Showing posts with label Artist Trading Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist Trading Cards. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

A Parcel Trip and East Coast Art Expo 20009!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending a few different artful things, a trip with friends to Montclair, my fave town, a place I lived for many years to visit the cute store called: Parcel with Marlene, Ralene, Geralyn, Zandra and my daughter Lisa!Geralyn hosted a such a wonderful Tea Party back in early March,filled with fabulous foods and treats, she was the perfect Tea party Hostess, Parcel was our next adventure, I heard the new one is Ocean Grove, stay tuned.

We had such a great time sharing stories and inspiration, these girls are so wonderful and talented. If you get a moment head out to Parcel and enter a fairytale world, if you visit the other girls blogs you will see their perspectives and photos, these pictures came from my daughter Lisa, she is the photo queen, LOL! You can visit her site at:
http://faerieenchantment.blogspot.com

Here she is playing around with one of the tini masks, now she is determined to make face sized one with all her glitter, lol, I hope I get one...
Here are some sweet and delicious candies that I wanted to try, they looked so good, in the next photo is the fabulous Marlene and Lisa, she is wonderful
Now we skip a day and head straight to Sunday where another group of such wonderful and talented woman get together for what they call The Tiara Chronicles, meeting each month or so to create or get inspired, today their adventure brought them to The Summit Visual Arts Center in Summit, NJ for The East Coast Art Expo, sponsored by Jerry's Artists Supply. My daughter Lisa also teaches at this location.The Tiara girls in attendence today were Suze, Bonnie, Linda, Lennis and Lisa, along with me. Each of these woman have a talent all their own and are beyond sweet, wonderful and genuine, I have had the pleasure of being in their company many of times.



SO many art suppliers and companies, all top in their fields, My daughter especially loved: Pebeo, Pan Pastel, Art Molds and Daler-Rowney. I loved them all as well and bought some supplies to use in my own works. After a few hours, we broke for a late breakfast at the Summit Diner, such a great place, then headed back to the expo to pick up our purchases and chat some more.

Then on the way home my Daughter and I stopped at St.Joseph's Shrine, in Stirling, NJ, our fave place to pick up our Palms for Palm Sunday, then it was back to our homes. Thank You for sharing in my weekend of artful adventure.

Blessings, Joan!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Whimsical ATC"s Set! My First Blog Post!

The Whimsical ATC Set!Hello, I am so excited today, this is my first blog and first blog post, I've been meaning to update this for sometime and with encouragement from my daughter and friends, I have finally done it.

I thought I would start my first post with the first ATC's I have ever done.
Before taking my daughter's book class, she taught me ATC 101, I have never made them before, now I am addicted to ATC's, my daughter is the photo queen and has been taking the snapshots of my artworks and cleaning them up for me, so I can share them with all of you.
Fairy Friendship ATC! 2 Fairy Friendship ATC!In this photo is the Fairy Friendship ATC, made from a variety of papers and images curteosy of my daughter Lisa you can visit her blog at: http://faerieenchantment.blogspot.com
Fairy Queen ATC!This is a photo of the Fairy Queen ATC I made.Sophie's Butterfly Garden ATC! 2Sophie's Butterfly Garden ATC!Sophie's Butterfly Garden ATC is a fave atc of mine, its the first ATC I have made and the first I have sold, now you see why its become my favorite.Winter Wonderland ATC! 2Winter Wonderland is another ATC I made with more romantic tones, I just love the idea of romance and ready many romance novels, which inspire me all the time to create.

If you visit my Etsy store http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6390013
you will find my jewelry, romantic wares and now my paper ats in there. I hope you enjoy your visit to my Etsy Store, Flickr Site and now my New Blog!

Blessings,
Joan!