The Blue Book - pages 20-24

Blue book - continued [click on images to enlarge]

Page 20 [028,029]

Plain background fabric, found image [advert on tracing paper] with artwork stitched underneath, woman made from paper, applique, skirt is a recycled painted/stamped wipe, earrings were part of some jewellery.

The earrings are hanging to the right in the top picture because the book is fat, so I did another photo from another angle. Guess i should have taken pictures of each page before joining together.

Page 21 [030]

Painted background fabric, foiled, metallic machine stitching, dyed flower held on with stitched layered fabrics, fancy button.

Page 22 [031]

Striped vintage background fabric, patchwork of vintage fabrics and painted/stamped papers, dyed lace, hand embroidery, machine stitching.

Page 23 [032]

Striped vintage background fabric, layered fabrics and painted papers, handmade art buttons, star sequins, star tag. Stars and stripes theme.

Page 24 [033]

Painted background fabric, foiled, metallic machine stitching, dyed lace and hand stitching, handmade art buttons, brooch, safety pins with beads.

The Blue Book - pages 13-19

More pages from the blue book - handmade mixed media art book with machine stitched fabric pages which includes collage, applique, embroidery, artwork, beads ....etc.  Click on images to enlarge.

Page 13 [019] above

Striped vintage background fabric, paper artwork, paper and acetate artwork, a piece of found sheer bag, bead and sequin & stitched flowers, torn paper bird, machine stitching.

Page 14 [020]

Stamped blue background fabric, layered stamped fabrics, buttons and beads, art button and pebbles, star fish charm, electrical wire, earring under plastic, plastic mesh, hand embroidery, machine stitching.

Page 15 [021]

Stamped blue background fabric, layered vintage fabrics, digitally printed fabric with stitched outlines, apple button, ribbon, sheer bag containing 5 ATC's [removable].

Page 15 [021a]bag contents - 5 ATC's - 1 x original watercolour/pen art, 2 x original textured art/paint and decorative machine stitching, 2 x inkjet prints.

Page 16 [023]

Striped vintage background fabric, sheer paper, painted textured wallpaper with stitched squares of other wallpapers, dyed lace, beads and sequins, hand embroidery, bead necklace.

Page 17 [024]

Plain background fabric, painted artwork, foil image with deer was originally part of a bought picture, decorative machine stitching, bird charm.

Page 18 & 19 [027]

Plain background fabric, furry teddy bear applique with check bow and bead eyes.

SC, TAST 41, Dirty Dog

The sketchbook challenge - cabinet of curiosities. I've done a collection of river creatures, some of them look quite strange like I could have made them up, but I didn't, they are real creatures. Watercolours and pen.

Take a stitch Tuesday - the stitch is knotted loop stitch. It is on the left and I have done the stitch in different lengths and meandered around a bit. I stitched the beads on afterwards. This will be one of the pages for my WIP blue journal. Also on the page there are three painted and stamped papers, vintage fabric [background and the floral], dyed lace, ribbon and fern stitch.

Click on images to enlarge.

We also did this stitch in 2010, this is the old sample [think I prefer it to the new]

Spoonflower fabric design contest - Creepy Crawlies.

If you would like to vote for it or see the other entries click here

We took my son's dog out for a walk and she ended up like this - dirty dog. She just can't keep away from those muddy puddles.