Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

September 3rd, 2008

Call for entries: Haute Handbags

What’s Up Wednesday!

Handbags look a lot better when they have beads sewn on them, don’t you think?
Stampington & Co is getting ready to publish another issue of their special publication Haute Handbags. The deadline is November 15, 2008, so get out your supplies and get going! Here’s all the important submission information.
How […]

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August 21st, 2008

The Embellishment Café

Art Attack Thursday!

Water’s Edge beadwork
The beautiful home for her artwork created by Andrea Stern, The Embellishment Café is just full of lovely little bites of fabric goodness! I totally enjoyed my visit to her site: it is full of beadwork, art quilts, journals, pillow shams, dolls, and more. Take a peek, and plan to stay […]

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August 20th, 2008

Call for entries: Belle Armoire Jewelry

Belle Armoire Jewelry is published by Stampington as a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is October 15, 2008. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry with readers, we want to hear from you. Belle Armoire Jewelry covers […]

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August 12th, 2008

Mounting the beaded postcards

Technique Tuesday!

I used 12″x24″ gallery-wrapped Frederix canvases to mount my Bead Journal Pages. Each page is 6″x4″, so this left plenty of space around each.
Materials and Tools
3 gallery-wrapped canvases
Golden’s acrylic paints
Sponges
Waxed paper
Beading thread
Beading needles

Arrange beaded cards as they will be on the canvases. Mine are arranged by month: otherwise I may have grouped […]

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August 11th, 2008

The Bead Journal Project resumes very soon!

Make Art Monday!
If you missed out the first time, you simply must consider joining in on the fun for this next year! The Bead Journal Project is accepting registrations now, until August 15, to start in September 2008. Go register now, if you’re interested in bead embroidery, and while you’re there, check out […]

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August 5th, 2008

Making an abstract collage that focuses on shape and repetition

Technique Tuesday!
Cosmic Flowers is a fantasy abstract that I created when I was fooling around with repetition of shapes. I would recommend reviewing my post on creating an abstract, where I quoted Nita Leland’s explanation that the elements and principles of design are what an abstract is really “about”. To add a bit […]

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August 4th, 2008

Cosmic Flowers

Make Art Monday!

Cosmic Flowers
This one almost got named Lucy in the Sky with Flowers, but that seemed too cutesy. This collage is another result of my playing around with the notion of abstracts. I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow!
Tags: Collage, Mixed Media, paper arts

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July 10th, 2008

Dangerous Detritus

Art Attack Thursday!

The Vizier’s Daughter
The Dangerous Detritus etsy shop greets you with the following message:
Welcome to Dangerous Detritus! I am Molly ‘Porkshanks’, a traveler from across time and space, I import and export wares across the dimensions. I try to find appealing hand made one of a kind items for the discerning retrofuturistic gent or […]

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July 2nd, 2008

Reader giveaway: DVD from Beads & Beyond!

I have been given copies of Beads & Beyond’s DVDs to giveaway to readers here! B&B is a British jewelry and beading magazine that would like to introduce itself beyond the UK and Australia, so I will have to limit this giveaway to my Canadian and United States readers (sorry!). I will be […]

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June 11th, 2008

Call for entries: Beadwork’s Beaded Book Competition

Entry period: August 1-December 18, 2008. Read the complete rules.
Beadwork editor Marlene Blessing writes, “I know plenty of you have been inspired by altered books (don’t let those collage artists have all the fun) and by stories (from trashy novels, to historical epics, to books of poems). Whether you alter an actual book, re-create a […]

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