Paper Giveaway pictures

OK, as of now, only Susan wants all this paper. Which I'm sure is totally OK with her. But, here are some pictures of what you will win:
There's plain and patterned cardstock, lots of miscellaneous little pieces, a lot of this is from paper packs where I didn't like a certain pattern.

There's handmade paper, stamped images, paste paper, napkins.

A Butterick pattern, with only one piece missing, a printing of a digital file of art dolls, book pages, misc. promotional cards.

Promotional pieces from an art college, origami paper, calendar pages, some pieces of fabric, plus some sequins.

But, if no one else wants it all, I will gladly just send it all to Susan. Please tell your friends, pass the word.

Like I said before you have until April 5th to enter, then I will use the random number generator, or if there's only a small amount of entries, I'll just pull a name out of a hat. Anyone can enter, just leave a comment on this entry, or the orginal one to enter.

Good Luck!

Almost Done

I think I'm almost done with this piece. I was at a standstill after posting the last pictures of this piece, so I showed it to my mother and she suggested dividing it up into segments. We both liked the 3 segments over 4 segments. I think the paper I used for the divisions works well as it has the blue of the background and the black that makes the divisions stand out. I also added the "seahorse" in the bottom left hand corner. This image was taken out of some promotional material book from an art college. There's also some blue sand at the bottom of the left hand corner segment, and the new swirl in the right segment. I am kinda bummed that it didn't come out cleaner, but now it's too late for that. I'm trying to add more texture because the piece is way too flat for my tastes, but I don't want to add too much. I like the subtle texture of the layered paper, but I'm not totally satisfied.
What do other people think? Any comments are appreciated.

UPDATE

I updated my blog candy post. Check it out here.

My art closet

I figured I'd take a picture of my art closet so you all could see what a small space I have to work in. I'm standing in the doorway looking in. Around the corner on the left is a tupperware with all my supplies. And on the floor there is a tiny workspace, the closet is right at the top of my stairs, on the other side of the wall on the left is my stairs. Luckily I have a hallway I can work in. I do have more pictures I'll post later.
And here is what I've done on that One World One Heart art piece, I didn't successfully make it in finishing it this weekend, helping my dad set up his new computer, grocery shopping, and a little slacking off got in the way. But, this is what I do have done, and I'm not sure if I'm doing more or not. I love it the way it is right now.

In the corner are some shells I collected when my dad and I went to Florida quite a few years back. The scrolly things are cut out of some paper I got in a DCWV 12x12 stack of paper. I cut all the blue and green and black scrolls out by hand (my special tiny papercutting scissors really came in handy for that. The seahorse is a creations imaginations sticker. I sprayed adhesive on the scrolls and glued them down and then coated the whole thing except the large seashell with modge podge. I really like how it turned out. Here's a close-up of the scrolls:

I think the scrolls need a tiny bit of defining, and I may incorporate a few more sea things into the piece (I have a yogurt container of sand on my kitchen table). Any suggestions or comments?

More Blog Candy

UPDATED 3/16/10Something Sweet is giving away a card, paper, images, and some flowers. Ends April 3rd.
Imagination Crafts is giving away a set of inkidinks, a set of new silkies and a set of flowers. Ends March 19th.
From My Craft Room is giving away paper, stamps, a monogram stamper kit, stickles, charms, paper roses, pearls, rhinestones, ribbons and buttons. Ends March 25th.
All the Things I love is giving away stamps, paper, rhinestones, pearls, charms, roses and flowers, flat-backed gems, flowers and brads, ribbon, pearl and gem brads, Xyron tape, cards, and a quilted bag. Ends March 19th.
Crafting Life's Pieces is giving away papers, bling-it's, pearls and crystals, stickles, butterflies, flowers, buttons, brads, charms and embellishments, lace and ribbon. Ends March 29th.
Lazy Cats Cards is giving away papers, labels, a punch, stamps, a die set, beads, stickers and embellishments. Ends March 17th.

Found some more blog candy:
Robin's Egg Blues is giving away: lace, roses, feathers, basically everything you see in the above picture. Ends March 26th.

Crafty Fox Cards is giving away: flowers, markers, clear stamps, papers, and chocolate. Ends March 20th.

More experimentation

OK, so now my project is blueish green. I decided I wanted to be able to see the book pages, but I didn't want them to be creamish white, so I tried to mix some greenish paint with water, and then noticed it was oil paint and they didn't mix very well, so I added some Moss Green acrylic paint and some Blue Pearl acrylic pain and mixed it, the pearl blue kinda took over. Then when I put it on my piece, since I still had the oil paint on the brush, some of that got on there. I have decided I don't like this oil paint.
SOOOO, I'm giving it away. It's 1 fluis ounce of Genesis Artist Colors Phthalo Green 06. All you have to do is post a comment on this post, and you'll be entered. I will send this anywhere. You'll have until the end of this month, March 31st to enter. This is totally separate from my paper giveaway, to enter that one go here.
Good Luck!!!

Too Much Paper!

OK, well I have decided I am not allowed to buy paper until I use up some of the too much I have. I'm still in the process of cleaning out my craft closet (I actually have enough room to sit cross legged, or legs stretched out over the messy area and create), and I tackled my paper stash yesterday. I'll have to take a picture of my closet, so you all know how small it is and what my very menial organization is. Anyway, I have a dresser from my younger years where I store my paper, fabric, stickers and stamps. My patterned paper drawer was a mess, every time I use paper, I generally just throw it back in the drawer. Yesterday I sorted and actually organized it, now I have my 12x12 papers in a nice stack and a very tiny sliver of room and then my 8.5x11 papers next to them, and an overflowing box on the floor with scraps of paper. Anyways, all the paper I decided I didn't need, or didn't particularly like, went into a box, and I'm going to do a giveaway for someone else to have fun with it.
This will be for people in the US only, I'm sorry, but with my giveaways for One World One Heart, all my winners happened to be outside of the US, and I realized how much money it costs to send stuff over the ocean. I do hope to do a giveaway in the future of something smaller to go across the ocean, just not now, sorry.
So, to win you need to do one of the following:
1. Post a comment here
OR
2. Put a link on your blog.

You can do both, but since I'm a big fan of not tipping the pot, you will only get one entry.
This will end on April 5th, that gives you over 3 weeks to enter. I'll try to get some pictures up.

And since I'm talking about blog candy, here's a few more I've tripped over in the past week or so:

Marianne's Craftroom is giving away paper, brads, stamps, acrylic blocks, chocolate, flowers and stickers. Ends on April 2nd.

Stamps, Paper, Scissors and Donkey Smiles is giving away: pearls, stamps, flowers, paper and ribbons. Ends on April 1st.

Mme. Designs is giving away: stamps, ribbons, flowers and paper. Ends March 21st.

French Charming is doing 5 different Queen themed giveaways: Queens Boudoir, Crafting Queen/Sewing Queen, Junk Queen, Beauty Queen, and Royal Queen of Crowns. These end on March 31st.