Wake Up, Blog!

It's been quite a while since my last post! Oh well, I never intended this blog to be a diary of my life, anyway - I just wanted to share my art, even if it's with only a few people.

Here's the art part: Since it's windy here today, I thought I'd post a picture of my "Bad Hair Day" tip-in page. Everyone has a bad hair day when it's windy, right? I know I do, because the wind blows my hair up, and it doesn't go back down, ha, ha!

How I made the page: Background stencilled with bottled inks, added a few postage stamps, magazine cut-out face and hand, "sweater" from purchased textured paper, all types of wild, wooly and stringy yarns for hair, crow cut from craft foam sheet. Appropriate "found" words cut from books were added, such as: "See it?", "natural", "unusual effects", and "eye-catching".

New Collage Book

I've heard about a new collage book called "Art from the Heart", by Catherine Matthews Scanlon. I haven't seen this book "in person" yet, I can't wait to get my hands on it! The link for the author's blog is here.

More Collage Cards

These are a couple more of the cards I made recently. The backgrounds are still printed ephemera and the persons are transfers made from clip art images. The transfers were leftover from another project, and some of them are far from perfect, but sometimes that gives them a special charm, right? If you get a close look at the lady on the right, she has some mottling on her nose and neck. Gives her that "old photo" look, I hope! What with art room organizing, making cards and being tired, I haven't worked on any journal pages for a while. If you know Lia (Art Junk Girl), don't rat me out (this means you, Nance!)

Garage Sale Find

This weekend, I found a couple good books at a garage sale. One is a book all about buttons (I'm keeping that one intact until I decide what to do with it), the other is an old-fashioned decorating book (which I took apart).

The decorating book had pages in a binder. I removed those, and I'm going to use them for collage and journal pages. The pages have pictures of sofas, curtains, etc. - these are medium-to-large areas of color, which will be nice for cutting shapes out of to use on collages. Sorry, I didn't scan the books this time!

You'll notice two more of my cards above, the person images are transfers, the rest is printed paper ephemera.

Cardmaking Frenzy

One of my current favorite crafts is cardmaking. I went on a cardmaking rampage and created a bunch of cards today. I had a book of ephemera that I wanted to use on the cards. The book has copies of vintage items for use in creative projects. For these two collage-style cards, I used some inkjet transfers made from clip art people images over some copies of vintage items from the book.