Welcome to our first Mixed Media + Collage blog post! I'd like to introduce myself and let you know how excited my fellow group moderators and I are to be a part of this group and share our love of all things mixed media with you, our group members. I'm Tonia, the Group Owner and I'll be sharing blog posts and forum monitoring with Christine and Jessica.

As acquisitions editors for a variety of great books from many talented and creative people, Christine, Jessica and I are not only passionate about the world of mixed media, we are also constantly on the look out for the best products, events and talent across a variety of artistic areas. You're going to meet people in this group that are collage artists, jewelry makers, painters, metal smiths, paper crafters, fiber artists, art journalers and more, for the arena that we call mixed media is a large one. We're all going to learn from one another here and, everyone's input and contributions are valued.

I'll begin the sharing process by telling you a bit about some of the things I am personally interested in. I enjoy painting, papercrafts, bookbinding, creative framing, art journaling and my current passion is heavily focused on using Plexiglas to create jewelry and dimensional artwork. I'm looking forward to getting to know you and what you are passionate about. In addition to the photos you may choose to post on your private MyCraftivity profile site, I would like to encourage you to post photos to the Mixed Media Public Gallery as well.

My crafty cohorts will be introducing themselves to you in the next few days and we're all very excited to share more of ourselves with you and learn what you have to share with us. Until next time, Tonia