Embroidered Brooches

B11 - Dyed fabric, hand embroidery.

B7 - Vintage fabrics, mini patchwork, hand embroidery

B8 - Vintage fabrics, mini patchwork, hand embroidery

B9 - Vintage fabrics, mini patchwork, hand embroidery [French Knots]

B12 - textured fabric, hand embroidery

Last day! of

OK, I'll confess, I didn't do the brooches today or even this month, but I was thinking today that I had never done a post about them, so here they are. I have been creating today but I cannot show you as it may spoil the surprise for someone, but all will be revealed later next month.

Patterned Windows

Day 29. Click on the box for the link.

I took some photos of the conservatory windows last weekend. Strange you may ask. Well they had lovely icy patterns, very leaf/vine like. I spent some time altering them so they will make lovely backgrounds for something in the future.

On the picture below I only altered the contrast and did some cropping.

This one is almost as it was too, the photos were originally blue probably because they are roof windows and the sky was at the other side.

Seven Day/One Magazine Challenge

I did these collages for a 7 day/one magazine challenge, that is one collage a day for seven days using the same magazine. Click on the images to enlarge.

I used an old house magazine, unfortunately most of the images were beds or kitchens so I found it a real challenge to make seven collages, some have few images so I painted the backgrounds.

On the top collage I found circular items and collaged them to a painted page. The only images I used on the one below are the bird and bath [nest], also on a painted background.

I found a few more images for this collage, again on a painted background.

Book related images were used on the one below, also a painted background.

Love was the theme for this collage.

I made 'people/creatures' from the images for this one on striped background.

No paint on the one below, just images.

I'm taking part in the Art Every Day for a month challenge too so I hope the above will make up for the missing days.

Spoonflower Fabrics and AEDM

My very first batch of Spoonflower fabrics have arrived!

The top two are fat quarters. I've altered the one below as I thought the design was too large, so it is smaller now.

These are the swatches, some of which I thought were too large too, so some are smaller now. There are a couple that I need to alter colours on. I'll put some better pictures on next week.

Now I've got my swatches they are available to purchase and you can check out my Spoonflower shop here.

AEDM - 21-24

I have visitors coming tomorrow for a few days so I probably won't get a chance to post.

So I will post 4 pictures that I did in the book I was talking about a couple of days ago - art every day for a month. Thought I might as well use it for the challenge as it is the same thing. 

Art Every Day for a Month Handmade Book

I was beading today, on a WIP art picture, sorry no pictures.

But I was thinking !!!!... a while ago I made a book called 'Art everyday for a Month'. 

I had completely forgotten about it, but it would have been perfect for the Art every day Month challenge.

The covers were made from pieces of plastic stuff that is a little transparent, don't know what it is called but it is used to make a template for a granite worktop. The edges were covered with washi tape and I used a zutter binder to bind the pages and covers together.

The first page was for the title and name of artist and another 31 pages, one for each day of the month. I cut out words that I found in magazines that I thought may inspire - the list is shown below.

 

drawing

beach

tree

design and decoration

summer

I'm cute

ink painting

red paint

letters

caricature

draw

ink

mountains

coffee

woof woof...

portraits

play

tracing

nature

greetings card

marine art

market day

big, bold and brassy

line

cut and paste

fairy

sweet stuff

art postcards

shades

wildlife art

night