ARTISTIC SOULS

Friday was our monthly meeting of a small local stamp club and we decided it would be great to give our club a name. We are now the ARTISTIC SOULS. We don't limit ourselves to card making and, therefore, we required a name that would cover all facets of art including but not limited to mixed media, jewelry, altered projects and creating cards.


We are currently doing a swap using a rubber stamp that rotates from member to member until everyone has made a card using the image. We make a card for each member and it is really fun to see how each person interprets the design. The photo on the left shows the stamp required to create the card below. If you look at it closely it has some form of text which could be Latin.

Barb C individualized cards for each member and they were a hoot! Mine (below) was called "cheerleader." Pretty clever don't you think. I have a month to come up with a card using this rubber stamp. Following Barb is going to be difficult. I'm open to suggestions.





Judy J had given each of us a blank clipboard that we were to alter and bring to swap on Friday. It was a case of "Murphy's Law." Everything that could go wrong did. My spray looked beautiful until I attempted to add another medium and then the underlying spray bled from the moisture. It got to the point that I had no choice but to finalize it the night prior to club.

Another fun thing we are doing this year is rotating our location. We have one member who has opened her home each month because of her spacious work area. At one of our meetings, we got to talking about our individual craft rooms and how we organize our supplies. It was suggested that every other month one member would hold club and show us how she organizes her supplies and maintains her studio. Merine is so well organized and was a wonderful hostess. We even got to celebrate a member's birthday. I totally dread my turn because I had not planned to have a craft area per se when we built our home. Therefore, I have things everywhere. The good thing is I have a few months to get it in order. Mine will definitely be a lesson of how you should not set up your craft area. The only big plus is my art supplies are upstairs and with only hubby and me he seldom comes up to see what I'm doing so the mess is my mess, and I can live with it. There are challenges because items get lost or forgotten but also fun to find when I'm looking for a special embellishment and run across items long forgotten. The down side is locating an item I know I have but misplaced in one of my stacks.