Eco-dyeing, fabric paints, embroidery and laser print transfer. Some yet-to-be-loved products get their first use in this "adventure" page for the Messy May challenge.
Collage exploration #9
Series: Collage exploration #9 It took me days to get around to gluing this one down and, to be honest, the only reason I actually did it was to get it out of the way so I can move on to something more interesting. I wasn't that taken by the example in the Project Collage… Continue reading Collage exploration #9
Messy May “happy”
Series: Messy May #3 Prompt: 03 HAPPYHost: Michelle Schratz @raspberryblueskyGuidance: Carefree fun. Create with the joyfulness of a child. I enjoyed making this one. Forgetting about precision and tidiness and, for a start, not even bothering with brushes. What could fulfil the brief of child-like art better than finger-painting? I did start by putting some… Continue reading Messy May “happy”
Neuro sun #1
A few months ago there seemed to be a lot of neurographic art turning up in my various feeds and, being a bit of an artistic magpie, I read up on it and gave it a go. As with all this sort of thing, I am personally sceptical about the supposed psychological benefits — don't… Continue reading Neuro sun #1
Messy May “showing up”
Series: Messy May #2 Prompt: 02 SHOWING UPHost: Caylee Grey @cayleegreyGuidance: Show up in your journal today, in the easiest way possible. Use a bullet point list to (re)introduce yourself to your journal. In avoiding creating an art journal bullet list, I ended up creating a piece more akin to a scrapbook page. And I… Continue reading Messy May “showing up”
Collage exploration #8
Series: Collage exploration #8 This is the other colour blocks collage; the one that I started work on before changing tack and making the ratty one. The background on this one is created jigsaw-style, but the main elements are just layered on top. It didn't feel in keeping with the examples in the book, but… Continue reading Collage exploration #8
18th waterfall card
By some weird effect of the passage of time, my youngest nephew is now 18 years old. Rather than try to find an appropriate image (not sure what that would even be) and do my usual Copic colouring, I decided to go down the engineering route and create an interactive card instead. After much browsing… Continue reading 18th waterfall card
Messy May “starting”
Series: Messy May #1 Prompt: 01 STARTINGHost: Caylee Grey @cayleegreyGuidance: Start. Either by opening your journal to a new page or by binding a journal just for Messy May. I'd like to say that I was super productive on my blogging break, that I'd spent the time working out what I wanted to make and… Continue reading Messy May “starting”
Collage exploration #7
Series: Collage exploration #7 I'm not completely sure about this style of collage. It's an interesting technical challenge, creating the jigsaw-style pieces, but I'm not convinced it works for me. Maybe if I was working on a free-floating design rather than one that fills the page... Anyway, the idea was to make a collage with… Continue reading Collage exploration #7
Easter tulips
I may have run out of bunny digi stamps, but I still have plenty of Power Poppy ones waiting to be coloured. I chose these tulips to make an Easter card for my mum and my aim was to use some softer, more pastel, colours and not immediately reach for the super-saturated vivid reds and… Continue reading Easter tulips
Layered Easter bunny
I think I've pretty much used all of the Easter bunny digi stamps in my collection so, rather than go hunting for a new one, I took a different tack for this card for my other half's sister. I'd been trying to organise the various cut files I'd acquired over the years and came across… Continue reading Layered Easter bunny
Collage exploration #6
Series: Collage exploration #6 This is another mini collage inspired by one of the examples in the Project Collage book. I rather like the way the book is organised into different themes with just a few examples for each: the first two I made from it were Torn and Layers & Tears from the "Freehand"… Continue reading Collage exploration #6
More Magnolia Sunshine
This is the second version of the Mother's Day card I made, and I have to say, this is my favourite of the two. I like the way it fills the card front. I've often had problems coming up with a layout I like when trying to fit a complete flower arrangement on a card:… Continue reading More Magnolia Sunshine
Mother’s Day Magnolia Sunshine
Well, I hadn't planned on taking a two-month break from blogging. And I had, vaguely, planned on catching up with writing up the things I hadn't blogged so I would have some scheduled posts as a buffer when I did start posting again. But here I am, on the 1st of June, typing away about… Continue reading Mother’s Day Magnolia Sunshine
A brief break
You may have noticed that I didn't post anything last week, checks, actually it's been two weeks since my last blog post. I had hoped that easing off the (self-imposed) pressure to post regularly would have allowed me to catch up a bit — instead, I spent the time making two Mother's Day cards and… Continue reading A brief break
Crafty Rat 