AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for May! Castle's Issue.

This month, with a Castle theme, there were so many fabulous contributions from the AIM members. Castle stories, projects and features, each so inspiring. John and I really enjoy our being part of the Editorial team and working towards such a great on line magazine. It is 140 pages this month that you can view below or through the AIM web site. http://www.artisansinminiature.com/   You can download this magazine as well. Through this link you can also view previous issues of AIM.


Thanks for looking!! Hugs, Jean



AIM Imag Issue 34 MAY 2011

Patty of Mini Babies is having a Contest

Patty of Mini Babies is having a contest to celebrate one year of blogging. I've always enjoyed her posts and love her hand sculpted babies. You could become a mother to one of her babies.
http://patty-petit-orphelin.blogspot.com/

Hugs, Jean

I've been designing more digitals for Etsy

I've been having a great time scanning and designing digital collage sheets that I sell on Etsy.

Since I have a tremor that has been bothering me more as I'm getting older, sad to say, LOL, I'm finding real pleasure with designing on the computer. I have such fabulous vintage images from my antique books and postcards. It is wonderful to find a way to share them. These make great gift cards, good for scrapbooking and other art crafts. The top image was from the cover of my French antique book La Maison De Lili that I have also made into a miniature book. The bottom two images are from an antique children's shaped book called Jumbo, I love them so much. The lady's holding the young girl are my photo shop art collages, very fun.  Hugs, Jean

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for April! Wonderful Bridal Issue!

AIM Imag Issue 33 April 2011

New Digital Downloads and A Miniature Show Online

 

 

 

Digital Downloads on Etsy


There are a couple of things I wanted to share with you today. I've really enjoyed working on digital downloads that I'm selling through Etsy, a few of them are shown above. My Etsy link is on the upper left corner of my blog homepage These would work well for either scrapbooking, miniatures, gift cards and some for pillows and quilts after ironing on an iron on transfer. These can be used for commercial tangible items you might make from these images to sell as well as personal projects.

First Miniature Show Online

Shelly Norris is having her first Online Miniature Show and Sale which will take place March 19 and 20. Over 650 people are registered to attend the show (you can win door prizes for registering) and there are over 40 dealers who will be selling. There are also workshops and roundtables. I am going to be a dealer and will have some of my kits at discounts during the show.


The registration form to the show is on page link below.
http://aminiminiatureshow.weebly.com/index.html
Cheers, Jean

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for March!

The new AIM magazine is out for March, Tudor Times theme. We hope you will enjoy it!!

 AIM Mag Issue 32 March 2011

Hild-Tove Hellander Aslaksen's Baby Girl's Roombox

Hild-Tove Hellander Aslaksen from Norway has recently created this wonderful Baby Girl's Roombox where I was delighted to see she used my baby fabric panel kits. I found her photos on facebook and she generously offered to share them with me so I could show them to you. She has done such a fabulous job with this room box, I love all of her tiny details in this display.

The kits she used included: Precious Pink, Noah's Ark, Sunrise Jumper and Blouse, (she added a lovely buckle to the design), Pink Hearts 'n Flowers and Pink Rompers. Thanks so much Hild-Tove!!

Hugs to everyone, Jean

I just had to add this photo of our Slippers, who in now nearly 15. She had her tail wrapped around her favorite toy. Casey's most recent blog  http://caseymini.blogspot.com/  showed her cat, Widget. He reminded me so much of Slippers, when she was younger, small world, lol. Smokey, not shown is Slipper's younger brother and he looks much like Widget too.

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Magazine is out for February!

I'm so proud to be part of AIM magazine and involved with such fabulous artisans who have contributed to my favorite topic of Shabby Chic this month. I'm sure you will love it!

AIM mag issue 31 February 2011

Cheers, Jean

AIM Artisans in Miniature free Project Magazine for January

 

http://www.artisansinminiature.com/

 Fabulous January 2011 Project Supplement for AIM is out and available. For you to download, read on line or view here. Such terrific ideas!
AIM imag - January Project Supplement 2011

New Year's Resolutions or Not

Happy New Year!!!

Felted Snowman Project

Making snowmen was my favorite activity when I was young, with all the snow we had in Regina Saskatchewan. Since I have lived in Victoria B.C. since I was nine years old, we rarely get snow here so, I haven't had a chance to make or even see real snowmen. This snowman is 6" in height. I thought it would be fun to try felting a snowman. I made the three balls by felting with hot soapy water in the washer and dryer. Then I felted them together with a felting tool. I cut out tiny bits of black wool felt for the coal button, smile and eyes. Extra felt was added by felting for the arms, cheeks and chin. A tiny roll of black wool was added for the nose.  Handspun wool for the hat with a blue roving added for variation of colour. Then I draped a piece of blue roving around the neck and felted it onto the body for a scarf. I really enjoyed the way the felting tool shaped the cheeks and chin. The hat has a felted pompom too. It was so much fun making this snowman and I didn't get cold!! Hugs, Jean

 Here is a photo of the felting tool I used to embellish the snowman with more wool, roving and wool. It has three barbed fine needles. You just press into the felt a bunch of times and it embellishes. It is by Clover, you can use the barbed needles individually for smaller projects of embellishing.