"Flowers" was the daily paper prompt today at Daisy Yellow AND it's also the theme for the ARTchix Studio ATC swap I signed up for. Don't you love it when that happens?
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I had the pleasure of participating in the ARTchix Studio Blue ATC swap. I used ARtchix ART blast playing cards as a base, the ones with birds printed on them.
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Earlier this year I got an email note from Helga Strauss, owner of ARTchix Studio. She wrote,"I've been making backgrounds on wood and then cutting them into shapes.... like the hearts. If I send you some wood, would you like to play and make some backgrounds?
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Helga Strauss gave us a new challenge: "Make a twinchie (2" square collage) with complimentary colors."
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I have held onto this ATC sized "Dream Box" (aka nicho) from ARTchix Studio for some time; I bought it before we moved to Florida. Yesterday, I was itching to do something different and thought an assemblage in this nicho illustrating my new life in Florida would be just the ticket!
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I had a blast putting these postcards together. We were required to use 3 ARTchix sheets: Create ART, Passion for Pink and Green world. I love them.
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The theme was pink & green, things you LOVE, and make six 2"x2" collages with ARTchix Studio
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I used a piece of silk satin as my base from Mirah's Crafts in their 'mint cooler' shades. I backed it with a piece of watercolor paper, 2.5 x 3.5"….
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I was very lucky and won the ARTchix Studio Bi-Weekly ATC Lotto… I will choose the next theme for the bi-weekly drawing, which is: "Women, words, and . . . "
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On Helga Strauss' blog, the challenge this week was to get inspired by creating inchies, 5 inchies, either one a day or all at once. I picked the "all at once" option, and here are my efforts.
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We will be creating 4" x 8" 'skinny book' pages. The idea is you create a single page, both front and back for your mailing partner that month based on her theme, her likes & dislikes….
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This is one of the eight "Royal Bird" ATCs I made for an ARTchix Studio swap - Six ATCs were required for the swap.
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Over at My Artistic Life, Helga Strauss has challenged us to play with pink & green! I decided to create a 9” x 12” art quilt. I laid fabrics out and then stitched them together on my machine, attaching them to a batting piece at the same time….
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I stitched the fabric image to a piece of hand painted fabric from my peace banner project. I made lots of extra painted fabric when i did that project, much to my delight now. I gathered the olive green velvet leaves and arranged them around the image…
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Here is my ATC entry for the September 2nd ARTchix Studio yahoo group bi-weekly Lotto!
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I made time to work on Helga's art challenge for August 25th - Masterboard Playtime. Helga created a very cool "masterboard" for us to use for this challenge.
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On our way home is the theme that Marion Bockelmann chose when she won the "garden party" lotto on the ARTchix Studio yahoo group last week.
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These twinchies were chosen as one of Helga's favorites for this challenge…
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This is what I sent to Marion Bockelmann when she won the "garden party" lotto on the ARTchix Studio…
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For her gift I took vintage lace and paired it with a soft burlap type fabric, to frame a silky piece of fabric which backed an ARTchixStudio image (and words) and a piece of floral/bird fabric I had that I thought Linda would like…
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