Weekly Dose of Cuteness: MoMo loves ARTchix swaps!
Whenever I'm picking the winners of our swaps, MoMo loves it! It means that I bring out her favorite bin to sleep in. Every time I turn around, she's in this bin and I have to keep shooing her out. It's funny!
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Winners of our Art Blast ATC Swap!
We had 55 wonderful artists participate in our Art Blast ATC swap. Everyone made gorgeous ATCs inspired by our Art Blast Playing Cards. Oooh, I had such a hard time picking the winners but in the end, I picked...
NORMA SKOGLUND! Winner! (Norma wins a $100 shopping spree on our website. Hooray!)
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: I love "all things ARTchix."
Comments: Your ART Blast cards are wonderful inspiration. Loved using the birds as a focal point. So I started with those and a pile of images cut from your collage
sheets and a pile of transparencies. I liked the backgrounds with the
birds and found that if I cut out the focal point, I could slip other
images behind them to add layers. I also used copic markers to add some color to the birds.
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JOAN LAWRENCE! Honorable Mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: the new white sheet with the baby doll head
Comments: I am always challenged with your contests but when you plant the seed of the project and what sheet or items to use; it does help with creating new artwork. I used some old vintage wallpaper I had gotten from ebay and I loved the results with your transparencies.
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FRIEDA OXENHAM! Honorable mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: definitely the transparency sheets
Comments: I used these in making the Art Blast cards and what I really adore
about Artchix transparencies is that they are transparent enough to be
able to see the background, while at the same time giving a clear
outline of the image on the transparency. I love being able to build up
layers on my cards in this way.
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SABINE BUSCH! Honorable mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: I love all your beautiful collage sheets. My favourites are all sheets with birds, mermaids and art dolls.
Comments: I had a fun day with my sister when we made our Art Blast ATCs together.
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CHRISTY LAUDIG! Honorable mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: I'm a real "eye" person. As soon as I see a person, I look at their eyes, and look into their soul. You can tell so much from someone's eyes. So, my favorite product right now is..."The Eyes Have It" Collage Sheet.
Comments: I was a little intimidated by the Art Blast Swap and found the best thing for me to do was to "think" about what I was going to create. I write a list of what the requirements are for the Swap...and then I pour over each of the collage sheets that we can pick from. Then I lay out 6 blank ATC's and start picking a main image that I want to work with. After that, I work on the background, and start adding other bits and pieces until I feel balanced. I must admit, after I started putting them together, I felt more relaxed and enjoyed the whole process so much, I created another six.
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JENNIFER ROGERS-DANIELS! Honorable mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: Dreamboxes, all the German scrap, and the new sticker collections!
Comments: I really had fun making the ART blast ATCs. It was a challenge to me to
combine the retro photo images with the nature elements. Furthermore,
it was a very limited color pallet for me to work with. I decided to
make tags that could be moved so you get more than one viewpoint when
looking at these ATCs.
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LYNN MCMILLAN! Honorable Mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: That's
a tough one; there are so many! :) I think the irridescent white mini border has
to take the prize, though. It's cool as it is, and it's great to add a hint of
color to and match whatever I'm working on.
Comments: I had a lot of fun making the Art Blast ATCs. I had
an idea before I started, but it evolved as I went and the cards
ended up looking almost completely different from my original idea. That's what
I like about ARTchix swaps and challenges: I never know where the process
will take me, but I have a great time on the way!
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PATTI SCHMID! Honorable mention.
Fave ARTchix Product at the moment: German scrap -- any color I can get.
Comments: The swap was quite a challenge for me. Since I had a difficult time
approaching the project, I just kept looking at the challenge cards and
primarily focusing on the color scheme. I had the Sassy Style collage
sheet (have always wanted to use it); and then began building from
there. I think the black, red and white combination is really quite
sophisticated. Yet the do-dads made it work. Little red accents
pulled the whole thing together.
We will be introducing the amazing, gorgeous collection that was created from the artwork in this swap next Wednesday! Stay tuned for next Wednesday!
Also, good news, this swap will be mailed to all players by the end of this week or early next week. : )
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Winners of Last Week's Art Challenge: Make a Grid of Art!
We had 9 talented artists play in this fun art challenge. All of the grids of art were so cool that I had to pick 3 winners....
CYNTHIA FRENETTE! Love this, it's spectacular!
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LINDA FREEMAN! Love how she used a boggle game as the base for her grid. Genius!
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LENNA ANDREWS! Oh, this piece is so happy and colorful, it makes my heart sing!
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These 3 fabulous winners will receive:
The Chixies By the Sea Collage Sheet Collection! Hooray! : )