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Crusade 20 – Casting Call

No, Michelle Ward and the GPP Street Team are not casting a new movie.  But the Street Team is casting paper into all kinds of things. I missed, or haven’t yet caught up with Crusades 18 & 19 but will get back to them eventually as I do have all the items gathered to do… Continue reading Crusade 20 – Casting Call

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The Color of the Spring is Green

I love the flowers as they bloom and the vibrant colors they bring to the road side and yards around my area but it was coming down the hill yesterday that I was taken by the vibrant and many shades of green there are in spring.  There were the ever dark greens of the pines… Continue reading The Color of the Spring is Green

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Celebrate Your Creative Self – Seascape

In the workshop I am doing this year that is working the way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self, we are working on a seascape this month.  I have been behind due to some unforeseen and some foreseen life circumstances.  I just started mine today.  This post will be a continuing one with… Continue reading Celebrate Your Creative Self – Seascape

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Leather Paper

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

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Canvas with Tissue 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

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Just a thought in my mind

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

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Water Webbing

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

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Not Just Charms Challenge

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

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February Projects

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

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Crusade Number 17 – A Journal Kit

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