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060: Playdate

01 Tuesday Mar 2011

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060: Playdate

I was going to call this “Mini Me” or maybe “Aren’t you a little short for a …” But this seemed more appropriate, in the end, since he was created for the 365 Month of Collaboration suggested by Madonna of The Happy Homemaker.

Do you want your own playdate with Mr. Knight? Click to download and print your own paperdoll! It’s fun for kids! It’s fun for kids-at-heart! It’s a cheap way to amuse yourself for a quarter of an hour…
knight paperdoll

I recommend printing on cardstock or other heavyweight paper, and feel free to resize as necessary. Enjoy!

One World One Heart 2011

31 Monday Jan 2011

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One World One Heart 2011 logoIt’s that time of year again! Time for bloggers across the web to come together for a bona-fide bonanza of connecting and sharing…time for One World One Heart 2011!

Welcome to all of you who are visiting my blog for the first time. You’ll find a lot of my art photos here, some creative journaling, and musings about writing and creativity in general. Be sure not to miss my year-long project, 365 Days and One Knight!

This year, I’m giving away a Cafe Press t-shirt featuring my original mythic firebird design:

Mythic Firebird T-Shirt

Leave a comment for your chance to win by random drawing—be sure to include your email so that I can contact the winner!

(The winner can select size and style of shirt from the many available at Cafe Press.)

I participated in One World One Heart last year, and can’t wait to “ride the magic carpet” once again. It’s such a fun way to find new people to connect with online, discover new blogs for your reading pleasure, and to bring new readers to your own blog. For those of you not familiar with the worldwide blog event, there are two ways you can participate:

1) Visit blogs to win prizes! Every blog participating in the event is holding a giveaway—it might be handmade art, or a book, or some other little trinket. Visit Lisa Swifka’s blog, A Whimsical Bohemian, to view the list of participants (last year there were over 1,000 participating blogs!) and leave comments on posts for prizes you’d like to win.

2) Hold a giveaway! Starting today (January 31) you can post your own giveaway on your blog and Lisa will link to it from the main OWOH page. Try not to be overwhelmed by the blog traffic it generates!

Keep in mind that you don’t have to host a giveaway yourself in order to win prizes on participants blogs, so I encourage you to go visit as many blogs as you can, because you’ll never know what treasures you’ll discover.

One more thing: Lisa says this is the last year she’s going to host OWOH, so if you haven’t played along before, I encourage you to do so now, before it’s to late. Good luck!

EDITED February 17, 2011: This giveaway is now over, and the comments are closed. You can find the winner here.

Pink Floral: Download and Print Bookmarks

26 Wednesday Jan 2011

Posted by in Crafts, Photography, Printables

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4 bookmarks

I guess I’m anxious for spring. I made these printable bookmarks from the photos featured in my previous post about adding texture to your writing and I thought I would share them with you!

Click here to download the bookmarks as a PDF.

I printed them on cardstock, though I wish I had some glossy inkjet paper to print them on. They probably look great from a color laser printer, too. Cut them out, laminate or cover with clear contact paper if you want them to last longer, punch a hole to add a tassel and beads. Or, just stick ‘em in a book as is!

Artistic bookmarks—pretty, cute, funny, inspirational, whatever—are one book accessory that I’d miss if I went to a digital reader!

Wallpaper

11 Monday Oct 2010

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Morning Grove

Draft posts on various topics are starting to pile up in here. In lieu of finishing up any of those right now I offer some wallpaper of a couple of favorite recent pictures, available for you to download for your own desktop, should you feel so moved. The wallpapers are cropped slightly to better fit your screen. Click on the images to go to deviantArt, and then click Download Image to put it on your computer. Enjoy!

Flower Shower

(A little weirdness here: the photos you’re seeing on this page are hosted on Flickr, because I have more control over display size, but the links to go deviantArt to download the large-size wallpaper.)

One World One Heart Giveaway

03 Wednesday Feb 2010

Posted by in Creative Journaling

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I remember when I first featured the One World One Heart giveaway event in Artful Blogging magazine. I thought it was a great way to discover new blogs, meet new people, share the joys of creativity and generosity. I was impressed with creator Lisa Swifka’s vision and her dedication to what, over the four years the event has been running, must have become a huge organizational burden. This year’s participant list is almost 1,000 people long!

Here’s how it works: Post a giveaway on your blog. Everyone who comments on your post is entered in a random drawing for a prize that can be anything you dream up. It could be art. It could be a poetry. It could be a bar a soap, if that’s what you want to give away. Then Lisa lists all the participants on the One World One Heart site, and you can surf through them to explore new blogs and discover kindred souls you have yet to meet (and maybe win a prize for yourself along the journey!). Oh, you DON’T have to post your own giveaway in order to win prizes from other sites. That is totally optional—you can just start surfing now, if you want.

I’ve never participated before, and I’m a bit late entering the game, this year…it started January 25th, and the giveaways are to take place on February 15th. Better late than never, right?

So here’s what I’m giving away: a creative journaling kit that will include one handmade journal made of watercolor (like I used for my Create Your Own Reality journal, following Teesha Moore’s 16-page journal instructions), a set of watercolor pencils, two pens (black and white), a glue stick, and a handcarved stamp (something along these lines). I’ll probably throw in some papers/ephemera too, depending on what I’ve got around when I put the package together.

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment to this post (Livejournal readers, you need to click over to dumoski.com please!), and be sure to leave a correct email address so I can contact you if you win. You don’t have to do your own giveaway in order to win. But do click over to the One World One Heart site to visit other participating blogs!

The winner will be drawn on February 15th, so be sure to comment before then if you want to play!

ETA: New visitors to the blog may wish to check back a few posts for a giveaway of digital scrapbook/collage paper!

ETA FEB 15th 4:30pm: The contest is closed. No more comments/entries will be accepted!

Digital Papers for Collage and Scrapbooking

30 Saturday Jan 2010

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I am an expert at finding creative ways to keep myself from working on my fiction.

This time, it’s been using some of my photos to create digital “papers” for use in scrapbooking, collage, etc. I started the whole thing because I thought it might be fun to have my own papers to use in my creative journals…kind of like using handcarved stamps instead of purchased one. It gives a more personal, unique flavor to your artwork.

I started with a cloud photo (what photographer doesn’t have dozens of cloud photos lying around?) and slapped another photo on top of it — a picture of a paper towel I’d used two wipe my brushes with the other day when working on my new art journal. When I played with the blending modes, the reds, greens and blues on the paper towel gave rich, magical shades of color to the clouds. I used a little blurring and a soft paper texture, too. Here’s the first result:

Digital art paper

Pretty, isn’t it? I’m looking forward to cutting some of this up to do collages in my art journal. I’m thinking of some awesome borders, maybe a golden castle, or a magical forest…

But after I made this, I got carried away and ended up with a baker’s dozen of digital papers–some cloud compositions like this, and some patterns made by combining those different clouds images– and got to thinking that maybe other people would like to use them too. My plan is to try selling them via Etsy and Artfire (they are in fact available there now) BUT I have a special offer anyone who reads my blog.

First, I will send the following full-size digital paper to anyone who wants it, absolutely FREE. It’s 12″x12″, 300 dpi; JPEG, suitable for printing or for any digital artwork you may want to use it for. Also, it’s exclusive: not available in either of the packs for sale. Just leave a comment to this post to get one!

Watercolor clouds free sample

Secondly, if you would like to play with all the papers, I will be happy to send them to you, FREE OF CHARGE, as well. All I ask in return is that you post in your resulting artwork in your blog or other online forum, with a link to this website, or to one of my shopfronts. Heck…you don’t even have to show off your artwork so long as you want to pass on the link to this site. I’m not so picky. Again, just leave a comment here if you want either or both packs.

sunset collection digital art papers

Woodland collection digital papers

While waiting for the girls to get home from Disneyland with their father last night, I spend some time playing with a couple of papers, to see what I could come up with. This is unfinished (I’m still trying to figure out how to add details) and maybe a little rough because I’ve never done this sort of cut-and-paste collage work in Photoshop. But I think I’m on the right track. In fact, I know I am, because when Lucy saw it just now she said, “That looks cool!” which is high praise indeed from my artful teen daughter!

collaged castle -unfinished!