One Sweet Blog Award

Creative Solace

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I am so proud to display this wonderful illustration by a sweet and extremely talented blogging friend Diana Evans who hosts a blog called Back to the Drawing Board. Her artwork is whimsical, colourful and fully of positive energy and vitality just as s...

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TGIF Challenge - Minimalize Art

Creative Solace

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There is something intriguing about art that is small....atcs, inchies, twinchies, microscope slide pieces. I am always amazed at how much detail can be incorporated on a small canvas. I created these three circus-tent shaped atcs as a triptych to send t...

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Theme Thursday - Friends 4" X 4"

Creative Solace

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This is a cabinet card that I use often. I just posted an atc using it a few days ago. I know I've read posts from others saying that they are attracted to certain photos more than others and I feel the same way. Perhaps it's because we can relate to ...

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Layers of Color Challenge - Farm Animals

Creative Solace

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This is one of my favourite images from PaperWhimsy...this group of young ones posing with their chickens. Since the Layers of Color Challenge theme is "farm animals", I used them to create a 4" X 4" complete with layers of papers and beeswax....

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ATC Wednesday - Eyes

Creative Solace

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ATC Wednesday is a new challenge blog to me and I'm glad to have found it. The theme this week is "eyes".....ah, the mirrors of the soul. They express so much about a person and how they are feeling. In fact I've been told that my eyes "flash" when I...

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Wednesday Stamper - Peace

Creative Solace

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I designed this card as a Christmas card but found it so labour intensive that I was only able to make a few. I coloured the dove and the world with radiant pearls. I love working with pearls but they take some time to dry unlike H2Os. "Peace" is the ...

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Created ByHand Challenge - Crows

Creative Solace

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The mystique of crows is always fascinating. They are seen as being clever scavengers and have inspired artwork and poetry. They seemed to need to be in this round robin journal page with the little bat girls. Hmmm.....I wonder what that crow at the ...

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Crazy Amigo Challenge - Flowers

Creative Solace

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As you likely have already guessed, I enjoy using flowers in my artwork....pressed, stamped, fabric or floral! These artist trading cards were created using darling microscope slide sized images from Retro Cafe Art Gallery. They just invited the additio...

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Mixed Media Monday - Famous People

Creative Solace

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You can't get much more famous than Christopher Columbus and Albert Einstein! These are round robin pages created for an alphabetica project. It was fun to infuse a little humour in each piece. This is my submission for Mixed Media Monday this week....

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Think Monday, Think ATC - Handwriting

Creative Solace

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Handwriting fascinates me. I actually took a general interest course in graphology a few years ago and learned a bit about reading people's handwriting. What does it say about them? Is it jagged looking or rounded and welcoming? Is the person sociable or ...

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