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Here is a 10 x 10 canvas I just finished to give to a friend for her 40th birthday, which we will be celebrating this evening:
Sorry for the poor quality of this photo!
There are lots of layers on this piece, including a base of used tea bags that were dried, taken apart and then the tea was discarded. Matte gel medium to layer them onto the canvas. This created a wrinkled texture that I love.
Over that layer I sponged through some stencils, then added rubber stamped images that were stamped on tissue paper and then adhered with the same gel medium. I colored in some of the flowers, rubbed the whole canvas with ink pads, added some more stenciling, etc., etc.
The collage image with a transparency overlay and some butterflies were added next. Then I applied the lace at the top, added a shell button and some pink bling here and there. Grosgrain ribbon was attached to the edges all around to cover up the stapled canvas.
This whole process took me two days to complete. Hope she is happy with it!
Thanks for visiting.
It's been a LONG time since I posted on this blog! Lately, I have been into card-making much more than collage, mixed media stuff.
However, I am still involved in an altered book round robin and here are the pages I did this month.
These two pages face each other for a double page spread. The owner of this book had marked her pages for a rainbow of colors and we could choose which color to feature. Obviously I chose red. Most of my images have been in my stash for ages and I just added anything else red that I felt could be incorporated on the pages. Some bling, a faux flower and German scrap flowers and borders for embellishments.
This was loads of fun to do - hope Marnie will like it!
For anyone the least bit interested in visiting, thanks for stopping by!
Cindy McMath of Pink Bird Studio recently posted a background she had made after visiting Terri Kahrs blog. Terri and a friend, Roc, had made a video of some backgrounds they had made using ordinary stuff around the house.
To make a long story short, I visited Terri's blog too. After watching a couple of her videos, I made this postcard:
Sorry, this scan is so dark :( I had a large crumpled sheet of newsprint that was in a package I received. I cut it into approx. 8 x 10 sheets and used color washes to spray each one. Then I cut a 6 x 4 piece from one of these prepared backgrounds. Sponged around a Tim Holtz mask with pine needles distress ink. Stamped the words (stampers anonymous) with archival black ink.
Then, as Terri and Roc had done in one video, I used an old credit card dipped in white ink to make marks across the bottom of the card. The lid from one of the color wash sprays provided the circles, and a section of rubber shelf liner added some other areas of texture. The little girl and bird images are from ARTchix Studio and the cute little hat is from Lisa's altered art. So much fun to do this!
Now I have several other sprayed pieces to use to make more collages.
TFL.
This is a postcard that I have made to send to a friend in England.
Used torn papers and a vintage photo. Stamped the butterfly on an old book end paper and cut out. Added some distress inks, rubber stamps and a sentiment. The size is standard postcard size - 6 x 4 inches.
TFL.
Can't believe it's Sunday again - the weeks go by so quickly. The theme for Sunday Postcard Art is double take. We are to use one image twice. Here is my postcard:
I have used nothing but rubber stamps and ink for my postcard. The large flower and the small crown were both used twice; the polka dots and the accent stamp were used more than twice obviously. I stamped the flowers with lightning black Brilliance ink and the rest of the images were stamped with black. Distress inks in mustard seed and pine needles were applied over the whole piece. A black marker was used to edge the whole postcard.
Thanks for looking!
I have been sorting out some of my stuff with the hopes of organizing a bit. (Daunting job!) Thought I would share a double page spread in an altered book I did about five or six years ago when I was teaching an altered book class:
The background consists of many torn papers- old sheet music, gift wrap, patterned tissue paper. Vintage images cut into tags on the right page, with a twine bow, the letter M sticker and some buttons for embellishments. A piece of mica attached with tiny brads covers the image on the left page. Also added a small cameo. Rubber stamping here and there on both pages. It looks very vintage-y to me.
TFL.
Here is my postcard for this week's SUNDAY POSTCARD ARTchallenge:
First, I created the background on white cardstock using Ranger distress inks in a variety of greens. The sketched faces are from my daughter's high school art class days and I used a circle nestie to cut them out. Added some Hero Arts circle stamps and a pretty flourish randomly all over. The edges are distressed with a red inkpad.
Fun to use some original, if not professional, artwork for this postcard!
TFL.
