Creative Soul Blue Book

I am so over committed on RR art right now! I don't know what on earth I was thinking!... oh, wait I was not thinking! the BIG daddy of them all is the RR calendar with 3 spreads a month, as outstanding as this book will be I must say that after its over it will be both sadness and relief, but I must say that I have really grown with this project so yes if I had it to do again I would :)





I just did this page for a true colors style RR its just a one page spread so its not that much work... but we all know just how long it takes us even to do a small spread, Hey, if you dont tell any one, I won't!

September RR calendar pages for Sue

This calendar has some of the best art in it! Usually we get to keep these book for a month but the girl before me was late, so I only got to have it for a few days... I was happy with how the pages came out, I was really happy with the door spread I had to play with it a little but once it came together, it really worked out well, poetry was the team of this book so I used all my favorites! I will be sending it off in the morning.


"Beloved... I stared looking for you. Not knowing how blond that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
There in each other all along." ~ Rumi



"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion"



One went to the door of the beloved and knocked.

A voice asked, "Who is there?"

He answered, "It is I."

The voice said, "There is no room for Me and Thee."

The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation he returned
and knocked.

A voice from within asked, "Who is there?"

The man responded, "It is Thee."

The door was opened for him.
~Rumi


I made copper frames and used resin papers, transparencies with painted papers, paper toweling, cheese cloth and fibers, with machine stitching.

last of my halloween atc's

I really like the backs of things... I enjoy when the back of somthing is just as inspring as the front... maybe its because I think in jewelry teams were there is no front or back?

"night goblin" has resin covered papers sewn onto a copper frame with fibers in between the layers.



"girls love to cook" has painted paper towels and cheese cloth, transpensey, machine sewn onto felt with black tulle.



"midnight blue sky" turpentine paper, painted cheese cloth, felt and book text with transiency machine stiched.

best package ever !

My supper best friend from high school, Deborah (class of 84)! Is a talented bead artist and she sent me a wonderful box of jewelry inspiration from her wonderfully creative store bella luna beads in East Dundee, IL


but she did not stop there she spoiled me even more with this lovely bracelet that she made just for me!!! ... Thanks Deborah, I love it all!!! now lets see if I can remember how to make jewelry :)

Halloween ATC's, resin papers and my messy desk :)

I have made some resin papers from a 300 year Talmud book that is falling apart, the pages had started to crumble, but once they are coated they are so wonderful! I would play with them right now but my desk ... well as you can see I don't have an inch to work on ... its so bad that I had to make the trash can table outside :) despite the mess, I did make these witch atc's for a Halloween swap.







I used envirotex lite on the papers
you can get this at dick blick

its a two part resin all you do is mix it one part to one part .
where gloves, do it out side on top of a plastic trash bag and use one of those foam brushes that you can toss out after. its take 12+ hours to dry and if you do a sheet of paper like I did you will need to coat both sides (you can do both sides at the same time) then you leave it on the trash bag for 12 hours...

it will not come off the bag until it has complete dried, so you can not cheat and try to rush it, it does make the paper some what translucent and in the case of my paper which was 100+ years old and it almost looks like stain glass. it is all so shiny... it makes the paper more like a plastic so you can use it in alot of diffrent ways... I have been sewing over it and its seams to hold up well.
Susan lenart kazmer has a article in this months summerset about resin papers that is really great!

Famico

Teal and Black 4x4's




these made me think of my Great Grandmother Famico, she would always have on her little pill box hat and her black wool coat :)

I used painted backround with fibers, cloth and machine stiching.

Witch ATC's

my halloween ATC's, 10 in all, they have a front and back to them.