Altered By Me

The deadline for the mixed media charm swap I am hosting is getting close. So far I have received charms from 8 of the 18 artists that signed up for my swap. The charms are all beautiful and there is such a wide assortment of styles that these charms are going to make an awesome charm bracelet. I'll post pictures after the charms are swapped out. This weeks challenge on the PID yahoo group is metal. The above atc is what I made for the weekly challenge. I'm not sure if you can tell from the picture but in the upper left hand corner is a purple metallic rose. The roses are available from Paper Imagery Designs and come in a five different colors. The rose worked very well with the theme. Oh and yes I seem to be on a purple kick this month. I think this is the 3 piece of art I have done where the color is predominately purple. Thanks for stopping by! Arlene

Last night right before dinner I decided I felt like sewing something. So on the spur of the moment I threw this little art quilt together. I had the background square sewn together already so when I say I threw it together it is just the flower motif and the border work that I threw together. I also did all of the free motion quilting last night. All of the fabric, lace, trims, cheese cloth and muslin are hand dyed. I have a couple of zip lock bags stuffed full of a few colors of dyed fabric + trims so it was very easy for me to just pick through the bags to find pieces that I liked.     I probably should have made the flower stems a little narrower but I love the way it turned out. Below is the entire piece. It is 8 x 8. The color is a little dark in this picture but the top pic shows the true colors of the piece.     Thanks for stopping by! Arlene   Technorati Tags: Art Quilt , Art Quilting , Fabric Art , Fabric Collage ...

Design Team Sale! 30% OFF ALL ORDERS !!! Yes including the already reduced publications like Somerset, Cloth Paper Scissors, and Studios Magazines!! Sale ends August 9 2009. All order will receive a free digital sheet add your choice to your comments. Enter promo code designteam How to enter a Promo Code on the new site read here http://paperimagery designs.blogspot .com/2008/ 10/how-to- enter-discount- code.html The above atc was made using one of the PID new nest sheets. You may have noticed I love making art with birds and nest. This nest image is also available with a green background. So now you have a chance to buy the new sheets with a 30% discount . Check out the new site if you haven't seen it yet, it is beautiful and Melissa has added new sheets this week. Thanks for stopping by! Arlene

I love fabric don't you? I love going through my stash and just looking and rubbing pieces of fabric that I really love. A couple of weeks ago I decided to make a baby quilt for my newest granddaughter. I love the Chinese coin pattern and after looking at a bunch of blogs I decided to do that pattern. I actually have a queen size quilt that I made a long time ago with the pattern that I started hand quilting, got about 1/3 of the way finished. Every year I think about it and think I will drag it out and finish the quilting but I don't. So after dragging my sewing machine out for the quilt I decided to try my hand at art quilting. I tell you "labels" can throw a girl off, read on for an explanation. I've been reading books, reading blogs, reading magazine articles thinking there is just no way I can do this. Why? I don't know intimidation? Self doubt? Insecurities? I kind of felt the same way I did when I first started in mixed media. I didn't want to post...

Paper Imagery Designs is looking for a few new Design Team members. If your interested and would like to apply please see the Paper Imagery Designs blog post here. The above 4 x 4 was done for the Altered People challenge on the PID yahoo group. If you'd like to see how I did the background technique check out the post here . Thanks for stopping by! Arlene

I am hosting a Mixed Media Charm Swap on the Paper Imagery Designs yahoo group .I have been asked to extended the sign up time to Saturday July 18th. I am so excited to be hosting this swap since I love making charms and love getting charms lol. So if your interested in joining and are not a member of the yahoo group send me an email and I will send you all the details. arlene9999 @earthlink.net. If you'd like to join the group click on the link above. We have a couple of great swaps going on right now besides the charm swap there is a artdoll/pid torso swap being hosted. On our sister swap group there is an on going atc swap each month using certain PID images. So if your looking for some fun come join us at the PID yahoo group. Here you can see some of the beautiful charms made by Eileen Bellomo for this charm swap. You can see more of Eileen's art work at her blog . If your not looking to join the group you can still play in my charm swap by emailing me directly. Thanks for...

I want to show you an atc I made last week. Usually when I make a piece of art I use my own background. When I say my own background I mean I have started with a piece of blank watercolor paper and painted, inked, stamped or distressed it myself. It is one of my most favorite parts of the creative process. Matter of fact sometimes I like my background so much that I have a hard time covering it up to make a piece of art. For this atc below I used a pre-made atc background sheet from Paper Imagery Designs . The title of the sheet is For the Birds. PID offers a large selection of images with birds and butterflies. These sheets are my favorites and you will find the images in a lot of my art. The butterfly came from the Butterflies, Dragonflies and Insects sheet . This was one of the easiest atc's I've ever made and it is one of my favorites. There is still time to enter my atc giveaway here . The giveaway ends on July 3rd. You'll find info on the contest blog post ...