Green Paper

This Week, Visit Riki Schumacher!

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

Riki Schumacher
http://rikijewelry.blogspot.com/
(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

Inspiration...

Have you seen video of the recent Louis Vuitton fashion show? It begins with an actual train pulling into the room, between the 2 sides of the runway! I think there's some fun vintage inspiration here. The theme seems very steampunk to me, especially the sunglasses some of the models are wearing. And I love the baggage handlers!

So, if you haven't seen the video yet, take about 5 minutes to enjoy it HERE.

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!

Visit Artist Cat Kerr!

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 Cat Kerr

Http://inthelightofthemoon.blogspot.com;

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

Challenge Prize...

Can't get my gosh-darn camera to work properly to take a picture, but my son picked #7 as our random winner in the March Collage Challenge. That's Corinne Marie from Dining Room Table Art.

Corinne wins the image collection, Antique French Holy Cards, which I'll email to her.

Thanks to each and every one of you for playing along. Once again, the contributions are stellar!

March Collage Challenge...and Everything on Sale!

Just a reminder that all of my exclusive image collections and classes are 25% off, through March!

• 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.

The sale prices are good on everything in the store, including the retiring images and Collage Club.

And, don't forget the monthly Collage Challenge! It ends on the 8th, so you still have plenty of time to download the images and join in. 

This Week, Visit Pat Winter!

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 Jerry's.
   
   

Week by week we'll go from one blog to the next!

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

Pat Winter Gatherings
http://gatherings100.blogspot.com/
(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)

Our March 2012 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 Challenge March 2012

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!  

Our images this month come from collections in my shop: the Lovely Ladies image collection, the Baby's Bouquet image collection, and the 2011 Green Paper Collage Club. All of those are retiring on March 15th, so grab them now if you're interested.

The deadline for the Challenge is next Thursday, March 8th. On the 9th I'll draw a name at random to win a downloadable image collection - the Antique French Holy Cards collection, which usually sells for $14. It's comprised entirely of Holy cards from my personal collection. They're all exclusive and only available from me. 

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

I can't wait to see what you create!

How do you like to follow blogs?

As you probably know, Google Friend Connect is going away in just a few days (yeeks, that came up fast!).  So, I've been doing a little research on other ways I can follow blogs and ways others can follow my blog. But on every site I've looked at, it's a little tough to understand exactly what I should expect and how much I can tailor my experience...

So I'm asking for your advice!

If you have a blog, what do you plan to do? If you like to follow blogs, how do you do it now...or plan to do it in the future?

Here are just some of the things I'd like to do as a follower:

• I want to follow on my own schedule, to be able to sit down with a cup of coffee and read through all "my" blogs at one time a day.
• I want to put everybody I follow in one place, so I don't have to go to a bunch of different locations to follow
• I want to be able to add blogs myself - for example, new bloggers who don't have widgets yet. 
• I want my list of blogs to show who's posted since the last time I logged on, so I get straight to what's new.

Do you follow blogs, and how do you do it? If you're a blogger, what's your plan to invite followers?

Any recommendations will be truly appreciated!

Visit Christy Meyers!

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 Jerry's.
   
   

Week by week we'll go from one blog to the next!

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

Christy Meyers of CC's Whimsies

http://www.ccswhimsies.blogspot.com/

(Pick Up the Next Secret Word)