Painted pillow cover

These are fabric pieces painted with acrylics using the gelli plate, then stitched together employing the Japanese boro method of patching. Two of the pieces are sun-printed.
Mono printing with the gelli plate is so much fun! Give it a try.

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Whimsical florals

This is my acrylic offering compliments of Traci Bautista's Crowdcast early November. 

This was very freeing. Did I mention a load of fun???

Inspiration Wednesday Oct 12

Another enjoyable exercise. 

Folded collaged painted card

Inspired by Roben Marie Smith

Scrabble tile coasters

Tiles glued onto grunge paper. (Heavy)

Tote bag for my sister

Glassine gift bag

Decorated glassine gift bag. 

Image transfer on fabric. Hand dyed laces. Music sheet. 

This was such fun I think I'll make more of these.

IW January 21, 2016

This is the second spread for this new year. Rusty objects, molding paste, stencils, nickle azo gold and glazing medium, and of course the brown hole. 

Fabric totes

Two totes I recently made. Fabric, my first and foremost favourite. 

IW May 13

This week was very freeing. A good jumping off point for lots of ideas. 

IW April 15

IW week April 29

I really enjoyed this week. I made the stencil from a magazine image. I will be doing more of this.

 

I W March 18

Inspiration Wednesday week of March 18.

The inclusion is my favourite. 

Dimensional paints and Twinks

Playing with fabric paints and twinks. 

I made the flowers, cut them out then glued them  to an already painted background. All from an online course from Joanne Sharpe called Bling it On. 

Very freeing!

Inspiration Wednesday #5 - May 4, 2015

 

 

 

 

Joint compound is used here as the texture maker, laces are embedded at the bottom of the left page. The right page features plaster of Paris with buttons embedded.The inclusion has a skin made of gel pushed through a handmade stencil of a sewing form.  The pink dress is a mask placed on the page whilst I plastered around it with the joint compound. All paints were applied and partially wiped away after the compound was fully dry.
 

March tag - Tim Holtz

My rendition. I really like the result of the EP on texture paste. 

A la dina wakley

A couple of journal pages recently finished 

SEW IN ART: Textures on Newspaper pages

SEW IN ART: Textures on Newspaper pages:  I was playing with a variety of textures on torn strips of newspaper. After tearing the sheets freehand, I glued two pieces together to...

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Textures on Newspaper pages



I was playing with a variety of textures on torn strips of newspaper. After tearing the sheets freehand, I glued two pieces together to make the pages more sturdy, but not the same height. I then proceeded to paint, spritz, and apply molding paste through stencils onto the pages. I also did some stamping.

I then folded them in half and placed them inside a leather cover, and stitched just one signature.

The brass clasp is from the hardware store....just love going there for supplies!



 

The Cover

~~~~ and a selection of the pages:

 

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Week 40 - Documented Life Project

Week 40 of The Documented Life Project was a joy to play with...three colours I never use. The centre of the hearts are fabric; the blue I really had a tough time finding in my stash!

 

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