Yay! We are finally up and running on the new host. I really owe a big thank you to my son-in-law. He had been my adviser and hand holder throughout this process and kindly stepped in to do some of the more technical fixes for me last night. I told my daughter long ago that she was never allowed to end her marriage because I didn’t want to loose him and I mean it even more today! In so many ways he has been a joyful addition to our family.

OK, lets try this new home out for size with some pictures, shall we? I’ve been playing with the next technique from Artist Trading Card Workshop by Bernie Berlin.

The idea is that you find pictures in magazines and build your card with them. Bernie encourages you to use a marker to add some detail. My details are kind of lame and I really wasn’t thinking this was my kind of technique. You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to make those two cards. I’m telling you, this was labor intensive. About this time is when my stubborn gene kicked in (thanks Dad) and I dove into the stack of old magazines for another try.

I decided to skip the doodle art this time and just play with the pictures. It was starting to come a little easier to me. Actually finding the pictures was a lot of fun. I thumbed through several magazine gleefully ripping out pages of things I thought might work. Then I would select an image and start thumbing though the magazines again looking for some words or other images that might go with it and give me a theme. That is what happened with the next card.

I really didn’t plan on making a constipation card, really I didn’t. I had this great hog image that I wanted to use and I had no idea what to do with it. I was thumbing through the magazine looking for words and the constipation word just jumped out at me. It’s all the word’s fault. I never would have subjected you to potty humor, honest I wouldn’t. Everybody knows I’m much too refined and classy for something like that. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!