Creating the leaf images at Clitheroe Castle on the Art Walk Clitheroe At my artist's residency at Clitheroe Castle Museum for the Art Walk Clitheroe I made two leaf artworks using collage, watercolour, gouache, acrylic paint pens, and acrylic paints. I have since turned these pictures into the cards pictured below, you can see how …
Vintage Barbiecore, Edwardian Barbie-inspired, pink roses-themed digital paper kit with fussy cuts, journal pages and ephemera! Head on over to my Etsy shop to purchase my latest Digital Kit! This vintage-style kit is full of delicate pink papers, beautiful vintage roses and Edwardian-style ladies. I designed this kit envisioning how Barbie would look if she …
Hi there! Today I had great fun running an all-day, Christmas themed, sketchbook making workshop for the fabulous Blackburn Artists' Society. In today's workshop, I showed the Blackburn Artists how to make three different sketchbooks using only one sheet of paper in each. We made the pages of the books using different paper folding techniques …
It's official, September has arrived and I am here for it! Autumn is my favourite time of year. I love the changing leaves, the sunlight, acorns and pine cones, mushrooms and toadstools, crunching through dried leaves, wearing jumpers and lighting candles in the home again. Conkers- on my morning walk In April I started morning …
Over on Mushroom Moon Designs on Etsy I have been busy creating several new Digital products for use in junk journalling, scrapbooking and other paper crafts. First up we have several Christmas themed kits all ready for you to start your Christmas crafting! Some may think it too early to even begin thinking about Christmas, …
Hi everyone! Today I have released a BRAND NEW digital Junk journal kit over on my Etsy Shop! This New Abstract Digital Junk Journal kit consists of 4 sheets of lined and unlined Landscape oriented papers, 4 portrait-oriented papers, Faux stamps, faux postcard, 2 pocket designs, 2 sheets of labels in two designs and a …
I really enjoyed making the assemblages with photographs from my family history collection, (if you missed this post you can find it HERE ) so I thought I'd have a break from editing digital images for the Lancashire stories project (find out more HERE) and have another play and experiment with collage, textiles, ink, paint …
Today I am sharing with you a recent body of work I created which consists of several mixed medium assemblages. Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought speciallyhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/assemblage These pieces were created using various mediums- collage, alcohol inks, acrylic paints, textiles …
On today's art journal page I used some stickers from the "Bibliophilia Antiquarian sticker book" that I got for Christmas. In the background I used some papers from my "curiosity box" digital kit which you can purchase on Etsy HERE. The letters I cut out from various bits of scrap paper and I framed it …
For today's journal page entry I used a variety of maps and pages from an old West Midlands road atlas, plus some ink (Tim Holtz Distress ink) I then just used an old sentiment I found to create the title "Explore." Using old maps is a great way to create interesting texture and pattern in …
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