Vernon Art Gallery ATC exhibition

Wow this is a great exhibition of ATCs from all over the world in Vernon, B.C,'s wonderful art gallery. And it was great to see my own humble little ATCs hanging in such a lovely little room. Very inspiring! Joanne, Anne's , Judy M and mine are shown here in close ups. There were metal , watercolours, fabric and beads, rubber stamped , photographs and other great works of art done on a very small Size. For those who do not know what an ATC is it is 2+1/2 inches by 3+1/2 inches in size. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit and cannot wait till I can sign up for another swap in a venue like Vernon's. Hope you enjoy the photos! And if you are in the area stop in and see the ATCs in person in the next month. And when the exibit is finished the ATCs will be swapped out. I will post then which works of art I got in my swap.

Judy

Happy Halloween

I am late getting my October Rolodex done but it will go out tomorrow. I decided to try fabric and embroidery so used muslin and when I was finished my trees I used matte gel to glue the fabric to a rolodex card. Then I used acrylic paint mixed with Matte Medium to paint in the orange sky. I also used my water colour crayons to add more colours to the sky , reds and blues and then used browns for the ground. The photo doesn't show the shading at all unfortunately. I then distressed the card with walnut stain distress ink. The bats are traced from Tim Holtz grungeboard onto flocked black paper. I am happy with them. Hope that the ladies do too. Next project is the 12 days of Christmas swap.

Judy

ATCs for Vernon Art Gallery

So finally photos of the ATCs I am sending to Vernon for their exhibition/ swap in October. It took me several days to remember to buy batteries for the camera?? I have altered a photo of the S.S. Sicamous that is on Okanagan lake here. I then distressed the photos with sandpaper and used distress ink pads to colour the photos using four different colours. I used tiny brown brads in the four corners of each atc then used word Rub ons by Kaiser Scrapbook. I am quite pleased with the results but the resulting photo makes them appear lighter than they are in person. Thanks for looking!

Judy

Added photo of journal

I added some rub ons to the journal page. Made it more "grown up" art I thought. J

new photos at last

Wow last post was April ! I am way too busy it seems but I have been working on a couple of projects so will post photos today. Lovely summer here and busy !! So here are a couple of photos of a Rolodex swap with a theme of Market Day as the hostess always posts her market day buys on her blog, hi Beth, and another of a food journal I am doing for the never ending diet that is finally showing some results. Yeah Vitamin D!! Now just need to make a commitment and journal! And I have added some rub ons to the Journal Page too so will take a photo of it soon and post it. Made it look less like grade one work for me at least!! ; )

J

April art projects and minis

It has been a long time since I sat down and loaded some photos. I am not sure where the time goes sometimes! Anyways I took a stained glass class, and tried to make some Christmas ornaments from Microscope slides. They are not perfect but I did learn a little bit about foiling and soldering and the likes.

And the second photo is some of the cakes I have made using bottle caps and fake snow and paper cuts outs. They are in 1"=1foot scale . They will be on the group display at the Mini Show and Sale in Wesbank on the 24 of April.

And then there is a Nuno Felting project that I am working on with some beading and embroidery embellishments. I also did alittle bit of needle felting on this piece as it was just not quite what I was shooting for. When I finish it I will post another photo

Anyways as you can see I have been busy and staying out of mischief ( I think I need some mischief).

Thanks for looking!

Judy

nuno felting

This morning while waiting for the laundry to do it's thing, I decided to TRY some Nuno Felting. Now this is very new to me and I have tried Needle felting (love that). Gathered up the supplies and made some soapy water and here we go

Layer one : bath towel,

two: bubble wrap

three: roving

four: fine cheese cloth

five: more roving,

six: layer of some thin organza material.

Sprinkle the organza with soapy water till wet then rub the soapy water into the organza for several minutes to start the felting. when you think you have done enough, remove the organza fabric and cover this now with good old plastic wrap.

Since I do not own a rolling pin I used a fancy vinegar bottle and rolled the bubble wrap on to the bottle and tied it on to the bottle and rolled it on the bath towel. Now some instructions say 150 rolls but hey ...... who really counts that, I mean really!!!!! So I did it for 5 or 6 minutes (hoping the whole time that it will make my arms more shapely) the opened it up and wrapped it on the bottle from the other end and tied it and rolled it once again.

THEN take it off the bottle and because this is a very small item I spent another few minutes rolling it in my hands and squishing and playing with it till I liked the look of the felting. Then just did some rinsing in H2O (not really sure if I was supposed to do that) and then blocked it .

Now for this little piece it took maybe an hour tops, including looking at instructions online and having no idea what to really do for a couple of supplies needed. But I am really happy with my little piece of felting and I can see beading and embellishing and maybe even a frame???

For more information try this link :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ray_chel/414472133/in/set-72157594576821207/

I found this spot very good but there are more spots to see out there and numerous books at the library in my little town too.

Thanks for looking!

J