Altered By Me

Meet Isabella, isn't she a little darling? She is another image available from Paper Imagery Designs . The great thing about these new image sheets is that each sheet has different sizes of each image. I enjoy working in any number of sizes from inchies up to 5 x 7 so this works out well for me. And if inchies are your thing well there are also inchie images sheets. Isabella is a 2 x 2 piece I did today. I'm thinking about turning her into a soldered charm. If you haven't already checked out the new Paper Imagery Designs site your missing out. And if you have already been there you should go back and look again. New image sheets have been added. New embellishments have been added. A new Forum is up and soon there will be contests and challenges posted to the forum. So go join so you can get in on the goodies. Thanks for stopping by! Arlene

Here is an arch I made today for the Gothic Arch Challenge . The pretty little girl image is another great image from Paper Imagery Designs . Thanks for looking!

I have been a busy bee this weekend. I finished up a 5 x 7 canvas board I had been working on last week. At one point I really was stuck with this piece so I have a great feeling of satisfaction now that it is finished and I am happy with it. Check out Princess Emily and let me know what you think. Her royal image is from Paper Imagery Designs My next little project for the weekend is piece using Bella. If you read my previous blog post you might remember that I said I had a few more ideas for her. This is the first card I have made in years. Bella was perfect. She is another image available from Paper Imagery Designs I am so happy with the quality of these image sheets. They have added a bunch more to the site. I can't wait to get a couple of their new inchie sheets. The grand opening sale is still running!

Here is an atc that I recently made. I just love the eyes of this little girl. On this atc I placed a butterfly for her to stare at. I've got a few other ideas where I plan to use her. The image is from Paper Imagery Designs check them out. During the month of May they are running a grand opening sale.

Guess what? I have a special surprise for you. The new Paper Imagery Designs site is running a very special sale for the lucky readers of their new design team member’s blogs. So on top of the already great Grand Opening special of buy 2 image sheets get 1 free if you place an order between now and 12 pm pst on May 11 th Mothers Day and put my name ARLENE into the area where you add your free sheets at check out you will get another sheet for free. And the free sheets are your choice. You get to pick the free sheets. Usually when a company runs a sale like this they pick the sheets you are getting for free but not here at Paper Imagery Designs. And let me tell you the image sheets are gorgeous. Check it out! Buy 2 Image Sheets = Get 2 Free Sheets = 1 Free Grand Opening Sheet + 1 Free Design Team Special Buy 3 Image Sheets = Get 2 Free Sheets = 1 Free Grand Opening Sheet + 1 Design Team Special Buy 4 Image Sheets = Get 3 Free Sheets = 2 Grand Opening Sheets + 1 Design Team Special Isn

  Hey ya'll just in case you were a member of Belinda's Mixed Media Art Yahoo group and you just noticed that the group has disappeared like I did. Yes I'm a little slow. I've been sick and busy this past week. She has started another group while yahoo tries to find the original group. Mixed Media Art Friends is where everyone is. I've just started reading the messages I missed and there are a lot of cool swap ideas floating around. So if your interested in Mixed Media Art this is the place to be!      

I am honored to announce that I have been chosen to be a member of the design team for Paper Imagery Designs. Please take a minute to check out the site. Click on the image above to go right to the site and be sure to bookmark it. There is a grand opening sale running for the month of May. Buy 2 image sheets and get 1 free. The images are great so run on over and check it out! I'll be posting some new projects soon using these beautiful images.

Here are a couple more pages that I have finished. I am not real sure of the correct terminology, whether I am making an art book or an art journal. When I think of an art journal I think of pages that are collaged but also include some type of journaling. I don't do that. That is one of the reasons that I quickly lost interest in scrapbooking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I find it too hard to express myself in that way. Then I start trying too hard to work my page elements into something that goes along with the journaling. It ruins my creative feng shui. I know some of you will understand completely. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If as I am working on a piece I get a feeling or some meaning comes across then I will try to fit some kind of text into the piece. This works much better for me. Or my background will have a random piece of text that suddenly goes perfect with an image I have dug out of my stash. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is a perfect example of what