#52CafeCards – Week 4

Week 4 of Maremi’s Creative Cafe’s Mixed Media Altered Playing Card Challenge on Facebook was D – Dragonfly.

This one is close to my heart. I have a weakness for dragonflies. As the first children’s book I published featured a dragonfly named Loop. You can check it out here.

Personal art growth challenge this week was “Shrinky Dink” embellishment. I created this cute little dragonfly with a clearance item from Joann Fabric’s. I was extra nervous thanks to my chemical allergy, but my heat gun shrunk it up nice(and I was able to breath, too! Yeah!!). New tool in my arsenal!

“be an original” as the card says.

Blessings,

Kimberhew

#52CafeCards Week 3

I don’t like coffee. It was my luck that week three’s card is C – Coffee. Yuck.

I decided to play. It was a lot of fun to explore fake advertising. Technique learned – first time to have paper embellishment hanging off.

Again, this altered playing card was created for Maremi’s Creative Cafe’s(private Facebook art group) Mixed Media Altered Playing Card Challenge.

Find a way to turn lemons into lemonaid, I did. It was fun.

Blessings,

Kimberhew

#52CafeCards – Week 1 & 2

In my last post I referred to a media art challenge in which I was participating.  The two cards picture here are my contribution for weeks 1 & 2/ A – Art & B – Bubbles.

The challenge is held by a private Facebook group, Maremi’s Creative Cafe. A couple of days ago, the group surpassed 5,000 members worldwide. It is a very supportive group with a wide diversity of members. We range from beginners to professional. Unfortunately, I am unable to share anyone else’s work but my own.

My hope is to see how I grow from week to week learning techniques and styles while finding and staying true to my style. My personal challenges in week one were 1) working on a small canvas, and 2) using magazine page in a collage. In week two, the challenge was bubbles. I have seen quite a few artworks with circles and bubbles.

Be Creative!

Blessings

Kimberhew