Photo as Title.

Whew! You guys blew me away with all you're mad notebook paper skills! Dang.

The random winner of the awesome notebook from Kate Bing's awesome Etsy shop is...... Kate! (Wildman)

Kate, email Kate(hehehehe) at kathleenbing @ gmail.com so she can get it out to you!

Okay. Now onto to the good stuff. There is SO much awesome stuff going on here, my mind is going in millions of different directions. Wheeewwweee.

The Prompt is:

Photo as Title

Signs, words, labels surround us all the time. Take advantage of some of those awesome things and use it on your ART! Use a photo as a title for your page. Maybe make a mini of your favorite restraurants using the signs as "titles" for your pages.

This is another prompt where we want you going out and taking a look at the world around you and capturing it with your camera.
Go crazy with sidewalk chalk, "paint" with water, use your Dymo label maker. Take photos.

Take a photo of your favorite food's packaging. Scrap about that.

Maybe take a photo that communicates an idea. Let the art flow from that.

You don't even have to have taken the photo. Pour over catalogs and magazines. Come what may!

Like all TAIF prompts, feel free to intrepet them however you'd like. Maybe just take a photo, if it inspires you. Make a video, a painting, a card, ATC, scrapbook layout, mini, altered decor.

Heck, take photos and fill a frame with it.

Go cuhrazy!

I am SUPER excited to have the ever lovely and talented miss Cindy Ellen Russel Guest Design for this prompt. She has a style so pure, classy, and arty that I just cannot get enough of.

If you haven't faved this girl already, prepare to be awed and inspired.

Thanks, Cindy, for GDing! Your project blew us away!

Here is what Cindy had to say:

Photos as titles. Signs, bumper stickers, advertisements, graffiti...all around us are words and symbols telling us what we should or could do. As I started to look around for photos to use as titles, I also saw backgrounds and elements to use and photographed those too. What emerged was a personal story --driven by some of the most favorite photographs that I have taken over the years-- stacked upon other detail photos all held together by adhesive, tape and journaling. It became a visual narrative that is literal, unexpected, magical, straightforward and complex...just like me!

Cindy's project:

I am also super thrilled to have the ever amazing Debee Campos come on as a permanent TAIF Girl. Yeah! You heard that right. Debee will be here every prompt to inspire. Woot! Go TAIF!

Debee GDed for us in June and I am so happy to have her here permanently.

The girls:


Mandi-








Rhi-

Ashley-

Kara-

Debee-

Kimmy-

Whew! And the awesome Elle's Studio is so gracious to be hosting an awesome RAK from their Etsy shop.

Gorgeous, right?

Link up your projects and art up by August 10th to be included in the random drawing.

That's it for today! Have a great week!

Notebook Paper

Hey guys! It's Mandi here!

If you're anything like me, you've got lots of scraps of paper lying around in piles. Sometimes reminders, sometimes lists, sometimes, uh... bills... or notes from friends. This week's challenge is to use the abundance of notebook paper, that, let's face it, we all have. You could layer paper from different pads, leave the frou-frous on the edge, rip the paper, paint over the paper, or just leave the lovely lines show through. If you're really feeling *green* you could reuse paper that has already been written on. In my layout, I used a note from one of my scrappy friends. You decide what you want to do with the notebook paper, and post a link here when you've finished.

On another note, we've got some big news this week at TAIF! We are very happy to have the incredibly talented, witty, and super cute Ashley Wren join our team! Her picture should be up there on the left with the rest of us very soon!

And we are also extremely excited to have the amazingly creative Kristina Contes join us this week only as our guest designer! She is one of my favorite designers and is a very inspiring artist.

Here's what she had to say...

"notebook paper...ahh the lovely lines. when i was thinking about this prompt, so many ideas came to mind. vintage ledger. holes. frays. so many options, but i became really focused on the texture created when you rip them from their spirals. turning something you would find on the floor in a classroom (or maybe not anymore, damn am i getting old) or stuck to your shoe into art. thus finding art. thus busting out the gel matte medium. rock."

here's her layout:

and here's what our girls came up with!

Ashley's layout:



Kara's layout:
(she gessoed over the paper)

Mandi's layout:

Rhi's layout:

annnnnd last but NOT least- CHRISTINA! aka Tina Lynn! You are the lucky winner of Kara's journal! Be sure to PM her your address so she can get that off to you.

Thanks everyone for coming along this week, and we look forward to seeing what you come up with!

EDIT:

I am so excited to offer this AWESOME handmade notebook made by the amazing Kate Bing as our RAK. So get your projects uploaded and entered in it!

Note-

If you are interested in hosting a RAK, possibly through your Etsy shop or to bring more attention to your product. Email me at-- karahaupt @ gmail.com. Thanks!