Jewellery and Journals

I'm making jewellery and journals tonight. I decorated a piece of heavy weight paper with paints, a page from an old dictionary and my home made stamps. I stuck very thick card board circles and rectangular shaped metal pieces onto the paper with gel medium, when this was thoroughly dry, I cut out the shapes. I have to do the same for the other side, I'm not sure if I'm going to draw faces on the circles or just decorate them.
The journal page started out as one of my drawn faces scanned into my computer, I then took it into Photo shop and created the background. The stamped images in the background are from my hand made stamps which I turned into brushes in PS.
The final page has the same face altered with hue and saturation to change the colour. I've printed them out and glued and sewn the images to the page.

Australia Day

We've just arrived home from a weekend away at our friends' house down the beach. The photo shows the view fom their property. We celebrated Australia Day with a Happy hour at their place which was great fun. I love the sea and it inspires me to create, I never leave home without a project on board and the collage is what I created as a page for my journal workshop.

Decorated papers

I'm working on decorating paper for a journal workshop I'll be teaching soon. I've painted the background and while it was still wet I've put bubble wrap on top and used a brayer to press it into the paper, then I've decorated them with my stamps made from erasers, when they dried.

Four more cards

I'm still painting cards. I have about 10 more to go I think, maybe a few more. The two ladies cards are all hand painted with notes added. The Magic one is a hand painted background with a piece of a serviette stuck onto it and a hand written stamp, then an image and text from an old magazine. the last one is hand painted patchwork squares with hand draw graphics and scraps of my decorated paper, the map of Australia started the whole concept. More to come soon.

Three more cards

I've completed three more trading cards. The top one has my hand painted paper as a background, then I added a painted tag, with corrugated cardboard, handmade paper and a small piece of some fabric I'd painted sometime ago and topped it off with some electrical resistors.
The second one was a terrific image I found of US mail boxes in a very old National Geographic, one of the doors was open so I added an Aussie stamp with a possum on it, then added text and a tag.
The third one is made up of the inside of envelopes made into a patchwork with postage stamps added. The heart and other stamps were carved from erasers.

My first trading cards

This is all new to me, I've never made any ATC's before. I'm attending a retreat in WA in March to do a jewellery class with Nina Bagley. We've all been given a deck of cards to decorate and trade. I'm thoroughly enjoying this new challenge, but I'm having difficulty trying to make some with subtle colours. The brightly coloured ones come far more easily, but I am trying.

Caught in action

Whenever we go out I always take an art project with me, as my husband always takes his camera and he can spend quite some time taking photos of things around us. This time it happened to be me, I was totally unaware as I was so absorbed in trying to get the charms finished for the charm swap I'm in. I received an email from Dawn and my charms have arrived which was a relief, being so far away. I can't wait to get mine now, I've been to Dawn's charm site and seen some of the others, they are great.