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March 28 – “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” John Steinbeck
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
Here is the page from this prompt…
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March 27 – Think
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
I love this page. A bit of this and that. Some spray paint. Stencils.
The label of a child’s car seat. A photo I took at Christmas…more playing with transfers!
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March 26 – Photograph
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
This is one of my favourite photos. And I played with transfers with different mediums.
The doodles….I am just trying to loosen up when it comes to doodling….it feels a bit odd to me still. So I just played on the page.
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March 24 – Diecuts
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
Goodness I didn’t even know what diecuts were. I had a punch which I used and cut some shapes out of paper and then I remembered I had some bits from when I thought I may do some scrapbooking…when I found them I wondered what made me buy them, they were a bit “not me”, but I played with them a bit and they got added to the page as well.
I am also playing with transfers…
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March 23 – Profanity
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
This was based on an ad campaign we had for the yellow pages. I can’t eat dairy, so took a small corner of my son’s, that my mother bought for him. The packaging…very, very cool. Very cool. I love it.
The yellow chocolate?
Dreadful. You could smell the sickly plastic pineapple scent as soon as you unwrapped it. The colour was sunshine yellow, but the taste…worse than the smell. It was so sweet…more sweet than sugar, and the pineapple taste was overwhelmingly plastic dreadful, and that is only having a small corner.
But it sold out…clever marketing, but I can;t believe that there were repeat customers…even the children found it a bit much.
But the wrapping…I love it!
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March 22 – Stitching
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
So many of my March Journal prompts that have remained unposted. But I completed them, and so will finish recording them!!
This was stitching…
The page already had layers but I added a bit of pattern paper that seemed appropriate. the denim was left over from a costume we made my son during the year and voila, I like how it came out, not finished but a good background.
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Swapbot ATCs for April
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
In the interests of giving myself a record of what I did and when, and a reason for taking the photos…here are the other ATCs I did in April.
“K” is for Kiwi (Using my label maker which I feel a WHOLE LOT OF GEEKY KIND OF LOVE FOR!!! – also passed on to my children who have both requested label makers for their birthdays!)
“B” is for Button
The “Be Free” Series
I also participated in the “Watercolor for N00bs” series. I did my first water colour…which looked okay I think…I was happy at any rate considering my newness to watercolours!
I then cut it up and stuck it to my ATC cards I have made…
I will use the rest for other projects I am sure. I have already used one as the base. I am noticing that I love to stitch the cards. I like how that looks. For right now that is part of my ATC style it would seem.
The last lot I have currently finished are my cupcakes… another series. I loved the colours in these.
I am always nervous about sending them out, but I go by the guiding principle that I would love to receive these, and so hopefully others would as well. Not just that I think they are good, but I know how much work has gone into them, and I would appreciate that in other’s cards. And I do. But that doesn;t stop that nervousness, and whether someone is going to come back and see me for a fraud and say I suck. But so far, so good.
It is not that long ago that I found myself turning to art again. From high school to last year there was nothing really, but I thin I am making creating/art a part of my life and I love that. I can’t imagine not doing anything again. It has become such a part of me.
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April ATCs
Posted on May 20, 2010 by Natasha
During April I discovered Swap-bot. I love it, and I love the challenges. I have stuck to ATC’s because they seem doable. And I have picked a variety of themes to challenge me and keep me trying new things.
I also participated in the Willowing swap. In April the theme was Horoscopes. I did my partners sign and my sign at her request.
She gave me lovely feedback, and so much confidence that I am so grateful to her.
Here are my ATCs for Sagittarius and Aries:
Both of these star signs are fire signs as well…hence the fire backgrounds.
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