This is a project that needs finishing. I took a remnant of calico, painted it with fabric paint and started to embroider flowers over the painted surface. I plan to add French knots and beads

Next I tried a wintry girl. The girls all seem to turn out thoughtful or a little worried

I can't believe how long it is since I posted. It doesn't mean that I haven't been doing anything creative, I just haven't been blogging. There was a month when I didn't have a computer after a terrible accident with a glass of water. Then the new laptop has windows 8, which has been a difficult learning curve.

I've become very interested in Mindy Lacefield's art and have attempted to copy her style. This is some of my attempts

Using wax paper

I found an article about wax paper in a magazine recently. Intrigued I googled wax paper for crafts and found various ideas. The one that I was keenest to try was the idea of putting flowers between 2 pieces of wax paper and ironing them. The wax then fuses the 2 sheets together in a semi translucent state with the flowers secured in the middle. (just use a dry iron, turn the steam off). I'm going to use this sheet in my next junk journal.
The wax paper came from Samuel Taylors.

I put a white envelope behind the wax paper for the photograph

new art journal pages

 

The first page was my version of a class by Dina Wakley from Lifebook 2013 (Willowing). The 2nd one is moving on to my own take on the class.

The 3rd one was my page in a friend's circle journal with the theme of "Home". The house was based on a design using wood offcuts in Cloth Paper Scissors that I adapted from the journal. The house was covered in pieces of book page, then collaged and painted,

Junk Journal

When Smash books first came out a couple of years ago I made journals then on a weekend with friends. We used up lots of pieces of scrapbook paper (excellent!) and I can remember using graph paper, pink lined paper, tags, pockets and journaling cards.

Recently a friend, Christine, showed me her junk journal. She had used lots of gelli plate sheets, and had also worked out a new way of binding the journal.

So here's a few pictures of my journal.
The cover is a gelli print and then one of the Julie Nutting doll stamps. The binding is painted self-adhesive canvas and then I've used the bind-it-all. Then I've used more gelli print pages, scrapbook pages, old diary pages, a book cover and pages, tags, a cut up Graze box, envelopes, acetate.

I got my sewing machine out and stitched pockets and on pages before I bound the journal.

Another LO

Where do you look for inspiration when scrapbooking? Recently I've enjoyed looking through Scrap365, not just flicking through but looking for inspiration. The new Aug/Sept magazine came out last week and I loved a LO by Gabrielle Pollacco with handmade burlap flowers. Here's my take on both the LO and the flowers.

There are 2 special pieces of lace here - the brown lace underneath the photo was given to me by a friend Ali and the cream lace on top of it was from another friend Lesley. So it's a LO celebrating love and friendship