Be free

A digital collage

Credits: all elements from 'Be Free' by T Baxter @ SBG

A small tag

Love

A digital collage.

Credits: some background elements from 'Gesso Messy 3' by T Baxter @ SBG; other elements from various kits by C Honsinger and Nancy Rowe Janitz, both previously @ Cat Scrap

A mixed media bookmark

Lazy summer days

A digital collage. (Click on the picture to see all the detail.)

Credits: frame (altered) from 'Assimilations 2' by T Baxter @ SBG; all other elements from 'Art Therapy' by Cryztal Rain @ Deviant Scrap

Live, laugh, love

A second mixed media collage.

Let your light shine

A mixed media collage.

Divine Grace

Another digital piece.

Credits: all elements are from 'You are Divine' by T Baxter @ SBG

Life is an adventure

A digital collage.

Credits: border from 'Assimilations 2' by T Baxter; all other elements from 'Limed Spruce' and  'Celeste' by Captivated Visions, both @ SBG

Be your own kind of beautiful

A digital piece.

Credits: all elements from 'You are Beautiful' by Captivated Visions @ SBG

A journal page

This page started with some collage. Then I added the acrylic paint. Once dry I drew the face and added the journalling.

How are you feeling today?!

Another digital piece inspired by the heatwave we are experiencing in London. Our bedroom has been 30 degrees C at nighttime for the past week!

Credits: border from 'Assimilations 2' by T Baxter @ SBG; all other elements from 'Journal Interrupted' by B Rimmer @ Deviant Scrap

Heatwave - a digital journal page

Credits: border from 'Assimilations 2' and font by T Baxter @ SBG; all other elements from 'Over the Rainbow' by Paula Kesselring.

Be Brave

A digital collage.

Credits: coloured strips and dictionary excerpt from 'You are Strong' by Captivated Visions; all other elements from 'Brave' by Rosey Posey, both @ SBG

Collage and construct 9

Here is a little pouch I made with some of the leftovers from my wallet cum journal. The stitching is a little messy as my sewing machine started to play up but, hey, it just adds character!

Collage and construct 8

Two more affirmation cards.

Collage and construct 7

Did you think I had finished with my wallet? Well , almost, but I made some affirmation cards to go into the pocket.

Collage and construct 6

The big reveal. This is what I have been making, a large, pocketed, clutch style journal.

The first picture shows the front of the wallet. When closed it measures 13 x 7.5 inches.

And the back.

Now for the inside. Once opened there is a pocket, as well as the pages of the journal.

The pocket folds outwards, so it can be reached when the pages are open.

Collage and Construct 5

Here is the next stage of the project : roughly adding ink to both sides of 5 sheets of watercolour paper and the blank side of the collaged canvases. Here are five of them to look at.

Collage and Construct 4

The next stage with more colour added.

Collage and Construct 3

The next stage, with more pencil and pastels added. Again, the canvases are in the same order as the previous posts.

Collage and Construct 2

Over the next few days I will show the various stages the canvases go through. I won't go onto all the details or show all the layers though, as I don't want to give away all the details of Roben-Marie's class.

The next stage, with pencil and oil pastels added. They are in the same order, but not necessarily the same way up!

Collage and Construct

 I've recently started taking one of Roben-Marie Smith's classes, 'Collage, Construct and Affirm'. I'm really enjoying it and am learning new things.

The first part of the course, obviously, is collage but it is doing it on canvas paper. I have to admit I hadn't heard of this before, but it's like canvas sheets that come in a pad.

Here is my collage (it looks a bit boring, but this is only the first layer). Although the pictures look the same size, the first two sheets are 20 x 16 inches and the third, 16 x 12 inches.

These pictures were taken before the glue was dry and so there are still some bubbles apparent. I didn't succeed in getting rid of all of them, but it is good to remove as many as possible.

Open your eyes ...

... to wonder. A digital collage.

Credits: stitches from 'It's My Journey'; all other elements from 'Papillon', all by Captivated Visions @ SBG

Couture card

I haven't made many cards recently, but here is one I made using the Dylusions Couture stamps. I will add a greeting when I know where it is going!

Moments that take our breath away

I didn't get to post anything yesterday; too many hours of epic play at Wimbledon to watch. Here's a digital piece I created when it was all over.

Credits: all elements from 'Quotiety' by Captivated Visions @ SBG

Stressed out and hazardous

Hope you are not feeling like this today!

 

Credits: words from 'Technical Expressions' by Dawn Inskip @ SBG; stitches from 'Another Man's Treasure' and other elements from 'Limed Spruce' both by Captivated Visions @ SBG

Altered playing cards 7

And the last dozen to finish!