My three monthly art projects for the next few months, at least, are going to be the Monthly Challenges, the Same Image swap and the Interactive Inventions AB round robin. I have curbed my comittments and held off signing up for stuff no matter how tempting it sounds. Knowing how I leave everything to the last minute, and I never have any time for doing anything for myself, art-wise I deicded that the line has to be drawn somewhere. I must admit I am quite proud of myself especially as the swaps on Paperartsy are always pretty cool.

The January Challenge is to alter 3 bottles, and I’m in 2 minds, whether to alter 3 of the gazillion plastic Yakult bottle I have accumulated or whether to go for the 3 glass bottle I had ear-marked for the occasion… hmmmm…. maybe using the wee plastic bottles might be too outside-the-box for some people, you’d never guess we were supposed to be creative souls, would you? lol! They’re ot due until February 15th anyway, so a few weeks yet!

My Same Image swap for this month is Penny’s suitcase image, I’ll have to have a think about that, again I’ve got until 15th Feb. for this one.

I’ve got some really cool ideas for the AB this month (my book of course). I’ve got the welcome/instructions, sign-in pages and 2 spreads - gulp! Still, I’ve been making some notes and will let you know how I get on…. frighteningly, this one is due in 2 weeks so I had better get a giddy on.

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Can’t believe this is the first entry this year! Where has the time gone already? I’ve been busy getting some of my backlog of art work done. I sent off my envelope for the Same Image swap to Emma, using a stamp I have never used, strangely enough, and completed my spread in Dawn’s Zebra book, which was odd to say the least but having completed it I was happy to send it home. I also completed what turned out to be a very satisfying spread in Glynis’ Beauty book, to my shame I have had this book for several months now but I am happy with my spreads. I even managed to use a new (to me) technique which was a buzz - transparency transfers using gel medium. My spread was originally going to be called “Black Beauty - and not a horse in sight” (ha!ha!ha!) I printed off the transparencies of gorgeous black women from all over the globe and was set to ‘do’ something with them. When I did the transfers the images weren’t ‘perfect’ but some were distorted or looked a bit abstract or hazy and I was going to bin them but then looking at the transfers I realised that it was still possible to see the beauty in these images and that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder! Soooo my spread changed, and for the better, I think

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