Green Paper

Retirement and Sales...

Just a reminder that some of my exclusive image collections and the 2011 Green Paper Collage Club will retire in just a few days - on March 15th. 

These will be removed from my e-store on March 16th and won't be brought back. Here are the retirees:

Antique Catalog Image Assortment

Lovely Ladies Image Collection

Science Stories Illustrations Images Collection

Baby's Bouquet Music Book Images Collection

The 2011 Green Paper Collage Club

If you've been thinking about any of these image collections, or the Collage Club, you'll want to pick them up by Thursday the 15th.

By the way, there's a sale going on right now. The retiring products, and all of the products and classes in my store, are 25% off with the discount code springfever, so be sure to put that in!

If you have any questions at all about them, or any of my offerings, just let me know!

Our February Collage Challenge

Time again for our monthly challenge! 

The challenge is to create something - anything at all - including at least part of each of the three images provided on this sheet. And then show it off to the rest of us!

  

You can save the jpg version above, or the easy-print PDF version here:    Download Feb 2012 challenge sheet

 How to play along? 

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 is next Wednesday, February 8th. On the 9th I'll draw a name at random to win a downloadable image collection - The Antique French Dictionary Collection of images, maps and art deco alphabet. This collection is one of my favorites and probably the one I use most often. The price is $18, but the random winner gets it for free. (Or choose something else, I won't be insulted!)

Here's the linky to use to link us to your site:

I can't wait to see what you create! 

Classes on Sale...

My year-end sale has started. Everything in the store is 25% off - including each of the classes and the Collage Club!

The entire year of the Green Paper Collage Club is $70.00 - now $52.50

Collage Basics was $45.00 and is now $33.75

Your Vintage Gluebook is regularly $35.00, now just $26.25

My Christmas Gluebook was $23.00, and now $17.25

And all of the image collections are 25% off too!

Visit the store HERE and use the discount code decemberspecial on the shopping cart page.

Year End Sale Begins Now!

It's almost Thanksgiving  - can you believe it? 

And it's time once again for the year end sale in my e-store. This time it's not just images - everything is on sale! The classes, the images, even the 2011 Collage Club! 

You'll save 25% off anything and everything in the e-store from now until December 31st. 

You might pick up some new images. All of them are exclusive to me, created from ephemera in my own collection.

You might decide to take that class you've been thinking about. Each of my classes is complete and ready to begin on your schedule. And each of them provides loads of  images to get you started.

• How to save? You need to order through the e-store HERE. 
• Click ADD TO CART when you've made a selection
• Enter the discount code: decemberspecial on the shopping cart screen

That's it! The store calculates the discount for you and then emails you a link to the material as soon as you pay - no waiting!

I hope you'll visit the store to see everything available. And, please contact me if you have questions about any of the classes or image collections. Thanks!

Free Image for You...

After I showed my flea market purchases yesterday, Beth Leintz asked if I would post an image of the cover of the autograph album, so here it is. Don't forget to click the image and then click again to get the biggest size.

Since the pages had already fallen out, it was easy to open up the cover and copy both sides and the spine. You could print it and make your own little book cover.  I'd love to see what you make. 

By the way, I mentioned the Collage Club yesterday. You can still join, and you'll receive all of the editions already sent this year - 20 so far! Plus, you'll get the last 4 of the year when the time comes. I won't be doing the Collage Club next year, so this is your chance to get in on what's already happened, and what's to come. Click HERE for more information.

Back from Vacation...

I'm home from my visit to California, where I had a wonderful time.

We did both family (Nica's first birthday!) and tourist-y things. Nica's birthday party was fabulous - just family and a few friends. Nica was cheerful and smiling through the entire thing (actually, she's normally like that) and she seemed to love all of her gifts, as well as the cake.

But the thing you all probably care about the most is my trip to the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena CA. Hundreds of vendors, miles of aisles.   This is the 3rd time I visited the Rose Bowl Flea and the other 2 time were fabulous. This time, there were some cool things you might have liked...

sweet baby shoes...

burlap...

and more burlap...

and loads and loads of vintage clothes

The last time I went, I bought dozens of cool things. This time, everything seemed overpriced or just boring. There were few books there, and even less ephemera. I had better luck last year when we visited the Pasadena City College Flea. I plan to schedule for the Long Beach Flea next time - I hear that's great!  

So, what did I get? I bought two items. Yep, you read that right, two. But - they're both wonderfully cool, both were affordable and they'll give me hours of gluebooking fun!

One is a 1920s-1930s scrapbook of dozens of cool pictures of people and activities, including swimming, a wedding, graduation, and plenty of family and individual shots.

The other is an 1880s autograph book with loads of pages of sentiment - many decorated with a bit of Victorian scrap.

I'll share something from each with you in this week's Collage Club, so if you're a member, or become one, watch for that.

What else did I do on my trip? I visited the Getty and saw various exhibits, including the Luminous Paper exhibit, which I highly recommend. We went to Universal Studios, where I got a private back lot tour with my sister Kathi, who is head of benefits there. We also went to a free outdoor jazz concert at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and visited some of the exhibits there. One was a small dual Monet/Lichtenstein exhibit of a series of paintings by each artist, both of the Rouen Cathedral.

What did you do while I was gone?

Sale Reminder...

Here's a little reminder that EVERYTHING in my e-store is on sale through the end of the month.

Everything in the store is discounted: Online Classes, Downloadable Image Collections, even the Collage Club in both the monthly and yearly versions.

To get the discount, purchase through the e-store HERE and put the discount code latesummer into the discount code box on the order form. Thanks!

Classes and Images On Sale!

It seems like I do a 20% off sale in my e-store, usually on images, in August or September of each year. This year, I'm doing it again, but bigger! I'm discounting 25% off on anything...and everything...that includes classes, images, even the Collage Club.

Just go to the e-store HERE and use the discount code latesummer. That will give you 25% off everything in your cart. The sale is just through August, so I hope you can stop by soon.

 
Now is the best time to grab the images you've been thinking about, finally take that class you've been eyeing, or jump into the Collage Club...this is the time.

Thanks for visiting the store!

New Image Collections Coming Soon!

I currently have TWO new  image collections in the works - both will be ready before the end of June.

First up - a 1914 department store catalog of clothing, hats, housewares, carriages, furniture...well, all kinds of stuff. And some of the pages are in color! You just don't see that very often. Here's a glimpse to pique your interest:

Next up will be all of the pages from a childrens' music book. Members of the Green Paper Collage Club got one of the images last week, and they'll get a big discount on the entire digital collection when it's ready (it's good to be a member, as they say).

I'm looking forward to offering both - I hope you love them!

From me to you...

I'm offering a little discount to everyone who'd like to shop in my e-store this month - $5 off your total order - image collections, online classes, Collage Club memberships, or a combination of all three! 

Actually, you could even pick up any of the calendar collections for $5, use the discount and get it for free!

 
Just go to the store: http://www.e-junkie.com/greenpaperpackages. Place your order and use the discount code: aprilshowers (all one word!)

 
That's all there is to it! The discount code is good all month, through April 30th. Shop more than once if you want to, I won't mind.

 
And don't forget to send me a picture of what you make so I can show it on my blog!