I'm still Floundering! 

LOL!

Well, blame it on the weather,

(although it's been a mild

winter, can't complain)

Blame it on too many things

to do...

( that is always a good excuse!)

Or even Blame it on Tax Time

( oh no!!! That's right around

the corner!)

But I'm still Floundering! 

(Grin)

Even though, I've kind of taken

some time off from all the 

ATC's Swapping and the 

Giveaways here on my blog,

I have been filling some of my

time with projects!

From my last post the 

Playing Card ATC Swap

is still in the works, almost finished

the deck of cards, (will post pictures when finished on my next blog post!)

... but got a little

motivated in another direction.....

I went to DeviantScrap.com

and low and behold a 

Fabulous New Graphics Kit 

from the Fabulous

Tumblefish Graphics!!

'Once Upon a Time'

That was it!

I opened up a new deck of

Playing Cards.....

And I was hooked! LOL!

Along with some Incredible 

Lazier Cut-Outs 

from the Fabulous

Retro Cafe Art Gallery

I just kept going making these!

But it didn't stop there!

3 a.m. in the morning, I jump 

out of bed with an idea!!!

Brooches!!!!

Then before I knew it I'd made 

a whole bunch of them!

So I kept ping ponging back

and forth between the 

Playing Card ATC's

and 

The Brooches,

and then...

Using some Fabulous Goodies

from

Retro Cafe Art Gallery, 

and a Playing Card that

I'd Altered using my own

Vintage Photo and Retro's 

Wonderful Lazier Cut-Outs

I came up with this 'Story Board'

as I like to call them:)

Just Listed in my shop

at

www.etsy.com/shop/birdnutsmixedmedia

along with the Brooches!

But wait! Sitting and looking

at all this fun work, I then got

motivated to do this...

(sorry I can't get the picture

any bigger on my blog, but here's

some more details)

So I bet you're sitting there

wondering, how on earth

did she jump from making

Altered Playing Card ATC's

to this....

tee hee...

well, remember this one...

Lets see if you all can

figure it out:) 

Bwhaaaa!!!!

Ok, I'll tell you:)

I used cut 'n' paste

of the background of this 

Altered Playing Card

and then blew it up

to get the background 

torn paper image

for the Journal Page.

So there you go...

a few sleepless nights,

and grabbing some 

afternoons for some

wonderful Art Time

Just Floundering away.....grin

So I hope you'll stop by

the Wonderful

Tumblefish Graphics

at

www.DeviantScrap.com

and of course

head on over to the

Fabulous

Retro Cafe Art Gallery!!

and if you have any

Cyber Shopping Time left

Hope you'll head on over to

my Etsy Shop

www.etsy.com/shop/BirdnutsMixedMedia

and have a Boo!!

I'm going back to

Floundering now...constructively! LOL!

Enjoy!