happiness

i recently attended a faith crop and was introduced to a fabulous line by desinger nikki sivils....omg!!!! awesome paper products!!!! i was lucky enough to take home a prize package of her paper line.....here is my end result.....i absolutely think the sofas and lamps are adorable....cant wake to sink my creativity into my next nikki silvis project.... :)

live slow

i checked out the blog, 52 sketches, 52 weeks.....and i thought id try my luck at starting a layout by the guidance of a sketch...this was fun...and it made it easy to lay out the pieces too.

abby and lilly bean

i love this picture of abby and our precious little dog - lilly bean...she is just the sweetest most lovable little dog !!!!she is spoiled rotten, just like the kids.....she has her own bed, couch and wardrobe....ha ha ha....i chose to use the Imaginense paper line ooh la la....i thought it to be fitting for this pic. i added ribbon and paper roses,heart stick pins, and a zipper.

friends

here is my entry for this month's challenge , From Screen to Scrap....
the criteria was:

1. negative space (which i have NEVER done...ha ha ha...i usually fill up my pages ...every inch of the paper)

2. must have a cutout from a photo/photos

3. must use blue, pink and yellow somewhere on your layout

4. painted title

this was a bit different from what i usually do....i started off with a piece of watercolor canvas.....i experimented with food coloring and rubbing alcohol....mixed together making my own alcohol ink....i think it came out fairly well....i also used a tim holtz mask and a mixed a little bleach in the alcohol ink solution.you can see the effect....pretty cool....i also stamped print scripted words and even doodled around the edges....i painted n the title...added a piece of ribbon...and handmade paper roses....the picture i chose is of abigail and ny niece, jenna....who are inseparable....ha ha ha..they were holding hands walking towards the beach, at dauphin island...this was a pretty easy assignment and it took me little time to complete....

first communion

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii :) well i have finally completed my ARTastic Design Team challenge based upon my interpretation of Lawrence Alma-Tadema 'A Greek Woman' painting. i chose to use a picture that i took a few years back for abigail's first communion. you can tell be the picture that felix was anything but happy about being photographed....he was all pouty and sad cause the focus was on abby....i remember taking the picture and thinking, i am gonna LOVE scrapbooking this one.....for my layout i chose to use flower petals from the bouquet that i wore in my hair on my wedding day....i used ribbons and rhinestones.....and i even made some ribbon roses...i topped off the layout with some greenery and beading. i love the way the colors blended so well.... the influenital painting made it easy to transform my page into a work of art.
sooooo...head over to the ARTastic Challenge blog and get your entries in!!!!!

congrats to me!!!! i made the ARTastic design team :)

yay!!!! im so excited to announce that i have been asked to join the ARTastic Design team!!!!
it is an awesome challenge blog.....with monthly challenges on different works of art....

check it out...try it out...and you will be hooked - just like me!!!! just click on the link below:

http://artasticchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

this months challenge is a piece done by Lawrence Alma-Tadema called : 'A Greek Woman'

get your entries in today!!!!!

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here is the warm welcome that i received from the talented ladies at ARTastic:
Come meet our new DT member :)

Tanya Delaine Joseph

here is my bio......hiiiiiiiii yall! My name is Tanya Delaine Joseph. I am a 34 year old proud mommy of 2 beautiful children - Abigail Delaine, 10 and Felix Emile, 7. I am married to the most wonderful hubby a girl could have. (I heart you johnny;) ... I grew up and live in Abbeville , Louisiana. I do work full time :( , so if I could have one wish , it would be to have more time to scrapbook.... I wish I had more time to put my creativity to use.....but I do make the best of the free time that I do have..... I have been a crafty girl all of my life..... I can remember as a little girl loving to draw and make things.....there was nothing I thought I couldnt do....my mom would always say..."look at that tanya..and remember it.....we can make it..." and boy was she right! my creativity comes from my mom-she is a fantastic crafter and scrapper too ...and it appears the abigail will be following in the family tradition. Most of the projects I make are 3-dimensional. I love making shadowboxes and until recently, everything I have made has been to be given away as gifts. when people see my work, they always say, where do you put all of your layouts?????ha ha ha....(quite honestly, I have only a few that I have saved in plastic paper storage boxes, everything else has been given away...and eventually, I will give away the layouts I have made as they relate to the subject matter.....BELIEVE it or NOT - I do NOT own a scrapbook.... I mean, I make mini themed books, but I do not have a scrapbook for myself. As a matter of fact - the very first 12 x 12 layout that I had ever done was to try out for the current design team I am on at Treasured Memories. I am totally thrilled to be asked to be a part of an awesome blog challenge design team!!!!I look forward to sharing my take on all the different works of art.... fav artist????? hmmmmm...tough one.... I would have to say BOSCH - mainly for the intricate detail and often bizarre landscape and subject .....the vivid colors and the underlying theme of human nature and the choices of good and evil and the little details that give a lesson in morality....one can get lost in just the smallest piece of the larger masterpiece....


"A big welcome to you Tanya from all of us here at 'ARTastic' we look forward to getting to know you, and hope you enjoy your time on the Design Team."

thanks for making me feel welcome ladies!!!!

sweet bella

sweet bella

a christmas story

carnival - egyptian style

carnival - egyptian style

summer 09

pumpkinheads

well its that time again...time for yet another Treasured Memories Design Team reveal-

so i decided since we are in the month of october, what better way to pay tribute to the month that has brought us pumpkins, witches and gobblins - than by creating a halloween layout.....

YES~i love halloween... soooooo much!!!! i decided to go with the basic grey - eerie - halloween collection. one of the challenges was to use the iron on's from prima - so ....i decided to use the underside of the iron on flowers and distress them with ink. i added green beading (...... a very teensy piece of the million dollar "mrs charolette" stash of goodies i just inherited....!!!!! omg !!!! i was recently at a crop hosted by faith 365. mrs charolette was there too. she told me that she had a bag of things for me that she thought i could use.....boy, was i shocked when i has handed this HUGE bag of treaures - an endless supply of beautiful lace, ribbon, cording, beading.....all sorts of odds and ends that had my name all over it...when i started looking through all of the goodies --it almost brought me to tears - it was such a thoughtful gift....i absolutely and whole heartedly thank you soooooooooooooooo much mrs .charlotte!!! you are such a sweet person (who also makes awesome cookies,too;)..... i cant say thanks enough....

sooooo....i added a little bit of lace and ribbon. i also used tim holtz distress stickles on the candy wrapper pumpkin i designed topped with the inside wrappings of reeses peanut butter cups in the shape of a stem....

and what is trick or treat without a doorbell - ding dong!!! "trick or treat".....

the doorbell shell was actually the original one on the front door of our home....i added this special touch to go with the idea of candies and yummies to fill little tummies on halloween night....i also distressed the new 7 gypsies cardstock bookcover to read the definition of the word witch. i love detail, so i hand cut out trees from the basic grey paper line...and of course there were buttons!!!ha ha ha....i also used a few items from jenni bowlin's line that i was given from amy - thanks amy!!!! this layout was sooooooooooo much fun!!!!! i have been wanting to scrap this picture of abby and felix - and i think i waited til i got it laid out just right...