... 

Thanks for stopping by... 
see you soon... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Freedom

Another page all done with colored pencils and FREE thoughts...  Love doing this journal... hope that you can find space in your life for one... 


Thanks for stopping by... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Enjoy LIFE

A little doodling and then some colored pencils...  just fun...  good feelings... 

Love doing this art journaling.....glad I am sharing these with you... hope that you will start a journal of any kind... very important these days to release your inner feelings... in any way that you can...  art, writing, talking, singing... what ever turns you on... 

Thanks for coming by for a visit... love to hear from you... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Every DAY

Another page from my journal... and this page I used modeling paste in the stencil... love doing that...  EVERY day is a NEW day... and you should enjoy it...  
YES!!! 

Thanks for stopping by... on a roll... see you tomorrow... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

DOTS ... are you seeing dots

When you like something that You have done it is good..I liked doing this... and I had a nice time... free and footloose... colors, design and just having fun... a good feeling... 

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes...  ART is knowing which ones to keep!!!  

A good saying...  but I just enjoy and keep it ALL....  
have a fun day... sift thru some things and create something fun from them... that way you dont' have to throw it away... LOL... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  
 

Boutique a la ALICE

 First of the month and Altered Alice has NEW theme...  and I happen to really love this one.. at least I had a lot of fun creating my page... I also decided that I am going to make an Alice Journal for all these fun things...  It will be good to have an Alice book... at least another one I should say..  


So the theme is Sunday Special clothing...  


Well there is a little story behind this one... You see Alice confided in me that she really needs some really nice clothes... as she has been wearing this same old blue and white dress for a LONG time... and it is about time that this girl gets some new threads...  so she started to look for a nice boutique in Wonderland... and to say that the picking was slim... it was really next to nothing... but she did find this really neat boutique and she loved the way it was decorated and everything was just perfect for her...  so she tried on one dress.. but it was so much like the little girl blue and white dress... it did have some pretty flowers around the bottom... but she wanted something a little more sophisticated... so she kept on looking around... and she finally saw the dress on a store mannequin...   it was pink.. and it was strapless... and so very pretty to her tired blue dress...  it had these pretty white flowers all around the border... it was just what she needed to give her a new look... she loved it... she was sold...  

  

 Some of the things that made her realize that this was the perfect dress for her was that there was pretty butterfly on the wall... and the wall also had some really pretty mushrooms ... RED with White polka dots... she loved it...  and look at the wild flower on the base of the area... so perfect...  she knew it was for her... 

 This was a very pretty dress too... but so very much like the original blue and white... 

 The Dress of her dreams...  

Signs of perfection for Alice... 

Oh what fun she will have in her new Pink Dress...  

The dresses are made out of Mulberry that I stamped, and sewed onto the figures...  the pink dress has layers of mulberry and the little white flowers have pearls in the center...  so delicate... hope the dress looks GREAT on Alice... 

Also hoping you have a fun day... enjoy the wonders of spring all around us... and create something special... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

No Crows in the Asparagus

 Spring is a wonderful time of the year... in fact one of my very favorite of the entire year...  I love all the pretty colors of the season and the FLOWERS... well if you know anything about me... you know I LOVE FLOWERS of all kinds.. . In fact as I am writing this I am looking out my office window and see about 15 azaleas bushes... but the one closest to the window is going to have be cut back... as it is starting to cover the window... it is all white... and next to it the prettiest fuchsia and then a pale pink and deeper pink... and a lilac and a few more whites... so very pretty...   Spring is also a time of when our gardens all are starting to produce heavy amounts of produce... that we totally enjoy....   Asparagus is one... there is a family story about asparagus too... we lived in NJ bringing up our children for 3o years...  (or so)  and we kept on trying to sell the house and move... we wanted out of NJ so bad...  we lived in the section that was very pretty.. up in the north western section of NJ... but still we just wanted to move out .... but every year when spring came we wished we had asparagus.. but we didn't plant them, because we were going to MOVE...  of course we finally did... and when we bought the farm we said we would plant asparagus here... and we finally DID... and so we are loving them...  we have been totally spoiled by the amount we get each year... they are delicious and so very good... soups, sautees, raw, pestos, dips, you name it... we have had asparagus in it...  we love them anyway at all...  so when this tag of TIM's was spring oriented, I thought I had better do the asparagus theme... vs the bird...  I love birds and will do one with a bird after tomorrow... as I will be getting my new Branch die cut then... YEAH!!!  Along with my Distress Markers... YEAH YEAH YEAH...  I can hardly wait to use them...  

 If you haven't checked out Tim's site recently he is doing a tag on the first of every month... so why not join in on the fun... learn something new and enjoy...  
This month it is all about embossing, stamping, and using layers of inks and die cuts...  and boy did I have fun...  

This tag is also to help us keep CROWS our of the garden this year... last year they attacked out watermelons...  and that was not a good thing at all.. 

So this is the warning... 

Live the life you've imagined... and stay out of our garden...  that is the message to the crows...  otherwise.. there will be a change in your life...  Thanks...    Hopefully they will understand the intent there... we are doing a lot of things to help keep them out... but they don't seem to care... they are hungry too...  but they ruin the whole patch in one day... taking a bite out of every one of the things... not eating until full... just plundering the entire patch of what ever it is they desire...  

Well... grab some toys... and start to play with making a tag... check out Tim's site and join in... see you later... and thanks for stopping by for a visit... hope you have time to check out my new kits for sale... it is a fun way to learn and with the price of gas ... a good way to save too...  Lets not forget to keep the stores in business... and stop in there to buy our supplies... learn in the comfort of your home for the entire year... in your space...

Have a super nice day...
Love, Light and Peace...  Bonnie 

New BLOG!!!

This is so much fun..  The first time I heard about blogging... I thought that is not for me.. I am on dial up... and I would spend my life uploading pictures... well NOW I know it is only half of my life up loading pictures...  LOL... 

Anyway... I have decided that I love teaching... and since I teach these classes in real life and so many of you can't get there... and have written to me asking for directions and kits, I decided that I would add this blog to my list of other blogs...  

I have not made a banner yet for the blog... but you can click on the white on white card... and go to the Kre8tive Kits blog... and hopefully I will have a few more classes and kits available for you... most of the classes will be on line... thru the blogs... they are blind blogs.. so the only way you can get in is by buying the class or kit... and then you will be into the site of your choice... really easy.. and very effective...  

Front of the white on white card 

The first class which will be held this week-end at Scrapbook Creations is the White on White Card... it will be from 1- 4... In the class you will see all the cards that I have made that are white on white...  and also receive many useful hints and pointers about making white on white cards...  

When you buy this as a kit, you will receive what is listed and also receive all these same pointers and suggestions...  and you will get to see 30 plus cards that have been made by me over the years..  

I do hope you will take a look and also realize that at this point I only have 12 of these kits available for sale... so first come first served.  I do hope to add more... but trying to add all the other classes and kits too... so please be patient with me on this matter.  I totally appreciate this...

Thanks for taking your time to visit this site...  
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie