Another way to change your environment!

  As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to Change Your Environment!  Hmm....now that's a bit different!

If you are looking for fun ideas or ways to change your current environment, you might enjoy checking out my post at the beginning of the month:  Change It Up!

This post I'm sharing my plan to change up my environment.  My hope is to plant a butterfly humming bird sort of garden out in front of my barn.  I have an old horse trough with holes that will act as my oversized planter.  Where I live we still had frost advisories this past week, so I've waited to actually do this so I might have some success!  ;)

I'll post some pics as I venture into this; it might be a catastrophe, but that's what taking the chance and changing things is all about!  

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   We'd like to hear your ideas at Path of Positivity!  Come share them with us!  

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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Material List

Digi: #860 Flower Shop from Scribbles Designs

Copic Markers

Background digital paper Polkadoodles

Ribbon/Seam binding

Twine

Button

Colored Burlap Trim

Gem

Cricut Access Vintage Lace Border #MC8A8C5 Vintage Wedding

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

Die Cut Divas:  Tic, Tac, Toe with a die cut

Dare 2B Artzy:  Flowers

Watercooler:  All Things Feminine

Try It On Tuesday:  Make it Feminine

Girlz Creative:  Pink Card

CD Sunday Plus:  AG with CD, USB or digi download

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Rustic Christmas Gnome

 Conie Fong has adorable digi bundles for all your holiday projects!  Now if you are into gnomes, she really has lots of fun fellas over in her Etsy Shop!  

I thought this guy with browns and reds would make for a handsome country/rustic type Christmas card!    

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

Material List:

Digi Image/stamp: Christmas Lights Gnome from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Gel Pen

Washi Tape from Stash

CTMH Embossing Folder (retired)

CTMH Pattern Paper (retired)

CTMH Ribbon (retired)

CTMH Ink

Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Oxide

Studio G Glitter Glue

Ranger Distressed Glitter Dust

Button covered in Glitter Dust

Black Twine

Kraft Paper

Tag Cut from CTMH Artiste

Cricut Access

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

12 Months of Christmas: AG with Opt Twist ~Gnomes

Challenge Up Your Life: Under a Hat

Sparkles: Use a Tag

Merry Little Christmas: AG

Christmas 24: Add Some Glitter

Dragonfly Dreams: Add Some Sparkle

52 Christmas Card Throwdown: Use Kraft

Just Us Girls:  Layers

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Mother's Day Western Style

Our new challenge over at Cut It Up is Mother's Day! Come check out the inspiration and join us with your creations!

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Material List:  

KaDoodle Bug Designs JS Spring Flower Cowgirl Hat

Different colors of cardstock scraps for hat and flowers

Distressed Wood from Polkadoodles

DDD Doodles Aqua Digital CS

Satin Ribbon Bow

Gems

Raffia Ribbon

Gems

Adhesives

Cricut Print and Cut:  Cricut Access:  Sentiment #M3D391 CTMH Artiste

Cricut Maker

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

 

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors.

This project is off to the following challenges: 

Dream Valley:  Embellish It

Dragonfly Dreams:  Add Some Sparkle

Always Fun:  Combine Old and New Products

New~Digital Cut JS Spring Flower Cowgirl Hat with all old Stash

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG

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Brown Birthday Bear with Balloons!

 It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and the optional twist is:  Use something starting with the first letter or your mother's first name and tell us about it.  

Ok, here goes!  Brown Birthday Bear with Balloons; one is Blue!  

  Material List 

Digi:  Party Animal from SheepSki Designs

 Copic Markers

Red cardstock

Cricut Access:  Sentiment text font Cuttin' Up 

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

This card is off to these challenges:  

Creative Fingers:  AG

AAA Birthday:  Happy Birthday to AAA!!!  Birthday Card

Seize the Birthday:  Birthday with Topping:  Furry Friends

Lemon Shortbread:  AG

TTCRD:  AG

Animal Friends:  Bear

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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Change It Up!

  As we meander a Path of Positivity, we are challenging you to Change Your Environment!  Hmm....now that's a bit different!

I was so inspired by this cutie from All Dressed Up!  She is definitely changing her environment by painting up some colorful flowers!!  How fun is that!  

There are so many ways to change your environment to make it a happier place without spending a ton of money!  

Here are just a few ideas:

Paint a room

Plant some flowers

Rearrange furniture

Clean out/repurpose some old things

Paint an old chair

Hang a different picture 

Get a new scented candle

Hang grandma's old blanket over a chair

Make a new piece of art and enter it at Path of Positivity

So, are you inspired to shake it up a bit?  Try something a little different and change your environment?  Let us know what you are doing!

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   We'd like to hear your ideas at Path of Positivity!  Come share them with us!  

Remember, you may share any sort of artistic medium over at PoP:  writing, cards, journals, scrapbooking, painting, sewing, baking, needle crafts, etc as long as it is positive!  The theme is always optional.  

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Material List

Digi: Pretty as a Picture from All Dressed Up

Copic Markers

Plaid Paper from Kitten Scraps Luv U2 Pieces

Flower from stash

Bo Bunny Double Dot Gems

Embossing Folder

Twine

Box Cut:  Fleurette Bloom Tiger Lily

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade

Cricut Access:  Colour Pallete FREE #MD4C4879 

Paint Brush from Family Album #M8042C6D

Flower (Background dies) from Serenade #M30295
Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

All Dressed Up:  Use Embellies

Creative Crafters:  AG

Mod Squad:  Spring has Sprung

Creative Knockouts:  Tic, Tac, Toe

Crafty Catz:  AG opt twist~ For a Child

WWODT:  AG

Star in my Pocket:  Spring

Creations in Pink:  AG in Mainly Pink

Creative Sketchy girls: Bingo/Tic, tac, toe

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about our optional twist!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

Thanks for stopping by!  Make yourself at home and feel free to peruse other posts/pages, leave a comment, and/or check out my Pinterest and YouTube Channel.

Welcome Little Friend Sognandoscrap

So excited to be a Guest Designer over at Sognando Scrap this month!  The challenge is to create a project with "Flowers, colors and ribbons"...now that's easy enough!  I encourage you to visit Sognando Scrap, check out the inspiration from their talented team and prize info, and then share your take on this fun challenge!

I chose a whimsical image from Conie Fong.  Titled Hello Little Friend, it is the perfect image for a card to just simply say hello, thinking of you, missing you, etc!

 Material List

Digital Image:  Hello Little Friend from Conie Fong

Copic Markers

 Cardstock:  CTMH (Retired)

Ribbon:  CTMH

Flower Button from Stash

Raffia Ribbon for Bow

 Sharing with these challenges:  

2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with a Critter

Crafty Animals:  AG Must include an animal

Creatalicious:  AG with optional Wings

TTCRD:  AG

Creative Craft Cottage:  Include an Animal

Mix It Up:  AG + Layering

Crafting Challenge:  Flowers and/or Butterflies

A Gem of a Challenge:  AG

As You Like It:  Spring or Summer....Spring~ I love watching all the animals come out to play, the trees blossom, and the new birds/return of humming birds!  I also love the idea of being outside without a coat!  

The Sisterhood of Crafters:  From a Garden

Paper Funday:  AG Optional Twist ~Spring has Sprung

Use our Stuff:  Inspired by a Book ~ Bunny's First Spring is a Children's book about a Bunny experiencing all the sights and sounds of spring for the first time!  Very sweet!  

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A Little Christmas Fun

I was looking through some older classes from Kit and Clowder, and I found this one!  Did you know you can order older monthly classes?  Yes, to learn more about that and Kit and Clowder Coloring Classes, click HERE!  

Since the background came with the class, I could combine it with any focal image, so I chose Twinkle Brrr to use from Scribble Designs for the perfect Christmas scene...or maybe not so perfect!  haha

Material List:

Digi: Twinkle Brrr from Scribble Designs

Kit and Clowder Marker Class

Copic Markers

CTMH Papers

Twine

Gel pens, pencil, eraser

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

12 Months of Christmas:  AG Christmas

Merry Little Christmas:  AG

Sparkles Forum Christmas:  Trees

Fab 'n' Funky:  Christmas

Holly and Ivy Christmas:  AG Christmas

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...the more I love my dog!

 

 Conie Fong has just released a couple of adorable new digi bundles for the pet lovers!  One for kitties and this one for the pups!  This is Sophie and Puppy!  I fell in love with this image knowing I had the perfect papers from Scribbles Designs.

Be sure to visit the the Conie Fong FB Page for challenges and images:  Conie Fong FaceBook Challenge.  There are different challenges: one for coloring and one for completed projects! 

Material List:

Digi Image/stamp: Sophie and Puppy from Conie Fong

Hello Sentiment from Maisy and Cory Mice Bundle Conie Fong

Copic Markers

Embroidery Floss

Puppy Power Digital Papers Decosse's Dynamite Doodles 

Red paper from a recycled envelope

CTMH Inks

Ranger Distress InkVintage Photo 

Cricut Access:  Paw Print #MB346338 with Offset feature; Label from Winter Woodland #M89CE2CA

Print and cut for sentiment

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Maker

Here are my little pups, Luther and Khloe!

I'm sending this coloring off to the following challenges:

Try It on Tuesday:  Inspired by a Song ~ The More Boys I Meet by Carrie Underwood  Funny I would happen across this song since I don't listen to much country and it's totally out of my genre, but this song makes me chuckle! 

 Cutie Pie:  Raining Cats and Dogs 

TTCRD:  AG

Colour Crazy:  AG hand colored

Sunday CD Plus:  AG using CD, USB or Digital download

Krafty Chicks:  AG

Happy Little Stampers:  AG with Dies

Love to Craft:  AG

Crafting Happiness:  AG 

Addicted to Stamps and More:  Any Occasion

Lemon Shortbread:  AG

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Art Journaling in my New Book!

My first entry in my new art journal; does it surprise anyone the theme is horses?  I love this stamp from Duff's Designs (now retired, I think).  It reminds me of an era long gone, but the feeling a woman has for her horse is the same now as it was 100 years ago!  I love the rustic elegance of this stamp!

I chose to start towards the middle of the book where there was a nice wood-board page perfect for my focal image and the opposing page was plain graph paper.  There's something about using ledger, notebook, and graph paper for art that really inspires me.  Probably says something about my rebellious side!  haha  I don't want to do what the paper has intended, so I do art on it!  ;)

 

I stamped and colored the image and then tore and distressed the edges.  I added lace and burlap behind the torn edge and topped with a bow.  I colored the lace and bow with dyes/inks to match the pages.  I stamped the page and found some scraps to add behind the image.  The metal stud just seemed right!  I love adding metals to laces and bows; that look really works for me!

I did some floral background stamping and color distressing to the opposing page with some horses running along the bottom of the page.  The quote is from the focal stamp set and the floral embellishment was made from some scraps on the table!  (Love it when that happens!)  Again, I dyed the scraps to match my colors.  

I can choose to write something on this page or adhere a picture of one of my guys!  Not sure which yet....maybe both!

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 Material List

CTMH Cardstock and graph paper for the pages in My Art Journal

Stamps: 

Focal Image is from Duff's Designs (retired)

Mixed Media stamp Julie Netting Prima

Letters from the Past from Kitchen Sink Stamps

Stay Wild from Visible Image

My Art Journal (Blog Here)

Copic Markers

CTMH Floral Embossing Folder (retired)

Fabri-Tac

Scraps off my desk:  Flower cuts, lace, ribbon

Scrap of Brown Star Fabric

Kraft paper

CTMH Metal Stud (retired)

CTMH Inks Chocolate, Cashmere, Twilight, Cocoa

Ranger Distress Oxide:  Vintage Photo, Peacock Feathers

Burlap

Flower cuts from Polkadoodles cut on Cricut Maker

 Sharing with these challenges:  

A Place to Start:  Make it Elegant (Some Rustic Elegance!)

Art Impressions:  Barn Dance

Through the Purple Haze:  Ribbons and Lace

Time Out:  Pets

The Creative Crafters:  AG

More Mixed Media:  AG 

Creative Fingers:  AG

We Love Chocolate Baroque:  Springtime (Spring is time to get back out with horses and ride in the fields of flowers!)  Stamping as focal point

We Love 2 Create:  AG Mixed Media

Art Journal Journey:  Inspired By...Great Horsewomen and their horses

Crafty Friends:  Ladies &/or girls

Crafty Catz:  AG with optional twist All Creatures Great and Small

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Book Binding Try

Well, sometimes you just have to do something you've not done before and this is the time!  ; )  I decided it would be fun to try a very simple book binding technique.  

I saw these wonderful digital paper patterns from WeAre3

and a video from Nik the Booksmith and got 'er dun! 

 

I included a variety of papers/cardstocks for different types of journaling: mixed media, notebook, graph, ledger, cardstock, etc.  

Material List

Digital Cardstocks:  Wild Flowers from WeAre3

Various papers and cardstock for pages

Heavy CardBoard (Recycled)

Scrap of Denim (Recycled from an oooold pair of jeans!)

Scrappy Tape 

Fabri-Tac

Liquitex Matte Gel

Heavy thread (actually reed making thread) and needle

 Sharing with these challenges:  

CRAFT:  Recycled

Stinkin' Inkers:  Recycle/Reuse

Creative Moments:  AG

Fab 'n' Funky:  New ~  Made a NEW art journal using a NEW technique!

Mod Squad:  Flowers - Spring has Sprung

Crafty Creations:  AG

 

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Father's Day....oh my!

 

So many of us struggle with Father's Day or any other Masculine type card, so Cut It Up is helping out with some Masculine Card inspiration!  

My card...well if a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a video worth?  In the video below, I explain how this card was set up in Cricut Design Space.

Check it out below!

Now as for my lawnmower, I rubbed the pieces over a Versa Mark stamp pad and then covered them in Stampendous Embossing Powder.  I then heat embossed!  I did this 3 times to get the shiny look.  

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Material List:  

Cricut Access Mower: #MEFBBC Cricut Access Chevron: #M41EB7 Cricut Access Sentiment: #M387473 Embossing Powders and Ink

CTMH Ink Clover (retired) Cardstock CTMH Gems (retired)

Adhesives

Cricut Maker

Cricut Standard Mat
Cricut Blade

 

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors.

This project is off to the following challenges: 

Classic Design:  AG

Girlz Creative Crafts:  Men's Card

Paper Funday:  AG optional Spring has Sprung

Watercooler Wednesday:  All About Occasions ~Father's Day for my project

Always Fun:  AG

Creative Crafting Uncles:  Father's Day

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