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    Art Grows ATC book

    March 8, 2009 - By 



    I’ve been making and swapping quite a few ATC’s lately and am running out of room. I came up with the idea to use a book with the pages cut in half to house the books. I doggedly cut down through the pages and then at the end discovered that I had cut at an angle so the the pages wouldn’t turn independently. I was not giving up…

    I cut out the text block and made my own signatures. I prepped and painted the cover inside and out before adding the signatures which I also randomly stamped for some interest.

    The pages are big enough to place ATC’s in both a portrait and landscape orientation. This was very important to me. I have another book that I store ATC’s in that I have to turn each time there is a landscape one…drives me crazy.

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    Playtime!!

    March 4, 2009 - By 


    I had the whole day to myself!!! I caught up on a a couple shows on the Tivo while lifting weights, took a walk and played in my craftroom a bit in addition to all the regular everyday junk that had to be done. Blah!

    While looking through my storage cabinet I found an altered book that had just a few pages left in it to alter. The book had some really nice drawings in it so I decided to just use watercolor crayons to embellish what was already there.

    I also tried my hand at an “inchie”. That’s a one inch by one inch collage. Not very exciting but I think I’ll try a few more and see if I can get the hang of it.

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    Fashion plates

    February 26, 2009 - By 


    Well, not really but that was all my brilliant mind could come up with at the moment.
    My upper back, neck and elbow are killing me from a spill I took a couple hours ago while shovelling. The snow has not quit and the plows have not come through so I’ll be going back out again…bummer.

    Calgon take me away… Hmmm, did I just date myself with that one.