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Mixed Media Monday: The Little Book of Hope

Posted by venita on November 17th, 2008 filed in Hand Made Books, Mixed Media Monday, collage, mixed media

Two fun challenges in a row!!  I really liked this week’s challenge.  I originally was going to do a more traditional ornament.  But, I was so taken by my class last week with Kelly last week and all that has happened this month; I decided to do a Little Book of Hope.  
 
I picked some [...]

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Mixed Media Monday

Posted by venita on November 10th, 2008 filed in Classes, Mixed Media Monday, Photography, collage

I have missed posting in Mixed Media Monday.  So, while I was in Kelly Kilmer’s class this weekend, I worked on my submission.  I created a journal page in my new Fukoro Toji we made during class.  At first, I was really spun up with doing something anatomical based on the description.  Then it occurred [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – A Cup of Tea with a Bit of Cold

Posted by venita on July 14th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, Photography, collage, mixed media

What a fascinating selection this week.  I have been working on a piece for submission to Cloth Paper Scissors.  The call is for pieces that represent “A Tea Party.”  And low and behold Mixed Media Monday selected “tea” for this week.  I think one might call that Serendipity.

The piece is for my mother-in-law who resides [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – Pretty in Pink

Posted by venita on July 7th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, collage, mixed media

Well I am a little late posting today.  But, I still want to share my Mixed Media Monday piece.  The theme this week is to use a singular color and all its variations.  So, I thought of my dear friend Kelly Kilmer and decided I would work in pink.  I have this great vintage image [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – The Dancing Librarian

Posted by venita on June 30th, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, collage

Well it is Sunday and I am working on my Mixed Media Monday piece.  The theme this week is “dance.”  What to do?  What to do?  Well I knew I wanted some sort of a dancer and originally it was going to be a couple dancing.  Then I found this vintage image from Artchix Studio.  [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – What about India?

Posted by venita on June 23rd, 2008 filed in Mixed Media Monday, collage, mixed media

Well this is it, a collage for the latest challenge of “place”.  Once again I had bazillion ideas and this time I finally settled on my piece “What About India”.  It is a collage of all things from India.  The background is a newspaper from India that my husband brought back from his visit there [...]

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Mixed Media Monday – Digital Collage

Posted by venita on June 15th, 2008 filed in Beginnings, Digital Collage, Mixed Media Monday, collage

Now that I have a blog, I want to participate in some “challenges.”  So, with that said, I have been working this week to submit an image to Mixed Media Monday.  I first discovered the site via an article in Artful Blogging by Somerset Studio Summer 2008 issue.  There are several cool articles in their [...]

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