Wow, what can I say? I am overwhelmed by your kindness. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments and inspiration. I have decided I am going to make a summer journal to start with, before tackling a more ambitious altered book project.
However, for a bit of instant gratification, I have decided to put [...]
I had one of those days today. Those when, no matter what you set out to do, fate (or your brain) have decreed you’ll be doing something else. I wanted to finish the summer giveaway package and set out to create a downloadable background paper. So I switched on Photoshop, got out my selection of [...]
…Diane! Clearly you did good in being late to the party, because Random.org picked you. I hope you enjoy this collage sheet as much as you did the background paper you downloaded a while ago.
Collage sheet detail
For everyone else, the free background paper Diane downloaded, together with another one, are still available. The first one, [...]
February 19, 2009 – 4:00 pm
I made my very first collages when I was a little girl at school. I remember loving it because I had always been into art but never very good at drawing or painting. Collage was a way to circumvent my artistic shortcomings and still “paint” things. What I did at the time was what I [...]
February 14, 2009 – 8:57 am
Happy Valentine’s Day! Although I am not a great fan of this holiday, I must admit this year I got caught in the fun of it. This is partly because I am in the Alps just now, gazing out of the window at a very romantic landscape of white peaks and snow-laden trees. But, mostly, [...]
When I first started paper-crafting, I had a passion for photo montages. I’d stick Niccolo’s head on a Victorian boy or one of Raphael’s angels and turn them into cards with gusto. It had been a while since I last did that, but last week I came across an image of a Victorian baby girl [...]
Only die-hard fans of Thomas the Tank Engine (or the mothers thereof) will get the “nearly there” quote from the Spencer book, but I do feel much like Edward, a slow, old steam engine, trying to beat shiny new Spencer in a race to the duke’s summer house. Except that —in my quest to finish [...]
I was tidying up my files—not something I’d ordinarily do of my own free will, but my husband threatened all sorts of dire retributions—when I came across a little digital collage I had made a few months ago. It was February 4, I had just hit the seventh month of my pregnancy and felt like [...]
Easter came and went and I am still pregnant. My doc seemed convinced that I’d go into labour well before we started munching on chocolate eggs—she even told me not to do any heavy physical work around the house to avoid an early delivery—but, unless something happens over the next couple of days, it looks [...]
March 19, 2008 – 10:45 am
Another belated entry, this time for the Inspire Me Thursday challenge, which was all about including inkblots in your work. Unusually for me, I didn’t start out with an idea. I just went on, produced a blot which ended up looking like a butterfly and that sparked inspiration.
Sisters digital collage for Inspire Me Thursday challenge
I [...]
