Collage Challenges - Weeks 28 & 29

 Week 28

Prompts:

1) something related to coffee (didn't use this prompt)

2) anything with a bit of pink (lots of pink!)

3) something in the shape of a hexagon (3 punched hexagons)

4) a photo or portion of a photo (photo of tulip I've had forever)

5) ink - whatever that means to you (India ink bottle)

Bonus: a piece of dictionary page (upper left corner)

Week 29

Prompts:

1) something that turns of spins (clock hands)

2) a key or keys (paper in upper right corner; key rub-on)

3) a ticket of any kind (vintage bus/train tickets)

4) a portion or a brochure or advertisement (Texas ad)

5) a building (church)

Bonus: a place (cityscape, left side of page)

July Junk Journal Page Swap

This is my page for the July junk journal swap. 

I covered an old greeting card with scraps for the base and  made an envelope with a 

page from a botanical book. It is glued to the front page on three sides to form another pocket behind. I trimmed the placket with a bit of lace and added some washi tape and a few labels to decorate. 

Inside the envelope is a mini-notebook "matchbook-style" made from a green paint chip and decorated with a botanical sticker and some music paper.

The pocket behind the envelope holds two tags. The larger one is cut out from a master board I had made with scraps and decorated with a torn floral image from the same botanical book and a few labels.

The smaller tag is a clothing tag covered with green paper and a bit of dictionary page. It also has a small floral image torn from the book.

The recipient likes the color green and botanicals, so I hope she enjoys this page.

 

Collage Challenges - Weeks 26 & 27

 Week 26

Prompts

1) something that emits heat (hibachi grill)

2) a pair of something (two quilt mosaics)

3) a face (Japanese chef and face on stamp)

4) something royal (English stamp)

5) a bit of green (washi tape; strawberry leaves; butterfly)

Bonus: text other than English or native language (page background)

Week 27

Prompts

1) something with a bumpy surface (embossed paper)

2) anything that can blow in the wind (balloons, flowers)

3) something in shape of a triangle (tee-pee)

4) lined paper (notepaper, upper left corner)

5) a number or numbers (black stickers)

Bonus: instructions (lower left of page)

A Crazy, Busy July

 Where has the first half of July gone? We have been traveling and spending time with grand boys.

We spent July 4th weekend in Austin with our daughter's family and then brought the two kiddos home with us for a week. As soon as we put them on a plane home (they were very excited to travel as unaccompanied minors!), we boarded a flight to Albuquerque to spend the weekend celebrating another grand boy's tenth birthday. So much fun, but exhausting as they keep us running the entire time.

I've been playing catch-up on art swaps and challenges since I returned.

This was the project I made for a "flamingo" challenge. I made a little flip-up matchbook-style notepad with a pink paint chip. Several small pieces of plain paper are stapled inside. The flamingo and leaf are stamped on tissue paper and colored with water-based paint pens. The "smile" is a stamp, white-embossed on black card stock.

Next is my "summer house" for a quarterly house swap (we make one for each season). This is my beach hut. The house, roof and door are papers. The bathing beauty is fussy-cut from a copy of a vintage photo and the starfish is a sticker. The little banner is from a scrapbook paper and I added the pennants individually to a piece of baker's twine. I embellished with tiny shells and real sand glued to the bottom.

For this swap we had to use the magazine image transfer technique with a gelli plate and make it into a card. After about 15 failed attempts I finally pulled this print from a magazine image from a travel brochure. I need to practice this more - there are many variables and the whole process is trial and error!

Instead of using black acrylic paint as the base color as most of the instructions said, I used a magenta paint and I really like it.