More Vintage Collage

Vintage Photo and Wren

Above - an altered vintage photograph. I can't remember what I used to create the textured background, it could have been a picture of my textured embroidery which I altered. There is also a layer with a vintage letter.

Below - I drew the bird from following a photograph, the background is some altered artwork and music.

Both of these were created on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Vanity [IF] and Curly Doodles

The Illustration Friday challenge word is 'Vanity'. I've used a vintage postcard on some altered art, with an altered rhyme. The curly black frame is from the Graphics Fairy. Click the image to enlarge.

Below - doodles from sketchbook 14, the bottom image is actually the back of the middle image where the pens have bled thru the paper, I think I prefer it to the 'proper' one.

Girl with Roses and Knitted Blanket

For the Collage Obsession challenge - Sepia+pastel

I started with a sepia photo from my stash and introduced some pastel colour on the flowers and background.

Last week I also removed bags full of knitted swatches from my loft. These were not to throw out this time but to make into a blanket. My sister who was staying with me, helped sew the first one which she will keep for her own use. I've already made a few blankets a long time ago and given most of them away. If you're wondering why I have so many swatches  ... I used to design machine knitting patterns for home knitters, mainly motifs and these swatches are the practice runs.

Proof that my sister helped. She says she looks like she know what she is doing. The swatches are quite a challenge to stitch together as they are all different shapes and sizes and in some places they do look a little puckered.

Music & Rolling Stamps [48-51]

The Take a Word challenge this week is the word 'Music'. 

The vintage red music book belonged to my dad.

More rolling stamps -

three of them are made using textured wallpapers and the other is a scored wine bottle 'cork', or should I say plastic or rubber

I cut the wallpaper with pinking shears for extra texture [below]

Transfer Printed Shopping Bag

Another bag I did late last year. this one is made up digitally and printed on transfer paper, then ironed onto the ready made bag. It's a bit yellowy, maybe I left the iron on a bit too long! The woman was a photo of a sculpture [it was in a flat my daughter was renting] and there are altered lace images including one I put around the neck, and a vintage letter and postcard

Vintage Christmas Card

 The original is below. I was messing about using 'Gimp', I was trying to make the picture into a bauble. I don't know much about the program and I'm feeling too tired now so that's it folks.

Vintage Rose

digital collage

Embroidered Vintage Cards

My daughter is getting married in August and as she likes vintage cards I thought I could embroider fabric prints for wedding invites. The original card is above- lower right. I tried different fabrics, some look terrible - the printer wasn't working too well anyway [they like to be used often or the heads dry up] and it just did not like printing on the fabric at all. I think I got one almost perfect print from all that I did. In fact it longer to print one than to embroider it. Some have come out with lines and some with black blobs or patches. Because they took so long to print I thought I would use them to experiment and embroider the flowers in different colourways and different thicknesses of thread to see which we preferred. But in the end I attached them to card and used them, they didn't look too bad when they were on the card. Prints of them [the pinks & lilacs with yellow] looked good too.

The printer is working much better now. If I don't use it every other day I try to remember switch it on so that it goes through its cycle [then switch off], it seems to keep the heads working.

Vintage Photograph

This is the back of an old photograph [1948]. The photograph on the reverse would have been hand coloured and on the back as shown are two lists of colours [including eyes] - one for the gent & one for the lady.