Tags from Altered States of Mind club

Here are the tags I received at the last Altered States of Mind meeting. We make tags and then exchange what we bring. Currently we are working on tage 1-9 & 0.

The rose and the cards tags were made by Ramona and the zero tag was made by Sandi.

This is an ATC that I received in exchange for the ATC that I took to the meeting. Marian made this ATC.

We have a great group at ASOM club. Next month's meeting will be June 9 at the store.

This weekend is the holiday and the store will be closed Monday. I have a lot of the items that I need for the project I want to do that looks similar to what Tim Holtz did a while back. I plan on getting started on this Saturday. So hopefully next week I will be posting a photo of the project. 

ASOM project from last month

ATC from last months project

I bet you are wondering what ASOM stands for. Well it stamds for Altered States of Mind. It is the name of the altered group that meets at the store the 2nd Monday of each month. OK that said. At last months meeting we worked on the class project, watercolors on baby wipes. It actually was fun. At the end of the meeting we were to make an ATC  using the baby wipes as a background. I was able to get this done after dinner. The baby wipe has mostly greens and since it is soft like a tissue I mounted it to cardstock. It is too porous to stamp on, so I stamped a flower on a trancparency using red staz-on for the bloom and green for the stem. Next I mounted the stamped transparancy over the baby wipe background and wella..... my ATC.

Hero Arts

I really like this stamp. I made this card using the large stamp and a coordinating 4 stamp set. This scan does not really show the pop dotted areas but it came out so good on the card.

Time to go. See you next time.

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.  ~Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

 

Tomorrow the Tags are due

Happy Mothers Day to all. It has rained here off and on all day. It is a great day to get stamping projects finalized. Tomorrow is the monthly meeting of the altered group, Altered States of Mind. At past meetings we were to bring altered tags that comprised the whole alphabet. We did 2 tags a month and and traded our tags. That means we did not keep our own tags. (I didn't scan my art work so I don't have any pics to share, wahhhh.) We just wrapped up the alphabet last month and to compliment the alphabet we are including numbers 1-9 & 0. We are making 3 tags per meeting to speed this along. Numbers 1.2 & 3 are due at the meeting tomorrow nite. I decided I want to make my tags in a series so they will all be similar and will all have metal as the main component. I love working with metal but haven't done any metal work in a while and I feel these could be much better. Since I wait til the last minute, I have no time to make better tags for this month. However, since I now know what the rest of the tags will look like, I will finish the other numbers over the next few weeks just to finish this series ahead of time. We will be doing a group project tomorrow evening working with watercolors. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. More on that on my next post.

I am still gathering my "stuff" together for my wall hanging. I ordered my 12X12 canvases and as soon as they arrive I will get started. My plan is to lay each panel out to see if I will like the composition and then get started. Last nite, I worked on 5 puzzle pieces that someone gave me. I alcohol inked them up to cover up the image on the face of the pieces. They really turned out great. I am thinking they will look great on some of the panels. Time will tell.

Well, its time to start dinner. See you later. 

Tim Holtz Inspired

Have you checked out Tim Holtz's website or his blog?? I go out there often and back in January he gave away a really cool alphabet display.Tim's was 9-4x4 canvases that were butted up to each other to form a square. Each of the canvases contained 3 letters of the alphabet and the last square only had 2 letters. Well I loved it so much, I really felt it was calling my name so I decided that I would make a similar display and each of the squares will probably be 12X12. My goal is to have a complete wall hanging for my family room.

I decided to do a prototype so off I went ,I purchased a smaller canvas just to see how this would work for me. So, here is the finished canvas and I think this is going to work really nice. My art piece will consist of 9- 12X12 canvases that will contain the complete alphabet with a smattering of cool things to add interest to the total piece. As I work on each of the individual canvases I will add to the blog. I am anxious to get started but my canvas supplier has the canvases I want to use on back order. This will give me time to develop the design for each square and gather all the different items. I will keep you posted as this project evolves.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.  ~Henry Ward Beecher