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Bonjour!

Hope everyone is having a fantabulous weekend so far.

I placed some new tabs underneath the blog title for those of you who love paper art (because I know I do). There is a tab titled "Paper Art" which is where I share some of my journal pages and anything new that I make relating to paper. The other tab is titled "Just For You". Under that tab you will find my personal collage papers that I put together to share with all or you can just click on the image below and save it. Feel free to download or print it out and use it in your own artwork but please don't resell these images in digital art form or in your own collage sheets or as single images. Add your name to my followers list to receive updates.

Click on the image above and save the larger printable version. Enjoy!

Yesterday I hung out with the awesome Amber Leilani! We were neck deep in paper. It's surprising that we didn't get a paper cut. Hehe...yeah, I know, bad joke. Anyways,

while watching Amber make her hand made cards I was content on just stamping images onto pieces of paper. Finally, after about 45 minutes, Amber asks me, "What are you going to make?" Uhh...I don't know. Anyway, she told me I HAD to make at least one card before I left. I think the most difficult part is cutting a 12"x12" paper to the correct size to fit over my card because me and the English units just don't get along. GIVE ME METRIC! But overall it's very meditative for me (except the measuring part, merci Amber). Here is the card I made. It has three layers of collage elements.

Not too shabby, eh?

Namaste
Kalaya

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