Enjoy your free download – it’s sized to fit a standard can 11.5 x 5 .5 (click on image, then right click “save as”) Here’s a tip because it’s so wide you may need to rotate the image to fit on a sheet of paper.
Create your way to success
by admin
Enjoy your free download – it’s sized to fit a standard can 11.5 x 5 .5 (click on image, then right click “save as”) Here’s a tip because it’s so wide you may need to rotate the image to fit on a sheet of paper.
by admin
The word I’ve chosen to begin my project is SOUL! Our soul is our identity. Who we are, our beliefs, our values, our personality….. Have you taken time to walk thru a garden and just take in all the fragrance of the flowers, look at each petal in detail…look at the beauty of everything around you?
Soul Garden is like that walk thru a flower garden….only it’s our own personal life garden we’re taking a look at. What makes me…me? What am I good at? What can I improve on? What makes me happy? What are my favorite things? What are the details of me that make be beautiful??? It’s okay to compliment yourself…I just gave you permission!
I’m more sentimental now than I have ever been, I cherish anything that is handwritten or touched my my grandma’s or other members of my family….and these mundane and everyday things, are exactly what I’m putting in my Soul Garden book, because hopefully one day, future generations will get a glimpse of their past and why they are the way they are….
I love the word *dream* {{yeah I know sometimes its overused…} but if I don’t dream, I don’t go anywhere!!!
Butterflies and dragonflies are what I think of when I think of that word. Sometimes it’s as though butterflies fly with no intended purpose…they just kinda whisp along wherever the wind takes them. And so it’s a reminder for me to not always be so rigid…not to be totally freespirit without a purpose…but allow my self to experiment in my art and say to myself it’s okay if it’s UGLY… and just so you know…there’s a cover under this one – AN UGLY ONE!
If you think I don’t make ugly art…WRONG I do!
Paste away!…… 🙂
by admin
I’m very excited about 2013, more so than any other year in a long long time. It’s the year I become a Grandma – a place in life that I didn’t see myself arriving at this quick! I embrace it and I’ll run with it!
It’s a year I’m determined to make my goals stick! And I have two of them…. And it’s the year, I’m determined to better myself in all aspects of my life 🙂
I’m beginning a year long project I am calling SOUL GARDEN. It’s an on-going project that when this time next year comes along, I can look back again, reflect, analyze what was good and great, what wasn’t so good and great and how I can change it to good and great!
I realized, that so much of my art is based on experiences and memories. My art is my life and my life is art! And that is the focus of my latest book Art + Life Combined – a mixed media assemblage book to get you thinking in different ways about your life and artwork. I want to carry this a step further and journal my art and my daily journey in life.
So, each Monday, I’ll feature the word of the week and as the week goes on, I’ll feature related inspiration, journal prompts, personal stories, quotes and really who knows what kind of stuff. I *want* to blog everyday, but I’m not making any promises, I do promise myself to blog a few times a week and if life gets in the way…it gets in the way. I’ve got to be realistic.
I really hope you’ll join me in this life tour through my Soul Garden and document your own personal journey! I believe EVERYONE is artistic….some…well…we just have to dig a little deeper to get it out…it’s okay…it’s about the process and not always the finished product. It becomes beautiful when its all put together…
If you want to join me in the journey…here’s some of the things you’ll need
Mixed Media sketch book or composition book
Glue sticks
scrapbook paper
Aleene’s decoupage medium – (i use glossy)
Pencils
Those are the basic staples. YOU can put anything in your art journal and you don’t have to show it to anyone if you dont wanna….this is you….this is your life….this is your life in art!
We’re gonna have fun!!!
by admin
I’m so honored to be asked by Julianna to be part of the debut of her new dies with Spellbinder’s.
Embrace who you REALLY are! Really no one can be you, or copy you, better than YOU! A saying I’ve heard over and over again from Jewels is “Live Your Truth” or as I put it “Embrace who you really are”. We all have strengths and weaknesses, we all have different talents and abilities, but that doesn’t change our value as a person. And that’s what makes us all interesting and individual!
The “Positively ME” collection of Spellbinders dies by Julianna Hudgins celebrates women, empowerment, and strength. I LOVE Jewels dies and am thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of the Spellbinders Blog Frenzy and to use these dies more in future projects.
For my project, I knew I wanted to make an art journal, something I could write my daily thoughts, ideas, sketches, just any sort of jibberish that came to mind at any given moment. I also happen to love dress forms. (My mom has one that was my grandmothers and I simply love it’s shape and style)
So naturally I chose the Jewels Goddess small – Sku Name LF-013 Jewel Goddess
Here’s what you’ll need:
Sign up for the Speelbinders Blog Frenzy and you’ll be entered to win an assortment of dies.
1) Send your Blog Frenzy email entry to: reveal15@spellbinders.us
2) The subject must be LF-013 Jewel Goddess, S5-097 Jewel Treasures, and S5-098 Jewel Stones.
3) Send!
Be sure to visit all the Designers on their Blog Frenzy dates!
Daily winners will receive an email within 24 hours of the blog frenzy’s closing. The winners will have 72 hours to reply to that email to claim prize. If a winner fails to respond within 72 hours, a new winner will be drawn.
To be eligible for the Grand Prize, enter each and every Blog Frenzy within its designated time period, send your entries from the same email address for each entry. The Grand Prize has a retail value of over $1900 and includes the complete Spellbinders line of die cutting and embossing templates released at the 2012 Winter CHA show, and a Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Die Cutting and Embossing Machine!
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Be sure to check out my fellow designers and how they used these AWESOME dies!
Colleen Schaan http://www.distinctivetouches.com/
Suze Weinberg http://suzeweinberg.typepad.com/