Artist Trading Coins

I’ve done Artist Trading Card swaps for many years.  But this last month was the first time I did an Artist Trading Coin swap.  This one was hosted by Janelle and she said, pretty much anything goes. We could do collage work, stamping, drawing, painting, inking,...

Sweethearts and Sweets

I hosted a 3×5 card swap at LineWeaving.com this month – titled “Sweethearts and Sweets”. For the theme we considered candies or other sweet elements and/or love and heart related goodies.   We were allowed to create using any type of medium as...

Sing-to-Me ATC’s

Busy, busy, busy this past week.  I had several health appointments and spent a few days helping a friend move.  But I still managed to get some crafting time in the studio too – Wahoo! I put together a set of mixed media ATCs and I have a couple left over if...

Flash Back – Spring 2016

Jump into my time machine and lets skip back to last spring.  I wasn’t blogging back then, but I was still creating!  I drove up to Northern California to visit a friend last March for a few weeks. We took to playing with pen and paper at her kitchen table one...

Art Every Week

The last time I posted to this blog was in December 2014.  I think it’s time I re-engage, don’t you?! Besides manhandling a hectic travel and moving schedule (that went sideways several times), I was also dealing with some emotional struggles. So the time...

ATC Swap Show and Tell

  Just a quick follow up video showing off a few of the lovely Artist Trading Cards from the recent Mandala Slice it and Dice it swap.  As you may remember, this was a swap I hosted here on my blog and I also hosted one of the exact same type in our Community...

Slice-and-Dice Projects

  In the first article of my mandala series I shared with you an Introduction to Mandalas guide and a video tutorial with 5 repeat pattern art drawing methods for mandalas. I hope you found them helpful.  If you missed the articles, you can jump back to it by...

Red, White, and Blue Art

  Hello my friends.  I was away from my blog a little longer than I had expected.  I’ve been keeping myself very busy offline though.  I spent the last couple of weeks helping a friends family with some major health and family care issues while doing double...

A Paper Quilt Creation

    We had a paper quilt swap in our LineWeaving.com community forums recently.  Here are the pieces of the quilt block I submitted for the swap.   The swap I’m working on now is for a 3×5 swap using colors from our country flag.  Hoping to...

Tea Cup Art-Collaboration Project

  Collaboration Fun! Over in the LineWeaving community forums we have about 11 artists who signed up for our tea cup shaped book collaboration and everyone has sent in their cups now.  I’m still waiting for a few of the packages to arrive and then my work...