I turned those three surfaces that I showed you in my last post into journals:
I've added all of these to the shop.
And for those of you interested in how I created the surface that I used to make the postcards and ATC's in my previous post you'll find a tutorial on the process on the Fibre&Stitch website under the free projects link. Enjoy!
Have you seen this stuff?
Grungeboard by Tim Holtz. I got it from Joggles.com This is very cool stuff! It's a lot of fun to work with and I've been playing and experimenting with it for a couple of days. I made up some ATC's and a couple of postcards:
and this morning I spent 7 hours in the studio making up some larger surfaces to work with:
This first one has a definite distressed leather look to it. I wish I could get better photos of these surfaces. They're so rich with color and texture and my photographs don't do them justice.
This one has a weathered wrought iron look to it.
This one is my favorite. It has old copper look. All three of these surfaces are on their way to becoming journals. I'm putting together a tutorial on working with Grungeboard, I'll let you all know when it's ready.
Olivia over at the Filigree Garden blog interviewed me for her blog. Click here to visit her blog and read the interview.
Thank you Olivia!
It's been a quiet week this week and I've just been doing some painting and paper making. I started the week with a paper making day:
Then I had a canvas painting day:
I actually painted up several more pieces but I'm having a hard time photographing them without distorting the colors.
Then I had a card making day and used up some of the canvas
I love working with painted canvas, it's become one of my favorite materials to work with.
Sandy has been working on testing the lessons from the new More Journal Making for the Fiber Artist class scheduled to start in September. Stop by her blog to check out the cool journals that she's made.
On another note, you may have noticed that I took the list of blogs that you used to be on the right of the screen off my blog. Just click the link under the creative places to visit heading over on the right hand column and it will bring up the page with all the blog links on it. If you'd like to swap links and be added to the list just drop me an email.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Last week I spent an entire day painting up a huge stack of paper...
I painted up over 100 sheets and I had a blast doing it. I decided to use a bunch of these in some journals:
Both of these are filled with my hand painted papers along with some plain white pages too:
More photos in the shop here.
That's it for journals for the shop for a bit. I've got some other projects that I want to work on including a day of making paper along with getting my article for issue 5 of Fibre&Stitch ready.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Since I had the chalkboard cloth and the cork paper out I thought I'd put together a couple of journals:
These are in the shop.
And I made another silk ribbon fringe journal too:
This one has pages from "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett sprinkled throughout the signature blocks. More photos in the shop here.
One of the benefits of publishing Fibre&Stitch is that I get to see all the articles first and articles for issue 5 are now starting to come in. There's one in particular that I'm very excited about by Miriam Forder whose a member of Serentex. I got so inspired by her article that I had to play with the technique that she talks about. Here's a sneak peek:
Can't wait to play a bit more with this!
Is made of chalkboard cloth and real cork paper:
It's lined with cotton:
and on the inside you'll find 3 notebooks:
You might remember that I did a couple of these houses last year. I've been meaning to make a few more of them because they're very fun to put together. I think the chalkboard one would make a great housewarming gift especially filled with local menus or recipes and I've put it in my etsy shop.
I finished up the last class sample for the More Journal Making for the Fiber Artist class.
This journal is a 3-fold design with 3 signatures and a hand coiled wire bound notebook. There are pockets on the other sides of the flaps too. I'll be making more of this design in the coming weeks, I've got some other ideas for the coiled notebook that I think will be fun to do.
I've had this on my list of journal styles to try for a while.
The pages in this journal are all my own hand painted papers
This journal measures about 5" x 6". I've got a couple more versions of this one on the work table that aren't finished yet. Back in a few days with some more photos...
The Mixed Media Surfaces for the Fiber Artist class just came to a close and gosh did we have fun in this class. In the last class we make a curvy vase and you've got to go check out Olivia's version on her blog here. I've scheduled this class to run again in November and registration is now open for it.
The Creative Mixed Media Journaling Techniques class started this past Monday and registration for this class will close this Friday so you've still got a couple more days to join in. The next session of this class will begin on September 5th and registration for that session will open this Friday.
I'm working away on the lessons for the new journal making class that I'm developing and I hope to have new class samples to show you by the end of the week. I did manage to put together a couple more house tri fold journals:
I actually did two with the fabric in the photo above and the other has a black trim instead of red. A huge thank you to Vicki for getting me some more of that great house print fabric!
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and a basic tri fold..
This one has a green silk ribbon tie. All of these journals have been added to my etsy shop.
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