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Zen Tangle Challenge-The Space Between

I have been obsessively tangling lately–no time even to post, must tangle But in search of inspiration….draw too much water and the well does begin to run dry…I hopped over to the Diva’s zen tangle challenge blog (see the roll … Continue reading

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In A Scrape–GPP Street Team Crusade #44

(Yay! I finally was able to upload the GPP image!) Well, I’m really enjoying my scraping this month.  I often scrape my backgrounds, but with Michelle Ward’s challenge I’ve tried some new approaches as well. I made 2 ATC backgrounds … Continue reading

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GPP Street Team Crusade No. 43–Text Messaging

Just in time, this time….I’ve got 2 pieces to share.  I’ve used text in many different ways and one of my favorites, I call “Ransom Poetry”.   I have piles of cut out words and then choose or pick randomly … Continue reading

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Very Late Crusade :)

So I completely missed the August 1 GPP Street Team Crusade #42 BUT….I did it and tearing paper is not only one of my favorite things, but a major component of my art.  So late, schmate (as we say in … Continue reading

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Grid–1 day late

I did finally finish my 3rd grid for the GPP Street Monthly Art Crusade, ok, it’s July, but I wanted to share it anyway.  This one was again an asymmetrical grid that I filled in as a Zen doodle. It’s … Continue reading

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GPP Street Team Monthly Crusade- “Grids”

So this month the challenge was to work with grids.  Love ‘em–they offer structure and yet you can make them any which way.  NO RULES!!!!  So, here are my 2 finished works…have a third that is still in progress, but … Continue reading

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TMTA-Transfers

Here are my 2 ATCs made with gel medium transfers: Here the transfers are the flower in the lower left and the narrow bands stacked were from a magazine photo of books on a shelf. This one has a transfer … Continue reading

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TMTA-Triangles

Here is my ATC using scissored and torn triangles.  There is a variety of hand painted, hand colored, and magazine papers with additional accents in colored pencil and markers. I am planning to fund raise for the Avon Walk for … Continue reading

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Where she leads…

This week the Three Muses challenge is to use maps.  It was such a synchronous moment as I was just in the process of working on a journal page with a map.  This map is quite important to me…I just … Continue reading

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Time in Miniature

Theme Thursday’s challenge is to create a miniature piece and One Powerful Hour’s challenge is “time”. Time is a favorite theme (and frequent struggle for me) and the restriction of creating small helped to make it feel “doable”.  I created … Continue reading

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