Jeannie Marie & Company

I really enjoy sitting down and doing collage work in my journal.  It's especially nice when it's a seasonal journal in a season that is as nice as this one, This is one of the pages of my reverse collage book.  A reverse collage means you collage around your favorite images already in the book.   Here is a link to my book:   More news is my Christmas Cactus bloomed!   I bought it on clearance last April and kept it in an Eastern window all year,  This fall it budded out and then bloomed in early December.  Blooms are still flowering!  This is the Christmas cake I plan to make again this year.  I have made it every year since the late 80's.  It's my favorite cake and I could eat it all year around but save it just for the holidays.   It's a Jello Poke Cake. I painted this picture this week of an online friend for her birthday.   Her request on Facebook was everyone draw her for her b...

This is a new thing among scrapbooker's and junk journalists, Sharing your stash of papers and clippings you've saved! We all have access to different stores, magazines, Mail and vintage papers so why not share what you have in abundance  with someone who has an entirely different supply?  That's what I thought too, yay!!!   Did ya hear that??  YAY!   I was browsing around YouTube and saw a video and went and joined the Facebook group Trashy Junk Journals and signed on to do a journal swap of papers and other stuff we have in our stashes.  I had a blast making the journal cover and filling it.  Rules are...no real rules  but you are supposed to not buy a thing.  You just pick from whatever you already have saved.   As you know usually half of what you save never gets used so what could be better?  I'm looking forward to my journal arriving.  My swap partner LOVED the one I sent.  Here it is: Sh...

I have found it's much more fun to make one large background for a number of ATC cards than trying to do each one individually.  Each card is still different from all others and had painted. Artist Trading Cards are fun to make and trade too.  They are perfect to include in a Christmas card as well.  Everyone enjoys receiving a gift! I couldn't add the much shorter "part two" to the original so had to make two videos.  Hope you enjoy!! This summer we visited some magnificent cemeteries looking for family.  I was astounded at some of the beautiful markers.  Shadows over family graves.   Sharing with Shadow Shot Sunday2