Friendship fabric book now finished!!

Hoorah, the cover was finally done today, so thats it, I'm done! It has taken me about a month to complete the whole thing but I have enjoyed every minute of it. I did not rush it, only a couple of hours a day, sometimes more sometimes less, I just went with my 'mood'


The closure is a glass bead which I removed today and placed a brass keyhole thingy on it and then sewed the  glass 'button' back on. I wrapped fine copper wire around the Sun ornament, placed it onto a flower I made ages ago as the colours were right, then onto a horrid gold sequinned star which has nice fibre and gold sequins bursting out of the edges, then a couple of white feathers and an odd bit of fabric left over from making the closure. Oh yes, and added 2 blue roses with a bit of bronze coloured mica painted on.


The 3 little roses type flowers I made by twisting odd bits of fabric and organza that were left over, still have'nt got the hang of this method yet.


The spine: I photographed the word 'Friendship' from my Dictionary, photoshopped it then sewed it over with bronze organza, which I then edged with some  lace. Topped off with a couple of antique style brads.
And, that is about it.
Tomorrow I am going to make some fancy wrapping for it before I post it to my friend on Monday.


The whole 'book' is quite sparkly, which really does not show on the photos. These latest photos, I messed around with alot, blurs, textures, masks thanks to an inspiring site: Kim Klassen  Great and really simple tutorials on creating these effects. I am still surfing her site. Some PS sites with tutorials are not very relevant I find but most of Kims tutorials are things we'd all like to do with our photos.

Spattered Tissue paper technique

My First (sort of) Tutorial!
I thought I'd share this with you because it's something I found out accidentally and is so incredibly easy to do. Have a look at the effect I achieved on this plain Royal blue tissue paper:

Ignore the fact that I've covered the paper in Tulle.

Its just water. One single quick spray, left to dry and this is what turned out. I did try it on some pastel coloured tissue paper, nothing happened, so I think it's down to the type of dye used or the depth of colour.

I used to use this technique when painting with watercolours. The only reason I found out how to do it on tissue paper was because I accidentally dropped some water on said paper. Having witnessed the resulting blob, I decided to see what would occur with a quick spray and voila!

I would think one could do exactly the same for creating texture on Crepe paper.

Paintings uploaded & a Comment lost!

I was so pleased to of received a comment on my new blog from Penny Duncan whose work I really like very much. I often visit her blog, her style of cards really appeals to me. Anyway, I pressed the button to publish her lovely comment and it has disappeared into Cyber-space. Not pleased!!!
If you come back again Penny.....sorry your comment is not showing, and thank you so much.
                                     


The better selection of my watercolor painting have now been uploaded tonight. I really must get round to doing some newer ones. Card making has taken over just about everything!

Card made for Anna March 2010

This lavish card is full of dried natural elements reflecting Anna's love of gardening and her 'pagan' beliefs. Some of the embellishments were taken from my own garden. The cardstock was plain white card, I painted the edges with watercolours. The papers were what I happened to have, including G45 paper 'Botanica' which I used on the back.
The right hand flower was composed by me, apart from the cream coloured rose. The bow was made from sack-cloth. Part of the flower has 'string' type petals which I pulled off the sack and glued together in the middle. Just about everything is distressed and edged with distressing inks.
Matching envelope also made.
Surprisingly this card folds up quite well, considering how much 'stuff' I put on it.
And if you are wondering about the verse line implying a 'choice' of date, that is because Anna does not know her date of birth and just chose March the 29th.
I really enjoyed making this card. In hindsight, I would of made it just as 3 folds instead of the 2 additional cuts.
Anna is an author of many books: www.myspace.com/annafranklin2