May 13, 2007

Who says fairies can't live underwater? : )



6x6 mixed-media collage on gallery wrapped canvas.
Hand-dyed cheesecloth (thanks Pam!), shells, plastic fish, glitter, glass "bubbles", acrylic paint, tissue paper, stickers, inkjet printed images.

Happiness

May 06, 2007

Love this idea!

Found this over on Happy Mundane, it's from Martha Stewart. What a great idea!
blog it

May 05, 2007

Jane's Tip-in Deco Page swap



Another horrible picture I'm afraid, but these were fun pages to create. Jane's theme is "Wish You Were Here" so I got to use a lot of interesting old postcard, hand written letter, and postage stamp images I have in my collection for the backgrounds on these. I've been trying to add more hand drawn elements to my collages lately - I like the rough, kind of "grunge" look it adds especially to old vintage elements. Prismacolor pencils are my favorite thing for this technique.

Inchies on display - Warning Bad Photo!

Well, I'm still without a working scanner and it's really put a kink in my style! I never realized how much I used it. Anyway, trying to make do, so I've tried to taking a picture of a Dollar Store frame I picked up and repurposed to display some of the inchies I got back from our swap at BBA. Try to ignore the horrible blurriness of the photo!

The frame was a cardboard thing meant for wedding pics - which is totally bizarre, since who would have a bunch of tiny little pictures from their wedding?? Anyway, the little squares are just the right size for displaying inchies! I just painted black acrylic paint over the really tacky printed design on the frame itself, added some silver dry brushing for a metal look and then slipped a piece of black paper inside the frame. I then glued the inchies inside the little squares right to the paper inside.