The Three Muses "Stars"

The theme at the three muses is stars this week. I decided to go digital for a change (still learning lol). Here are my two interpretations. I decided to stay with the heavenly stars...

Symbolic self portrait

This is the second page I have done in my special journal for Pam Carriker's Journalling 365 workshop. The symbolic self portrait was done in conte creayon, you create the highlights with a kneadable eraser. I have never used a conte crayon before in my life and it is quite different from any other medium I have worked with before. The whole process took me well out of my comfort zone but is well worth exploring further. Pam is a brilliant teacher!

Mixed Media Monday "I feel pretty"

The theme at MMM is "I feel pretty". This 4 x 4 page I created last night for a chunky book swap on the theme of Moulin Rouge, fitted just perfectly, for to me it seems that's exactly what she is feeling...

Mail art envelope

This is a mail art envelope which I made with one of the papers below.
Image is from Art creations Friday a while back, other collage elements from Gail Smith

Background paper freebees

Felt like doing some digital playing tonight. Here are some free background papers. Hope you like them..

The Three Muses "Hats & Crowns & Wings & Things"

The theme at the Three Muses is Hats and Crowns and Wings and Things. Well I think I managed to use all of them. The background was painted with Golden acrylics and tiny scraps of old book pages. The bird and crown I had lying around among my collage scraps, the cage I drew myself, looking at pictures of one of the latest Tim Holtz stamp plates which I really cannot afford to buy...

In memory of Susan Criser aka Suzee Que

Many of you may have heard already that Susan Criser, better known as Suzee Que passed away last Tuesday, April 13.
This week's crowabout is a tribute to Susan who was so generous, and such an inspiration to so many of us. Although I did not know her in person, I knew her through her generous sharing of images on flickr, and I have so much to thank her for. I've used many of her images in my collages. She will be missed by many, and she will always be remembered through her art, the art she inspired, and the art she contributed to. She was like an angel to the whole art and craft community through her incredible generosity and dedication. We will all miss you so much Suzee!

This journal spread which uses images of the crowabout sheet 75, beautifully put together by another amazing artist Constance Taylor, is dedicated to Suzee Que

Chunky book pages

Here are the first two pages of a chunky book I am making for a swap on the theme of Moulin Rouge. Their size is 4 x 4". The book will have 6 pages in all.

Journal page dedication

This journal page is dedicated to Deborah from Land of Nod Studios. Deborah has one of the most amazing blogs and is a brilliant artist. If you don't know her work, go check it out. She is also amazingly generous. She posts incredible vintage photos every Friday as freebees and she has wonderful collage sheets that she offers for free too. The reason I am dedicating this page to her is because recently she sent me the most incredible package of wonderful old ephemera and book pages. Several of them were used as the background to this page and the border and main collage image are also from her collage sheets. THANK YOU DEBORAH YOU ARE GREAT!

Playing with textures

I have been having great fun creating some book covers and an arch shaped atc with some new texture paints I got while in London recently. There is a great tutorial on how to create these kind of textures on Lin's blog. She is the owner of LB Crafts where you can purchase all of the stuff you need. You can find the tutorial here: metaltutorial

The Three Muses "Bye bye blackbird"

Here is my entry for this week's challenge over at the Three Muses.
The main image and border are from Land of Nod Studio.

Mixed Media Painting

This is a mixed media painting I did in my Moleskine journal. Unfortunately because of a collage on the previous page, the paper started to give way so it looks as if there is a big crack in the face.
The painting was done in response to a journal prompt on Roses on My Table. The prompt was to create a page using your favourite flower. I love all flowers really, but the rose must be my all time favourite.

HAPPY EASTER

Just to wish a happy Easter to all my dear blogging friends.

More little houses.

These little houses are for a tag book swap I am part of. They are great fun to do and the perfect way to use up all those little scraps. I have to make eight in all, these are the first four. The actual tagbook in which they will be stored is made following a pattern that can be found on Papercraft planet here

Bookmarks as little gifts

I am on holiday and the weather here is so hopeless(it's actually snowing again!). Anyway, while tidying up in my studio I came upon this packet of blank bookmarks that I probably got well over a year ago.... The perfect excuse to get busy and make some little gifts for arty friends.

Row House Magnets

This little row of houses are meant as fridge magnets for a swap in an art group I belong to. They were great fun to make and so useful in using up little scraps of paper. They are quite small, none are bigger than ATC size.

Crow about week 72

Here is my collage for the flickr group crow about week 72.
The background is one of the papers below.

Fun with paste paper

Yesterday while blog hopping I found out about "Paste Paper". I had never heard of it before but it sounded like so much fun I just had to try it. I made my paste from wall paper paste and coloured it with acrylic paint, I then used stencils and stamps to texturize the papers.
If anyone would like to use these as background papers, please feel free to do so.

Nostalgic Collage

This is a collage I made for a personal swap with Lasize54(Ann). I hope she likes it.
She made a beautiful collage for me, you can see it on her blog
here

Practising Faery Faces

Felt like doing something totally different for a change. For some reason I felt |I wanted to escape into Faery World today and decided to practise drawing fairy faces. Here is one of my attempts. The next big challenge will be to draw the body as well and put the fairy into a fairy landscape...