Pages from Sketchbook 30

I drew around some card packaging for the faces, it had holes in - just right for the eyes.

I used promarker pens for the colour on these pages of this moleskine sketchbook

The Colour Purple - [Pages 23,24 End]

Page 23 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Painted doilies, art button, large handmade card button with embroidered fastening.

Hand embroidery [girl], beads, recycled bird from card, text.

Page 24 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, decorative machine embroidery, stitched edges.

Postage stamp, dyed lace and machine embroidery, arrow covered in sand, two altered tags - dyed lace and brads.

Dyed lace and machine embroidery, two art buttons, pleated 'quilt', paper rabbit, dyed lace, brads.

Inside back cover - a patchwork of vintage fabrics and recycled painted/stamped wipes, decorative machine embroidery, stitching.

                   

The Colour Purple [Pages 20 -22]

Page 20 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Card discs, mini buttons. Reindeer are from  a paper napkin. Tag, one side butterfly stickers, the side musical note stickers. Purchased handmade paper with metallic gold decoration, beads on each side, paper flower.

Rows of hearts and flower are from a napkin. Gems. Small sample of digitally printed fabric, my design. Decorative machine stitching.

Page 21 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Painted wooden butterflies.

Recycled postcard [layer of] text added. Postage stamp. Wooden painted flower and bead.

Page 22 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Beaded trim, dyed lace, handmade washi tape.

Three handmade buttons [shrink plastic]. Ribbon, dyed lace, beads, paper flower.

Click on the images to enlarge.

The Colour Purple [Pages 17 - 19]

Page 17 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, decorative machine stitching,stitched edges.

Painted, stamped recycled wipe with hand embroidery, dyed lace with decorative machine stitching.

Punched stamps, wooden ring with bead.

 Folded card tag opens to show paint effect book page, 2 art buttons [Russian dolls], recycled card circle attached with embroidery.

Page 18 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Row of beads, earring part, printed ATC [my design], 2 art buttons, row of sequins on fabric.

Handmade button [shrink plastic], ribbon, beads, card discs decorated with purchased papers, gems.

Page 19 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, decorative machine embroidery, stitched edges.

Ribbon, running stitches, dyed laces, recycled jewellery.

Square of textured art mounted on velvet fabric with embroidery, lace flower, paper flower [purchased], recycled butterfly from greetings card.

Quilted Cushion, Eggs and WIP

I've still got lots of purple pages to show but I thought I would show something different today.

I bought a fat quarter of my kokeshi doll fabric from Spoonflower and made this cushion. I didn't have the right size cushion pad so I've borrowed a couple of flatish ones from other cushions.

Before I made the cushion up I quilted around the six dolls in the centre.

I did the eggs below for a challenge - I thought it was for the Sketchbook Challenge but that seems to be 'natural surfaces' this month.  I suppose eggs are a natural surface, but mine don't look natural. My challenge now will be to find where the challenge really came from!

There was a contest with Spoonflower for painted eggs but that would need to be a repeating pattern for fabrics...... and it finished yesterday....

Work in progress......This is a heart in the making

The Colour Purple [Pages 14-16]

The Colour Purple - mixed media handmade artists book, size 18x5". Click on the images to enlarge.

Page 14 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Dyed lace, embroidery, fabric under lace. Snippet of art work

Velvet fabric with embroidery and flower beads on top of fabric

Page 15 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Fabric ATC, patchwork, embroidery and beads.

Hand crafted square art buttons, embroidery.

Page 16 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Fabric inside of a dyed lace frame, hand embroidery, beads, handmade washi tape. Mini art - painted card, metal mesh with feathers threaded thru.

Postage stamp, artificial paper flowers.

The Colour Purple [Pages 10 -13]

Page 10 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, strip of vintage fabric, decorative machine stitching, stitched edges.

Vintage fabric cup, stitched, artificial lavender flower.

Three hand crafted art buttons [I used papers from a book and diary], tag decorated with found images on both sides and artificial flowers on one side.

Page 11 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Appliqued flowers [vintage fabrics]

Page 12 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Tag decorated with painted wooden flower, gem and bead.

The African scene was a purchased card. Two transfer printed buttons, one art button, three card circles decorated with magazine paper, stitched.

Page 13 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

The butterfly was recycled from a greetings card.

Painted doily, hand stitched, fish charms.