Teenager

Teenager
Originally uploaded by kynara

Finally back from Ireland and pigging out on spaghettios and cucumbers! LOL!

fun little doodad...

You Are 85% Tortured Genius

You totally fit the profile of a tortured genius. You're uniquely brilliant - and completely misunderstood. Not like you really want anyone to understand you anyway. You're pretty happy being an island.

Are You a Tortured Genius?

What percentage are you??

Silly puppy! Part 2

Silly puppy! Part 2
Originally uploaded by kynara

She loooves a good car ride

friendly plastic, new cards and 'i'm not worthy' hehe

well... i tried to fix em... better, but still not as happy as i'd like to be. i'm going to try it again with an atc sized card... maybe i'll have better luck.


this one i made tonite... i scattered UTEE over the card to give it the 'rain' look. i'm really happy with the way it turned out.


first let me say... this card isn't mine. (unfortunately lol) i talked my mom into trying atcs... well... of course she passed me up BIG TIME!!! This is one of the bestest cards i've ever seen! i was soo floored when i saw it. she used a dictionary page in the background... added some watered down green then red acrylics... mixed white and brown acrylics to get a nice tan for behind the image... then did an 'image transfer' with a laser image (from 'the altered abbey' where i got my fairy image in my last post) and gel medium. whoa! way cool results! she emailed me this pic and i asked to be able to post it here... i can't wait to see it in person!

well... that's about it for now...

laters,
kary

ugh!!! friendly plastic not being too friendly!

I got some friendly plastic today. I've been looking forward to trying it out for the past couple of months... finally the other day I found a place online that sells it at what I think is a good price... plus they were having free shipping till the end of the month with no minimum order (www.jewelrysupply.com). So I bought a few sticks of it... I'm almost embarassed to post these inchies. But I was hoping someone out there with any experience with friendly plastic could give me some pointers. The one on the left ended up with a big bubble in the middle that I attempted with bad results to pop. LOL! It was just like those cartoons where the more the character tries to get out of the stickiness and just keeps getting worse! I actually started laughing even though I was getting frustrated. The tweezers I used to pop the bubble got stuck... so I tried using my exacto knife to scrape the melted plastic off the tweezers and they got stuck in it too! The more I worked them around to get them unstuck... the more stuck they got!! hehehe I'm thinking maybe if I reheat it... and stick something in there on the spot... it might look ok. (that idea just came to me as I was typing this or I would have done it before I posted them... I'll post the results after I try it. Same with the other one... on it i tried the stamping technique... but it looked too deep, so I reheated it to try to soften the look of the stamp. I think that one... I could reheat and put one of the asian coins I have in it and it might look ok. We'll see...


This card turned out ok... the colors in the picture actually go with the rest of the card (subtle golds, black and some pinks) but it doesn't show up too well in the picture. I also got my order today from 'The Altered Abbey". If you're an artist and haven't checked out Chrysti's store... you should! She has some wonderful things there at a good price! Everything on this card including the picture (on of her collage sheets) came from her store. With the exception of the black fiber (Hobby Lobby) and the lil black swirly wire doodad in the bottom left corner (I made that). The skeleton leaves are really cool! I got some tiny charms (including the moon and the bird on this card) that will be perfect to make inchies with.


I'm not as happy with my results today as I usually am... (with the fairy card... I love the stuff I used... I just think I could have done a better job with them) Today has been kinda hectic and I'm feeling 'not quite right'. The doctor gave me a new medicine yesterday and I think it's drugging me up and blocking some of my creativity. Either that or I'm coming down with something. (bla) Or it could just be that my back's getting the better of me. (SIJ dysfunction, sciatica, and arthritis) I know... whine whine whine... lol! I hate it when people whine. I hate it even more when I whine... so I'll stop now! haha I'll get over it. It's really no big deal, just frustrating. Hopefully tomorrow my creativity will be back to normal. I need to be able to create something that I'm happy with. It's a satisfying feeling. Kinda like when the house is alll clean and neat and you can sit, relax and enjoy it. Not that I feel THAT too often with my house hehehe (Don't look at me like that mom... I know what look you're giving the computer. LOL!) Ok, before I say anything else that may get me a lecture in my comments section from my mother... I'm gonna go, and maybe even go to bed before midnite.

laters,
kary

ps mom, you know i was joking about the lecure thing... (I don't actually think you'd give me one in my comments section.) chuck chuck chuck

More atcs

Yet more asian atc's. I did these collage/decoupage style. The wooden beads I sawed in half so they would lay flat on the card. The two cards are very similar but have a different main dragon picture in them. I saved these in my computer differently and if you click on them they get really big... you can see the detail very well.


Time to go to bed now that these are finished...

Thanks for looking!!

laters,
kary

New ATCs

I went shopping last week with my mom, and got some cooool asian stuff to try out. Here's some of what I've made.

The first three pictures are my first attempt at a folded card. I think it turned out ok. The dragon inside is a clip art pic I got online (I don't remember where now...). I printed it and cut it out with a craft knife (exacto knife, whatever you want to call it lol). The symbol at the top is the 'dragon' symbol, or so it told me online :) (all hail the internet, eh?)

front...
back...
ta-da!!

Here's the next one I made. The vellum fan paper is some paper I got from a fellow yahoo group member for a 'wish thing' we have going on. (All4stampswap) And the background is a gold ATC-sized cardstock I received today as a hostess gift in a swap I'm doing. I haven't fastened the fan paper down all the way yet. I don't have any vellum glue or tape, so I used my glue runner on the part of the vellum that's covered up. Then I'll finish gluing/taping when I get something that won't show through.


This is the next one. And I think my favorite so far. I looove the black and gold paper. The background is another of the ATC-sized cardstock I received. And so is the black and gold paper. The symbol and word are rub-ons. My first attempt at rub-ons. Now I see why my mom like them so much! The knot, I believe, is called a 'good luck' knot. It's not actually mizuhiki cording, it's some waxed cotton cord my daughter had in her 'craft stash'. I may end up having to buy her some more... I think I'm going to make more knots (hehe).


Well, that's all I've made so far with my new stuff. Thanks for looking!! Please sign my guestbook...it took me an hour to get the buttons to look the way they do, then another couple of hours to figure out the right html coding to get them there. LOL! I had a splitting headache from the html coding by the time I was done! But it was well worth it. Also, feel free to leave comments, I now have it set up so that you don't have to be a blogger member to leave comments (didn't realize, before, that it was possible).

Gotta go... need to make some more knots (hehe)

Laters,
Kary

ps... my last two posts (the pics of the moth and the silly puppy) were from my phone. I found out I can send blog pics straight from my phone thanks to flickr.com! too cool! (again... all hail the internet)

Gorgeous moth

Gorgeous moth
Originally uploaded by kynara

Anyone know what type of moth this is? Its huge!! And beautiful!

Silly puppy!

Silly puppy!
Originally uploaded by kynara

Whiz trying to escape the fenced in backyard by jumping in the trashcan I used to block the only remaining exit. Lol!

inchies inchies everywhere!

Here's some more inchies i've made... they really are fun to make! There are a couple of inchie swaps on splitcoaststampers.com... come join us and try em out!!

here are links to the two current swaps right now...
NEW Inchies Swap - ANY THEME! NVR *Due 9/15*
aunt sallys new inchie swap

you may have to be a member to see the swaps i'm not sure. you do have to be a member to join a swap. membership is free. try it out!!








thanks for looking!!
Kary

Well, here are some more pictures... this first one is of my inchies i made recently for a swap. If you havent tried inchies, you should. They are fun, and a challenge if your used to atcs. There is a great group i belong to called '1x1Inchies' where you can swap em. It's a really cool yahoo group with some really great people! Check it out!!


Here are some misc atcs I've made... the pictures dont do them justice. The fibers on them are really cool lookin in person.

Joker

These are some more i created with pictures from magic cards... so these images too are property of Wizards of the Coast.

Wizard

This one is a bit simple, but i liked it the way it is. The background stamp is the French Flair stamp from Stampin Up.

The Wind

Well that's all for now... if i upload too many pictures at a time i go crazy... cause my computer and my internet connection are so sloooow. Lol!

wow. web sites for dogs... queen whizzy decided she wanted one. for anyone interested... http://www.dogster.com/dogs/579883 My mom says she's definately a 21st century dog haha.

here's some more pics (like i need em lol), these are small cause they're from my phone.
nappin in the chair...
stole mommy's pillow...

mr neemo the ferret (kinda blurry...but cute)...

my creative corner (alot cleaner than it usually looks haha)

well that's it for now. i want to get some more atc pics on here, just need to try to scan them. my scanner's not working right now and i cant get them photographed very good with the digital camera...

kary

well, here it is... my first attempt at blogging...

hopefully my pics turn out ok. i can't get my scanner to work so i had to use my digital camera. here are some of the atc's i've made recently...

this is one that i made for an asian style swap...


this is one that i made using a technique in bernice berlin's WONDERFUL 'artist trading card workshop' book. it's the technique on page 28 using gesso and a magazine image...

"Ferret Court Jester"
this image isnt very clear... but i got the pic from some patterned cardstock i had...

"Flowers"
this is one of my first attempts at decoupage (something i am now addicted to... my mom has warned my oldest daughter not to leave anything laying around cause i might decoupage it haha)

"green/purple" (ok, so i havent come up with a good title for this one...)
one of my other hobbies is playing a ccg called 'magic: the gathering' some of the cards have some very inspiring pics on them... so i use my printer to print them onto cardstock... these images that i've copied are property of wizards of the coast. (there, i've given proper credit for them... dont think they can sue me now lol)

"The Crane"
"Elf Dancer"

not an atc... hehe... this is 'her royal highness... queen whiz'. she's one of the best/sweetest dogs i've ever had. she loooves to snuggle. i can't lay down without her laying ontop of me lol! she sits under my desk by my feet while i'm 'doin my thing' (creating).
well there they are... thanks for looking and putting up with my rambling ;)

kary