Early Morning Thoughts

Blog hop artist....

Our Next Artist is Up for the Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat, 
Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!

Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.
   
   

Week by week we'll go from one blog to the next!

Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say a very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing

Christy Meyers of CC's Whimsies

http://www.ccswhimsies.blogspot.com/

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

 

Our next blog hop artist is up.....

Our Next Artist is Up for the Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat, 
Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!

Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.
   
   

Week by week we'll go from one blog to the next!

Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say a very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing

Iva Wilcox

http://www.ivascreations.typepad.com/

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

 

Love xo book

Happy Valentine's day everyone....

I decided to create a book with the theme of this...hearts, love, kisses, xo

The book is made up of vintage fabrics, vintage laces and vintage trims.

I have incorporated a number of vintage buttons, vintage papers, acrylics, embellishments, ribbon, charcoal and inks into this book.

I have included 12 sheets of stonehenge paper and if you count the backsides that would make 24 pages.

 

I have listed this in my etsy shop.

Our next blog hop to visit....

Our Next Artist is Up for the Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat, 
Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!

Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.
   
   

Week by week we'll go from one blog to the next!

Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say a very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing Mixed Media Artist

Mary Jane Chadbourne

http://desertdreamstudios.weebly.com/

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

 

home

Such a small word, yet it carries such power in it....

It brings comfort, warmth, security, laughter, togetherness, family, feeling like you can be yourself and it is ok, a place to hang out and come together as one, support, but most of all...love.

My next piece is all about this...

What I have learned about this small, but powerful word is...home is where you heart is.  

I created a pocket with a tag attached to it.  This allows you to tuck your special thoughts, poems, pencil or trinket in it.

I painted a piece of canvas with acrylics, mediums, inks, paste and an image to the front cover.  

I have included 10 sheets of blank medium weight paper and if you count the backsides that would make 20 pages.

I have listed this in my etsy.

Blog Hop artist this week is.... me

Artful Gathering Event Registration is Open!

I'm the Spotlight Artist for The Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Follow along with me for fun, creativity, and a chance to win a
$200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!

This summer I will be teaching two fabulous premiere video workshops at
The Artful Gathering Online Art Retreat 2012

Recycled/Reusable Journal Cover

From June 6 to July 17

In this class, I will teach you how to take everyday, worn out, discarded and vintage clothing and incorporate them into your art.

Step by step, we'll journey through the process of combining different fabric elements and ideas for making this fabulous journal.

I will show you how to create a journal wrap that will
allow you to either display the piece for others to view it or create one that could be used in your everyday routine.

Regardless of how you chose to use your wrap, it will
have others wanting one too!

Not Your Ordinary Photo Album Wall Hanging
From July 15 to August 25

Did you ever wish that you could display your photo album in a creative way or how about create a piece to give as a gift, but with a different twist.
In this class, I will teach you how to create an album out of reusable, found or store bought items and create a showcase piece that will have others wanting you to make one for them.
From the techniques that I share with you in this class, you will come away with many different ways to create this same album, but each one with a different look. Making each one, unique in itself.
With the steps that we go through,I will explain how, by choosing to incorporate that step or opting to leave it out, how it will give you a different piece. I will also show you, that you could opt to display this on a flat surface, instead of hanging it.
This is one album that will have others wanting to view it, over and over again.

Come Hop With US!
Hop Rules:

If you would like to hop with us and meet all the super awesome Artful Gathering 2012 Art Instructors, and have a chance to win a random drawing prize in our random drawing, then hop with us! Each week, I will announce the blog for you to visit, and off you go to meet them, and to pick up the newest secret word. Your chance to win prizes....

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys!
3. This weeks word is ......Artist

   Next week, I'll announce the next person to hop to. Good luck!!!

 

 

dream canvas

My next piece that I have finished up is all about....  

                                        "dreams"

 

We all have dreams, but to actually live them, we need wings to fly and the faith to step out with them.

I have incorporated a number of textures, paste, inks, pencils, charcoal, vintage papers and acrylics to make up these canvases.

I decided to create some paper clay buttons...

A number of vintage fabrics were used to create this fabric piece that hangs down from the bottom.

For the focal point, I incorporated solder, wire, metal, acrylics, image and resin.

This is one of those pieces, that the photos do not due justice to.  The richness and depth is amazing.

I have listed this in my etsy.

This week's blog hop artist

Our Next Artist is Up for the Artful Gathering Blog Hop!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat, 
Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!

Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.
   
   

Week by week we'll go from one blog to the next!

Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say a very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing Mixed Media Jewelry Artist...

Kecia Deveney

http://lemoncholys.blogspot.com/

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

 

clarity

I have been in the mood to paint lately, so I decided to pull out some images and altered them a bit.

In this next journal, I took a image of an angel and applied acrylics and mediums to her, to further enhance it.

I then decided to incorporate the image into a journal.  This next book is called....

 

                            clarity

I have included 8 sheets of medium weight papers and if you count the backsides that would make 16 pages.  You could use them to journal, scrapbook, sketch, pastels, inks, pencils, light watercolor washes or just leave it out as an art piece itself.

I have listed this in my etsy.

happiness....

To each of us, happiness may mean something different.  To me, happiness is all about love.  Whether that be the love you receive or give away, each is unique in itself.  

When I find myself feeling down or lonely, I find that if I do something for someone else, out of love...then I find myself back to feeling good and happy again.  Whether that be someone I know or even a total stranger, love is the greatest gift that we can ever receive or give away.

This is how my next journal came about...

 

                                     happiness

 

I created the covers out of watercolor paper and applied vintage papers, inks, acrylics, vintage buttons, ribbon, words and an image of flowers.

I printed the image on a fabric sheet and then applied acrylics and mediums to further enhance it.

This image is actually from flowers that I had received from my hubby.  As they were wilting away, I decided to capture the image of them.  

 

I listed this in my etsy.