Showing posts with label Claudine Hellmuth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claudine Hellmuth. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2011

Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap Blog Hop

Welcome to the Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap Blog Hop!

Photo of the collage that was on my postcard.
 If you are not a regular on my blog you'll want to scroll down through the previous blog posts (the first Postcard Swap post is July 31st but there are only a few blog posts to go through that are not related to the Swap) to see the postcards I received.  Please feel free to leave comments as I love to read them!  While my postcard was a photo of a collage piece I made for Claudine Hellmuth's Compostion for Collage class all the postcards I received were from photographers.  I received a total of 7 postcards - 5 from Swap participants, one  from Cara who received one of my postcards and one from Kat the founder & organizer of the swap. 
The swap was relatively easy to do.  I took photos of my collage work, printed the photos and adhered them to a postcard.  I had in my stash of stuff the adhesive backed postcards so I didn't even need to purchase those!  I wrote a message on the back of each postcard and mailed my 5 postcards  & 5 address labels off to Kat prior to the deadline.  I think the hardest part was deciding what to put on the postcard - sending your art out into the world can be a little scary and intimidating but in the end it was a lot of fun.  Kat was extremely helpful when she set the swap up with resources and various ways you could approach the project. 
As I began to receive the postcards I emailed each person that provided their email to let them know I got their postcard and to thank them for participating in the swap.  Several of the people who sent me postcards also provided their blogs,website and/or etsy addresses as well.  So I checked those out too.  I found it very interesting to see what they were all working on.  I listed the blogs, website and etsy addresses in the posts with their postcards so you can check them out as well.
As people started to receive my postcards I received emails and blog comments from them. While I had provided 5 postcards I only heard back from 4 people.  I'm sure it was a matter of the postcard getting lost in the mail.  I was able to check their blogs/websites as well which I enjoyed. 
It was so much fun (kind of like your birthday!) to come home from work to find a postcard or email. 
Now that you see how easy it is I hope you'll join us for the next swap which is tentatively set to happen in early 2012. 

To follow the blog hop click on the icons located to the right underneath the Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap yellow badge. 
Make sure you sign up for the Postcard Swap newsletter while you are there if you want to be notified of the next swap.

Friday, July 1, 2011

One Little Word July 1st Blog Hop starts 11am ET

Illuminate
Thank you for stopping by!  Ali's prompt for June turned in to a fun and messy project!  We were asked to make a series of multimedia canvases.  It was up to us to choose how we wanted to do them in terms of ourselves and our word.  My word is Illuminate and I tried to reflect that in my 9 little canvases.  I had the opportunity to use some products that I hadn't had a chance to use yet - its alway fun when you can use stuff from your stash! 
In June I was also taking Claudine Hellmuth's Composition for Collage class and found that my 9 little canvases collectively made a grid compositional structure for collage!  So in the photos below you will see the canvases as a collage and also as they look in my One Little Word album. 
As a collage
 
In the page protector


In my OLW album
  Next stop on the blog hop is Jenn at www.studiojenn.blogspot.com
The entire list is below so that you don't miss any stops along the way.  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you'll leave a comment!
  
Margie               http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog    
Kelly                        http://kellyxenos.typepad.com/
Julie Ann            julieannshahin2.blogspot.com
Jill                          http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
Jamie                        http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/
Cherie                        http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/
Nikki                  http://www.inkyart.com.au/
Amanda            http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com
Melissa S         http://blog.mshanhun.com
Lisa A                        http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog/
Sam                  http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
Karen                        womenontractors.blogspot.com
Lynn                  http://www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com/    You are here
Jenn                   www.studiojenn.blogspot.com
Kathryn         http://www.katlodesigns.com.
Cindy                  http://seriousplay.typepad.com

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Composition for Collage

Here is my last collage for Claudine Hellmuth's Composition for Collage class which ends this Wednesday. This one is using a grid compositional structure and I found this to be the easiest of the four that Claudine taught us (asymmetrical, horizontal, vignette and grid).  I think that comes from my scrapbooking and crafting background.  Vignette is my next favorite structure for the same reason.  Boy, those 4 weeks flew by!  I don't think I'll get another collage finished between now and Wed.  I'm getting my work space(s) straightened up and cleaned so I'm ready to start MotherLOAD on Thursday and continue with Finding Photo Freedom.  Those 2 classes will take me through the rest of the summer.  For Photo Freedom I'm working on some of the tasks on the weekly task lists but I'm in a holding pattern until the 2 new storage binders I ordered arrive on Tuesday than I continue filling those and then work on my category drawers. 
Just a reminder that the monthly One Little Word Blog Hop will be this Friday, July 1st starting at 11am ET.  Hope you'll stop back and hop through the blogs.  This month's prompt was a very creative one so I'll think you'll enjoy and maybe find some inspiration for your own work as well!