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    I’m puzzled

    August 8, 2013 - By 

    puzzle mail art1 puzzle mail art2I was feeling the need to make some mail art. My favorite kind to do are large puzzle pieces. Several years ago I bought a large floor puzzle at a garage sale. I’ve been sending altered postcards naked (meaning just addressed and stamped on the reverse) through the mail ever since.

    The people at the post office know me and always get a kick out of the objects I send through the mail…such as a water bottle filled with goodies. Altered CD’s are also fun to send. I can’t seem to find a picture of any I’ve sent though…grrr.

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    Sweet Season

    April 6, 2013 - By 

    20130406_1706After our snow yesterday…yes you read that correctly…snow on April 5th, I guess I wanted to remind myself that a new season is actually upon us.

    It is Spring according to the calendar and before we know it, the weather will be hot and humid.

    When I started this journal page I had no idea where it was going. 20130406_1705

    I spread my super thin, lame gesso over the pages in my Watkins cookbook journal then kept adding layers of paint and stamping.

    Next I wanted to try out some molding paste applied through a stencil…a technique I’ve seen several times on YouTube videos. I love the texture it adds. I’ll definitely be trying that one again!20130406_1708

    I used water and walnut ink to age this library card which is placed on top of a bit of a forest scene magazine page. Love it when things like that work out.

    Still looking for more texture I glued down a bit of flower trim.

    I am incredibly happy with 20130406_1704the way this one turned out.

    And look..the sun is even shiny bright today promising that the Season is actually changing.

     

     

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    Art Journal

    January 13, 2013 - By 
    Putting paint to pages of a book is very freeing.

    This was a cookbook I never used.

    All it did was take up space,
     so…
    a new journal is born.
    Little bits of this and that hoarded over time.
    Such as the paint strip.
    Bayou blue is the color Big J picked for his room.
    It reminds me of medical scrubs but whatever…he likes it.

    Pieces of projects and experiments.
    Like bits of rusted fabric.
    Polymer clay leaves from the one and only time I crafted with it. Yuck! Hate the smell of that stuff.
    As well as a deconstructed silk flower that I used a script rubber stamp across for interest.