button, button, who's got the button?

Another great swap hosted by Strawberry at Art42 - chunky page with button theme. Here's mine

I covered the board pages with paint dabber, sprayed it with water and swirled the pant to blend the colors. Then scraped colored gesso over a circle stencil (Thanks Dyan Reavely for this fabulous idea :-). I set grommets in three places and "sewed" the buttons in place with wax thread

Each one is anchored on the back with another button, which gives a little visual interest on the back too. The quotes I grabbed from online, put them in stamp fonts from dafont, and printed them out. Aged them a big with distressed inks. 


Thanks for hosting Strawberry! Always a pleasure.

Inchie Primo

Haven't done many inchies before, but this was very fun. I spent some quality time going through magazines (constructive activity while watching telly) and cut out interesting patterns and shapes and backed them with card stock. Then used glaze pens to highlight and brighten.

(Sorry so dark - morning light and Blackberries do not make great photos)

DEFINE: Inchie - 1" x 1" piece of art. See more at the all in an inch blog

Driveway project

Yesterday the kids and I had our way with some card stock and spray inks. Jaime gathered stones in her baseball mitt and dutifully anchored each page.

Now what to do with these...

Zentangle 7

Tangled Envelopes

I've been decorating my enveloped each time I send out a new ATC just for kicks. I use large white business envelopes and have at it.

A little Zentangle this time

I picked a zentangle swap this time, just to try it out. I used a stamp and embossed the flower design, then tangled the rest. 

Envelope Swap

Envelope swap this month - 10 envelopes. Here they are...

ATC #2 - Chunky Pages

This is my first attempt at chunky pages. I joined this project on a whim and thought I'd give it a try. The themes the artist chose were Paris and Time. Paris I can do--so many choices, but Time was a hard one to visualize.

I used thick 4" x 4" cardboard and lines with a map of Paris on the front, and embossed the back using a script pattern. I like the mitered corners of the border. Then I used some pre-made chunky stickers with a Parisian theme.

 On the back, I put an envelope and popped in a cutout of the Eiffel Tower.

And this is what I came up with for Time... timeline, spirals...

...time machines, and gears. On this side, I cut out some cool graphic art from Wired magazine (they have amazing art), mounted it on grunge board, and gave it some texture with an acrylic medium. I used Japanese Washi tape to line the edges. 

First ATC

I just started getting back into my art studio after a 6 year hiatus. I joined an online ATC group to put some discipline into the process (nothing like a deadline to keep you honest). First theme: What is Science? This is what I came up with--"Measuring Nature"