Blog Hop Winner and a Tutorial Download

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my blog during Nicolette's Mom's Day Blog hop! I enjoyed greatly making my projects and sharing them with you!

I used random.org a few minutes ago to select my winner and it was #33 Anna Dowdy!! Congrats Anna, I have sent her an email and www.cutnpastememories.com will send her the gift certificate!!

Tonight on In The Zone, I demonstrated how I constructed my Mother's Day Bracelet and explained how I created the photo fragment charms. You will find the playback to the Beat It! Episode of In The Zone on the Creative Edventure's Blog soon [I will link to the video here when it becomes available].

In the mean time you can check out my Download Tutorial of how to make the digital paper to match your photos! If you have ANY questions, please feel free to post them and I will answer to the best of my ability!
Creating Digital Paper to Match a Photo
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The Process

There's been a great deal of talk about the process lately from my co-bloggers in the Diva's Weekly Zentangle Challenge. Afterall, the key ingredient in the tangle is the process it takes to get there. The process helps with the Zen of it all.

a few ingredients for an upcoming tag project

For me, all of my creations are a process. I gather about me my favorite tools and beautiful papers and inks and embellishments. I have background music playing if I'm in the mood but often times I'm in a quiet environment with the background noise being the kids or the silly cat. I've sketched or developed an idea in my head that I've almost completed--although the creation hardly ever resembles how it looks in my head! HA!
Then I sit and begin to play until I like the results. There's no divine intervention, no super big ideas, just trial and error. Sometimes while playing I discover new techniques that are fun and intriguing and garner awesome results...sometimes it's just a mess...but the process, the journey I take to get there provides the same kind of zen that I get with tangling.

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