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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Folded collaged painted card

Inspired by Roben Marie Smith

Numerical Angel

Another page from my art journal...Lots of collage and paint layers.

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AB Group Golden @ 13 Olympics

The Yahoo group Altered Books has a challenge for the Olympics plus celebrating our 13th anniversary. This is simply a collage, and I thoroughly enjoyed putting it together in my LARGE book.

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Altered Art Journals

 These spreads were finished recently - just having fun with paints, stencils and rubber stamps (and anything that gets in the way whilst I am altering!)

These images are from an old French textbook. Watercolor background, plus some anaglypta wallpaper, a few stickers and background stencils.

A soft ghosty image of a little girl, rubber stamps, stickers, and watercolors. Here I used Portfolios and some Gelatos. yummy!

This spread holds a myriad of technique pieces, collaged. Just playing around with paints, stamps, embossing powder (top left)

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Leather journal

More pages finished in my inspire journal...again using up my stash of images

Super Heroes and villains !

The circles birds are from a serviette..isn't it cute?

The left page is littered with Claudine Hellmuth's foam stamps... I couldn't resist that dressform stamp.

The next two are some pages in stages. I have added some serviettes to the first one.

This next one I added some gold stamping with Claudine Helmuth foam stamps...I love them!

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Be the Best You - 2011

Here is my New Year's page - 2011

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7 Day magazine collage

The Cloth Paper Studio Yahoo group is having a 7-day magazine challenge this month. How cool is that?
Unmind-boggling, that's what it is! My efforts:

DAY 1

DAY 2

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Stencil Play

I bought some new stencils, and just had to have a go at them.
The background on the left is a basket weave made with a Fiskars plate.
The oval is also made with Fiskars punches.

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Mme 2AX

This is another day of just playing - using up some resources at hand.

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Art Journal Gypsies Week 4

This is my Week #4 of the Art Journal Gypsies prompts.

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Serendipity booklet

Well, I have finally made a booklet from a rather large piece of 'junk' mail. I folded it a few times and got 3 pages plus the covers, at 6 x 6 inches. Yayy!
I covered all the pages with scrapbook paper stack of the same size. I then used images from the book 'Bathing Beauties', adding lace, ribbons, rub-ons, etc.
The front cover has a piece of grunge paper, smooched with alcohol inks. The metal flourish is door hardware. The flower is made from stamped fabric, paper painted with distress crackle paint, and an antique button.
Serendipity is stamped on gauze ribbon.

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French Lunch

The challenge this month at Altered Books Yahoo Group is a lunchbag theme.
I have a serviette on the left page with paint scraped backgrounds. The right page has a mushroom paper bag, with some funny characters riding the wave!
This is mostly collage, with a stamped image of the River Seine in the centre.

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Cup of Home

This is a spread for the Art Journal Gypsies group. It has a Fall theme with a depiction of Home and cozy!

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Art Journal Gypsies Week 2

Here is week 2 of the AJG prompts. This took a bit longer, getting all those images, but finally, lots of cutting later, I finished up!

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GPP Street Team Crusade #21

I went to previous Crusades, and am finding quite a few that I would like to try. Here is the "Irresistable - Wax rubbings" challenge...my version of it. I used the Anaglypta Wallpaper which is textured paintable wallpaper as my 'stencil' for rubbing. The papers are gorgeous, more than my pictures show. I used 8 different patterns on lightweight columnar pad, light fabric paints, and of course crayons. Easy peasy backgrounds. Give it a try.

Here is a scan of the right page - cannot seem to get a good image at all...sigh. Click on the pics for a larger image - it does help!

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Collage and Doodles

This is my attempt at doodling, my version of it! I decided to practise my doodling, which right now is quite non-existent in my spreads. Do you think I would pass the test if my life depended upon it? lol
I used up bits and pieces that were on my worktable, from either experimenting or torn pieces, vintage newspaper clippings, paper flowers - you name it, I grabbed it! The background is H2O's which explains the shiny parts (camera does not like shiny)!

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Take time

We are back in action...yayyyy! Art Journal Gypsies, that is! Go to the site to find out what it's all about.
If this is something that interests you, please join us.
The first prompt is  "TAKE TIME TO ALLOW YOUR SOUL TO BLOOM".
I have chosen "CUPS" as my image for the duration of the lessons.
Here is my offering - this was a lot of fun to create...lots of napkin collage and stenciling.

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Nightfall

Were you a reader of pulp fiction? I bought a book from the library, and am using some images from it. So cool! However, nothing in that book was happy....lol !
The right side spread is a stamped image of an Asian lady, which had the same colour scheme, so they got together! The two other images, the man and the woman, are from the Grunge master, Tim Holtz.

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School days

Here is a School Days spread done for the September Challenge at Altered Books Yahoo group.
It has to include a pocket - I used the library book pocket; I just love those.

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