3 D embroidery number 6

This is my sixth one of these, what makes you think I like doing them. I am now waiting to put the finished pink one on the wood and have started a brown and gold one I might stop at that as we are running out of places to put all my work.

Thursday Journal with Neet

Neet's choice this week with Squeezed orange and bubblegum pink which are Dylusion colours and the word SouthAmerica. I added some green to mine.
I have no stamps for South  America so my mind went immediately to the Easter Islands and the huge figures found there. These were formed during the 13-16 centuries by the people of Rapa Nui. There are 887 of them on this island of Chile. I suppose it is a bit of a cop out, but I couldn't think of anything else.
When my youngest daughter took her gap year she went to Chile. I went there to see her and we were going to go to Easter Island, BUT Kevin Costner was there filming, so no tourists were allowed to visit, I was not pleased.

Every Inchie Monday -- Goat

For the last inchie the animal is goat. When I lived in the Highlands of Scotland we had a Anglo Nubian goat who was as much use for milking as a piece of wood. We might have managed some sap from the wood, but as soon as you went anywhere near the rear end of Polly, she sat down. No way would she get up. She wasn't much use at eating the grass either, but loved my MIL's  lupins and roses.
What she did love were polo mints and would run down our long drive when she heard the school car bringing the children back from school. My son usually had poll mints in his pocket, and was greeted by Polly waiting to stick her nose in his pocket. Paul used to hate this as the other boys used to tease him about his girl friend Polly. So here is Polly

Hilary Beattie style book finished

At long last my Hilary Beattie style fabric book is finished. The putting together of the book was very difficult and my fingers ended up well stabbed by the needle. I have to admit to being pleased it's finished with a note to self: do not to another one.

 The front cover

 The finished book.

Thursday Journal with Neet

Neet's choice this time, and she has chosen green and red for the colours and Christmas as the word.
I used green paint for the background with a darker green through a stencil for the ivy. I use two die cuts for some more ivy. The figures are Dylusions and the clothes die cut one I used to make some Christmas cards.

Every Inchie Monday -- Reindeer

The last but one inchie for the year and nearly the end for me of six years of making inchies.
This one is sort of Christmassy as it's reindeer.

Some pictures

Tag Tuesday -- Christmas Memories

My second tag for Joan's theme of Christmas Memories on Tag Tuesday. The background is a paper and the surround is friendly plastic The tree is metal.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week it's Neet's choice of the two colours which are Distress oxides in Peacock feathers and Twisted citron and the word is dogs. I used the two colours first of all in Distress inks and then used the oxides on top. My third colour is Adirondack earth tones in rust. The two dogs are Dylusions and coloured in with watercolour pens.
I chose the snow scene to echo the garden outside which had one foot of snow with two foot drifts. We hadn't been able to get the car out until yesterday.

Tag Tuesday -- Christmas memories

For the next fortnight on Tag Tuesday, Joan has chosen Christmas memories for her theme. My childhood memories of Christmas are queueing up outside the lounge door to go into a wonderland. My parents used to do the decorations and Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, when my brother and I had gone to bed. so we didn't see anything until the big day.
The filled stocking in the morning was the first exciting thing, and then going into our parents room to see what they had in their stockings, usually a lump of coal and other boring things. Christmas seems to very different now.

Every Inchie Monday -- Wolf

Oh dear, my sewn wolf looks more like a friendly terrier than a wolf,  but making the face look longer was really difficult. My stampbord one is drawn and coloured with Staedtler finaliners.

Some pictures of our snow fall, all 14 inches of it. It's the first snow we have had here since we moved in three years ago. We can't get the cars out as our drive is too long to dig our way out.

Thursday Journal with Neet

I have been away all week culminating in looking after my daughter's marine shop with my son in law. As we normally go there at the weekend, I only twigged it was Thursday journal time this morning. As soon as we arrived home a cup of coffee and I went into the studio and worked on my journal.

I used Dylusion paints in orange and brown which were the colours I had chosen for this week. My third colour is turquoise which always goes well with the first two colours. My word was cats. I used several stencils on the background, and painted the cats with watercolour paint.

Off to see what Neet has done.

Some more Hilary Beattie style pages.

Here are two more, all hand dyed and embroidered.

Every Inchie Monday -- Wild Boar

I've been away for four days and am off again tomorrow. What didn't I want to do, yup the wild boar. Not the easiest animal to draw and even worse to sew. My sewn one looks more like a benevolent sheep than a wild boar. After several attempts I gave up, so this is a boar and sheep cross.

Second fabric page with Annie

This month we are using the technique and style of Anne Kelly. I must admit I didn't know her work until Annie went on a workshop with her and then showed me her sample. It is the style I used on the front and back covers of my woodland book. This is the one I have made for Annie.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week Neet chose the theme which is pink and lilac and the word is silhouette. It was a great change to do something in pinks again, as it's not a colour I use that often. I made my background with Dylusion paints in rose pink , laid-back lilac and crushed grape. I used several stencils with the same colours.I then used Dylusion masks for the two figures and used my third colour which was black. I die cut the dog and used the negative  for a mask.

Another two fabric pages

These are another two pages for my Hilary Beattie type pages.

Tag Tuesday -- Anything goes, to include some lime green

It's my turn to choose the theme for Tag Tuesday, and with Christmas fast approaching I hope the theme of 'Anything goes' will make life a little bit easier for all the folks entering the challenge. Lime green is one of my favourite colours so I would like you include some of the colour on your 'anything goes' tags.
Of the two I have made one is family orientated and the other has lots of layers and textures. On the family one, I think the middle girl is my mum, and the lady behind her my Nan. I really am not sure, and there is no-one left to ask. What a shame our ancestors didn't write on the back of photos to say who they are.

Every Inchie Monday -- Turkey

I really hope that these will be the last turkeys I ever have to draw or sew, what a nightmare. The fact that they are ugly and I don't like eating them didn't help. I came down to my studio yesterday to get on with them and ended up making some Christmas cards instead. The fact that I didn't want to make cards either shows how reluctant I was do do these turkeys. The top stampbord one is the original. and as I didn't think it looked like a turkey I then altered the bottom bit of it and there you go another one that doesn't look like a turkey. As I only have four pieces of stampbord left I can't do another one.

We had the grandchildren here for the weekend, and I helped them make Christmas cards. That sort of made me realise that I only had six left over from last year, and I really should make an effort.
All the kids wanted to do was use the rubber stamps, and get covered in ink while they were about it. So I left everything out and did some stampings myself, and yes I ended up all inky as well.

Large fabric pages for my book on Hilary Beattie fabric type collages.

After going on a course with Hilary which was fabulous, fun and informative, I was a bit addicted to making more pages than the two I made on the course. I have made seven in all and a cover for the book. Each page is a double spread and boy am I having fun and games putting it together. I will show you the finished book once I have achieved something resembling a book, and not a pile of collaged fabric.
All the pages are hand printed and dyed, with some machine quilting and hand embroidery.
Here are two of them.

Art Journall Journey -- 101 ways to keep warm

Chris is the host for Art Journal Journey this month and has chosen '101 ways to keep warm'
I have been so busy that I have put this to one side for weeks.
I have used one of my favourite pictures of two little boys dressed up to keep warm in the snow. The background is distress inks with Paperartsy Infusions sprinkled on top. The trees are a Tim Holtz die cut pine tree, with some puff paint for the snow.

Tag Tuesday -- Music

My second tag for Michele's theme of music on Tag Tuesday This time I covered the tag with some blue music  background and added the picture of the lady playing the harp. Some napkin and flowers finished it off.

Every Inchie Monday -- Hedgehog

This week on Every Inchie Monday we feature the hedgehog, the gardeners friend. I just wish I had lots in my garden to eat all the slugs. I have drawn the stampbord one and hand stitched the sewn one. I will really miss doing these when the site closes at the end of the year. I shall try to do some sewn ones for the years I only did card or stampbord ones.

Thursday journal with Neet

My turn this week to choose the colours and words. I have chosen turquoise and lime green, no surprise to those who know me, with my third colour, coral.  The word is mermaid. As soon as I started this I wondered why on earth I had chosen mermaid. All my Dylusion figures were too big, so I used a friends stamp and stamped a mermaid. Neet and I had decided where possible to use Dylusion stamps and I had made a mermaid with one of the heads and a body of another one. I made up a tail and used silk for the hair. It just about filled the page, so hubby who isn't a bit interested in what I was doing said " why don't you photocopy it and reduce the size. So that is what I did.  I have also used the stamped one. I die cut some seaweed and stamped and embossed some more. A few stamped fish and shells and I was finished.
Note to self: Think before coming up with a wood that is too much of a challenge.
I wonder what Neet will choose for next week !!

Fabric pages

These are the two other 8' x 6" pages that I made at the same time as doing the one for Annie. I will probably use these on the cover when we have finished doing all the pages, in other words in eleven months time. Note to self, put them somewhere I can find them next October.
All the fabric on these pages including the large ones are all hand printed and dyed ( procion dye or paint), either on a gelli plate or with Indian wooden blocks or stencils.