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    Wish

    July 12, 2024 - By 

    With this piece I changed size but not format. It’s still a loose leaf page but instead of 7×10 inches, it measures 6×8. I had a few random 6×8 pieces of scrapbook paper in my stash. Likely from a garage sale. I was drawn to the teal color as well as the bright green leafy strip which was originally at the top of the page.  However it had a hole punched in the center.

    I decided I need some layers to take care of that problem. I have a box of Project Life cards in my stash that are very neutral. The card had a blank space that perfectly fit the green strip. I zigzag stitched the strip across the entire page.

    Then I began playing with other elements to complete my collage while covering the hole in the green strip. I found the perfect ruffle in my stash of ruffles. I like to mass make them with fabric strips I have laying around. They definitely come in handy.

    Bird image is from a Tim Holtz ephemera pack and was the right size for the tag I picked out. The clock and wish label were cut from a magazine ages ago and hoarded away until now. I have a cigar box of images and fussy cuts that I’ve amassed over time. Again making it easy when I’m looking for just the right something to add to a page. The little yellow flower is an iron-on, I believe. It was a great topper for the tag and covered the hole in the tag as well.

    I’m very pleased with this page and it will make a great addition to my planner journal.

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    Vintage Dressmaker

    July 10, 2024 - By 

    The very first elements of this page were definitely not heading me in the direction of my “I’ve got a notion” theme. I was just playing and seeing where my creativity would take me.

    The substrate is a yellow piece of copy paper I had used to protect my mat while painting and stamping. I added gelatos to deepen the color and give a more cohesive color scheme. The landscape image came next. It was salvaged from a calendar. It felt very “frontier” to me. I then added the western union scrapbook paper. Definitely heading to old west.

    Then the dress form cutout literally fell into my lap from a package. It was meant to be. I had another page for my theme.

    The ruler and spool label helped round out the thought for me.

    I’m quite happy with the way it turned out…especially since I wasn’t planning on this page to begin with.

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    Everything’s coming up roses

    July 5, 2024 - By 

    For the second piece in my “I’ve got a notion” series, I went with a vintage feel using elements from the sewing room.

    The background is the instruction page from a pattern set. The vintage paper has such a lovely color.

    I used a label rubber stamp around a spool image from a dictionary to add a notion.  I like to use this technique to harvest images from old book pages.

    The printed papers are my own digital creations. I haven’t played much with that technique lately. I did take a USB thumb drive to Kinkos and have a few pages laser printed a couple years ago just to see how they’d turn out. The rose paper is one of those.

    I added the lace down the side because who doesn’t love roses and lace. Once again butterflies are appearing in my art.

    I hope you’ll join in with me for “I’ve got a notion” over at Art Journal Journey sometime this month.