I was following links for a while last night and I ended up at the blog for bigcatheads.com. It is the online home of artist, Bruce Andrew Mckay. I am totally in love with his cat paintings! Above is a small snip from one of his paintings, be sure to go see the rest of [...]

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I just found a really cool site that I’d like to share with you.  It is called Ad*Access and it is “An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisement”.It belongs to the Duke University Libraries and it is a treasure trove for anyone who enjoys seeing old advertising.

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These are some ATC I received recently from my friends. The first two were made by Billie Hall. Billie loves working with the vintage images of ladies as much as I do. The next two were made by Jo Berneche and Marla Watson. They are just beautiful, aren’t they?

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When my daughter was in the 7th grade her Home Ec  class did a section on sewing. Even though she had been raised in a house with a sewing machine and had worn many clothing items sewn by her mother she came home from school with all the enthusiasm and excitement of a child who [...]

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A while back I got a Red Hot Idea. I decided to host a “Red Hot” ATC swap. The swap took a little longer than planned (THANK YOU for all your patience!) but the results are well worth the wait. These cards are by Chris Herrmann, Charlotte Fern,  Fefe Leducq and Connie Cook. These cards [...]

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I’ve known for quite some time that acrylic medium can be used to make image transfers but my mind never took this to the next logical step… acrylic paint. Recently I was poking around YouTube and found this video of Claudine Hellmuth using Ranger’s paints as a transfer medium. It was another of my “DUH!” [...]

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