"The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit,
the greater your capacity to create."
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I am excited to participate the First Paper Traders Blog Hop. I hope it will be a way for you to get to know me and a few of the other group members better, see our art, and get a chance to win some nice prizes that are being offered along the way. Maybe you'll even be inspired by what you see and want to join the group.
The Blog Hop will be open the entire weekend of April 19-21, 2013. Be sure to start at the Paper Traders Art Blog here
http://papertraders-art.blogspot.com/ and follow the blog hop list of participating members, which will be posted later this week.
Each member will share a little bit about herself and offer either a handmade art piece or other quality prize that will be randomly awarded to blog readers who leave a warm, fuzzy comment.
Come back this weekend to start the artful journey!
Cathy is hosting a magazine collage canvas swap in our
Paper Traders group this month. The challenge was to use a magazine image in your work. I had saved this image of a silhouetted girl with an umbrella and applied her to my painted and stamped canvas. I used flower-shaped die cuts to mask the paint and used a stencil for the green vines. I added details with my white, green, and gold paint pens.
This month, I hosted a ribbon dolls swap in our
Paper Traders group. These dolls were inspired by
a project seen on Ten Two Studios. For this swap, I only needed to make two but they were so cute, I couldn't stop myself and I had to make a couple of extras. I'm keeping the orange gypsy for myself and her sister in pale pink will be an RAK for someone special. =)
I recently hosted an ATC swap in our
Paper Traders group that included a color challenge - pink, brown, & white. The theme was "From the Heart" in honor of Valentine's Day. I've been itching to do something with corrogated cardboard and came up with these cute painted hearts.
In our
Paper Traders group, we are doing a word prompt journal challenge this year.
For January, the prompt was "
Live Simply" and had to include some kind of rubber stamping... here's my page:
This month, the prompt is "Follow Your Heart" and the challenge is to include some hearts on your page... so here's what I came up with:
The lavender is actually a printed napkin layered over the torn text... one of my favorite techniques!
I know my blog posts lately have been sporadic at best. I really have been working on several things recently so I will try to get them updated here soon to show you.
This past week, I finished my spread for
Cathy's tip-in journal in our
Paper Traders group. Her theme is White-on-White so this is what I came up with... let me just say that it was somewhat challenging to place that tulle on the page using gel medium!
Recently in our
Paper Traders group,
Pam hosted a snowflake tag swap. I was having so much
fun with Cat Kerr's technique that I decided to try it with white paint instead of a dark color. The result isn't quite as striking, but still pretty...
