June 2011

Color Challenge Freebie: Bloom Explosion

June 21, 2011

  It’s a small one this week, folks, but it’s still kind of fun — the Explosion of Blooms minikit is up for your creation/imagination pleasure!  It’s got several blooms, some greenery, a little bit of wordart, ten or so papers, and a little journalling bit on graph paper.  (About 25mb, so it’s definitely a [...]

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Bloom Explosion: Color Challenge III

June 19, 2011

This week’s color challenge (a few days late, as the Artist has been inundated with SUMMER FEVER, which has kept her out in the garden and soaking up the sun and wishing for a giant floppy gardening hat with a giant bow under her chin instead of here in front of the computer screen….we’re sure [...]

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color challenge II – freebie!

June 12, 2011

  We tried to upload this for you yesterday, but Maribell, Monster of Uploads, informed us that our server was undergoing something called “intermittent unbalanced load issues”, which we took to mean that the server had a screw loose.  Maribell decided to read a book instead. She’s kind of a slacker, Maribell. That said, there’s [...]

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color challenge II

June 9, 2011

Last week’s color challenge idea was so much fun (and so inspiring), that the monsters have been wheedling to do another one.  We’re still not sure if weekly will be doable for most people, since Summer tends to take up so much time with its lounging by the pool and tending to the garden and [...]

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Oh, Ralph, How We Love Thee.

June 7, 2011

If you have known the Artist in person, ever, you’ll know two things: 1.  That Weird does exist in the world, and it often comes with monsters, and, 2.  That she is a transcendentalist junkie.  Not just a fan.  But a downright, has-all-the-books, quotes-way-too-often, loves-with-puffy-pink-hearts junkie. So it is not surprising, then that when the [...]

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Inspiration for Art Journallers: Some Classes!

June 1, 2011

By now, you all know that the Artist is kind of a junkie for online classes.  Even when she can’t keep up with them all, it’s so nice to have an additional perspective, a bit of extra accountability, and a constant stream of inspiration for those times when the blank page starts to look just [...]

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