Dogs, Eggs and Hare

Altered book [Altered Somerset Studio art journal calendar from 2003]

Painted and stamped backgrounds, collage, found images of dogs, eggs from a greetings card, homemade stamp of hare

Toad in the Grass Applique and Bugs

Painted fabrics, stamped and painted toad, own stamp. Cut and applied pieces of fabric for grass. 

I've not been blogging last week because I had my mum, sister and her grandson staying. On one of the rainy days we made bugs from egg boxes.

Hare Applique and Scotland

Painted fabric, stamped and painted hare, machine stitching [fun foam stamp cut on the Zing]

I've been to Scotland for a few days, this is Loch Lomond

Poppy Heads Applique

I painted canvas fabric with acrylic paints for this picture. The poppy heads were printed on top with hand made stamps and acrylic paint. The stamps were made with fun foam cut on my Zing cutting machine and stuck to strong card. The poppies were outlined with stitching and I stitched on a few strips of painted fabric for interest.

Frog Applique

I used one of my handmade stamps for the frog, on fabric then painted over as well. I left the green patterned fabric crumpled for a more textured affect. Freehand machine stitched.

Pig Applique

I painted the background canvas fabric with acrylic paints. The pig is one of my Zing stamps that I made - I printed with it onto fabric. The 'fences' are also painted canvas. The pig and fences were machine stitched to the background.

Another Rabbit Applique

I used another one of my stamps for the rabbit, stamped on fabric then over painted. The fabric below the rabbit is striped but it doesn't show up on my screen. Bits of fabric doilies are used for flowers. All hand stitched.

Rabbit Applique

I've started a new sketchbook, this one is for fabric work.

I used one of my recently made stamps for the rabbit, printed on fabric {I think it was lutradur}. The 'flowers' were cut from a large crochet doily.

SF Design A Day 13 -15

Day 15 - Designer's Choice - the prompt Sf has picked for the final is watercolor.

This design includes pen drawing, stamping and watercolor. Below you can see it as a repeating design and I'll enter this one into the competition.

I had another go at day 12, typographical. I used the canvas I posted about recently.

Day 13 - Kawaii [cute]

Day 14 - Found Object - I used some green chicken type wire. I created the background on my tablet.

Plain or Fancy?

I made the stamp out of a used foam nail buffer block, then added colour with brusho and posca pens.

Do you prefer the plain version or the colourful one?

Cat

I used a hand made stamp [made from a old nail buffer block] on the background.

Pen liner, aquamarkers and brusho.

Corrugated Card Stamp

I've not made a stamp for a while and I saw some curly corrugated card lying around just waiting to be used so I stuck it to a small square of wood.

the stamp

the first print

printing on book pages

printing on printed paper

Packaging Printing Stamp

I thought this packing looked interesting

for making a printing stamp

stuck to a piece of wood

and these are the prints from it

this one was on a page from a book, stamped then painted over

this one was printed on an invoice

this one was printed, then overprinted again before being painted

Update - Recycled Wipe Project

Continuing with the recycled wipes project - I last posted about this on the 4th January. Since then I have stamped on it with handmade stamps which I posted about on the 1st. I also did some hand embroidery, running stitches. I don't think I will do any more on it, I'm still not that keen on it.

Recycled Printed Wipes

The other day I spent some time experimenting with some recycled face wipes I'd been saving. After washing them I put them in a bath of tea, but they just looked a bit drab so I thought I would print on them. I used some old screen printing paints, some heavy bodied A>2 chroma acrylics, and ordinary acrylics. The pattern was made on the top four by laying the wipe on a wallpaper texture plate. [textured wallpaper stuck to a thick card/wood base]. If it didn't look to good I went over it with another colour.

The leaf designs below were made with a shop bought plastic texture plate.

and the squiggles too

the bottom two - the lines were made using corrugated card then a flower stamp on top. The wavy lines below - this was a hand made stamp from fun foam stuck to polystyrene.

Now what shall I do with them?

Nail Buffer Stamp and Collages

Have you ever used nail buffers like the one above with the red background - don't throw them away when they are worn out - they can be used for mark making stamps. And four usable sides means four different patterns.  I used a 'dead' pen to score a pattern with, a craft knife to cut a pattern and make lines, and an awl for the dotty one.

More pages from sketchbook 12 - watercolour and wax backgrounds, found images

Machine Embroidery Book[3], Boats and Mermaids

More pages from the C&G machine embroidery book.

Mermaid doodles from an old sketchbook

I started a sketchbook earlier this year all to do with a theme of boats, these are the first pages. The sea was created using a handmade stamp.