The next page--Stained for life

For this topic I chose stained glass windows. The front window was made from some acrylic packaging, I drew a window with pearl pens, which give a raised line.. Inside these lines I used alcohol inks for the coloured glass.. This window swings to the side, and underneath there is an explanation of stained glass.
On the back of this page is a fabric pocket with tags with examples of stained glass windows. I also stamped a window on inked paper, and embossed it. It is now on it's way to Canada.

Chunky elephant book

I love elephants, my mother collected them, and as I inherited them, they are now all over the house. Stone, pottery, metal, alabaster from Italy, volcanic ash ( I bought that one from Etna), glass, crystal,, and loads of wooden ones. I am now adding to them by making books with them in. (no not the ornaments)
These are for a swap for a chunky book. As I have already done an altered book, I thought this would be a doddle. I have lost my way a bit, and found them a chore. It will be interesting to see what I get back. They are a mixture of collage, stamping, friendly plastic, and fibres.

Mixed media birds

Not quite back into the swing of things, but did manage to do a few swaps recently that took a bit of time. The template for these was a Stampington one, and I hope I have managed to do the right size. They flew off across the Atlantic yesterday, so I will find out soon enough.
They are a mixture of collage and stamping.

Another journal page--Photogaraphs

I am being a very bad blogger, and am struggling to do anything else other than these pages, which have to be done. The odd swap sneaks in as well, but then I don't have time to blog everything.
May's subject was photographs, I put some lace, beads and buttons on the background, made some friendly plastic frames, cut up an old wedding photo of folks I didn't recognise, and the job was done. I also made a photo album with some leather, but found it difficult to write on it without it coming off. Anybody any ideas on that problem ?

The next journal page 'On the fly'

The title for last month was 'On the fly', which some of us struggled with. Luckily for me, a friend had some appropriate house mouse stamps. The mice have been chased up a tree by the neighbours fat overfed cat, and having eaten all the acorns on the tree they needed to get down for some more. They took advantage of the falling leaves for a quick decent. They did it 'on the fly'
The leaves are a mixture of metal and card, and the bottom is textured and painted. On the reverse side are some tags, with the tale of the hungry mice, and some large acorns in case they run out.

Gothic arches -- Birds

I am being a very bad blogger at the moment, it's the weather's fault. As well as putting the bungalow up for sale, I am trying to de-clutter, what a hopeless task.
Off that depressing subject, and onto some gothic arches I made for a swap, all in one of my favourite subjects, birds.
They are all a mixture of inking, stamping and collage.

Printed fabric brush roll

For a recent swap, we had to print our own fabric, then make our partner something with it. Knowing my partner was an extremely good artist, I thought a watercolour brush holder would be useful. I printed the fabric with a foam stamp that I had made on an Angie Hughes course. I used lumiere paints in two colours. I then put in some thin wadding and machined over it first of all with a variegated orange thread, and then criss crossed it with a metallic one.
I made a backing with the openings for the brushes, and sewed the whole thing together.
Pattie was really pleased with it.