Design Team Call!

Hi everyone. We're looking for a BUNCH of new Designers and Apprentices to join our ever-growing and extremely fun Design Team at Jean's Art Dolls!

Requirements:

1. Love and appreciate art, both your own and that of others.

2. Be able to visit the site to participate in Challenges, to post in the Gallery, and to check the Design Team Office goings-on at least 3-4 times per week. (No minimum posting requirement!)

3. Share your art, be it paper-crafting, jewelry-making, or even poetry and photography, in our Gallery and/or Forum on a weekly basis.

4. Committ to a 3-month term.

We accept artist of all levels of proficiency or talent. If you have never been on a Design Team before, please apply anyway! We have an Apprenticeship Program for those who are just beginning in our crazy cyber art world, and wish to be part of a DT, but would like some guidance and instruction, or feel that a full DT position just isn't for you ...YET!

INTERESTED? Please leave me a comment here with your e-mail addy or, best of all, come visit me at Jean's Art Dolls and say hi! My username is marlenef. Regardless of how you get to me, please GET TO ME! We are trying to fill about 5-10 positions!

Make your own bling flourishes!!!

This is a tutorial that I had posted over at Butterfly Crafts. I haven't done a tutorial here in so long, so I thought I would share it all with you!

This was a cool idea that I got from a fellow scrapper, but I adapted it a little. Here's how I did mine in the layout below:

1) I found a copy of flourishes that I liked, this picture is of a Prima bead flourish. I made a screen print and pasted the image in MS Word, then I adjusted it to the size I wanted and printed:

2) Then I took a tack pin and punched holes in each spot. When you turn in over you can see all the hole punches:

3) Then I put my template on my layout and marked each hole with a pen:
4) Then I took my Stickles glitter glue and dotted each mark. Here's the final layout:

Hope you all enjoy this tutorial. Please share your projects, I'd love to see them!

Loads of Sassafras!

Hi everyone!

I just ordered a big box of goodies from Sassafras Lass!

They're having a warehouse sale, I got a $100 worth of goodies for $40!

I can't wait to see what's in there, I'm sure it's gonna all be some

awesome yummy sb stuff.

I'll post a pic when I receive it so you guys can see.

I believe they're still doing the sale if you're interested, check it out.

Hugs,

Book of Me Challenge!

I wanted to share with all of you lovely friends that on Sept. 14th I will be starting a new Book of Me Challenge over at Jean's Art Dolls. I'm so excited to be hosting and I've been putting together some fun and interesting topics for all of us to scrap. There will also be little RAKs giving out along the way, just cause I love to spoil LOL I'm taking sign-ups right now and more details will follow. So maybe you have never started a BOM or you have but never finished, this would be perfect for you! I hope to see you there!

Hugs, Marlene

Butterfly Crafts Crop!!!

Hey everyone ~ Butterfly Crafts will be holding our first ever cyber crop this weekend!!! You can join us from Fri 14th - Sun 16th for our movie themed crop. We have some fantastic challenges, games and a great prize from a fantastic sponsor Bad Girls Kits! It's going to be so much fun!!!

http://butterflycrafts.ning.com/ ~ see you there :)

Open House at Jean's Art Dolls

Hey everyone, just wanted to invite you all over to Jean's Art Dolls!

We're having an open house and would love you to come on over and hang out with us. It's starts today Wednesday 8/23 through Saturday 8/26. When you arrive at our friendly site, register (requires just a username and password) and then come to our "Introduction" thread, say "hi," and tell us how you heard about us, and, if you're not too shy, a little about yourself! There will be giveaways over the 4 days, an open Design Team Call, an Apprenticeship call, games, etc.

Hugs, Marlene

Back from Vacation!

Hi everyone. Wow it's been so long since I've blogged, my poor blog has been suffering since I've been blocked out at work.

Well, I was on vacation this week and had a great time. We spent two days in Lancaster, Pa. The 1st day we went to Dutch Wonderland which is a really cute amusement/water park. Our 2nd day we went outlet shopping and visited Kitchen Kettle Village. Our last day we drove to Hersey, Pa. We went to Hersey Gardens which was so beautiful, did some more shopping at Hersey Outlets (hey you can't get too much shopping in) and then we went to Hershey Chocolate World. We saw the 3D Chocolate Show which was fantastic and we bought so much chocolate. The boys had to buy one of each candy that Hersey makes! Here's some pics:One of the beautiful roses at Hershey Gardens.

My parents with Maxwell at Hershey Gardens.

Me and Michael at Dutch Wonderland.Me and Maxwell at Dutch Wonderland.

We also went to see Julie and Julia which was such a great film! I'm so tired, tomorrow is back to work and the usual routine. My boys have 4 more weeks of vacation left. I can't believe it's August and the stores have fall stuff out already. It seems like every year all the holiday stuff comes out earlier and earlier!

Hope you all have a wonderful week ahead.

Hugs,