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Monday, February 19, 2007

Beaded ATC

Here is a beaded Artist Trading Card I made while visiting and playing a year or so ago (oh my! I think it was 2 years ago now--how time flies)--my friend Kari's wonderful fine art/craft studio in Sitka, Alaska. Kari & I planned a 3 day mini "artist retreat"--we asked her husband to take her kids camping and we just played and created in her studio for 3 days. Heaven! she has a huge fabric stash--an extra sewing machine--and the beader (me) learned she actually loved sewing.


This is the front of an ATC I call "Midnight Sun" in honor of Kari as dedicated Mother.


And here is the back, painted in guache.

Every time I talk to Kari--we say we need to do another mini artist retreat--I am sure hoping I can make it up to Sitka sometime in the next year to play with her.

2 comments:

Mary Timme said...

Hi Aurora,

I liked your post on Lone Beader and decided to visit your blog. I lived outside of Fairbanks during the 3 years of building the pipeline and had a couple of small children there. It was an interesting place and we all suffered from culture shock when we came back to the 'lower 48.'
I liked you ATC's and am going to look at more of your posts.

The Lone Beader® said...

HI Aurora!! Thanks for stoppin by my blog. That first beaded ATC is awesome. Lata, D