Theme Thursday’s challenge for today was Spring. Since I’ve been trying to drum up excitement for a Think Spring Fat Book swap, I was really happy to see a related challenge.
I stamped the letters for spring on the page, but they didn’t show up as well as I wanted them to, so I inked […]
Melinda Collins says, “Originality comes from just being true to ourselves and what we value about what we see.”
I think she has a great definition of originality here. How can you create a carbon copy of someone else’s art and be true to yourself?
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simply orange
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I’ve been doing the color swaps in the Tip In Group on Flickr. This is one of the pages for the Orange theme. I had the worst time with it, because I rarely work with orange. I was happy I went […]
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I saw this technique in a past issue of Somerset Studio (Nov 2007 - Georgia Gibbons Altered Book). Cut horizontal lines into an old book page or other piece of ephemera using your craft knife. I made wavy lines and stopped them about 1/2 inch from the edges of the paper. Then, cut strips of […]
Since someone requested it, here’s another of the purple Gothic arches from the challenge. It turns out that what I am doing with them is giving them to my niece, who loves fairies and purple, so that’s one project crossed off my list. All I had to do was put longer ribbon on them to […]
Today’s Gothic Arch Challenge was to use purple. I don’t usually play around with purple, but I really got into it and ended up making three. This is my favorite, but they’re all fairies and flowers. I think I’ll end up mounting them to something as a set of three - maybe a little table […]
Here are the results of the art tool wish list poll. (By the way, I think I’m the only one who voted for quilting iron and I bought it, so I guess I need a new wish list…)
* Quilting iron for encaustic wax.
1-7% of all […]
I’ve been seeing art shrines everywhere, but the thought of putting one together just wasn’t exciting me. I’d have to go down to the shed, find my jigsaw, find the nail gun, cut stuff out and then start all over again because I am the crookedest wood cutter ever.
Well, as I was looking at […]
I’ve been so busy this week that I’ve really had to squeeze in every moment of art time, but I love house art so much and wanted to participate in this challenge. By the time I got home tonight, I was wiped out, so I just made a kind of mini journal page. There are […]
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