Cottage Art Time

Just some things to share from my vacation....

... fabric ATC for a friend

...ATC with fabric paper background

I used this gelli plate print with water colours...

...in the first page in a new art journal I started!

Enjoy. Jewels

The Famous Mr. Darcy!

Back from my vacation and look what I found in my mail box!

Mr. D had his story written for a local magazine, The Tridge Life...

Full page spread even - a celebrity!

Hope you can read this...

And just for a bonus, guess what I found out over the holiday - don't leave cups of tea on the floor by the couch ....hearing some suspicious slurping come to discover Mr. D likes tea (though he has not indicated any preference like Earl Grey or Breakfast) LOL - true to his name (little stinker) :)  Enjoy. Jewels

Mail Art - Night Sky

Oh my this was such a fun theme for Jo, Lenna and I. All three of us came up with something entirely different! And I love them all....

Let's start with Jo's - "Why did the Hare stare at the Moon"? I did a quick Google and found this: The moon gazing hare is an ancient symbol of fertility. The hare is always an attribute of lunar deities. The moon-gazing hare was especially important to early Britons. In nature hares can be seen and in ancient times, often seen in this "moon gazing" pose. Chinese moon gazing hares were thought of as gazing up at what he sees as his ancient ancestor, the Moon rabbit in the moon....

I can't wait to read Jo's post on this and how she created it. I have a special place for it already picked out! Love the envelope too!

Lenna, who is very big in to photography and playing with different programs came up with a wonderful image of her street at night - just love everything that is happening here with all the different layers.

She also created a beautiful cover that she attached her photo to.

I used a photo I took last year at the cottage of a sunset that had spectacular colours - of course photos can't do it justice.

I decided it was time to really get serious with my Gelli Plate (lol) and used it to create the background. After I did the first print I embellished it with water colours. Turned out to be a good match with the original photo.

I also used a gelli print for the envelope which has a very poetic description of my picture - I first heard this on NPR radio when a gentleman from Sierra Leone explained that in his language "You know, how you say, "night came suddenly"? In Mende, which is my mother tongue, you say, "the sky rolled over and changed its sides." Lovely...

Next up - Tickled Pink - and I already know what I plan to do. Enjoy. Jewels

Junk Mail Mail Art....

...well that's a mouthful LOL....You may remember a post not too long ago about some lovely mail art I had received including ones from Leslie and Beth with this theme. For awhile I thought mine to Leslie had gone AWOL but it had not so now I can share what I did with all the junk mail I collected (and also received from friends at work)....it is amazing the cool stuff you can get within just a couple of weeks if you pay attention. The rules - you could paint and stamp and embellish BUT all graphics and text had to come from the junk mail....

It was still pretty snowy here when I created Beth's mail. 

So the ad for Alaska with the moose and sunglasses was perfect to cheer the coming of Spring on....

A Barbie Doll catalog inspired the piece for Leslie....

As well as Viking Cruise and Disney Travel brochures.... yep, NO Ken LOL.

I would definetly do again - a lot of fun! Enjoy...Jewels