**Win** a FREE 10 pack of O'So Sticky Tape!!!

We are SO excited that O'So is making a come back!! Help us get the word out!

Be the one to get the MOST new people to "like" Pennywise Arts on Facebook and it's YOURS!

Here's what to do:

1. Have your friends "like" us on Facebook - if you haven't done it yet you should "like" us too!  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennywise-Arts/142996769012

2. Ask them to post YOUR full name in the comment box so we know who referred them.

The Contest is open until the O'So arrives in about 2 weeks!

You can still place your pre-order on our website www.PennywiseArts.Com for the "retro pricing" up until the shipment arrives!

Let the all in good fun competition begin!

Hugs!

Suzanne

Pennywise Arts, where your favorite color can be clear!
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Still Ticking

One of the fat book page swaps we did on the PWA Yahoo Group last year was a “Time” theme.   This stunning page by Eunice Creswell is totally “Tim” (Tim Holtz inspired).

The list of supplies she used is just as detailed as her art.  She used the Cuttlebug folder “Clockworks” on textured cardstock for her background and distressed it with several Distress Ink colors.  The letter “T” is cut from corrugated cardboard and some of the outer layer has been stripped.  The finishing touches on the “T” are Distress inks and Distress Stickles.  The rest of the letters are die cut chipboard distressed and stamped with various textures.  The dot of the “i” is a sunflower with a mixture of micro beads in the middle.  (All translucent: brown, orange, yellow, red, lettuce and yellow with black and gold opaque's.)

The small distressed tags contain her credits pinned onto the page with assorted fibers and charms completing her page. 

Our Yahoo Group has changed over the years from a daily average of 200+ messages (whew!) to an average of less than 20 a week.  What I find really cool though, is that our activity level in swaps hasn’t changed all that much – which means we are spending less time talking about creating but not less time doing the creating! Yay us!

If you like to swap quality art, then our Yahoo Group might be the place for you, come check us out!

Hugs!  Suzanne

O’So Sticky Tape Makes A Comeback!

  Good NEWS!  Due to the overwhelming request to get O’So back in stock we are organizing a power buy opportunity!  This means if you love O’So Sticky Tape, you can help us get it back in stock by placing a pre-order NOW!!

Here’s the deal:  Our entire O'So Sticky Tape line is obtained in four different shipments each costing about $1,000.  (Ouch!!)

Pennywise is a cash business, we just can’t  purchase products on credit in this uncertain economy.  This is why we need your help to get O'So back! 

We are starting with one order for the REGULAR TAPE SHEETS since that has the highest demand.  The prices on all PREPAID PREORDERS will stay the same as before: 2 packs are $4.12 and 10 packs are $16.94.  Once the tape arrives the price will increase due to the increased costs to us from the manufacturer.  

We plan to place the order at the end of August  and have the tape back in stock and shipping by mid September.  This is a no risk opportunity, you’ll be investing in a “sure thing” with us!

Please show your support and help us get O’So back by placing your preorder on our website:  http://www.pennywisearts.com/tape.shtml

Once we get this order complete we will rally again to bring in all of the different sized rolls.  We’ll need lots of help to make that happen!

Thanks to all those who helped get this campaign off the ground!  Your support and encouragement made all the difference!

Hugs!
Suzanne

ATC Corsages

Oh dear me!  I just found some photos on my computer that the virus had hidden and I see clearly now that I missed many of Eunice Creswell’s bead-iful creations from May!  Yikes!  Not to be overwhelmed into inertia, I will plow onward!

These three fun ATC corsages come complete with their own specialty pins with seed bead embellishments and micro beaded heads on them.  Such a fun little accent that really adds a lot to these tradable cards!  Eunice, you are so clever!

Floral Lattice

I’m still in process with my craft room.  Cleaning, sorting, clearing, organizing and discovering.  The latter is the best part of all, finding treasures!!

I can’t remember if this beauty by Marianne Colschen has been on the blog before or not, but it turned up and I wanted to err on the side of you definitely getting to see it!

O’so faintly you can see the embossed diagonals on the white cardstock.  Marianne used them as a guide to lay down Sure Tac glue to create the micro beaded lattice upon which her pretty flowers bloom.

I definitely need more space just to display all of the goodies I’ve collected over the years!

FUNky Flower Tin

Getting sick is never fun, and when it’s an illness that lasts longer than just a few days then all fun goes right out the window.  That’s kind of what happened when I got that virus in June.  Don’t worry, I’m not sick but my computer sure has been.  We thought it was going to be terminal, thankfully it wasn’t.  

Unfortunately though, it left a nasty trail of chaos behind.  Would you believe that the virus actually took and HID almost everything on my computer!?!!  Programs, pictures, documents,…. EVERYTHING!  So piece by piece I’m putting my computer life back together and trying to get my mojo back.  It’s taking longer than I would like it to.

I’ll be squeezing in blog posts as often as I can and mixing it up a bit so that all three of our summer artists will get fair screen time.  Thanks so much Jennifer, Yvonne and Marianne for your understanding!!

This fun”ky” tin was created by Jennifer Toussaint.  The bright colors always sell me and this cute little tin is so whimsical.  The clear micro beads always make photography a challenge so in case you can’t read the stamped image on the top it says, “He was away often.  I like that in a man.”  Kind of reminds me of those sassy 50’s women you see on calendars and napkins now.  Ü

Jennifer took her tin the extra mile and spruced up the inside as well:

Just darling!!

Swimming Acetate Shaker

I do so wish you could hold this shaker card in your own hot little hands!  Rolling it back and forth is mesmerizing!

My friend and a PWA Beady Bud, Laura Davis had a brilliant idea to ink two pieces of acetate with alcohol inks (Stream and Bottle, I think).  Then she stamped fish on one sheet with Staz On black ink.  PWA 1/8” foam tape strips were used to create the shaker box.  Inside, Laura put in a variety of colors and sizes of beads… Bigger Beads in Teal Opaque, Regular size in Royal Blue, Light Teal and some Ultra Fine Clear.  What a wonderful mix of beads to complement this under the sea theme!  Last but not least, Laura put silver foil tape around the edges to hide the foam and to frame the card.  Since the back is made of acetate too, it’s completely see through and so well done!!

Oh!  And guess what!??!  You CAN hold one of these in your hot little hands!  Laura gave me TWO of them!  Ü  Leave a comment here and make sure to sign your name so if you win I can find you!

Hugs, Suzanne