Blog Button

Did you enjoy Put it on Paper? Do you want a blog button? Thanks to StrayDreams for giving me the idea  I got a little blog button from MagCloud that you can put on your blog! Thanks so much for your support! we appreciate it more than you know!

It looks like this:

And you'll cut and paste the red text into a sidebar widget or blog post:

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Sometimes a couple of artists get together and don't expect much from the meetings, except maybe some cafe sketches and coffee to be sipped. Sometimes those meetings can blossom into something wonderful. This is how Put it on Paper was born. Jane and I started to meet to draw and drink coffee. 2 artists needed an outlet from their work lives and started to talk and get great ideas.

Jane and I might be as different as artists can be but together we motivate and inspire one another. I'm totally stoked that our s artists dates spawned something as wonderful as Put it on Paper. I hope you think it's great too. I hope it inspires you to make an artist date with a friend.

I want to take a moment to thank our writers:
Eveline Timeless
Jazmine SirensIdyll
An'Angelia Thompson

And Ted Micu for letting me pester him with questions in such a way that shaped up to be a great interview.

Our advertisers for believing we could do this, even we had doubts:
Peg English- Peg’s Kitchen
Moira of Crafty Moira and Key Lime Supply
Kevin of Fountain Pen Revolution
Christy of GulfSprite
Rhomany of Rhomany’s Realm
Tam of Willowing

Thank you all so much for your support as we put this first issue together. We’ve learned a lot about running a small zine, we’ve come up with some more ideas for issue 2 and think that issue 2 will be even more awesome.

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Put it on Paper Vol 1 #1

Challenge: Bump

Ever hit a bump in the road, did you slow down and figure out why it was there?

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Challenge! Things I Couldn't See

When I looked at the sky to shoot the picture below I couldn't see the 5 perfect cotton ball clouds in the sky, the sun was imply too perfect and bright. The camera made them visible.

Have you ever had perfect things that were hidden due to the blinding light of something even more perfect.

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Challenge! Poet and Didn't Know It

You're a poet

How that you didn't know it

Is a mystery

Try a haiku in your journal- the one above is 5-7-5

We want to see the pages you are creating when you take the Challenge!

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Challenge! Take a Pill

Take a metaphoric pill, what does it do?*

We want to see the pages you are creating when you take the Challenge!

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*I'm not encouraging you to take any sort of illegal pill or any legal pills against ways they are meant to be taken. It's metaphoric, not literal. Pretend to take a pill.

Challenge: Seized!

Have you ever felt creatively seized up? How did you get out of it? Are you currently seized up, maybe writing about it would help. Dig into that journal of yours and write it out.

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