Creatively Amused

I chopped this castoff sweatshirt of my son's right down the middle, through some patches on, added chenille to the sleeves and completed with a ribbon tie for this cute little jacket. Fun huh?

Here are some journaling backgrounds I'm just having so much fun with them. And it's wonderful that Teesha Moore and Anahata Katkin are so generous about sharing their images. Mega inspiration! Vogue and Vanity Fair are the best magazines for cutting up - they have great clothes and faces for mixing and matching - lol - I got this ladies bottom half from Vogue, and the polka dots above are from a scan of fabric.

But I think this one is too pretty to write on. What is everyone else working on?? Leave links so we can check it out! And Renaissance Girls you can start sending your jpgs to me anytime now~ I'm really looking forward to posting them, (and to passing them on to CPS).

I've been playing around with old Tee shirts, they are such fun to alter! The first one was a long sleeve slightly fitted tee that I cut the sleeves from, ending with a rolled and tied treatment. I have several more to go, and lots more ideas! Is anyone interested in a Workshop on Tee Altering?? It would be for three different Tee treatments at a cost of $25. Let me know if you're in. ALSO - re: the Renaissance Girl Challenge - we have a fantastic group of players! I'm very excited. The only guideline is a finish date for the end of August. Other that that you can go any size, or subject -the object being to work the piece with all of your different skills!

I'm still enchanted with my needle felting machine and I have a new trick! You can open up silk carrier rods into flowers. You just peel apart the two layers and rub them between your fingers a bit to make them supple, then fold them into the fan shape. I used the inner and outer layers on some of these, you can tell the difference because the inner layer has more white on it. You have to sew the rod down before you felt the top layer, I used silk caps, (hankies), on most of them, I love the edge pieces. What's also great about this machine is if you don't like what you've done, it's usually easy to cover it up, just like collage. Oh, also - this was a piece of white felt when I started, it's very easy to cover larger spaces. Does anyone have an inexpensive source for silk rods?

So I was just talking to Amy Munson a multi-talented woman, who like me wants to try everything, and I was thinking it would be very cool to post a challenge for like minded souls to incorporate all their passions into one piece of art. For example my piece might be a mixed media crazy quilt with silk ribbon embroidery, needle tatting, knitted accents, needle felting, vintage beading, and soldered charms. If you're up for the challenge just post a response to let me know you're in, and if at least two or three of you Renaissance Souls are ready to play, I'll let Pokey Bolton of "Cloth Paper Scissors" in on it, I know she'd be happy to check out what we come up with!