Page No 8 Polka dots

This page was a bit of a challenge, as dots are not my thing, I'm dotty enough already.
I thought the easiest way out of this one was to dress up an paper art doll with some dotty fabric. I had some dot backgrounds for the front and back, so decided to make it fairly simple.
The face is clay, but the rest is card. The limbs are moveable.

Another page for the Interpretations book

This time the title is 'ripped', and having found a suitable picture, I knew what I wanted to do. First of all I ripped up some paper for the front and back backgrounds. I stuck the main photograph on, and them ripped the man's photo in half. The caption says ' As soon as I knew, I just ripped his photograph in two'
I made some flowers out of organza, and added some lace at the bottom

Fabric postcards Trees

These are some fabric postcards for a swap I am hosting. The backgrounds are painted pelmet vilene, and the tree trunks cut out with the Tim Holtz tree die on black felt. I free machine embroidered on the black felt. The leaves on the green one are bits of silk cut up and sewn down with free embroidery. The orange one is made up of bits of cut up yarns, again with machine embroidery on top.

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 ?