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Acrylic Backgrounds Article

I wanted to share with you all a recent article I wrote for mixedmediaart.net.  I write monthly articles for this online magazine sharing techniques, ideas, reviews, etc., and they are a great resource for every artist. In the past month…

Design Team Sketch 4-1-15

  Another sketch to show!  Yay!! My take on the sketch is only one scrapbook page, but it really put itself together. Between the sketch guiding my hand, and the fact that this paper and most of the embellishments had just come in my…
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My DIY Art Studio- stage two

 Alright, my diy art studio is coming along!  These shelves took me a surprisingly long time to figure out, despite the fact that they were really easy to install.  I had to scratch my original idea to mount these shelves because the…

Scrapbooking questions

Every artist, crafter, scrapbooker, painter, etc. has their own style- a way of creating that is comfortable for them not only because it incorporates what they love, but because it involves techniques and supplies that they understand and have…
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My new art studio!

  As everyone knows by now, (because I mention it in every post- sorry, I guess I'm a bit excited still) my husband and I recently bought a home.  We've done some projects to start getting things the way we want them, but none of them…

Flashes of Gold- simple mixed media work

  Yay!  New artwork!  Goodness, it feels like forever since I've finished an abstract quilling piece, but it is a new year with new goals and new energy, and this piece is a simple mixed media that I was able to complete in only an hour…