Being Creative

These are some bookmarks I made for a swap on Milliande. I used some vintage music paper and some asian script as backgrounds. Then embellished them with napkins, stamps, stickles and sari ribbon. So looking forward to seeing the bookmarks I get back, and using them daily as I'm still reading alot at the moment, when Archie will let me! My ginger cat just seems to know when I pick a book up and it just so coincides with him wanting a cuddle, lol.


This is a canvas I'll be working on tonight, again for a swap. This is the first time I've used dressmaking tissue paper over my collaged paper base and I'm loving the colour and the texture it's given me.

I went for Tassles

Bookmarks

I've been working on making bookmarks and this is a selection. I've used ordinary, advertising covered card bookmarks that you can pick up free in libraries and covering them with foreign language scripts and musical scores. Then I've used paper napkins, acrylic paints, stickles, stamps etc. I've again enjoyed working in a 'series'. It allows me to get on with one whilst thinking about the next step for another, it allows for experimentation as well. Now the thorny problem of tassle or no tassle.....

New ATCs

Finished this one a few weeks ago for a swap on Willowing, with the theme Africa, using an old atlas page, stamp and collaged postcards.

Today finished off a 'sister'card, making it look smoke damaged with distress ink.

Also been working on a set of book marks for a swap on Milliande but got to keep them under wraps as well as a set of Birthyear ATCs that are off in the post tomorrow for another swap. Had a very enjoyable day, tinkering around with them. The big question I have to ponder now is - to tassle or not to tassle, book marks that is. Anybody have any thoughts on the matter? For myself I don't have tassles because my cats take them as toys and end up dragging them out of my books and losing me my page but I do like to see tassles. Then do I tassle at the top or the bottom, decisions, decisions.....