spiral sun and some collage

Here is my ATC for today.  Fabric paper, crushed velvet, satin free machine embroidery, dimensional paint beads and blanket stitch.

Pam Carriker's "Art at the speed of life" is the inspiration for this collage background that I am working on.

Here is the fabric paper base, using magazine clippings and scrunched tissue paper.

Some molding paste through stencils.

Multicoloured glazxe over the top of the stencils.

A better picture showing the stencils

I love the texture of the glaze on the wrinkled tissue.
I am not sure what I am going to use this for, or if I am going to finish the other steps Pam uses, because I like it the way it is. - Any ideas?


Any time is a great time for creating.

Sunny days and sketching

Today, another screenprint

This piece of screen print was just asking for a sun.  I used some red organza backed with fusible and applique'd/cut it with the soldering iron (I showed this technique here)  I added some dimensional gold paint for the rays and put some brads in the corners.  OOps, no stitching at all in this one.

OK - now a quick glimpse into my sketchbook for this last week.

A stylised japanese tree, based on a dover illustration

a design from a lolly (candy) wrapper.

Some leaf shapes ( the white bits you can see on the page are a result of using a black marker in my book - it creates spots on the back of the page - which I have to paint over)

A design for a quilt, which might use applique or printing.

A leafy doodle which might be interesting as a free machine embroidered wholecloth - however it will have to wait as I already have one in progress)

A sprig of rosemary from the garden, sketched in outline ( Now write - "I must not use markers" one hundred times, lol)

And finally, another quilt design that I am sure I will get to... one day.

Remember to create something today!
oops! and don't forget to check out Lisa's ATCs