Mixed Media Journal

Happy February my friends, I hope you are all well.

Just dropping in with something I actually finished. I say that because I seem to have

several unfinished projects on the go and am having a hard time deciding where to go

with them. Do you ever get like that?

This in an art journal, I insert mixed media paper, water colour paper and some of my inky papers in the journal for artsy friends to create on. Or not, doesn't matter :)

This one I am keeping for myself because I gave all my others as gifts.

I love the bright colours on this journal too, lots of layering and finished up with some

machine stitching. 

You can still take Roben Marie's workshop on her process to creating these journals. I took

it last summer and really enjoyed it, I just put my own style to the finished product  which is good, because we don't all want to look like we make the same journals or papers :)

A few more papers that may be going in another journal.
The thing is you can use these papers for backgrounds on atc's or collage, and they are a lot of fun to create using spray inks.

I have had a hard time focusing on art to be honest, maybe that's why the unfinished projects. We found out a couple of weeks ago that my sister has breast cancer and there has been a lot of different feelings and emotions flying around here. I am not sure when her surgery will be, but they are thinking a lumpectomy to start with. It's such a shock when you get news like this, then after a while you start to accept it and do what needs to be done. My sister is being really good about it, so I know she will do well :)

I am happy that January is over now, it just seemed like a very long month.

How's things with you?

Color and Texture play

I was putting together a pile of things from my stash as inspiration for Suzi Blu's new workshop, which is all about Mermaids, and I came up with this little needle felted collage which is still a work in progress. It is done on a painted baby wipe, much like the ones I used for my beads.

Ahhhhh there. You can see some of my baby wipe beads.
I had a lot of fun putting all these bits and pieces together that I have kept them in a bowl now in my studio for inspiration.

I put some batting in the back of the painted baby wipe and needle felted what remind me of little bird nests. I also needle felted some fibers , and I just had to use a couple of these teeny tiny dragonfly beads. I don't have a free hand foot for my sewing machine so I just did some random stitching and now I feel it needs some more hand stitching.

Not sure what I am going to do with it, but it's been fun :) I never did start the Mermaid workshop, I got carried away, lost in a space of my own. I can still catch up later, we are working on color theory and background textures the first few weeks, should be fun.

I hope you find some inspiration in my mess :) Why not make a pile of your own?

Have a colorful day :)
Lynn