Curiosity in a Tin

I made a class sample for my upcoming class, Think Outside the Tin. The class will be held at Stampin' Cat Studio in Salem on Monday, March 22, 5:30-8:00 p.m. It's only $25 and includes all supplies - including the very cool rust and patina covered Altoid tin. I had such fun making my class sample, that I can't wait to make some more!

5th Annual Portland Love Show: In Person

We got up to Portland on Friday to the Portland Love Show and it was sure fun to see the piece that Destree and I created hanging there on the wall with about 349 other pieces of art devoted to love. In case you didn't see the piece in my earlier post, here's our creation, Dark Heart.


I snapped a few photos as we roamed through the display. Walk with me.







The show runs through March 12, so there is still time to see some pretty fascinating works of art.

My Time is My Time

Candace was our hostess for last night; she brought yummy treats AND a gift for each of us.



The Orange Dream Monkeys are seven women who get together once a month to play, make art, eat, and laugh. Each month we draw a slip of paper from three jars: a color, a noun, and a concept, and that is how we determine next month's theme. This month's theme was Imaginary Black Bird. The theme is only a suggestion, a jumping off point if inspiration is needed. As you can see, we were all pretty inspired. Here's a sampling of our pages, some completed, some in process, some just getting started.






















The studio paint a chair project continues.


Next month's theme? Spiritual lime tree. I see green trees in my future . . .

Once Upon a Time . . .

. . . is the theme for ArtFest 2010. ArtFest is an art retreat held in Port Townsend every March. There are usually several swaps that artists host and I signed up for two: Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and a Fatbook. I participated in both of these swaps last year at ArtFest and with a theme of fairy tales for this year's retreat, I sure didn't want to miss out.

For the Artist Trading Card swap, I created 32 cards and in return, I will receive 30 cards from 30 different artists. ATCs are 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 miniature pieces of art and here's how mine were created:








My Fatbook pages were also created around the theme of Fairy Tales. For this swap, I made 53 pages, all of the same thing, which were sent off yesterday to the hostess. The hostess will then take all of the pages she receives and make Fatbooks out of them -- my book will contain 50 pages of art from 50 different artists. It will be a wonderment of chunkiness (in fact, Fatbooks are also known as Chunky books)! The front of my pages are the little circus girl (with a glass bauble on her face) and the back of the book is the jolly guy with a band of glitter above his head. A little bundle of ribbon attached to the side, and viola! my pages were complete.







With these two swaps out of the way, I was able to check off a couple more projects. I think it's time to revamp my Projects board for the next quarter . . .