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Artist's interview

Hello everyone...too many photos in this interview to post here so I am inviting you to check out the interview with photos of my art and studio space. Go to http://www.creatingplace.typepad.com/ scroll midway down. Thanks, Cory Continue

Posted by Cory on August 25, 2008 at 2:43am — No Comments

Letters to Nancy

I've been working on this book for the last few weeks:

Inside this book are 24 letters written over a period from September 1881 to December 1883 to a Miss Nancy A Austin in Yorkville from a gentleman named W M Moody. In these letters W writes of his love for Nancy and of how he wish… Continue

Posted by Sue Bleiweiss on August 22, 2008 at 5:02am — 1 Comment

Friendship Books

Made about 2 wks ago and sent off to a pen pal. I hope to get them back one day... Continue

Posted by Tanya on August 12, 2008 at 7:58pm — No Comments

My "Easy Peasy Journal".

Well...here it is! My first "Easy Peasy Journal". I found the video with instructions by samanthakira on YouTube! I really enjoyed this project and can't wait to use my journal...but I'll have to...I'm sick...yuck. Maybe, tomorrow. :) I'm adding more pics to my photos, so I h… Continue

Posted by Fairywebmother on August 12, 2008 at 4:44pm — 7 Comments

New Graphics and Cool Link

So, I've been making the easy peasy journal, which I found on YouTube. This link will take you to the artist's blog where she offers great tutes! http://blog.journalgirl.com/video-tutorials.html Beyond that, I've been a little under the weather, so I'm noodling a lot in the computer. Here's one of my latest:

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Posted by Fairywebmother on August 11, 2008 at 8:12am — No Comments

The Illostomy bag experience

I am currently... living.. with my parents. This is an amazing thing for me to write considering that a few months ago it would never have crossed my mind to leave my relatively happy life on the coast of California to return to the place of my birth and more importantly, the place… Continue

Posted by LisaLi Hertzi on July 29, 2008 at 11:39pm — No Comments

Digital Art

I have been following the most excellent posts by Gail Kavanagh, in our group, about working with PSP. I work in different programs, most of the time, but I love exploring the possibilities for art in this mac… Continue

Posted by Fairywebmother on July 28, 2008 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Playing with images in PSP

Here are some cool things you can do with PSP. The image below is a tube, created from a photo of Stonehenge. I erased most of the background so I was left with a couple of powerful looking structures. Look closely, and you can see I used the Smudge tool to create a `face' on the block on the left.

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Posted by Gail Kavanagh on July 26, 2008 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

A Soul Journey: My first art journal

Lately I have been obsessed with my art journal. I have wanted to work in an art journal for a while now but never could seem to get started. Then a great artist by the name of Sarah Whitmire posted a challenge on her blog that I happened upon. This challenge is really a daily prompt to create a spread in a journal. So far there isn't a LOT of journaling but I am guessing we will get to that eventually. This has been a real blast and if any of you have been thinking of doing an art journal this… Continue

Posted by Christy on July 24, 2008 at 12:53am — 7 Comments

Merde! How I twisted the chess board

The idea for this digital collage came from the quote - I read it in a novel and it stayed with me. To illustrate what the quote meant to me I wanted to create a chessboard world, and I saw it floating on a bed of clouds. That was fairly easy - I had an image in my stock folder that wo… Continue

Posted by Gail Kavanagh on July 19, 2008 at 10:59pm — 3 Comments

Classes?

So it seems I have an airline ticket I need to use and it occurred to me it might be a good opportunity to take a class or attend a workshop. I've just found the info for Art Unraveled and I'm not far enough into it yet to know if it's too late or not. Are there other classes or workshops you know of that I might consider? I'd like to do something before the end of the year. Thanks! Continue

Posted by Alicia Edwards on July 10, 2008 at 11:44am — 8 Comments

My Blog

I enjoy visiting blogs and sharing my work but I can't keep two blogs at the same time ... lol. Please check out my blog here: http://donnaengstrom.blogspot.com/ Continue

Posted by Donna Jean Engstrom on July 9, 2008 at 9:06am — 1 Comment

ATC's and 4x4's for trade

I also have been working on some trades. If your interested let me know. I am trying to build up a bigger collection. But it seems to be taking some time. I hope you like them. ATC'S DREAM

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Posted by Tina Swain on July 9, 2008 at 9:06am — No Comments

Mind Wide Open Challenge

www.mind-wideopen.blogspot.com A new Blog set up,"Mind Wide Open" ( Cool site ) Is having a challenge now. She posted a picture and a title that you had to put into art form. This was fun and the picture is GREAT. Dont you think? I could use your votes.......if you like my submission. But if nothing else cast your vote for the best. I did. This was the picture titled 'Remebrance'… Continue

Posted by Tina Swain on July 9, 2008 at 8:41am — No Comments

My Projects and Challenges keeping me busy

Through the Summer and while in bed ill, I have had a chance to work on some Challenges. YEAH! I thought I would finally sit down and get them posted for all to see. Let me know what you think, I could use the advice. Cloth Paper Scissors You’re invited to a Mixed-media Tea Party Challenge! This was my submission. "A Tea Party Puzzle Book."… Continue

Posted by Tina Swain on July 9, 2008 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

PSP Tutorials on the Web

There have been many versions of PSP, and finding tutorials can be a complicated task. I use PSP 9 these days, but I think started with Version 5. PSP 10 (or PSP X) is available now, and there are some tutorials becoming available. You won't find much of use on the Corel website. Paint Shop Pro was intended by Corel to be a photo editing program, not to compete Corel Draw or Corel painter. But any artist could have told them that a house paint brush or even a pastry brush can be wielded on canv… Continue

Posted by Gail Kavanagh on July 9, 2008 at 12:20am — 1 Comment

Digital Painting in Paint Shop Pro

Paint Shop Pro is usually regarded as the poor cousin (or poor rip off) of applications like Corel or Illustrator. But I have been using it since its first release (admittedly at hat time because it was easier to learn than Adobe and a bit more creative than MS Paint.) Still,I had discovered that even MS paint can be extraordinarily flexible (mainly through the experimentation of my son Chris) and so found PSP to have many unexplored possibilities. Since then, PSP has grown exponentially into a… Continue

Posted by Gail Kavanagh on July 6, 2008 at 11:19pm — 4 Comments

Midlife Crisis...i haz one

Amazing thing, time. Amazing how quickly things can change and also how, when you make a tough decision, a really tough one, how things just seem to then fall into place. Push has come to shove in my life. I've known this was going to happen, I've tried very hard not to let it happen, but guess what? It happened. So, on Thursday, I had to make what I thought at the time, was a very hard and depressing decision...and that is, to sell my house. I spent the day on the "unhappy couch" under an afgh… Continue

Posted by Sandi Wedemeier on July 6, 2008 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

BookArtz Charm Swap

I cut the copper sheet, used my new dividers....straight lines can be a beautiful thing. Then I filed the edges and corners. Drilled holes. Tumbled them. Grabbed some pages from an old book (1920's) and started tearing & burning. The smell of vintage paper burning isn't pleasa… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on June 26, 2008 at 10:00pm — 11 Comments

Is it me...?

Or is it really quiet on the interwebs? Not only here, but most of my mailing lists are quiet. Are y'all all at some big art thing I didn't get the memo for? Continue

Posted by Alicia Edwards on June 24, 2008 at 4:03pm — 7 Comments

Lightening Strike

I am at my daughter's home using her computer to update the group on my current situation. We were hit by lightening last Monday night. We lost our phone, computer, TV, electric igniter on our cook stove..................haven't found anything else yet!!! We won't have a technician at our house until next Wed. They are so overwhelmed with calls because of so many strikes. I can't even tell you how many times our towers have been down and we have been without electricity. The past 3 days have bee… Continue

Posted by Sharon Bruner on June 21, 2008 at 5:53pm — 6 Comments

Frottage Collage

Frottage from the French word frotter...to rub. A technique of creating a design by rubbing with wax or pencil over a tactile object placed underneath a thin piece of paper. If you like to paint or collage, you might enjoy following a mini tutorial that I have posted on my weblog. The tutorial can be viewed on http://createwithmoxie.blogspot.com/ and, The completed collage ohoto can be seen on http://art-with-moxie.blogspot.com/ I hope you join me in this technique....I know you will enjoy playi… Continue

Posted by Cory on June 20, 2008 at 12:08am — 10 Comments

Focus. I needz sum.

Okay, so I spend too much time looking at lolcats, but I'm still struggling with the issue of focus. I love the jewelry I've been knotting and have way more designs floating in my head and on paper than I can complete in a year or 7, but there's so much more I want to do. Like playing with fabric, and fabric and beads, and fabric, beads and ribbon. And digital work, playing with brushes and filters and my photographs. OH and I have more photographs to take for my cemetary documentation project… Continue

Posted by Sandi Wedemeier on June 19, 2008 at 1:04pm — 2 Comments

Layers of Color (Art Stamps) & the Under the Sea Chunky Book

How is the vendor related to the swap you might ask? Well, even though I'm a few miles from the beach, I didn't have anything beach themed in my rubber arsenal. Surfing around I came across their plate of under the sea stamps......and now have that one & the architectural one. I'm a happy girl! So, the backgrounds have begun for the chunky book ;-) And....the architectural stamps are on metal....which will be etched this week and turned into gorgeous jewelry pieces. Woo- hoo! If you DO happ… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on June 15, 2008 at 9:18pm — 2 Comments

Book Arts Show

I am working to help organize a show of altered books and handmade books for the Impact Artists' Gallery in Buffalo,NY. This is a woman's gallery, or at least it is run by women and members have opportunities to exhibit several times a year and also submitt work for National Shows. The Book Arts show is open to all and I am sending this announcement as an invitation to each one of you to send some books for display. More information and an entry form may be found at: http://impactartist.wordpres… Continue

Posted by Sylvia Kleindinst on June 14, 2008 at 10:38pm — 3 Comments

I hate to jinx myself...

...but yesterday was a really great day. Maybe I ought to knock on wood or something. We've finally had a break in the weather. I'm in the area in the Midwest that you've been hearing about; my little town in Iowa has been mostly under water for over a week now. We're situated on the Cedar River and it's overflowed it's banks by more than ever before in recorded history. Even though I live on the second highest hill in town, my neighborhood was affected too. We were stranded up here by the dry… Continue

Posted by Sandi Wedemeier on June 14, 2008 at 2:03pm — 4 Comments

Hey An Advertiser And My Ramblings

I haven't been to the site in a few days... I've been cramming trying to get some art commitments completed. Good thing too as I tried to cut off my finger today and am now a bit handicapped until this big cut on my index finger heals. Anyway, I logged in and saw the cute little button for 'Art Stamps, Layers of Color' and loved the look so decided to click on through. Wow, I love the signature stamps a lot. There are two sets I plan to get (Friday is payday). I thought, "Wow, how cool to find… Continue

Posted by Christy on June 11, 2008 at 2:40am — 3 Comments

U is for Unhappy or my brain needs a vacation

Yesterday I had an okay day really. I continued with my knotting projects, completed 6 pieces (one for me), scanned them and started a 7th piece, also for me. Then last night, I was overwhelmed by a wave of unhappy out of nowhere; it literally made me shake my head. This was an odd experience. I didn't want to go to sleep in the same old bed, wake up in the same old bed, make the same old coffee, read the same old mail/email, do the same old things I've been doing everyday since...well,for a lo… Continue

Posted by Sandi Wedemeier on June 10, 2008 at 12:35pm — 5 Comments

Necessity is the mother of re-invention

It's little wonder that one of my first tattoos was the phoenix. My personal mythology is filled with firey deaths and rebirths. Careers, relationships, jobs, life's work...all subject to change. I'm doing it again and for once, it's not exciting. It's filled with anxiety, panic, uncertainty and makes me simply want to curl up on the couch and rock. I'm bound to inaction and now, more than ever, I need to move, act, defy, create. Recreate me...who I am, what I do, how I move through my world.… Continue

Posted by Sandi Wedemeier on June 8, 2008 at 1:05pm — 11 Comments

Getting Noticed ;-)

Many have heard me say that this group is public for a reason.....one of them is that you can write a blog post about something (review a book, introduce a technique, make an announcement, or all kinds of art related things) and it can be found by search engines. This is now easier. Go to "My Settings" (on the right under your name), click on the "privacy" tab (Look on the left). You'll see a question that says" Do you want to notify 3rd party blog tracking services when you add a new post? CLIC… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on June 6, 2008 at 8:43pm — No Comments

Blank Journals

I'm probably the last person in this group to be doing so (LOL!), but I have started some blank journals this past week. I'm keeping one for myself and going to send one to Bookmooch Journals to become a traveling journal........well, at least I hope they'll accept it and it can be mooched. ") I am so hooked on this site! But, I have lots of books to be mooched! I have around 1000 books left over from our homeschooling days. Trouble is I can't even get to half of them right now. Our "library" st… Continue

Posted by Sharon Bruner on June 4, 2008 at 7:30am — 6 Comments

Altered Book : How To Raise A Lady

I am working on an altered book that is just for me. Other than an 'experimenting' book I haven't created an altered book that was just personal, just for me. This one is about my daughter since she is my pride and joy and the title of the book was perfect. I originally started a book for her but it ended up being more of a practice/experiment book instead. So this one is 'really' just for her. I have two spreads completed and one currently in progress. I have recently heard of a university tha… Continue

Posted by Christy on June 2, 2008 at 2:06am — 3 Comments

Featured Photos

Our photo section currently has 325 really cool pix in it. I love to browse thru the photos. The fact that I can leave a comment on a particular photo is one of the features that I love about this place! But there's also something called "featured photos". It's a small sampling of photos that get their own page here......have you seen it? Click on the italicized words "… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on May 31, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

My first blog entry

This is the address for my Yahoo Blog. It has some pictures of my work and things I am working on. Also some of the swaps I have received. I hope to receive soime comments from you ladies ! http://marilyn-marilynsmeanderings.blogspot.com Continue

Posted by Marilyn on May 22, 2008 at 7:55pm — 3 Comments

My first fan fold book

I have made my first fan fold book and am posting pictures of it to my photos in just a few minutes. I went with a theme of cards/card games and included a different game for each page. Attached to the back of each page is a tag. When opened it reveals the rules for the chosen game. This will probably end up as a gift for my daughter (as she has already asked for it). I have to watch her though because she asks for every project and then no one else in the family gets any. It's good that she lik… Continue

Posted by Christy on May 17, 2008 at 1:19am — 4 Comments

Badges for blogs & websites

Here are a couple of badges. I'd appreciate it if you could ad… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on May 10, 2008 at 1:00pm — 14 Comments

Spring Journal Spread

I found some little, blank books at our local teacher's store. They were 6" x 6", 16 pages and just 85 cents each. Bound with two staples in the middle, they were not fancy, but perfect for sharing art journaling with newbies. I gave a class at my church on simple bookbinding,… Continue

Posted by Fairywebmother on May 8, 2008 at 7:00am — 5 Comments

Experimenting with paints/paper today..............

I did the first steps of Judy Scott's Rust Technique on some cardstock yesterday. Let it dry overnight...............then added inks today............not to get the rust effect, but to do my Mary Cassatt pages. Trying to make one side look like impressionistic watercolors and the other with this technique.....................everything drying........gotta get them put together, add embellishments and send off to Kris. I've been glazing some text to some watercolor paper scraps...........not sur… Continue

Posted by Sharon Bruner on May 6, 2008 at 2:30pm — 12 Comments

Stampers' Sampler

I keep forgetting to post about this one. SS does a Catch Up issue from all the cards they wanted to publish but ran out room. I ended up with 5 cards in this issue. (Vol 12) I actually got this issue on my birthday. ") Continue

Posted by Sharon Bruner on May 3, 2008 at 6:11pm — 5 Comments

RubberStampMadness

Received an email from Galilee Weldon at RubberSTampMadness yesterday that one of my cards that I submitted for their Fairies and Elves call was going to be used as a teaser in the RSM 160 issue in the Looking Forward section about the upcoming issue (July/Aug) and that it would be in the centerfold section. I just uploaded a pic into the Photos of the card..... so glad she sent me a JPG of it, 'cause at that time I had no camera and no scanner......Man, I really hate to send cards off without u… Continue

Posted by Sharon Bruner on May 3, 2008 at 6:08pm — 2 Comments

Technique of the month preview- May 08

I love this technique, creates beautiful backgrounds. I'm sure some of you tried this when it was originally posted, but now here's a chance for the rest of you to give it a go. This will come out differently every time and the artist suggests working on a few at a time & really just playing. Judy Scott is a wonderful artist from Scotland and has granted me permission to share this. The technique is here. Pl… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on May 2, 2008 at 10:01pm — 4 Comments

Question for y'all

Okay, here's a question for y'all. How do you deal with that idea that you had and you just couldn't pull off? Maybe you ended up doing a "lesser" version? One of my 4 X 4 song lyrics pages, actually it was the first one I made because I'd been plotting and scheming on how to make it - came out this way. (I am a child of the 80s, so you've been warned.) If you aren't familiar with the song by INXS called Mediate, you can see the video on You… Continue

Posted by Alicia Edwards on May 1, 2008 at 12:30am — 9 Comments

3x3 Swap Preview

This group seems to be loving the 3x3 pages swaps. I've got one more theme on my list. Is it a color? Is it a theme? It's my favorite thing to drink and I drink it all day long- many different ways.....

Our next 3x3 color is coffee. Ahhhhh, but it's so much more than just a col… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on April 30, 2008 at 10:56pm — 4 Comments

Wrecked it!

I added a header & it seems I wrecked people's pages......I'll have to sort this out, don't wanna do that to people's pages. I still want everyone to be able to customize as they'd like. 5-24-08...edited to add....come to find out that it wasn't an issue with what I did, it was a known issue with IE compatibility. If I had known that THEN I wouldn't have changed the appearance, just left it as it was....but I caved.....now I know. See.....another reason NOT to use IE ;-) Edit complete. It… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on April 28, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

The advertisements are gone!

Okee dokee- the ads are gone. Hopefully we'll have some vendors that will want to run static ads here. Fingers crossed ;-) It's time to invite people to the neighborhood! Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on April 28, 2008 at 5:48pm — No Comments

What's new?

Well, later today I'll be mapping the domain over to here. I'm excited about that. What that means is that when one types in bookartz.com- it'll bring you here to the network. And I think that's all the paid stuff I'll do for now. Yes, the ads are most annoying, but only because I know they are there- I don't see them. My browser of choice is Firefox & I have an add-on called adblock. Just as the name implies- it blocks me from seeing any of the adsense ads. So they aren't on my sidebar. I'l… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on April 24, 2008 at 10:09am — 7 Comments

Welcome

Hi, my dear friends, It's so nice to be here. What a great idea, Stacie, I will be back again very soon Continue

Posted by Bobbie S. Reiser on April 17, 2008 at 7:45pm — 1 Comment

Poking around...

Well a couple of people are in here poking around- I need the feedback. More in the coming days. And the first set of charges have hit my card- LOL. It's all good. I'm not even halfway through my to do list. All in good time right? Since I have my ads blocked on my browser- I've never seen the google ads here in the right column. Well I opened IE today & had a look. That bugs me. Will have them removed soon & replaced with our own static ones. That'll be next week's project. On another… Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on April 15, 2008 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

Woah! First Post on a New Blog!

So here we are on a new social networking site. I've carefully avoided them in the past, and now in just the past month, I've joined this one, ning, and a business one, LinkedIn. We'll see. I am honored to be the first of the group members here, which is mainly because I volunteered and that's just because I'm a geek. Continue

Posted by Marilyn Weyman Kegg on April 15, 2008 at 2:15am — 1 Comment

A whole new world.....

I've met so many new friends in the various social networks that I belong to......now it's time for two worlds to collide. The BookArtz Yahoo group will have it's own social network here. I've been working hard on some customizing, but still have loads to do. Hopefully in the next week or so I'll be ready to bring in a few members/artists to run some testing then we'll go live and invite everyone. I'm excited about it! Continue

Posted by Stacie Williams on April 11, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

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