Spotted Canary Challenge

Okay, no need to send out the dogs....I survived the trip! A week on Amelia Island, a week at Destin, Florida and then a drive across the country and up into Canada and three weeks in the Rockies.

I tried to post on my blog after St. Louis, but I could never get my photos to download....grrrr! I don't handle computer problems very well! Especially when not fully rested! Then my laptop became full with photos and I could not even download my photos from the compact flash to the laptop! I did post a lot of photos on Facebook and hope to post some here eventually. We did see a lot of BEAUTIFUL sights!
My desktop is both OLD and FULL....so, I do have a lot of deleting to do!

In the meantime, I have work to do! I have a load of projects to do for EK Success and am also hosting the August Challenge on Spotted Canary. Above is my entry for the July Challenge which was based on a sketch challenge. Each month, a winner is chosen randomly and they get $100 worth of free product. You can see how easy the sketch is for this month, so go enter by Saturday! If I have time, I know you do too! Then come back in August and enter my color challenge!

Speaking of color, we have a nursery to do! Now that the trip is behind me, I can concentrate on this little fellow that is expected in late October. Above are the colors Jessica is using in the nursery (not literally all of them....you know, blues and greens with some brown) with a theme of owls. She found some really cute fabric with owls on it and I just did paintings of the owls for the wall. I will post those later.

I loved owls when I was a teenager and even decorated my college dorm room with owl posters (how dorky is that?...oh well, it was the 70's!). So I am all excited about the owls. I am also fixing up the little clothes hamper that I used in the nursery when Jason was born. I will share the projects as they materialize!

Above is a little felted fellow I made. I think needle felting is great fun...his tummy is brown, not olive green as it appears in the photo.

Anyway, be patient with me about the trip photos. A three week trip can be a bit overwhelming, especially when you take as many photos as I do. If you want to see photos feel free to become my friend on Facebook (Holly Lammons Craft) and I have several albums there.

Hope you are having a great summer!

Where Ideas Take Flight

First, let me tell you about a brand new website that I am very excited about. It is called Spotted Canary....where ideas take flight. It is a resource community to give you ideas and projects and you can share your own ideas. Sounds cool, huh? I have contributed to it, so if you see a project attributed to "Renaissance Crafter"....that is me. You know how a "Renaissance Man" knows about and is interested in many different things? Well, I am interested in a lot of crafts....from papercrafting, scrapbooking, photography, sewing, knitting, painting....the list goes on and on, so that is why that is my name on the site. Be sure and click on the name above and check it out. Let me know what you think. It has just recently gone live, so it will continue to get better and better! You can create your own "Craft Spot" where you invite friends, message others, etc. I am still learning my way around on it.

I have created artwork for Inkadinkado for almost two years now. Most months, you can see something on the Inka website that I made....I just got my "assignment" today so I was excited to get started. After I finished the card I made, I decided to go ahead and make cards out of the extra photos I had printed. The first one (above) is a photo I took in Savannah, GA. Who knows, there might be a candy box Forrest Gump left behind somewhere near that park bench. I took that photo in the morning when the sun was low and it was illuminating the spanish moss. I added some stamping with an Inkadinkado stamp and some ribbon, and I have a card ready to go.

This next one is the Minnehaha Falls near Lake Rabun in NE Georgia. It is one of our favorite waterfalls in the area of the cabin. This would make a great manly card or card for someone who likes to hike.

This garden gate is in the backyard of my friend, Miriam's house. She has a gorgeous backyard with lots of hydrangeas and ferns and hostas, etc. Notice how I used the Curvy Cutter to cut a half circle at the top of the card to replicate the gate....easy peezy!

Don't forget to check out Spotted Canary!