...card making at it's finest...well my finest...

I enjoy creating cards. A handmade card can say so much more or so much less than Hallmark. I can come up with my own photos if I so chose, and the creative license to collage many things together to create a very unique one of a kind card. I can even photograph it and utilize it as something new...like a background on my computer or a new print for a material (Yes!...you can print really cool card stock type patterns onto material and then use it AGAIN!!!). Tonight I created a card for about 75 cents from two stickers, a button, leftover ribbon, a stamp, a micron pen, some string, a pre-perforated tan card and a patterned piece of paper. The results, I'm quite happy with!! Take a look...

...flutter, flutter, flutter, little dragonfly...

Isn't this dragonfly just the coolest!!?? (If you click on the picture you can see the full version and all the details!)

...lee friedlander and my photo classes...

That's me in the picture, and the portrait of me with my church. It's inspired by a great photographer named Lee Friedlander, check him out, look him up. He's amazing. Yep I didn't think so at first either, but if you check him out, you'll see, he's awesome. Oh and PS. it's HARD to capture your own shadow on film!!

I have two weeks off from school at the end of this week, I'm excited! Just work, no school!!! Then it's back to the grind :(

night -A

...stop and smell the roses, er, flowers...

Yep, It's been busy from September to January! And January is almost over, wow!


This semester, it hit me that this is the next to the last semester that I will have in my Undergrad degree. I'm still up in the air as to whether I'll go on to grad school but for now, I'll relish in the fun that lies before me! I've taken on 5 classes again, it's not so bad, just a lot of hard work. And to be honest with ya, I have two photo classes with the same teacher and two printmaking classes with the same teacher and one class in which we literally watch videos and slides, something that truely helps you in your own creative world to expand your ideas and thoughts. Besides tons of time in the photo lab, I think it will be a rather enjoyable semester!

If I come up with any new fun projects I'll be sure to try and post some pictures.

Until then
A