Another month and more art swaps with my online group. I signed up for quite a few this time, so I've been busy.
The altered trading coins' theme for September is "colors of autumn leaves." I used several spray inks to create the mottled background and added an embossed metal leaf colored with alcohol inks. The "title" is part of a stamp heat-embossed on vellum.
The second swap was for a pink or breast cancer card. This was one I had done sometime at a convention using breast cancer resist papers and watercolor crayons.
Next is a "Shabby Chic Pink" tag swap - make and send three and receive three back.
These tags were made on a collaged background, which you can barely see now they are finished! I've added a portion of paper doily, vintage lace, paper and satin flowers, tiny labels and definitions, butterflies and floral cards mounted on distressed book pages. The ties are sari silk.
This month's junk journal page swap had no theme so I went with nature - birds, butterflies, flowers, mushrooms and lots of green.
This is the front of the page with a flip-up journal card at the top.
this is the fiont of the page with the card flipped up.
The back has a wide lace pocket at the bottom. Inside is tucked a double pocket insert made with book pages.
This is the double pocket with the tags. I used lots of collage, as always.
Looking forward to receiving mine in return!
