Thursday, April 24, 2008

Artsy additions

This is a spread that I made for Linda Eustace for her "journey" altered book. I challenged myself to take a "journey" around my art room and use images stamped on tissue paper and mulberry paper. Plus a ribbon pennant and some gold scrap!



These are Gothic arches that I made for Heather Robinson...her theme is "anything vintage", so I used a couple of soft, romantic images on fabric backgrounds, the 1st one reads "a mother's kiss, a child's whisper" & the 2nd "the soft blush of Spring upon her cheek". I embellished the pieces with Lumiere paint, silk flowers, & hand-dyed lace.


This is a piece that I completed for the April 18 PW quote challenge. The quotation is "Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come". I distressed a PW image and gave her a little crown, used some Basic Grey "Boxer" papers around the edges, stamped, fringed, & folded a wee bit o' muslin, and stamped a little house on tissue paper. I finished the other side with background papers and then put the quotation there.

This is a combo pic of my Moonbeam Fairy slippers and the little box that I altered to hold them. The box is a round papier mache that I painted with royal blue, turquoise, and silver acrylics. I stamped the blue moon face on some tissue paper and adhered it to the top of the box, stamped on Moonbeam, and added some tiny silver stars. I stamped the words "weaving silver threads among the stars" on tissue paper and glued it to the side of the box. I then drew some silver "threads" and stamped some tiny black stars to finish it off. I sewed a round pillow of silver faille and stamped it with the blue moon face, stuffed it, & put it in the box so the slippers could rest on it.


5 comments:

Joanne Huffman said...

The Fairy slippers are absolutely enchanting; I can see why you received an honorable mention. I love your arches (softly elegant). The journal from the trip around your studio is a cool office. It's ALL good.

Joanne

jackie said...

Cat, I haven't seen any of your latest work and it is all wonderful! Those tiny fairy slippers are exquisite! All of your pieces prove how talented you are! I love your little touches of fabric in your art!
hugs,
jackie

Viola said...

Love your artwork! Wonderful pieces!

Dawn said...

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous...Cat you are oh so talented xxx

~*~Patty said...

Very beautiful artwork on your blog! Your tiny fairy slippers are too too sweet and such a lot of detail too. I had actually thought of making a pair of slippers to go along with my Bippity Boppity Ball Gown forthe PW Forum.