Where I live: Oviedo, FL
Favorite Art Supply: cool papers
Favorite ARTchix item: German Scrap Borders
Tell us about your pet: Lola is an English Springer Spaniel. She likes to walk across the top of the couch.

Where I live: Omaha, NE
Website: http://spiritsjourneydesigns.blogspot.com/
http://spiritsjourneydesigns.com
Favorite Art Supply: Fluid Chalk, Alcohol Ink & Watercolors...OH, and there's gel pens, Diamond Glaze, microglaze, scissors & a glue stick...OH, and rulers, metallic leaf pens, beads & wire! LOL
Favorite ARTchix item: Collage Sheets! I think I have almost every one and love the quality of ink & paper they are printed on. And the images are so diverse!!! If ARTchix doesn't have it, then I probably don't need it!
Tell us about your pet: Gingersnap (GiGi) is a tortie tabby cat that I adopted from the Humane Society in June. She is just now one year old and is so frisky...hence the name...Ginger-SNAP! She has the loudest purr that I have ever heard and I love how she meets me at the door after a long day at work. She follows me around like a puppy and every morning she has her favorite toy outside the bedroom door so we can have "play time". She is precious and I truly love everything about her!

Where I live: Victoria, BC, Canada
Website: www.picturetrail.com/cindymcmath
Favorite Art Supply: Fluid acrylics by Golden
Favorite ARTchix item: House-shaped DreamBoxes
Tell us about your pet: I have Rosy Bourke (pink budgie). My favourite thing about him is his friendly chirping. He wouldn't pose for a picture so I used a vintage cat image for my faux post entries.

Where I live: Scottish Borders, UK
Website: http://friedaquilter.blogspot.com
Favorite Art Supply: my sewing machine
Favorite ARTchix item:  I've really fallen for the turquoise and pink German Scrap
Tell us about your pet: Troi is my wonderful greyhound baby (5 years old), who has a mind of her own and unlike most greyhounds, barks to let us know when she's not happy. She has a huge beanbag all to herself, and spends the night dressed in a greyhound pajama, and gets tucked in with a flurry rug and her fluffy toys, Fluffy and Mr. Giraffe. Rueben is my all kinds of everything boy and is 4 years old. He's Troi's little slave but has one up on her at night as he sleeps in our bedroom (on the bed when John's not here!) Brush and Sweep are my 2 elderly gentlemen cats (now both 15 and brothers). They love to sleep, and then sleep some more and then maybe go for another nap! Can't wait to see the postage with everyone else's babies too!

Where I live: Leesburg, IN
Website: http://lillysoflondonish.blogspot.com
Favorite Art Supply: I love all things ARTchix, of course, as well as Mod Podge (or decoupage paste- if you need to be generic). It glues, it seals, it unifies, it helps camouflage- I'm always Mod Podge-ing stuff together- especially book pages and ATCs!
Favorite ARTchix item: Transparencies are the greatest- you can add another layer and get depth without hiding pretty papers and other artwork. They may it look like you worked really hard! I usually Mod Podge them on!
Tell us about your pet: Currently we have Larry and Lester, 3, twin brother Tiger cats. When Larry was a kitten, he would jump into midair off the coffee table to try to catch the ceiling fan! My muse for 18 years was Mookie Stacey Smith, a tuxedoed princess of a long-haired cat, who never made a sound when she pitter-patted down the halls quite elegantly.

Where I live: Bay City Michigan (on the sunrise side)
Favorite Art Supply: paper
Favorite ARTchix item: mmmmmmmm, silver German scrap
Tell us about your pet: I have two poodles, Buster and Betsie. Buster is steady, sweet and loyal. Betsie is lively (read naughty) and affectionate.

Where I live: Angola, IN
Favorite Art Supply: Aleena's original Tacky Glue
Favorite ARTchix item: Collage Sheets
Tell us about your pet: Franky is a two year old tri-color basset hound. He loves popcorn and peanut butter!

Where I live: Victoria, BC, Canada
Favorite Art Supply: ma gloo stik
Favorite ARTchix item: today... DreamBoxes
Tell us about your pet: Taya- 4yrs old- has fascinating neuroses- kinda smart too!

Where I live: In the shadow of the beautiful rocky mountains in Denver, Colorado.
Website: www.picturetrail.com/uid4659826
Favorite art supply: Beautiful paper!!! And aluminum foil tape rolls from the hardware store!
Favorite ARTchix item: Definitely the collage sheets, especially mermaids and every one of the Faux Postage collection.
Tell us about your pet: Blueberry is a Lab/mutt mix who was born in Roswell, New Mexico and made his way to Denver, where we rescued him from a no kill puppy shelter. We love everything about him, especially his big brown eyes. He is super smart, and we love his kindness, loyalty and sense of humor.

Where I live: Fredonia, WI
Favorite Art Supply: paper, stamps, collage ephemera
Favorite ARTchix item: Collage Sheets (too many to mention)
Tell us about your pet: Zarah, Yoshi and Monti are all Ragdoll kitties. They are 6, 2, and 6 months old. Pixie and Mimi are Holland Lop bunnies. Sadly, Pixie is with the angel-bunnies, and Mimi is almost 8!
My favorite thing about my pets is that I learn so much from them and I get so much joy out of the little things they do that are so endearing. I love to see them happy and content.

Where I live: Sheboygan, WI
Favorite Art Supply: It constantly changes; right now I would have to say it is Golden's jar paints. They are so thick and luscious.
Favorite ARTchix item: I will always love the German scrap - any color. But I also love the faux stamp sheets as I don't have to glue them.  You really should think about offering your image sheets on sticker paper!
Tell us about your pet: I used vintage images with pets for this contest. I grew up with lots of cats but they were needed to get the mice in the house. But one year 10 years ago my husband bought an adorable little puppy for our son who unfortunately was scared of him. We had "Freddy" for about 2 months and he grew into my heart. I came home to find him gone and sold to an elderly lady. I missed him but have often seen the old lady walking him and keeping her company. It was meant to be.

Where I live: Happy Valley, OR
Favorite Art Supply: Art Accentz Terrifically Tacky Tape
Favorite ARTchix item: Tiny Bubbles Collage Sheet
Tell us about your pet: I am owned by a Beautiful Rubenesque cat name Kuah. She is pure white with 1 blue eye and 1 green eye. She is 20 pounds of amazing personality and makes me laugh every day. I just love it when she flops herself down and offers her irresistible fluffy belly!

Where I live: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Favorite ARTchix item: so hard to choose, but the new Turquoise German Scrap is just awesome!!! and the Sea Dreams transparency-gorgeous!!!
Tell us about your pet: We have a 6yr old blue roan English cocker named Annie. Her nickname is "Boo Boo" which she got because of the booboo face she shows quite often! I also dog sit for friends frequently and consider them my pets too!

Where I live: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Website: www.anotefromthequeen.blogspot.com
Favorite Art Supply: Liquitex Artist Acrylics
Favorite ARTchix item: DreamBoxes
Tell us about your pet: My 2 dogs are Holly (black one) and Lola (brown one). My favorite thing about the 2 of them is watching them play with each other, makes me laugh every day.

Where I live: N.J. and S.C.
Favorite Art Supply: Glitter Glue
Favorite ARTchix item: DreamBoxes
Tell us about your pet: Tasha was one of my tame sheep. She would knock on the door when she wanted me to come out and play. She would jump into the back of my station wagon, and go with me to out door craft shows. I would set up a card table, and she would sit under it for shade. She sat and watched me as I spun her wool on one of my spinning wheels. She was a joy.

Where I live: Colorado Springs, CO
Favorite Art Supply: definitely distress ink
Favorite ARTchix item: Do I have to name just one?  Okay, I guess that would be the Bingo collage sheet--I seem to use this a lot.
Tell us about your pet: The picture of the pet in my ATC was not actually mine, although I used to have two ferrets (Artie and Drizzit), who have since passed away. I
couldn't find a good picture of my ferrets, so I chose to use this one of someone else's pet, which I thought was adorable. I now have two kitties (Dakota and Zippy--brothers), who are both all black (Dakota has
long hair and Zippy has short hair) and have two totally different personalities. My favorite thing about Dakota is his funny little attitude. When he doesn't get his way, he'll sit with his back towards us. He also 'talks back' to us when we tell him, "No". So silly! My favorite thing about Zippy is his sweetness--he never gets in trouble because he gets his feelings hurt. Zippy is also our "special needs" kitty, as he is diabetic and requires two shots per day.

Where I live: Bridgewater, MA
Favorite Art Supply: ARTchix is my favorite, of course.
Favorite ARTchix item: fairies, mermaids, ocean, and all the special little embellishments...oh, plus all the creative postage !! it's hard to name just one !!
Tell us about your pet: my pet is a kitty named Gabriel. He was sent to me (wet stray kitty under the hedges) to be my best buddy. isn't he handsome ???

Where I live: Bloomingdale, IL
Favorite Art Supply: 8 x 10 Canvas
Favorite ARTchix item: Oh, too many to list, but I love the Chixies Hats, Wings, and the gold angel wings, etc.
Tell us about your pet: For the “My Precious Pet” ATC theme, I was inspired by “Mr. Blue” our 1 year old Chocolate Point Siamese cat captured in a quiet moment in my mixed-media collage art studio. Mr. Blue, named for the color of his eyes and the song, does not have pure-bred papers, but he is as royal to me as any King of Siam! Charming, regal and extremely loving; living the good life here in our house and getting involved in collage art with me and Buffy on a weekly basis.

In addition, his sister (but not related) is a Gray Tortie named Buffy, The Siamese Slayer! Aptly named, she is half Mr. Blue’s size and can sit on her haunches and box with him better than Rocky Balboa! She loves to be everywhere I am, and you guessed it, on my work surface in my art studio. The other pets in the contest are my two deceased sister cats Twinkie and Taffy who await their owners to join them someday on the Rainbow bridge. Twinkie was my beloved, trusted loyal friend and my life has never been the same since she died in 2003. But you will see Twinkie in more art pieces to come. Twinkie’s memorial website is: www.ilovedmypet.com/Twinkie

Where I live: Franklin MA
Favorite ARTchix item: Collage Sheets. I'll collage anything if it stays still long enough.
Tell us about your pet: My precious pet...is JOSIE she is a "Treeing Walker Coonhound" (yeah, she looks like a tall beagle)
We rescued her from a shelter because she was not a good hunting dog. She is two years old and she has perfect posture and loves to sit in kitchen chairs. She is afraid of most everything. The picture I used of her on the ATC is one of the only ones we have of her because right after I took the pictures she became deathly afraid of any and all cameras.