Now that I am back on the mend again, I have been doing some more work with my silhouette, which I am getting pretty proficient at I must say.
Yesterday at quilting group (where I was NOT quilting, but crochetting - as you do), I was leafing through a magazine and saw some pansies. I thought they might make a pretty table runner for our stall, so I sketched up a few of them, then put them into my silhouette (Digital cutter) and cut out lots.
I made three different ones, just for variety. I had lots of scraps left over....
And I am sure I will find a use for all of these, lol.
I started a little journal quilt from the tiniest scraps.
I will probably just do some hand embroidery over these strips, but they were so colourful, I just had to do it.
Here is how the little flowers go together. I put some little yellow bead in the centre just to see how it looked. These are just laid out, not fused yet, because I can't decide what background to use.
What do you think? I do like the top left, but perhaps it is a little low contrast, perhaps the bottom right?
I have also been working in my journals, mostly just putting background layers down to add to later.
This one is just a bit of paint on gesso, then had glad wrap (Saran) scrunched over whilst still wet. It makes a nice texture.
This one is just a few greens dry brushed on (a great way to ruin your brushes, too)
This one is just a bit of left over paint brushed on.
And this one was just playing with a few colours in squares. The copper is a metallic paint.
These samples are from a while ago, I was playing with different textures and coloured gesso. I used forks, sticks and laying pages together and peeling off on the first one, stencilling, stamping and tape in the second one. A comb and a pencil on the third one.
And these two are on fabric, with some stitching.
These are fabric paper samples, with sprayed, dripped and blotted inks.
these are playing with watercolour on wet paper
These are playing with all types of circles collected around the house.
As you can see, I recycle everything. Some of the samples are on old flashcards from my teaching days, lol
And just for interest, here is another butterfly
This one was a rubbing over a stencil with soft chalk pastels.
I wonder, is a butterfly a new
beginning?
I saw this quote in the quote of the day at the top of my blog (wednesday, it changes each day), and had to make a new digi inspiration!
