My mother’s photo collection has been through a lot. Fire, water, moves and years of neglect in basements and garages. By the time my sister came to its rescue many of the photos has gotten stuck together. She sent a couple stuck together photos to me so that I could scan the top one. […]

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I was experimenting with a textured background technique using the coarse ground embossing powder. It’s another technique from Artist Trading Card Workshop by Bernie Berlin and basically you just melt a little of the embossing powder to add some texture and then add paint for color. I made several different backgrounds but when […]

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A while back a friend asked me to participate in an ATC Jam she was part of. I agreed, added to the effort and sent the cards on their way. I thought that was the end of it until an envelope arrived in my mailbox. Jean Pitzer sent me the cards shown above with a […]

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I’ve been busy fighting clutter and didn’t have time to come up with a post for today. I’ll just fill in with a couple photos of my favorite subject. Why does she like laying on her back so much?

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I stepped outside the other day and saw this mother Dove trying to shove her two babies out of the Palm tree. She pushed and pushed and they just sat there firmly anchored to the branch. A few minutes later a big storm blew in. Suddenly Momma Dove was no where to be seen and […]

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I talked with Billie last night and she said that Chris and I should go up there today for a play day. It’s been quite a while since we had a play day so I was more than ready to say yes! We decided to work on another technique from Artist Trading Card […]

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