Laurie Mika embeds whatever she likes into her lusciously colored polymer mosaics. If you look closely your eyes will dance over bits of glass, jewelry, beads and ephemera that come together to tell her story. Of course many of the tiles are stamped, textured and painted polymer as well. This is a sample for her […] Read more

Have you joined in with the Altered Fairy Shrine swap at Retro Cafe Art Yet? If not you still have a little time . Its due by Aug 18th. Here's the four I made for the swap. You can find all the shrines and elements I used at Retro Cafe Art Well everything except the Tea pot. Speaking of Tea pots. I totally forgot to do my drawing for the ones in my giveaway. I have four that I will be giving away. Here's who was drawn using the random # generator. Random Integer Generator Here are your…

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This has been a great summer class. I have learned lots of new techniques and am just amazed and stunned at the talented people taking the class. All of the dolls are fabulous and so very original. Here are my Artist trading blocks from the Artful Gathering's class - The Imaginariam: Anthologies of an Art Doll. They are made from wood and chunky enough to stand on their own. One of the techniques I just love is making stacks of beads on a headpin and adding them to doll and even the chunky…

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Melissa Hines 2015. Mischief Circus January ATC Challenge. Image credits to Tumblefish and Crowabout

front and back of my zetti skinny book page for artchicapoo's colab. book.

Artist Trading Block I Deamt I Was The Queen by Kim Collister Artist Trading Blocks are little original works of art on a substrate of a 21/2 X 31/2 block of wood, generally about 1/2 to 3/4 thick. This listing is for one Original Artist Trading Block shown in the above photo. The wood has been

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I don't even like cats...more of a dog person myself. not sure why this came out. I was teaching a collage class at the time and using th...

I loved my black and white collage so much that I decided to try another one. I'm not completely satisfied but that is ok: Don't lose faith...sometimes what looks like a disappointment is simply meant to get you in position for greatness. And another one...I needed some color again...: Be ok with not knowing for sure what might come next, but know that whatever it is you will be ok. Only two more empty pages in this journal left.... TFL! Sandra