It's May ~ That Means Magazine Style Try is Here!
Click on the links below to visit the home page for our Magazine Style Try month!
Artwork Above copyright RIchard Salley, 2007, being used with kind permission of the artist.
April's Shabby Chicness!
Last month's Chic and Shabby Style Try was great fun! I can't wait until next April, when we'll be chic and shabby, once again! Click on the banner below to reach the archive.
Get ready for Vintage Victorian - in June!
And don't forget about next month! Start getting ready. Step back in time, and enjoy vintage and victorian altered art, like never before. We've got a new workshop, featured member interview, and live chat - all scheduled in June! Click on the link below to learn more about all our wonderful plans!
You, Me, We - are the spirit of ZNE!
And we've got wonderful updates on Spirito Di ZNE! As the daily feature enters into its third month, we've highlighted the art, links, and bios of over 60 of your fellow ZNE Members (and counting!) - we've given away two wonderful Gifts of Spirit, the Spirito DI ZNE home page has garnered close to 5,000 hits, and we have logged close to 275 comments. WOWZERS! Keep on checking in - Spirito Di ZNE is such a wonderful way to learn more and say hello to your fellow members. And feel free to cut and paste the box below and add it to your own blog or website. Spread the Spirit of ZNE far and wide!
Bloggers Choice Awards!
Oooh! And look at this (warning: shameless plug):
Spirito Di ZNE has been nominated for a Blogger's Choice Award! By who? By Chel, that's who! Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all clicked on the badge below, and VOTED for Spirito Di ZNE? Because the more attention and more accolades we get for our little member feature blog - the more promotion we get for our entire group. Please take a moment and vote for Spirito Di ZNE on the blogger's choice awards. It is free, it is fun, and it is a wonderful way to show your ZNE Spirit!
Cinda Rae Oliverio
Spirito DI ZNE is not the only way to learn more about your fellow ZNEers - every month we debut a new Featured Member Interview in conjunction with Style Try.
This month, I am delighted that we snagged an interview with the Queen of Magazine Collage herself, Ms. Cinda Rae Oliverio! Check her out:
And, next month - we'll debut another featured member interview. June is Vintage Victorian Style Try - so we will be interviewing Ms. Mary B. Welsch - the proprietess of MissMary.com. Woo hoo!
Claudine Hellmuth!
AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR MAY 23!
Live Chat! May 23, 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time!
Click on the text above to sign up for the live chat!
May Birthdays
Are you a member of The ZNE Birthday Club? If not, click on the banner above and join now! It's just another benefit of ZNE Membership. We love celebrating our fellow members' birthdays!
MAY BIRTHDAYS:
May 1 - Niki Jackson
May 5 - Danielle Muller
DeAnn Crider
May 7 - Kimber Kline
May 10 - Vee Fields
May 11 - Deb K. Neerman
Becky Loyall
May 29 - Hope Koellen
May 30 - Tammy Karrenstein
PSSST~ We need a volunteer to Coordinate the ZNE Birthday Club. Responsibilities include updating the ZNE Birthday Calendar once a month, and sending out birthday email greetings. Click below and let Chel know if you are willing to be our group Birthday Coordinator!
Extra Thanks go to Joanna Grant of Joanna Banana Design Originals for co-sponsoring The ZNE Birthday Club!
May Auction Template
We've added another auction template to our archive! This one is sort of bold and funky - and goes perfectly with our Style Try this month - Magazine Collage. Enjoy!
Half Price Collage Sheets
And, for ZNE Members only!
In conjunction with our Partito Bello and Flavor Friday themes, for every ZNE Store collage sheet PDF purchases you make on the third Monday of the month will earn the same number of FREE collage sheet PDF files,of your choosing!
Click below to go directly to our collage sheet selection ~ and check back regularly, we add to the collection on a weekly basis!
Magazine Journals with Chel!
ZNE Talk
Have you heard? Last month marked the debut of our wonderful chat group, ZNETalk. Open to all ZNE Members, we encourage you to join if you are interested in meeting, getting to know, interacting with, and PLAYING with your fellow members! The group has weekly parties, activities, and MORE coming soon! Click on the image below to join ZNETalk, today!
Partito Bello
And... Our fabulous weekly art party has been delayed by one week, but look for the fun to begin, next week Saturday May 12!
Pssst - Are you willing to help by being a Partito Bello Party Planner? (Mostly, this would involved sending out a few weekly emails via ZNE Talk.) If so, we could use your help! Click on the banner below to email Chel!
Design Team Challenges
Have you seen the wonderful work that The ZNE Design Team is doing? Click above to reach our galleries. Look for a new public design team homepage with lots more info and - coming soon!
This month, the Design Team is creating Little Letterz - a set of altered alphabet ATCs. How cool is THAT!
ATC above by ZNE Design Team Member Susan Tidwell.
Call for Product Review
~ Do YOU have an image, rubber stamp or product line that you would like the ZNE Design Team to feature? ~
Our design team can work with both digital and hard copy images, embellishments of any kind, rubberstamps or rubberstamp products, or any other product made to use in or with altered art.
You will need to provide:
16 products - one for each member of The ZNE Design Team, and one which will be included in a future ZNE Prize package.
One prize package for the winner of the Design Team challenge.
And we will ask that you drop ship all product and the prize package directly to the Design Team members/winner. That means you will need to ship out your 16 products to 15 different addresses.
In exchange - you will receive:
A product review in The ZNE Scene.
A banner ad on the ZNE Design Team Home Page.
Use of all design team images (using your product) for your own marketing purposes.
If you are interested, then we would LOVE to work with you! Click here to contact Chel!
The ZNE Store
Don't forget that ZNE now has PDF collage sheets in stock! You can purchase them in The ZNE Store, on etsy, or for trade at Posh Points (see below)!
(Hint, if buying them for $$, go through The ZNE Store and not etsy. They're cheaper in The ZNE Store! ) Also, if you would prefer to purchase some for trade through Posh Points, and don't see the sheet you want on Posh Points, just send me an email and I'll set up a Posh Points listing just for you!
Posh Points
And... for those of you looking for a way to give and get lots of goodies without exchanging cash - check out Posh Points! Posh Points is the fastest growing trading community available! It's free to use and get 15 free trading points just for signing up!
In addition to The ZNE Store, there are several other ZNE Members actively trading there - including Chrysti of Covet Me, Diana Belton (redandgreenbutterfly), and Kathryn Virello. Join up today!
ZNE Theme Week
Don't forget ZNE Theme Week! It's TOMORROW - and the theme is TIME IN A BOTTLE!
Hit Send
And the ZNE Hit Send contest is underway on the ZNE Talk discussion boards! All you have to do to play and possibly WIN is join ZNE Talk, and post some messages and/or replies. Click on the banner below to learn more!
HOORAY!
Extra thanks go to Izabella of Velvet and Rust for choosing our winning numbers for us, AND for providing the prizes for this contest! Each winner will receive a special ATC print of Izabella's extraordinary artwork.
ZNE Recipez
Announcing ZNE Recipez! In conjunction with the weekly Partito Bello - we have begun collecting Recipes! Check out all the details below!
Each week, there will be a new prize for the recipe that gets the most votes. Up for grabs this week:
The winner of the first round will receive - courtesy of ZNE - is this fabulous ATC Print by Becky Christian! Get your recipes in now!
Gift of Spirit
We did not have a winner for last month's Guess the ZNE Artist contest, so we've moved that prize over to our Gift of Spirit Prize pool. Remember, - just leave a comment for any feature on Spirito Di ZNE to be entered to win!
Up for grabs this month - a wonderful selection of six stained and ready to embellish art tags, as shown below. These tags were created by ZNE Member SweetLibertyGatherings.
Style Try Prize Drawing
May's Style Try drawing is open - enter it now for your chance to win three vintage magazines!
May Style Try Prize Drawing:
Lot of 3 Vintage National Geographic Magazines!
(Not necessarily those shown.)
Donated by:
On Hiatus
Needle in a Haystack Contest
&
Guess the ZNE Artist
Psst - we need some volunteer coordinators to get these two contests going again, as well as with the coordination of ZNE Recipez. They are fun, and easy to coordinate. If any one is interested - click on the birdies below!
The ZNE Book Club
WOW! The May Book Club has begun, and members are having fun reading and playing with techquniques from Bernie Berlin's Artist Trading Card Workshop.
The Book Club has a public blog so that others can watch us play, learn about the books we are reviewing, and enjoy our workshop creations.
Click on the banner below to see our blog:
AND SIGN UP NOW for June's Book Club session. We will be working with Claudine Hellmuth's Collage Discovery workshop - and if you sign up on or before May 14, you will be entered to win a free copy of the book! Click on the logo below to go to the ZNE Book Club home page:
PS - The MOST exciting thing though, is the fact that the May ZNE Book Club donated $100 to Bernie Berlin's A Place to Bark!
The ZNEetsy Home Page
And, if you haven't heard - check it out! ZNE is starting up some amazing promotions for our members who sell on etsy! Click on the banner above to learn more about all the ways we are mixing it up on etsy!
Psst - are you a ZNE Member and seller on etsy? If you have some extra time to help coordinate some of our promotional activities - then WE NEED YOU! Click on the birdies below!
ZNE Discussion Board...
Bella's Beauties
Oh, and we just can't wait to let you know that the long-time-in-planning Bella's Beauties art project and fundraiser for Rupert's Kids - will begin in June! TWO ZNE Bella's are making this activity truly beautiful! The contest is sponsored by Bella of Velvet and Rust, and prize certificates are being designed by Miz Bella of Dirty Roses.
Look for more information in the Mid Month issue of The ZNE Zine!
And, We Hope it's Coming Soon ~ A Color Laser Printer!
It seems that every day I say to myself: Well, I would, I could, I wish, IF I had a good quality color laser printer! Oh the post cards and collage sheets and brochures that I could create in a moment's time...
That being said - I've decided to add the laser printer to the ZNE Wish List. It's actually the only major thing on our wish list right now (although, a week's vacation in Tahiti would be nice too!) and so I am hoping that many hands (hand-outs?) might make light work of saving up for this item.
I am hoping that by December, or earlier - I'll be able to get a nice Laser Printer in house, at The ZNE Studios. Here is what we will do to give back to the members of ZNE who can help out:
ALL ZNE MEMBERS will receive a certificate for a half price hard copy (laser printed!) collage sheet from the ZNE Store!
Any ZNE Member who donates anything will be listed on the ZNE Laser Printer Honor Roll - so that everyone else will know who to thank, when they get their 1/2 price certificate!
And those of you who can donate $5 or more, will receive a FREE collage sheet of your choosing - hooray!
Want to know how close we are? Keep track via our Chip In gauge!
[More importantly, once we get our laser printer ~ ZNE will be able to expand our current promotional activities and print professional quality marketing and member portfolio materials, on demand, in house. And that truly will benefit us all!]
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