Stencils, Clay and Gelli Prints

I designed these cut-outs to use as stencils. They were cut on a digital cutting machine then used with paints as shown below..

 Below are the bits left on the cutting mat, which also makes a nice pattern.

I went to a crafty workshop last Saturday and we made tags and tree decorations with air dry clay. We used cookie cutters for the shapes for the most part and stamps for marks.

My husband says that kids do that, he's right but we still had fun.

 We also did some Gelli printing using old magazines and gelli printing plates. It wasn't totally successful but I'm sure the prints could be used for further development although it was only inkjet paper so not that good as background paper.

I'm linking with Paint Party Friday.

Christmas Tags and Lanterns

Fabric tags, machine stitched and decorated with sequins, beads, braid etc

I actually saved these images from last December because I forgot to post them before Christmas.

Also had a workshop with friends where we made Christmas lanterns from paper and card.

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 Green Book

Handmade mixed media book-

this is like a scrap book really with samples of different kinds of art work, found bits and pieces, fabric, stitching, collage, applique, bits from my stash, vintage fabrics etc

The cover is a thick hand painted fabric.

Objects and tags on attached to braid

The fastening is a magnetic necklace......the string of beads goes thru the loop to keep it all together.

Collage - sketchbook and tags

watercolour, pen drawings, found images

watercolour, image transfer

watercolour, pen drawing, found images

watercolour, pen drawings, found images

watercolour

watercolour, image/newsprint texture transfer

collaged tags using art work

Torso Tags and Turquoise [TAW]

Take a Word - the challenge this week is the colour turquoise.

I upcycled this image of a kingfisher from an old calendar and placed it on a painted background.

A week or so ago the challenge on Three Muses was for torso tags, a bit late I know, but it is the first time I've made any of these. The torso shape is a 1905 vintage ladies corset and drawers and was part of a page of white wear. Most of the images I used on them were from the Graphics Fairy. 

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