Collage Card and Tag

Just a couple more pieces I sent off to my daughter this morning :)

This was intended to be a card, but I couldn't find a piece of card stock that I liked to have as a background...and I have soooo much card stock to choose from so it was kind of shocking! I wound up writing the letter on a piece of notebook paper and taping it to the back :) The size of this is 6 x 6 and it is a gold card stock piece. I used some of my gelli prints and my new favorite, paper towels which I typically place under any particular piece I happen to be spraying with any spray inks for added protection. I have lots of scraps saved up! Some sprayed burlap, vintage book page and music sheet and of course a tea bag that I stamped are the other bits on this tiny collage. The piece of string with the sequence is leftover yarn that I had from eons ago. I used that along with another yarn to knit my girls headbands...really...eons ago!

This tag is very similar to the one I sent off for the January swap, which I believe she received by now so I feel safe to post this here. While it is similar, it is still very different than what I sent off to my tag swap partner :) This was intended for her, but when I showed it to my daughter, she fell in love with it so I decided to surprise her with it and sent it off to her with the card this morning. Needless to say, I created another for my tag swap partner and will post that here after she posts :)
I used texture cream over a stencil, dylusions spray, stamps, doodles, vintage book pages, homemade washi tape, water color markers, texture spray and gelli prints.

The back of the tag was covered with a gelli print and bits of a vintage music sheet.  The bird is a stamp I used on deli paper colored with water color markers and then sprayed with texture spray.

Filling in Some Wall Space

My daughter recently moved into a loft space apartment and was in desperate need to fill lots of empty wall space. My sister had already created some beautiful and much larger pieces for her, which was great because I don't work well with large pieces of art at all! Working with a smaller space, like a bathroom, is much more suited for me. What I created had some dimension to it, so the shadow box frames were a great match for them!

Thanks for looking :)

Strength in Numbers

So, I finally finished another spread in my altered book journal. I wanted to experiment with colors that I am not normally drawn to and use some techniques that aren't in my normal arty realm. I had a difficult time after I had my initial background complete. It seemed so busy and everything I thought to put on top of it looked like it was getting lost on top of all that color. After a lot of consideration (and just plain staring at the pages), I decided to add the figures and using the number stencils and the face stencil inside of them. Still needing the figures to pop a little bit more, I added white around them along with some outlining in black. I did try to outline in blue and purple as well, but didn't like how that looked. You can still see that experiment on the figure on the bottom left. Adding some drywall tape and wash tape completed the graffiti style I wanted to achieve in this spread. The phrase, "the gang's all here" popped into focus and then my daughter said that "strength in numbers" was a perfect fit for this spread. Which it really was perfect because of the numbers that were stenciled in the figures. I had to add that somewhere and those words found a home at the bottom of the page.