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"creative lenna" - 5 new articles

1. moving towards Florida
2. blue moos ARTchix Studio Swap!
3. page from nature AB
4. November :: Colour Groupies ATCs
5. AB RR -altered book round robin
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moving towards Florida

It was last week i think when i wrote about moving . . . . we have sold our home and are heading towards Bradenton, Florida where my mom and Dad live in about a week or so... Nov. 29th.
Amazing! Still hard to believe. We have concentrated our efforts recently on selling and giving away anything we don't need so we do not have to move it, and I have been working on packing up my studio. This is probably the largest area to pack in the entire house I must say, sheesh! Today I can proclaim that the job is done and my studio is looking rather sad . . .

Yes, my father made ALL of those wooden boats . . . and Steven wants to get them safely to him. When we get settled in Bradenton, Steven plans to get my dad to show him some of the tricks of his craftsmanship. And tomorrow I'll start boxing up the contents of our home which I know will be a lot easier than my studio!

I will be back again before we leave on our adventure . . . lenna young andrews, November 19, 2009.

blue moos ARTchix Studio Swap!

Helga Strauss offers some wonderful opportunities for collaborative Swaps over at ARTchix Studio.com - read all about the Blue Moos mini card swap here.
I made 6 mini cards (1"x 3") for the swap and 2 extra just for fun. This was a little 'mental health break' for me while i was packing up my entire studio!!!!!!!!!! yikES! We are leaving our home, which recently sold, and driving to our new home: Florida, in less than 2 weeks. Click on the image below for a bit more detail. For these mini cards I used a color copy onto FABRIC of the Snowflake Kisses collage sheet from ARTchix Studio. I love how the images reprinted onto fabric; it gave them a nice, soft hand. I used my xyron machine to attach the images to watercolor cards. Then I used a silver glitter marker to add a border and small dots of silver glitter to the mini cards. I used a fine tip permanent black pen to write the word blue . . . and add a few cross-stitches. Then i popped them in the mail, just in time for the November 16th deadline!!!!!!! Again, i am grateful to Helga for all the inspiration she provides me! lenna young andrews, november 16th, 2009

page from nature AB

When writing here last week about an upcoming AB exchange with Sharon Borsavage, I only showed the cover of my own book and directed you to flickr to see more. In looking over the photos again tonight, i wanted to show at least one of the pages in my book here too. I really like this page with the use of a transparency-printed photo of my dad, mom & sister in my dad's handmade boats, Lumiere paint, layers of paper and fabric and rubber stamping. The old post card i snuck in there is cool too - I hope you enjoy! Sharon will be getting her book to me i believe, after i have moved to Florida (we are leaving 11/29/09) and i will be so happy to work in it then, I am sure! So, more Altered Book art from us to come in the future : ) Lenna Young Andrews, November 12, 2009

November :: Colour Groupies ATCs

For November, the colors for the Colour Groupies ATCs are Yellow & Brown, just perfect for this time of year! Because of a postal strike in Scotland, which fortunately is settled for now, Frieda sent her ATCs out a little early. I loved the card she enclosed her November ATC in so much, that i used it both directly and color copied it to make my ATCs and the cards to enclose them in. Click on the photo above to see Caryl Hoobler's card & ATC in full, plus all of the rest I created for this month's exchange.

I used the actual card, cut up for most of the ATCs, but some are copies like I used on the cards. I placed the patterned card section on top of brown cardstock sized 2.5 x 3.5", then accentuated the yellow and brown areas with watercolor crayons and pencils. I punched out yellow flowers and stars, glued them on, and then used a yellow-gold Brilliance ink pad and a feather stamp to add pattern to the edges of the ATCs. The fortunes are not available anymore; they are old fabric images from ARTchix Studio. You could make your own, though! I hope you enjoy. I made these a while ago . . . still waiting for Debby's to arrive in Canada, but she has promised not to peek -allowing me to do my art housekeeping before we move!

p.s. moving update: my studio shelves are almost completely bare, yikes!! lenna young andrews, November 11, 2009

AB RR -altered book round robin

Here is a small portion of my altered book spread in Gigi Lorenc-Gibson's book. Her theme is Enchantment. Gigi told us she loves shiny things, glitter and ribbon. For this altered page I used a color copy of a painting by John Singer Sargent that I think embodies enchantment. To see more, and to read a few of the details behind the altering, click on the photo above! thanks, lenna 11/11/09

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