January 14th, 2009
Made a couple of collage art Valentine cards today.
The first one is an image of a vintage couple, I mounted them on scallop edged black paper to look more like the old photos that have that type of edge, added some vintage lace and a pink paper heart with the word “love” cut from an old book. The background is vintage music paper that’s been stitched onto cardstock on my sewing machine and then mounted onto a pink card. There is also an old looking key tied with pink rick rack ribbon. The inside of the cards says “You hold the key to my HEART”
The next one is another of my felt owls (I’ve done other cards and ATC’s with him) sitting on a stamped branch, he’s also on vintage music paper surrounded by falling pink stamped hearts that’s stitched onto cardstock and mounted on a pink card. The outside says “Whooo Loves You” and the inside says “I do!”.
All stamps used are by Close To My Heart
Tags: altered, art, cards, collage, felt, greeting, heart, key, love, mixed media, music sheets, owl, valetines, vintage
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January 7th, 2009
I’m getting ready for Valentine’s Day by making some collage jewelry.
The first piece is a couple in love with paper hearts falling all around them that were punched from an old French dictionary, one says Amour (French for “love”), background is sanded pink cardstock. I used scalloped tape to solder around the edges.
The other is also a sweet couple in love this time of a piece of vintage music sheet and the words, cut from an old book say “Music of My Heart”
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December 31st, 2008
I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!
Here’s a cute paper banner that I made using cardstock and an old book pages. Each pendant is zig-zag stitched around on my sewing machine and has scallops cut into the cardstock and I added a large rhinestone to each pendant too. I stamped the letters in different bright inks and used different colors of organdy ribbon to tie them all together.
close up:
it’s currently for sale at my new Lollishops shop:
http://www.Lollishops.com/PisforPaper
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December 22nd, 2008
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season!! And thanks so much for those of you who read my blog on a regular basis, I really appreciate it!
Here’s a cute holiday pic of our cat Buddy. He loves the tree, loves to lay under in, chew on it and tries to climb it too!
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December 20th, 2008
I made another Fairy Specimen box. I base coated the wooden box in a purple paint and then used Tim Holtz crackle paint over top. I love this crackle paint alot, I need more, I’m almost out!:) I also aged the box with inks, it helps the crackles stand out. The fairy has purplish blue wings and is hold a big star wand, I added some fake grass at her feet. I then added a tag, key and a piece of an old wooden measuring stick to the outside of the box.
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December 19th, 2008
I wanted to get away from all the tiny collage work I’ve been doing lately with my jewelry and do something bigger. I’ve been inspired lately by alot of different artists to try to stretch my personal style, so this one is a little different than what I normally do.
I started with a 10×10 chunky canvas and streaked it in yellow ink then added pages from a vintage music sheet (that I first white washed) and a page from a vintage math book, then took pages from a vintage children’s book (also white washed) and free hand cut some scalloped edges and inked them in black. I also stamped some swirly images in yellow ink on some of the pages. After those were applied I added some images of butterflies and hand drew some antenna and specimen numbers and the words “Stream of Consciousness”. I’m really happy with the results!
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December 13th, 2008
Here’s a couple of bird related soldered pendants. I love that birds are such a popular theme right now. I added vintage music paper to the backgrounds.
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December 12th, 2008
Here’s a few more of the pendants I took to the Damselfly shop:
“Come Sail with Me”:
“Little Miss Sunshine”:
“Dance”:
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December 11th, 2008
I’m really, really excited to now be selling some of my soldered collage art pendants in a wonderful shop in Midway KY called the Damselfly! www.damselflybeads.com If you are ever in the area Midway (not to far from Lexington and Versailles) is a wonderful place to spend the day. Downtown is nothing but fantastic shops and restaurants. Stop in the Damselfly and say Hi to Mary, if you’re lucky one (or more) or her sweet dogs will be there to greet you and go across the street and have lunch at Quirk’s, yummy sandwiches, soups, desserts (and lots of vegetarian options:)).
I snapped pictures of the pieces before I took them to the shop, here are some of them.
“Fly” Fairy
“Laugh”
“Fairy Princess with the Key to the Castle”
“Crowned Prince” Bird
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December 6th, 2008
I made another hanging postcard collage of a winter fairy, a cute boy in a big coat and hat, I colored them red and added a big button to his coat. His wings and the snowflakes have clear glass glitter on them. I found some cool silver tinsel that looks like the old kind we used to put on our tree when I was little and I added some to the top and bottom of the collage.
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