Repeating Patterns

All the above were created on my tablet then repeated in Photoshop

This last one was made up of drawings by my Grandson who is two.

Rose for my Rose

A tablet doodle which features roses

and then two different repeating patterns

Altered Book - the last pages

Two images from the fairy calendar [Walter Jenks Morgan 1847-1924]

The background from another calendar of close ups, this is raindrops on Lads Mantle Leaf

The background image is iridescent colours in foam bubbles.

Found text.

Another fairy with a few extras.

A collage of found images and art work.

Altered Book - Pages 126-138

For these collages I used old calendars, magazines plus art work. You can probably tell that one of the calendars was all about fairies [historical art]. The other was close -ups of things, above is a scallop shell as a background.

The lady [by John Simmons 1872] was from the fairy calendar but the man and text were from an old Woman's Weekly, early 1980's

The background is 'dark peat stained water of a river in flood', the fairy by John Atkinson Grimshaw in 1879, the dog from the Woman's Weekly.

This is a close up of a Macaw's wing and characters from the fairy calendar.

I gave the fairy a paintbrush to finish the pretty background.

She is from The Fairy Dance by Grace Jones c1920

The background features raindrops on a Lady's Mantle leaf.

The fairy by Walter Jenks Morgan [1847-1924]

The house was from an old arts magazine.

Web-like Pattern

Web drawn on my tablet and made into a repeat pattern on the computer.

Baby Bib and Rabbit Hunt

I made a bib for a friend's new Grandson

and lots of rabbits for a rabbit hunt around Easter time for my Grandson.

Some were made of card and some were fabric, stitched with a backing and wadding in the middle. I used stamps I had made a while ago.

Altered Book - Pages 114-125

The fairy is from an old calendar

The background is from an old calendar

Altered Book - Pages 102-110

3D Printing

Before Christmas my husband was wanting ideas for gifts and I said I wouldn't mind one of those 3D pens so it was a big surprise when I opened a large box with 3D printer in it, it was not a pen but a printer!

But it is very hard for my little brain to learn how to design things to print. All the items here are not my designs, they are available on the web.

I put the fairy house in my miniature garden

Items are printed in a plain colour such as this brown. This is the fairy house before I painted it.

This dinosaur has three poorly's, my toddler Grandson thought it would be fun to throw him down, but it is quite delicate in places.

This is the printer if you were wondering what it looked like.

Altered Book - Pages 89 -101

Cream Crazy Patch

I'm calling this patch cream although it includes other colours, various browns and whites.

I've used shells, parts of necklaces and wooden beads as well as 'normal' beads and sequins. I've not used patterned fabrics on this one just fabrics with different textures plus lace, ribbon, ric-rac  and cut work fabric and of course lots of embroidery

I think the mistake I may have made with this patch is sewing beads to close to the edge, I think I will have problems when I sew the seams.