Alphabet Canvas

I used Golden coarse molding paste and lots of different stencils to make this.

Tast 7, Outside the Frame, Alphabet

Take a Stitch Tuesday - this week's stitch is detached chain or lazy daisy stitch and this is my rather untidy sample. I've used patches of vintage fabrics, some transfer printed lace, a little painted fabric and a beaded fringe with large sequins on the end.

The Three Muses challenge is 'Outside the frame - Birds' and I was thinking outside the cage for some reason and started something with that in mind, eventually it dawned on me - frame not cage. I have used one of my collaged paintings and added the frame digitally [frame from Graphics Fairy, birds and rabbit are found images from magazines]

There was an 'alphabet' challenge on Inspiration Avenue a few weeks ago and I meant to post these but I never got around to it. The top one is all drawn with promarker pens and the bottom one is a collage.

Beaded Alphabet Book [O-Z]

 The rest of the mini alphabet book. This is an altered address book with the letters of the alphabet down the sides. I've covered the pages with art work, printed art work, found images etc, then I've put a letter of alphabet on each page and included some sort of bead/sequins, mainly on fabric. I had a personal challenge this year to use some of my stash of beads, although I have not used that many on this project.

These were spare pages at the back of the book.

On some photos you will see some metal tweezers, which are not part of the book. It was difficult trying to keep the book open while I took the photos.

I see blogger have returned the missing page & as I redid that page, there are now two posts the same ... oops.

Alphabet Bead Book [A-N]

I started this book a few months ago, but just got round to sorting out the photos. It was a little address book with the alphabet down one side. I covered the pages with collage - painted papers, found papers, papers printed with some of my work, etc  I also wanted to use some of my bead stash so I decided to make a letter for each page with some sort of bead embellishment, some are on fabric [some vintage], some on paper. I covered the book in some recycled denim fabric and as it is so fat I put a ribbon around it.

Alphabet Doodle & Illustration Friday [Diary]

doodling with those plastic alphabet stencils

Below - Illustration Friday's word this week is diary. My effort is all to do with a date in August when my daughter gets married. Mixed media including a vintage picture which was stitched, a tatoo which  I did with my daughter, some stamps [the one on the left of the diary is a vintage stamp], lace, music under the stamp.