ALTERED ART AND A LOAD OF TAT: Time is Marching On!

ALTERED ART AND A LOAD OF TAT: Time is Marching On!: "Gosh its less than seven weeks to Hugbinders - time is whooshing by! I have spent the weekend knocking up a few covers for the books - I hav..."



Oh... I thought I would be really clever and share this from my blog - but it hasn't quite worked -  just click on the link and you can read the full post on my blog

Hugbinders raffle prize mirror

Hugbinders raffle prize made by Debs

Fresh, funky and quirky was my aim for this mirror and the objective was to have the blue balloon logo included. Don't forget to get your tickets - you've got to be in it to win it!

Roll Call...

Time is galloping on and I have had a few emails from people asking 

 

a) how much is P&P going to be

 

b) how many copies of their page should they do

 

c) if you intend to attend the workshop (you will get a book included in the price) 

 

 

For us to be able to gauge the answers to these questions can you please leave your name in the comment box stating

 

a) if you intend to do a page  - when we know an approx number of pages, i can then make a mock up book and take it to the PO to be weighed

 

b) If you intend to buy a copy/copies of the finished book (you don't need to have made a page to buy a book!)  

 

 Thank you!!

 

I am keeping the list updated, of companies who are and who are not giving us permission  to use their stamps and then copy  the pages, please check this and if there is a company that isn't mentioned, please contact them yourself.

 

N.B Remember that you do have the option (as BIC is doing)  of hand stamping each copy with a stamp if needed. Its not as arduous as it sounds, as an example, BIC is completing her page with the stamps she is allowed to copy - copying this however many times and then finishing the page off by hand-stamping the image from Stampin' up (who have not given us permission) - Thanks for that BIC

 

 

Happy New Year!

The Countdown has begun! Its only 2 months and 1 day to HugBinders - although the Ticker doesn't allow for the fact that February is a short month, so its actually 64 days or 1536 hours or 92160 minutes or 5529600 seconds - but unless you are reading this as the clocks chime on New Years Day then these calculations are now wrong..... but what is happening is time is slipping away, so start thinking about and starting your page, buying your raffle tickets and for those of you who are coming to the actual day, start packing your case!! 

HugBinders is a'comin' !

2010 was obviously a very sad year for those of us who knew and loved John - but I know John would not want us to be sad (mmmm easier said than done, but he always enjoyed setting me a difficult task!) and he would be so very chuffed that something positive was happening in his memory - so come on guys and gals, lets do him proud!

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. 

They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." 

Washington Irving

Wishing you all a Very Happy and Creative New Year 

Love from Nicks, Lynn, Bev and Debs (oh and the Old Dear Sparkles) xxx 

PS.... No resting on your laurels - cos we need the pages by the 10th of Feb, which is only 41 days LOL!!

LOL UPDATE!! Ticker seems to have corrected itself! yesterday it said 2 months 2 days, today it says 2 months 4 days - which is more like it

Happy Christmas Everybody !

All of us at HugBinders Headquarters would like to wish you a very Happy Christmas - hope you all have a lovely day.

This time last year Mr S was amusing my Children whilst I was cooking the meal - and only took a couple of minutes out to advise me on the gravy ...... (cheeky s** I make the best gravy in the world!!) -

 but the best advice he did give me was  to 'Treasure The Good Times' 

Good advice I am sure you will agree xxx 

Very important point about copyright.

Please ensure any images you use are copyright free. But more importantly is the matter of using stamped images. The majority of stamps are covered by the Angel Policy, this allows you to use stamps for commercial use on a small scale, but does not allow you to take copies of your work. This may obviously be a problem as far as HugBinders is concerned.

However, I am sure a lot of stamp designers would be happy to give their permission for us to copy the stamps as this is on a very small scale and is all for charity and non profit making HOWEVER they must be approached and asked, we cannot take it as said - they must have the opportunity to say no.

 Jennie from The Artistic Stamper, Paperartsy and Docrafts have already kindly given their permission - this ONLY applies to HugBinder Pages!

I have written a draft letter - you are welcome to copy this and send to any companies whose stamps you would like to use. If you do have a reply, please let me know so that I can add them to the list and email us their reply artytat-craftyevent@yahoo.co.uk

Please also check the list before emailing companies, so that they do not have several enquires from different people.

Thank you .....

Of course an easier way, is to not use stamped images!

Please don't let this deter you from joining in - this isn't a problem its an opportunity!

Nicks, Lynn, Bev and Debs x

If any stamp companies are reading this and would be happy for their stamps to be used in this way (or definitely would NOT) please let us know - each company will be listed in the book and cross referenced back to the stamp used - as the book will be mostly purchased by stampers its all good advertising !


PS the list of companies who have given permission will be updated on the tab at the top of this blog and on docrafts 

Hugbinders example page

Pen and ink doodles, friendship quotes around the face, within the hair, binding her with love and friendship.

This was inspired by the book Collage Unleashed by Traci Bautista and referenced to her at the foot of the page.

PLEASE NOTE this is published for the purpose of getting you off the starting blocks as there have been queries about what to do/not to do for scanning/printing - well anything goes as long as you are not breaching copyright and using lots of one coloured background/large object with single colour which will be very colour hungry for us to copy and print.

Referencing copyright - if you have been inspired by another artist and you have taken on their style of working and design, do reference somewhere on your page the artist and their blog/website or their publication you have adapted their design or style from. You can see at the foot of the page I have done this. I think I should put the publisher and the year and edition as well to do it properly, but the artist and publication are what matters really and I am waffling now.

Signature - do put your artist signature on your page, it is your work, so sign it if you want to - as you can see I did this on the bottom right corner.

It goes without saying that your work is going into a book and the element of suspense and surprise should be respected so please do respect this and refrain from putting your pages on your web, in galleries etc.

Wishing you lots of fun with your creativity and secret mission xxx