Altered Shirts

I've, done it - I've altered my clothes. Have I lost my mind?? Last month I had some friends over for some fun times. I have really wanted to start painting on clothes, and this was my first attempt. I had so much fun. More time went into planning then anything. I had the darnest time trying to do a straight square shape with the tape, so I went for a trapazoid and then a stain glass effect. I think it turned out great - remember, this was just my first attempt - they always get better!!

This is me in my shirt. I can't believe i posted a pic of me. Okay now, stop laughing and just look at the shirt.

This is one of my good stamping friends and the great sweater she did. Isn't she and her shirt just gorgeous?!?

More to come in time...
...nothing is safe from my hands and paint!

Watercolored Spring Spreads

Okay, so it's almost summer now, but I got these great zia stamps, and I HAD to use them!! I love her stamps, and her color wash jewels - that's all I used (okay, and a little bleach!) to do these spreads.

First is the sign in. It's the size of an ATC. You've got the front, and the back.

Next, the first spring spread. Light colors, spring flowers and spring chinese symbols. I really like the fluidity of watercolors, and felt that it was perfect for a spring spread.

I really like her cherry trees branch, it works with so many things.
Of course, in person, these spreads really pop! There is a lot of intensity with these watercolors that you just can't scan in. Words are all handwritten for the effect of fluidity - that's a fun word, i wonder how many more times i can use it....

Okay, these filled with more symbology for spring. We've got the zodiac signs, some water and air symbols and more watercolors and flowers. Aren't those water lillies gorgeous?

I had a bit of trouble with the dragonflies, they turn out quite the way I would have liked, but they are still lots of fun and very colorful! I got to intense with the wrong colors, so I used some bleach and backed out those colors.

These were a lot of fun to do, even though my heat gun died on me!! Hope Kevin likes them!!

My Faerie Tale Altered Book

I've started another round of altered books. My theme - Faerie Tales. These are the sign in pages. What I'm having each player do (there are 12) is choose a faerie. Then they have to write about why they choose that faerie!! They can add anything they want to the pages just as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's page. Here are the faerie pages, I'll upload mine as soon as I finish! I think they will LOVE this - at least, I hope they will. I think this was a pretty clever and original idea for sign in pages. :O) The pages are all in order too, so as you scroll down, it's like flipping the page.

Stampboard

StampBoard is pretty cool. Here is one that is the size of at ATC (2.5 x 3.5). I used a direct to stampboard inking with versa magics blues and greens, then I used a davinchi lady stamp that i have and stamped her in black staz on. Heat set with my blow dryer because my heat gun died :O( then used the tool to scrap away the color I had added so where I scrapped - it's white. I put magic tape around the outside edges and dipped it in purple glittler - you know how I like to make things sparkle!

I tried to make her whole head stand out from the backgroud and then just accent her features and hair. I made 2 more for my "Art By The Month" group. I hope they like it!!!

These Hands

Hello, I did a really cool swap where our Hands were the size of the book. I did the covers and my own pages. Since there were only 5 participants, including myself, doing 5 sets of left and right hands, front and back and all origionals was not that difficult.

This is the cover, the inside has everyone who participated on each finger. They are made out of very thin cardboard, or chip board and just hand painted. Everyone has the first letter of their name and the 'H' in hands done with flexible wax and the rest are stickers or hand done.

These are my outside pages. I call my spreads "Eclectic Oriental" LOL!!! I used Stamp Zia's oriental chop stamps, and then just lots of asian emphemera that I had lying around. Each page is a little different depending how many of what I had. I really liked the fortune cookie sayings a lot, they were perfect for the fingers. I used Stampin Up brushed copper cardstock - SU has the BEST cardstock hands down!





And these are the insides. I really like them, I used lots of silver and verdigo embossing poweders (they made such a mess in my living room - my vacuum has never been prettier!) I used Stamp Zia's Ginko and Luna Moth Stamps, and filled them in with puffy fabric paints.

They were a bit time consuming, but that was mainly in the planning, I had a lot of fun though. Can't wait to see what comes back!

Spring Seasons Spreads

Hello, I've been at it again, here are my spring spreads for the season's round robin. This is the first page of the spread. It's on the right side of the book.











When you flip the page, you see the full spread, here is the page on the left.




















Here is the page on the right.

And here is the page on the back. What 'Who Has Seen the Wind' poem is one that I had to memorize in the fourth grade!

Loop and Ladder Bracelet

My very own, loop and ladder bracelet. I did this at The Queens Ink with a wonderful teacher - Anne Townsley. It took be about 12+ hours, but I had a lot of fun, and I can't wait to show this baby off!!

Altered Puzzle Pieces

These are some altered puzzle pieces. They were a lot of fun to do, cheep to get and look great as pins, or put back together in a puzzle. The single peices were all part of one swap. 12 of us got a 12 peice puzzle and mailed out 11 of those to the other participants in the group. We had to choose a color and put that on the back of the peice as well as which side up the top. (I choose "cool colors") This swap was called Texture Puzzle. The goal was to have some sort of touchable texture on each peice. I used either UTEE or gesso and paint as my textures to use. It was fun!! Then there is one whole puzzle I did some time back thrown into the mix here too.

Puzzle Piece

Here's an ATC that I made today. I made 10 of them for a swap I'm in. I used black cardstock, then painted swishes of lumiere paints. Stamped the card in brilliance and stamped the puzzle pieces with staz on and then painted over with some lumiere paints. Hope everyone likes it!

Winter Spreads

Another spread completed!! I received 3 books from across the pond last week, and I've completed one spread for one book out of the three so far. I only did one spread because I used 5 & 1/2 pages of the book!
These are for the Seasons RR I'm in. I don't want to bog down the next lady, so I'll send her a book every week or so and that will get the group going again. Can't wait to finish this round and get my book back!! I miss it...sniff...sniff...

I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON!!!!

This is about 7x9 and in my living room!! IT's not a card, it's on 2 peices of mat board.

Click here: http://www.rubberstampsclub.com/winners-march06.html

Vintage Spreads

Sniff...sniff... these are the last two spreads for one of my Round Robins. I'm sad that it's over, but it was great. We had some awesome themes, I think the "In a Galaxy far far away" was one of my favs...I really had to go find stuff for that one! Oh and the beatles book!

This spread was done with me aging the papers with walnut inks and embossing powders. I used handmade paper and the chick is on a transparency held by those cool paperclips. The right side is all cut out. About 15 pages worth, and the middle thing is a pin that i found in a thrift store, I covered it with those micro beads for texture, and added fringe to complete the page.

When you turn the middle thingy over, you get the travel part of the vintage travels page. I used tons of misc stuff, stickers, mirrors, papers, aged the book part of the paper, and embossing powders for texture.

Okay, this is spread is a little bead happy!! I called it "memories of old" There just tons of old stuff on it. Old pic of people dancing, which I aged myself, old stuff on the Cd, The backgroud is this thick ribbon i found, which i heat set and it got all holey and aged looking, and the beads are just for fun!!

What have I done....

I started my own group on yahoo....

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thealteredartgroup/

I'm really excited about it!! If you're into altered books swaps, or anything altered art, chunky books, card swaps, atc, come check us out. It just started, but we are going to be doing an Altered Book Round Robin. Choose your own theme, BUT it's a technique book!! Ahhhhh, how cool is that? Ton's of techniques in whatever theme you choose. I chose fairytale.. It's going to be so much fun!!

Copper

Altered Journal

Here is the front of an Altered Journal I did for a swap. I sent this to someone who really inspires me and sends me some of the most beautiful swaps.

I'll post the inside cover and the back as soon as blogger allows me too!!

In a galaxy far far away...on the front and back of a CD anyway!

This one's for you CM, I hope you like it!!

Faerie Cd front and Back

Another one I didn't want to give away....

Life is better today :O)

Okay, I feel much better today. Eyes are okay, I'm back to working on my swaps. I've even done a couple today that I think are pretty good!! Check 'em out:

This is a spread I did for a Beatles book. I picked my favorite song, Blackbird, and did an abstract painting.



Here's the tag I made for the book, I added fibers after I scanned it:

And here is a Dance Cd I made for an altered cd swap. It didn't scan very well, I almost don't want to mail this one!! This cd is the one making up for a cd I didn't really mean to send out. I hope she likes it!!


Will add more stuff later!!!