I finally managed to be one of the first ten people to sign up for the Art Partner Challenge, sponsored by Inka Stamps on The Latest Trends in Mixed Media Yahoo! Group. I was so excited when I saw the stamp that was enclosed as I do not normally work with photo stamps. I was driving… Continue reading April Art Partner Challenge
I know it sounds odd – leather paper. This is a paper technique in Julia Andrus’s Paper Transformed. I did not have the Perfect Ink Refresher called for in Julia’s original instuctions so I simply spritzed my cardstock with water. My first attempt did not turn out in any way, shape or manner to look… Continue reading Leather Paper
With an online group, I am working my way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self. The portion we were working on this month was to add tissue paper to an illustration board or canvas and then paint it. The workshop leader was so smart and decided to break this into three weekly parts to… Continue reading Canvas with Tissue Paper
While I am working my way through several art books for the Triple Eight Challenge for 2008, I have taken a month off most of these workings. I spent most of March honing my photography skills. I have some of my shots below. I have always spent a lot of time in the out of… Continue reading Photography
Sometimes, I think that is what my blog is all about – getting some of what is in my mind out of it and “onto paper” as the case may be. Of course, this is a modern form of paper but I still love it. I went through a phase when I would not subscribe… Continue reading Just a thought in my mind
In one of the last lessons I have to do for February’s working through Paper Transformed by Julia Andrus is webbing. I knew, from the start, just what stamp I wanted to use and what I was going to do with it. I just needed the time and a water bottle. I have several squirt… Continue reading Water Webbing
This month at the Yahoo! group The Latest Trends in Mixed Media Arts the “Not Just Charms” challenge is to make charms out of game pieces. Last month focused on buttons. December was actual charms. I have struggled with this idea. I have set aside wooden dominoes to make charms out of. I wonder if… Continue reading Not Just Charms Challenge
In the two workshops I am participating in this year – Paper Transformed by Julia Andrus and Celebrate Your Creative Self by Mary Todd Beam – have some wonderful projects for the month of February. Unfortunately, February is a very short month and very busy so I spent a day doing some paper transformation. All… Continue reading February Projects
I realize I should do these second time through readings of the daily meditations in advance of the week, not in retrospect. Anyone who is reading along may not come back to look now for the past week. I am going to seriously try to do this for the upcoming week later today. I truly… Continue reading Simple Abundance – Feb 11 – 17
Michelle Ward and Green Pepper Press’s Street Team lists monthly crusades. This month’s crusade is to create a journal kit. I am sure, since it is still early in the month, there will be more posts on this but here are the startings of my journal kits. My mother made me this bag. It is… Continue reading Crusade Number 17 – A Journal Kit
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