Nicole Johnson invites you to join the Mini Monthly Challenge with

Recycled Materials Dolls

Come join the challenge - Go green for December!

Use any recycled materials you can find to make a one of a kind art doll.  Mix recycled materials with your favorite medium, use all recycled materials or just add some to your doll.  Let's see what you can come up with!

New Member Spotlight - Debbie Smith

Hello ADO fans, it's once more time for the New Member Spotlight and today the light shines on
Debbie Smith of DebiDesigns.  Debbie is a doll artist who says that she came into her creativity in her late 30's and is trying to "catch up"!
 I just love that quote! She says her "creative mind is never in rest mode."  After checking out her work, I have no doubt about it! In addition to art dolls she also works in fiber arts, florals, quilting, embroidery, and jewelry making. Her beaded fairy imp pins are particularly charming!
Get to know Debbie and check out all the wonderful work she does by visiting her Etsy shop, blog, website, flickr stream, and twitter feed!
Welcome to the team, Debbie!

Originally posted on Much ADO About Art Dolls, ADO's team blog.

Join Abi Monroe

in the

4th Quarterly Challenge 2011
"Goth"

From
 October 5, 2011 at 6pm to December 31, 2011in

Gothic  art, the painting, sculpture, and architecture characteristic of the second of two great international eras that flourished in western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the end of the 16th century in some areas. The term Gothic was coined by classicizing Italian writers of the Renaissance, who attributed the invention (and what to them was the nonclassical ugliness) of medieval architecture to the barbarian Gothic tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire and its classical culture in the 5th century.