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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Photo Art Friday
This week at Pixel Dust Photo Art Bonnie challenged us to use graffiti in our art work. I thought I might write something outrageous on my wall but when push came to shove I wasn’t moved to. I expect when the challenge isn’t there to play with I will want too…contrary me.
I have been taking a few pictures of graffiti lately, they were in my library, quietly waiting for the day they would be the very pictures I would need.
Right near my home is an underpass that goes from the school to the shopping precinct. At one time it was preferable to be at the mercy of the traffic on top of the pass rather than use it. Now it has been painted with wonderful graffiti by the local school children. It is beautifully lit and safer for us all to use. (and photograph!)
I spent a rainy afternoon playing, here is my contribution to the gallery this week. Not graffiti by my own hand but graffiti I have seen and played with in photoshop.
This is my favourite piece this week and the one I would like to hang in the gallery please Bonnie.
And I did this just to see if I could write on the wall. I wasn’t going to post it but I saw that Bonnie had written the exact phrase on her wall, I sent it to her first earlier in the week.
I can’t wait to visit the virtual gallery this week to see the writing on the walls.
Ripped and Stitched
I have just finished my Ripped and Stitched on-line class with Roben Marie.
I had such fun making this journal. I thought you might like to see it.
We ripped fabric and painted then folded envelopes to make pages. We stitched fabric strips together to make a cover for the book. We made tags with paper fabric and glue. They hold two pages and a pocket together with a magnet.
We bound and stitched the whole thing together and now it’s ready.
“For what?” Said my husband
“I have no idea,” I said. “I will think of something and if I can’t I will ask on my blog!”
The journal is made from 13 x A4 white envelopes folded in half giving me 52 sides and 13 pockets. The covers and spine are made from heavy card.
I am happy to leave it on my shelf until an idea pops into my head; I just loved making it.
But what would you use it for?
Looking Up and Down
In Amsterdam.
Guest post! I hope this is allowed?
Not me unfortunately, my son.
I was thrilled to get these for Look Up Look Down this week. Ok the look up is not very good but hey, he thought of me…
…And Helena’s meme
A Scrapbook Page
I was reading Sian’s blog post about the sketch challenge on the Scrap 365 blog.
The sketch is of a classic house, complete with windows and a fence.
It reminded me of a page I did in 2007. I thought you might like to see it.
It was a 12 x 12 double page spread and was part of a memory book my 3 sisters-in-law and I made for their fathers (my father-in-law) 80th birthday.
The finished book was fabulous with such a variety of pages and ideas from lots of the family.
Anyway this was one of the pages I did.
Since I took the picture I changed the plain red roof paper to a tiled paper I found.
Behind the front door is my in laws wedding photo.
At the time I didn’t blog and didn’t appreciate the importance of photographing the pages!
One day I will borrow the book and photograph it properly.
The house has four windows for their four children and nets at the window because ‘that’s as it should be’ my MIL told me once.
Number 37 is their house number.
The tree eventually had 6 grandchildren’s faces on. It was difficult and time consuming to get pictures from people, no digital camera and internet access to send them to me!
Behind the curtains, pictures of four children when they were very young and a story about each of them that I had coaxed out of MIL. (She didn’t know we were making the book).
And behind the photos were more photos of wedding days and snippets of stories of their children.
My parents in law were thrilled with the book which had pages recording so many aspects of his life, work and family.
It was a lovely thing to work on with the sisters-in-law. And because we all live away from each other no-one but me had seen the finished book until the day before we presented it. Good memories.
I wonder what you think of the pages now? scrapbooking has moved on a pace since I started.