Paper Imagery Designs Design Team Call



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



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