Sunday, October 23, 2011

Beach Puzzle

Here are the completed puzzles submitted for the Collaborative Beach Puzzle project. They all turned out great.













Artist: Reyo97













Artist: Snowqueen1426












Artist: Slheyer












Artist: PamB











Artist: FaithMarie













Artist: Empress Dragon













Artist: Dianetrew












Artist: Craftgal

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Art Forty-Two Anniversary Book Two



The book is done and ready on www.blurb.com. We hope you are all very happy with how it turned out.

http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2616148

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Art Anniversary Swap 2011














tannermom

















Scrappydappy











Scarlet


















Pyro











Pam


















PamB











Mhoward


















Lucy


















Granny












FaithMarie


















Eclaire70


















Dianetrew



















Billie

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A bit late but an update!

A few weeks ago when we posted the last site updates I mentioned that I was going to have a baby. Well, since a few member's asked, I thought I would give you all the low-down on my little Mister.

Sebastian Danger Powers was born April 6, 2011.  He was a week and a half late and weighed 8 lbs 3 oz.  He was 20 inches long. He's been a joy and luckily came pre-programmed to sleep at night.

I've been on a bit of an art break while on my maternity leave and hope to be back to creating soon.  In the meantime, I have been practicing some zentangles. I'm hooked.


Sebastian about 3 weeks with Art Forty-Two's
resident geek (and my husband) Atom.

Monday, May 16, 2011

The Art of Science

The Art of Science Swap - Hosted by mhoward















Artist: slheyer

















Arist sfasser



















Artist: reyo97
















Artist: mhoward




Thanks Mhoward for hosting such a fun swap

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Art Forty-Two Site Updates on the Horizon

Hi Everyone!

We've been reading a few of the suggestions in the forum here and in the new feedback form and wanted to give a few updates on upcoming changes to the site.

1) Karma: Some of you have expressed a desire to easily see how much of which type of Karma users have. We've decided, as a tool for hosts, to split the karma on the project page so you can see the positive/neutral/negative karma each participant has instead of the total number.  This leads to the next request.

2) Kicking participants: Some hosts have requested the ability to remove members from their project if they are non-responsive. Although, we feel there is a chance that this tool could be abused, we will be adding this feature soon. We have to prepare some auto-emails.  Please note hosts will be required to state why they are removing a participant from the project. This will give the participant information and allow us to make sure people are not being removed for the wrong reasons.  We want an open community but also want hosts to have control over their projects.

3) In our feedback form (upper right under "feedback", we've asked you if you think new members should participate in a few projects before being allowed to host one.  Right now, it is inconclusive on how members feel about this so - we will be waiting on whether or not we do this.

4) We've heard that some of you hare having trouble joining projects due to a karma bug. Our resident geek is working on it and will have it fixed soon.

5) Hosts in e-mails.  We've also saw that some of the hosts would also like to get the e-mail when they send a note to all participants. We will be adding that feature too.

So, in the next week or so there should be a few changes to the site (specifically 1, 4, and 5).

In other news: We are going to be doing a major site upgrade in a month or so to upgrade the back end(all geek stuff) and we have a redesign of the site that will happen about that time. We'll be asking for testers once we get it on the test site.  We hope to add a few new features like a site-wide gallery and such to make the site a bit more visual. 

We'd like to thank you all for taking this ride with us over the last two years! We are trying to make this community fun for everyone.

One last note, Aelios (our resident geek) and Empress_Dragon are due to have a baby any day. So things might be a little slower than suggested above if the baby comes in the next few days. (We hope!)  FaithMarie will still be on alert for the site and we'll be here to answer questions. Keep up the awesome participation!

We also have an Art Forty-Two meet-up page (http://www.meetup.com/Art-Forty-Two-Meetup/) going on so if you are in the Washington area we'd love to see you!

That's all for now
Art Forty-Two

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Art of Jazz

The Art of Jazz - Hosted by Maralena Howard (aka: mhoward)




















Artist: Sythka
















Artist: Sunnyrea













Artist: Strawberry


















Artist: Scarlet














Artist: Mhoward
















Artist: Lucy

















Artist: Katkeeper















Artist: Janelleybean















Artist: Inspirecreatescrap















Artist: Cinabeena

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Valentine Shrine Swap 2011












Artist: Sythka













Artist: Slheyer













Artist: scrappydappy












Artist: Purrito












Artist: PepnJo2













Artist: PamB













Artist: Otterblue













Artist: OhYeah












Artist: Lucy













Artist: Lisa Vollrath













Artist: KatKeeper












Artist: Katina












Artist: FaithMarie













Artist: EmrpessDragon















Artist: eClaire70













Artist: Diane Trew












Artist: DesignsByDLR














Artist: Crescentwench











Artist: artsyclara