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Sign up for a chance at a great giveaway offered by True North Arts.  They are now offering gift certificates for sale and you can sign up to win one!  Isn't that just awesome?!!  Go here to sign up:  TrueNorthArts   While you are there, check out the wonderful art and the classes sound great as well.  I will definitely be signing up for one of those after the holidays.

Have a great day!

AEDM 16

I've fallen off the wagon of posting here but I did do something a bit out of my usual today.  On another list that I'm on, a link was posted to play with this little paper doll.  If you want to play with a Melanie of your own, you can find her here: Melanie. 

I also made her a house out of a white lunch bag and just used some really old scrapbook supplies.

AEDM Day 2

I had the day off of work today so I started my next online class which is Journal Bliss by Violette.  You can find info here: Violette.  This was all about making backgrounds.  I'm getting a stockpile of these now!  It's so fun just to play with paint. 

I've been looking at all the blogs and postings of fellow AEDM'ers and let tell you all that it's great fun to see the variety and all of the talent out there!  Truly awesome work!

Until tomorrow....

Visual Journalism 101 - Finished Page

Wow, November already?  Today starts the Art Every Day Month challenge.  You can click on the badge on the sidebar to visit their site.  This will be quite the challenge for me since I haven't done much of anything artsy for many months.  Anyhow, it was a nice, quiet day here so I finished a journal page using the techniques from the Visual Journalism 101 class I was taking.  My very first journal page in fact!!  I hope I get better at this but it's not too bad for a first stab at this.

Visual Journalism 101

Wow, almost a year since I've wrote here.  I'm a failure at blogging!  Life has been incredible this year and I don't mean that in a good way.  As some of you know, my mom has been battling lung cancer since last Spring.  It has consumed me in all respects.  I can't begin to tell you how much this has affected my life and most of all my well-being.  I'm slowly coming out of it but I owe a bunch of people apologies for not keeping in touch.  I am so sorry to all of my friends out there!  I'm hoping 2010 will be better in all aspects.

Well, to get myself into some creative mindset, I've signed up for Visual Journalism 101 that was put together by Pam Carriker.  I have wanted to start an art journal for years and have had books on the subject on my bookshelves going back quite a few years!  So, bear with me as I start this new endeavor.  If you are interested in this class, you can find more information here as well as other classes they have available: Creative Workshops.

So, here is Week 1 where we learn some cool backgrounds:

Ok, onto Week 2...be back later!  Oh...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! Boo!