The next is me doing a bit of list mom duty and helping out my good friend Gillian who has really not been well. She owes an arch to Patsy and so I have made this arch for her. Both were made in the same way. I found some lovely vintage brides from a bridal magazine and glued this onto cotton with PVA, I made sure to coat the picture also to make it more robust. I then made some silk paper with silk tops. I put the dried picture of the bride under a clear recycling binliner and layed up the paper so I left a gap to see the pic, it worked a treat. I layed some tea dyed lace into the paper while I was at it. I was a little heavy handed with the textile medium, but it has given it all a nice sheen.I then FME'd and hand stitched, added a binding and beads to the edge! Done, as Ramsay woud say!
I wil leave you with my stitching project for holiday. I have dyed, done a kinda tie dye but with paint and then stencilled and block printed this piece, and intend to hand quilt it while I am away, we shall see, it may get done, it may not. I want to make a Kemshalls types bag. Still on the metal theme.
See you in 2 weeks!
and the back is a beautiful as the front. Thanks Arlee. It's a beaute!
Here is the close up of her face, miss matched eyes are a bit weird but love the bling!
Look how much bling on the wrist and fingers.
That was yesterday, today we used the roller and acrylic paint to put colour down. Ellie did all this herself. She then used a damp kitchen roll sheet to show the flowers and things, wiped them back, and a wash of pink for the skin. It needs to be cut out now and pinned in her room. Love the corsage!
Now onto my journal. Sarah has gone off for a little break and so we are now working on our own. This was the last 2 spreads we did before she went. I have been a little slow as I was waiting for paint to dry and to sew a few things. I started by squirting some acrylic and shutting the book, squidge! Lovely! Then I filled one page with numbers.
I then added a was, and painted with a fork. Here is the full spread.
Check that out, lucky or what!
I set about printing first of all and printed with one o Ellie's building blocks (Duplo I think), both ends to get the black squares and circles. I then used a little pot lid from when Ellie had puree food to print, what is now a pear, at this point I didn't think anything of it. Then with a white pen I wrote the list of things I had done today, this ranges from painting with Ellie to pickin up Craig Shopping and at the bottom, Ate a pear, BINGO! a light went on, I decided to use the same mint green to mono print a pear onto the left hand page. I wrote the alphabet as instructed, quick and angry, and then also as instructed gesso'd out an area, I chose the pear shaped lid print and turned this into a pear properly, I kept my marks really textural. I also gesso'd around the 6. I dry brushed aroud the gesso with black and lastly attatched a piece of copper hole punched with big cross stitches.
Close up!
Finally while routing around for my something metal I found some pink shell charms from and old bracelt and thought these might be nice and continue the hole punching. Now I would love to say I meant to get all those holes, and that I was going for the peppered with bullet holes, but really i can't hole unch to save my life!
Here is the close up of the charms.
Well I hope you haven't been bored wittless, I know I have rambled! I am excited as I love this work so far, I hope you are enjoying seeing it!
This had to be done not in the order, so this is stencils, writing, pencil, tape and marks.
Then this is with the wash.
and a bit more pen.
Pencil to enhance the page numbers.
I am quite pleased with them, They are a bit Sali Mali, I think, (Mags and Segsa will get this straight away!) Here is a better look at them.
I made us like those paper dollies you cut out but keeping them together somewhere at the folds. So we old up into our house really easily!
Sarah has asked us to prep and gesso 6 pages, so dutifully in between cleaning I glued in print offs of hand writing and s magazine image of a wrought iron light/ chandelier.
Wonder what we will be doing......
Here are the start of my paper people to go inside my house in the Soul journal. Sarah has done hers as litte movable things with brads, but I decided that I would do mine like those paper dolls you cut out on mass. I had to change this a tad as Ellie would ave been the same size as Craig and me. I decided too to write some words that describe us well, thigs like create for me and thoughtful for Craig, I also chose bubbly and energetic, along with stroppy or Ellie. I haven't finished these yet, they need more detail and then cutting out, I will probably finish them tomorrow.
I wondered where people get their text to go in their journals, is it scavenger hunting in the charity shops, and car boot sales, or can you buy/ print them off????? This goes for any text based backgrounds? I would like to find more hand written backgrounds?| What Carol Taylor Means |
 You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind. A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life. You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you. At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care. |
I added 2 quotes, one reads, "Home is not where you live, it's where they understand you" the other is from a web site I ound about welsh chapels, and it reads " Sometimes homely, sometimes extravegant oddities, but often magnificent."
Next thing we have to do is make paper dolls of our families I am a bit peeved about this as I don't do figures, but that is what this is about, ushing your limits.
More on my houses, I painted the houses today, under instruction. I wanted to keep the colours fairly realistic, and luckily the sun came out today so we really had a blue sky. I was so tempted to paint a rainy sky, rain is a comfort to me, we have so much of it here in Wales, it has to be! I used the same red/coppery brick colour on MY house, and did go for it a bit with the pink on the windows and door of the terrace house. I love the peep of collage papers as it looks like the wallpaper is peeping through. I was thinking about what i wanted to write and really Home is where the heart is is so true for me I don't even realy like going on holiday! I also wanted to have some welsh words on there, as i am a first language welsh speaker. I wrote "Cartref, calon Cymru", which means "Home, Heart of Wales", Home and the hearth is very important here! I am so pleased with how the flowers turned out, they look fab. I haven't inished with this page I want to add lots more quotes, I would really like to find one on the demise of the chapel, and religion (?) in South Wales. Going to chapel twice on a sunday was the norm, my Nan would be there! Not so much these days, sad really. Lots of them are being converted into restaurants and community centres and the like. My Nanna's chapel at the bottom of our hill is empty, a shame.
I added to my houses today as per Sarah's instructions. She had us add papers, newsprint, collage papers etc. I chose some magazine papers, some collage papers and some magazine flowers, i wanted my houses to have the idea of a garden, particularly my own. The next step is colour and I am holding off to find out what Sarah has lined up for us next!
So Sarah then gave us a ist of things to do, again I cheated! Why can I not stick to rules????? The list given was :I added 1 more stitch line on the left hand page as I felt this one was a little too unbalanced.
I can't wait or the next installment!
This one is with the flash on.
Thanks to all those lovely people who have left some really nice comments over the past week, I haven't been able to answer them all as there have been a lot of you with a no-reply address, you have to tick show my email address in your blogger profile for me to be able to answer you! Anyway thank, you are all very kind! Night night!
