PaperTraders Art: February 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Gallery: Fabulous Fashionistas

Cathee Stegall

Beckie Holso

Cathy Calamas

Connie Holso

Karen Boatright

Quincy Richardson

Ruth Anna Abigail

Monday, February 21, 2011

A Lucky new winner!!

Brenda of The Creative Chook

is the alternate winner of our OWOH prize package.

Our first winner did not respond to our contact attempts

and so we generated a new winner

through the random number generator.

Brenda, we will be contacting you today by way of email

and a post on your blog.

Congratulations!

Saturday, February 19, 2011

As a little Thank You gift for visiting our art blog and making the One World One Heart event such a success we are sharing these vintage images. They will only be here for a limited time, so grab them while you can.

Please remember that these images are owned by Connie Holso of Stampgram's Studio and are offered for your personal use only. Do not repost or distribute in any form. Thanks.

And some vintage postcard images.

Please, these postcard images are owned by Cathy Calamas and are offered for your personal use only.
Do not repost or distribute in any form. Thanks.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Beeswax Encaustic ATC Swap Announced

(Open to PaperTraders Members only )

Beeswax Encaustic- 4 for 4 - ATC Swap

Theme: Butterflies

Technique: Encaustic Beeswax

Host: Cathy Calamas

There is a wonderful artist who lives in western NC who uses the wax encaustic technique in a lot of her paintings. Whenever I am in Asheville, NC ( a wonderful arts community) I go see her displays at the Woolworth Art Walk. I would love to one day own one of her originals but for now I will have to be happy with a print.( I have a print of the nest of eggs that is on her home page.)

http://www.sarahfaulkner.com/

It is a technique I have always wanted to try and I am always checking to see what is new on Youtube about it. Wax encaustic gives your art a wonderful, touchable, aged and soft dimension.

So I have decided to host a 4 for 4 ATC sized swap using this technique. The theme is "butterflies" which is a good Spring theme after this hard, long Winter. ( yes , even in SC, its been long).

Please sign up in the database at Paper_Traders Yahoo Group if you are a member. If you are not, why not join us today. Click the link on the right.

Due date for the ATC's will be April 8th, 2011 to give everyone plenty of time in case you are participating in the Word Challenge Journal and/or the Spring Banner Swap.

Happy Waxing!!

Cathy Calamas