Green Paper

Last Day for April Challenge....

There's one more day to post your art for the April Collage Challenge. I hope you're joining us!

April Collage Challenge!

It's the first of the month, so it's time once again for the monthly Green Paper Collage Challenge. The challenge is easy - create a piece of art using at least part of each of the three images provided here:

To capture the jpg version above, just click on the image to open and then click again to get the largest size. Then right click and save to your computer.

Or, you can download the easy-print PDF here:    Download April 2012 challenge 

How to enter?

1. Create a piece of art - anything at all - using at least part of each of the three images.
2. Post your art somewhere on the web - your blog, Flickr account, whatever!
3. Using the Linky below, link us to your web location so we can come and visit. 

That's it!  

The deadline for the Challenge is next Sunday, April 8th. On the 9th I'll draw a name at random to win all 4 of my calendar image collections, a $20.00 value. 

Here's the Linky to use to attach your entry:

 

I can't wait to see what you create!

Sticking With It....

Do you ever feel this way too? I was talking to my sister Eileen this week and complained that everything I've created lately looks horrible. I joked that maybe my art-ing days are over.

My beautiful sister, Eileen, helping me at Silver Bella a couple years ago.

Then last night, Eileen and I were talking again and she mentioned an Ira Glass / This American Life episode she listened to. I remembered that I had saved an Ira Glass quote a while back because I found it particularly meaningful, but I couldn't remember why.  So, I pulled it out again...

“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. 

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. 

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”-Ira Glass” 

Do you find that true, too? How easily I forget!

I can't tell you how many gluebook pages I've set aside lately, because I just couldn't finish. I'm so unhappy with them! So, my goal for the weekend is to finish some art every day. To stick with it, even if I think it's really bad.

Wish me luck, I'll let you know how it goes.

Oh, and just a reminder that the Spring 25% off sale ends tomorrow. If you'd like to gluebook along with me, come ahead!

Bargains Available...

There are just a few days left for the Spring Sale in my store.  All of my exclusive image collections and classes are 25% off, through the end of March!

So, each of the exclusive image sets in the calendar collections  is just $3.75 with the discount...

...or, you can learn everything there is to know about gluebook-ing (and lots more) with the Your Vintage Gluebook Class , just $26.25...

...If you like one of my most popular collections, the Logomachy cards, you could get one original set on eBay these days for $75.00... or $500.00 . Maybe you'd rather grab the Logomachy cards collection and get all 4 styles, to print again and again, for only $13.50...

...and you might like the technique-and-example filled Collage Basics class at just $33.75...

Whatever you choose, it's easy to apply the discount:

To take advantage of the 25% discount, visit the store, HERE.

Add anything and everything to your cart

Put the word springfever into the discount code box.

Please let me know if you have any questions or want to learn more about any of the items in the store. I love to talk about my collections and classes, so ask away!

Hop Over to See Pam Carriker!

Celebrating Artful Gathering 2012 Online Art Retreat, Open for Registration!

Blog Hop your way for chance to win!

 

From June to August 2012, ArtfulGathering.com will be presenting TWO exciting semesters of premiere online video workshops offered by fabulous artists who are known nationally and internationally. We are all very excited to share out knowledge, skill, and creativity with you, and we hope that you will join us for this AMAZING annual online event.

Blog Hop with us for a chance to win a prizes from Jerry's Artarama!

Each week the faculty of Artful Gathering will be announcing a featured blog to visit.

You can hop along with us until the final destination blog is reached, and where ONE Grand Prize winner will be chosen at Random for a chance to win a $200.00 e-gift card from Jerry's Artarama!!!Two Runner Up winners will also be chosen at random for a chance to win a $25.00 e-gift card from Jerrys.

Each week I will announce the next featured blog for you to visit, and there you will find a new secret word or words that you will need to collect along your way from blog to blog. Once you have collected all the words from each blog you visit, they will work out to say a very artsy phrase. Here are the rules:

1. For your chance to win, you must collect all the secret code words and submit them upon the final destination blog in May. A random drawing will be conducted from those contestants who have submitted the complete collection of secret words!
2. Three winners will be randomly drawn. One for the $200.00 e-card to Jerry's, and two runner's up for the 25.00 e-card to Jerrys.

Remember to collect all the secret words. These words will work out to say a very artful phrase, and you'll need all the pieces to be eligible for the final prize drawings!

Please HOP over and visit the Amazing

Pam Carriker
http://pamcarriker.com/blog/
(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)