Worth Saying—AGAIN

Check out Jean’s Art Dolls online forum http://www.jeansartdolls.com/ to join a friendly, creative, online community. I am honored to be serving a short stint on her design team which fits in beautifully with my Destination Heartfelt Art journey. Jean encourages design team members to create what we wish as we wish—our main commitment is just participation.

I post new artwork to the gallery every week http://post.jeansartdolls.com/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=1647 along with filling up the digital scrapbook forum and contributing to other topics and challenges as they appeal to me.

I love all kinds of online art communities for all kinds of reasons and I probably would be hard pressed to even list all the ones where I hold membership and drift in and out. This one, however, has become my home base and I’d love to welcome you there as well. If you join and introduce yourself--please say hi to the Artful Tourist.

Artwork notes: JADs community has inspired me to continue on my "Stick Figure" collection of paper art dolls. The doll above is the Mood-o-meter stick figure doll created in 2007. She tickles my fancy.

Oh my, oh my

I've waited too long and now I have too many different things to write about. I've been on a bit of digital kick lately so I'll start there. The layout above is not quite right, but I can't decide how to fix it. PLEASE, if you have suggestions let me know.

The papers on the layout are what's got me excited. I found a new resource for digital elements on a site called Marks paper company. www.markspaperco.com Their digital and traditional papers all look like fabric and I love the texture. The kit I bought featured more florals with these papers and I added holiday elements and a quote from my favorite resource, Designer Digitals.

Marks Paper Company is looking for designers to join their team. The information is on the site. They look like a fun new company to me.

Speaking of digital scrapping (and beyond) I've joined a cool new art community called Jean's Art Dolls. It's a forum and gallery of about 200 members registered and I estimate about 30-40 active. I love this group because they are very friendly, supportive, and open minded. They really foster the daring and the different yet they embrace the traditional and the beginner too. You can join them by visiting www.jeansartdolls.com

Jean invited me to be a part of their design team and I happily agreed. So far, I've taken more of a digital role since that area seemed to need some attention. This attention to digital has been the impetus for my new series of articles on digital paper crafting. You can follow along with me at http://www.nachattin.com/articledigitalovervw.html

Alrighty, I think this sums up most of my topics of the moment. Hopefully in upcoming posts I'll touch on the What Works series, templates, sketches, and some other fun things running through my mind. Be kind to yourself--it makes you strong.