Happy Halloween

Happy Trick or Treating! I'll be away but wanted to send my spooky wishes to you all. This piece started as a demo of fabric collage at my local Quilt Guild - Amelia Island Quilters. I finished it up for my darling daughter, Kara, and her husband, Matt.

My husband and I are heading up to see them and to dog sit Baxter. Then we travel to Annapolis for Jim's 40th reunion, then on to NC to the Nature Printing Society's Annual Workshop. I'll be making paper, journals and monotypes. I'm thrilled.

Do have fun at Halloween. Remember those fun nights dressed up, trick or treating. I remember the infinite amount of candy......

More on Paper fabric

My favorites thus far.
Acrylic paint scraped using an old credit card.

Walnut ink sprayed. When dried stamped with white acrylic paint.
Walnut ink sprayed. When dried, green acrylic sponged.Walnut Ink. I definitely like the ink.

I'm heading up north for a couple plus weeks. Dog sitting for my darling daughter's Baxter, Lexington, KY, husband's 40th reunion at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, then absolute art fun at the Nature Printing Society's workshop at New Switzerland, NC.

New Work - The Language of Leaves

My latest!!!! All have been attached to stretcher strips. I pieced the background: some of the fabrics were first stamped or leaf printed. After quilting I added elements: leaf printed book page which was adhered to cheesecloth using watered down glue, different fabric shapes, a quilted leaf print and beads.

Fun with Paper Fabric

One of my groups I belong to mmartfriends@yahoogroups.com is holding a workshop following "Stitch Alchemy" by Kelli Perkins.
http://www.amazon.com/Stitch-Alchemy-Combining-Fabric-Paper/dp/1596681136

So I've been experimenting. Here are some of my first attempts. I've used muslin as the base fabric and watered white glue (I'm using all the glue I have in my art stash - Sobo, Alene's tacky, Elmer's). I didn't take notes on which is which. Oh, well. I'll go for the most inexpensive in the future - Elmer's I believe. I added various papers - napkins, printed tissue, book pages, dress pattern tissue. Sometimes I ended with a layer of tissue. Sometime I painted a wash when the glue was still dry.

Yesterday I collaged on more papers so I can start using inks to cover them.

New Work

These two pieces were first monoprints on paper which I then printed on specially treated fabric. Then I added a border and machine quilted.

"Beach Combers" is a mixed media piece. I roughly cut fabric strips and spray painted my own bird stencils and machine quilted. Separately, I stenciled the larger birds on old book pages and glues them down using gel medium and added more stitching. I embellished the piece with driftwood, shells and beads.

"Celebrate Shrimp" continues my discharge series. I used my own shrimp stencil, plus some of my own painted and printed discharge fabrics. There's a printed book page as well.

Alaska Scrapbook

I sent some time making 2 fabric covers for my Alaskan paper collection. The first book has multiple pages. The second is really just a folder of loose maps and flyers. I collected all kinds of information at all the places we visited, tore out images/info and glued them down. I planned to tear and paste nightly but that didn't happen. So I had a fun time creating my scrapbook once I got home.

Published!

All kinds of announcements. My "Diane's Doodles and Verses" has been published in "Creative Ways with Books and Journals" by Sue Bleiweiss & Terri Stegmiller http://twocreativestudios.com/store/BooksJournals.htm I'm tickled to say the least. Sue Bleiweiss took these images.