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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.

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    I’m hosting Art Journal Journey for July!

    July 1, 2024 - By 

    Welcome everyone! I’m thrilled to be hosting this month over at Art Journal Journey!

    “I’ve got a notion”

    I chose a very tongue-in-cheek theme that has a wide variety of ways to fulfill the challenge.

    This piece uses a number of sewing themed items as well as machine stitching.

    Don’t let the word “notion” trip you up. It’s really more sewing themed with a puny title. I love a good pun!

    I added a little pocket to hold a tag with a quote that resonated with me.

    I’m looking forward to seeing how others interpret my theme of “I’ve got a notion”.

    Head on over to Art Journal Journey and join the fun!

     

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    Butterflies everywhere

    May 17, 2020 - By 

    I’ve been sending so many more cards and little care packages since the stay-at-home order began. I had to order more stamps and really needed to make some new cards to replenish my stash.

    These are my favorite type of cards. Little bits of scraps, snippets from magazines and whatever else finds its way into my scrap bin.

    In 2015, I wrote an article for Sew Somerset describing my process for mini-collages such as these. I now see them all over YouTube in the junk journal community. They call them clusters.

    Without even realizing it, most of my recent creations featured butterflies.

    collage postcard collection

    Even most of these collage postcards I made for my MIL.

    One even found its way onto one of the tags I made from the off cuts of the postcards.

    Maybe I just have mom on my mind. She was nuts about butterflies. They always make me think of her.