Christmas cards

this years Christmas cards made of torn paper…

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wish you could see the cards in person the photos are too magnified and show to many blemishes… they really look better in real…

gift horse collage

This is a different horse I made, couldn’t find a photo of the all purple background that I made For Michelle for her birthday, she loved it anyways.. This is the third one I made each is always a bit different as I can never find the same books to repeat images.some of the reigns are made of velvet papers, black… really eye catching. buckles are from photos of lady’s purses. Its really fun love this… THANKS to all my friends for giving me their magazines to use in my art……

Granny smith apples

Torn papers and some I had to Cut really thin lines, used card stock , Mulberry papers, scrap book papers Velvet papers from Cricut. And some tissue papers for back grounds. White paper is eye glass cleaner paper cut in squares to make apples shine……

A bit of the 50’s

She only took me 2 days , it’s hard to believe I must be getting better at this craft ,or I am skipping details. anyways I love her, ………………so shes done… I love tearing the paper’s and seeing things appear , at first they look kind of undone and not right . But the good thing about this  art is if you don’t like the results you can always tear up more paper and cover up the mistakes….. oh wait there are no mistakes only happy findings………

Mr.Owl

Mr.Owl this took so long to make some of the pieces of paper were so small that I couldn’t tear them that tiny,  So I used the scissors kind of a cheat but hey its mix media art anything goes right…..

rosebudinnh/Rose Guerin

Mr.Owl torn and cut paper

 

give a dog a bone

I think Someones a begging!! those EYES. okay here ya go boy!!! LOL

I love doing these they relax me tearing papers and gluing its a long process, but fun.. Kind of like paint by numbers remember doing that? oh what fun that was….

Bike ride?

Love the way it turned out spent way to many hours finding the right papers for this. But its great in my art book collection……….

LOVE  this I saw one and kind of copied the idea of it.

New fun torn paper art

Cat greeting card made form torn paper and Magazines.

unbranded and branded dies

unbranded dies from Amazon Prime {China}

I only bought these three dies to start with but boy do I wish I bought more they are just right to exchange the hair and clothes . love mixing and matching items.   started a bunch of cards need to color in some checks and add freckles and basic shading to them but they are to cute and I had to share them.

 

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The outside of the coffee card ….                          the inside has a pocket for a coffee GIFT                                                                                           CARD.

 

swimming beauties

I made the swim shorts by hand using ruffles from dress and made them head bands by hand and circle punch for knot.

swinging bye

to say HELLO and to say happy birthday .

now these are my favorite my grand daughters have favorite animals. Nora loves RABBITS, Abby loves DOGS, hence doberman, And  Elizabeth has my love for CATS… oh and we made them Stickers !!!!!! …….

animal CRAZY girls…

hand made ears and hand gloves just made extra arm with hands and cut it shorter and then cut of the fingers to fit ………. ok back to playing dolls….. later all….

 

Mr. Duck torn paper art.

This was inspired by my nephew TEDDY… He used to carry a stuffed Mr. Duck every where he went.. Hard to believe , He is all grown up now……  I am enjoying tearing papers and fitting them like puzzle pieces. its a slow long process . The best part of this is if you don’t like something you can always glue an other piece over the one you didn’t like…. added some mulberry paper to fluff him up some…..

Dalmatian puppy …Torn paper by Rose Guerin….. loved doing this guy such fun …took forever but I finally finished him… If you look close the words are all information about Dalmatians I thought it would be a kick to print it out and then tear the papers to fit.. Its like doing puzzles once you get the hang of it, pieces seem to just fit into place. ok now gotta go pick up all the torn pieces of paper that flew around ………

torn paper , collage WINE

 

Drew my image’s and  then painted back ground paint background  ,  just do some basic colors  helps to keep it proportioned. then start tearing papers to form an image. and glue… add white torn paper for glass glare .

 

star filling in spaces …………………….

 

I love doing this type of art. it relaxes me….

 

 

 

 

 

 

making new postcards look older

making a new postcard look old

 

cut the white off or leave it on for centering pleasing the eye. added some gold ink around edging ……..

next

Clear embossing ink is a lot cheaper then versa mark and works the same………..

But  I really love this TSUKINEKO GOLD  embossing POWDER

gives it that old fashion look….

you could distress it  on the edges, little cuts, bends, and tears..

 

DIY Divided Page Protectors and Shaker pockets WITHOUT a Fuse tool!

Hi Friends! Did you see the nifty looking Fuse tool from We R Memory Keepers that debuted at CHA this year? It is a hot tool that allowed you to make shaker pockets or divided page protectors (like…

Source: DIY Divided Page Protectors and Shaker pockets WITHOUT a Fuse tool!

paper embroidery feather

Using heavy water color paper. draw your feather of glue a photo of feather to paper to follow your color patterns. I use an Aul, to pre poke the holes make sure you have plenty of space between holes so you don’t tear new holes or over side an hole. its pretty easy you can do backstitching works good or reusing a stiched hole already in place.  then added beads ..fun and pretty. also made a green book mark. working on more of these everyone seems to want these…

my green feather book mark  . I love the colors light and dark greens, and crystal glass beads in the center. beads are all  Glass seed Beads…………….

 

Working on an Victorian type journal

tearing out the spine, to add my own signatures. follow for more additions…

opening page

started this ,homemade cut by hand rose added to inked book pages.. more to do.

a bling card..

pocket page have a postcard planned for this pocket posting more on this later.. and the flower tag flips with more fun images and a butterfly charm

nothing yet.

envelope to be filled with fun things.

back side of envelope more to come.

keep watching more to come here..

a small note holder..

A hand printed flower on canver then hand stiched on a heavy water color paper..

showing the card opens for Journaling.

card that opens and a pocket with mixed media art card.

showing card opens

better veiw of pocket card

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still blank

stitching seam

Flip Envelope Journal

4 or more envelopes

attach your envelopes  spray stamp or paint.

flip envelope book you can make into a SCRAP BOOK or a JOURNAL.

I used this beautiful paper from Recollections signature paper pad collection…. then used some decorative tape on the edges. and added paper snaps and string to open and close it.

stamped the env and added papers

I add some paper for either photos or journaling.. I plan on adding photo card and placing it in the envelope with the bike photo.flips open left to right.

Memories has an envelope slot to add more fun items………

Also added papers to the inside of env…..  LOVE THE LIVE SIMPLY… statement

more pockets ….

I have a thing about feathers , its a sign of angels watching over us. so I added a plastic window with Feathers made of paper in it…. I still have so much more art work and things to do.. but thought Id share this now…

flip side

 

Recollections signature paper pad collection

another Hand made book and decorated paper clip.

This cover was done with a lot of different napkins , It’s a NAPKIN DECOUPAGE COLLAGE  book cover plus I used some water colors to blend it all in to give it a more orange color to match the matt board covers.

save those Clementines creates?…

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OKAY so cool to turn into caddys .  used homemade glue.. {look in search my blog} and glue paper towels to create helps keep it sturdy and helps cover up the staples they use. do as many layers as you like. painted mine black to go with the napkin collage design . make sure you peel the 2 layers of paper off the napkins first.

pencil , pen, paint brush holder… in the tube glued to the frame wood piece.

peeled the layer of napkins and glued with my glue mix to paper towel…. pretty napkin design….  This holder is made for holding all my book sewing things. painted sides black

Glued napkins to sides  and then painted the sides black..

a better view…

 

What is she up too now?

homemade glue, paper towels,  black paint ,napkins  ,card board paper holder…….

check out this on making books

https://issuu.com/fridakahlo92/docs/bookartsbeautifulbindings

making homemade books

drilling holes with rotary tool

 

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Choose a book thread color for your book….

 

Choose red sew up then back down . as shown

 

This is a close up of a green one.. sewn…

5 pages sewn together . makes 6 sets of these. then we glue sets… glue edges and place it one on top of the other.lining the edges even

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lined up and glued  then added the matt board cover top and back .

.Sanding the edges so its even rotary dremel tool…..{  LOVE THIS TOOL }

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Just a few of the books I made….

paper Roses oh how real they seem to be!!!

Lately I ve gotten to see how pretty all the paper flowers are and thought I d try to make some of these …

some flowers I made this week

some are made with my Cricut 

Some of the flowers I got a pattern off the internet there name is on the pdf file, sorry I forgot where I got it. These flowers were hard to make some of the cricut cuts were a guess and mix and match of flower parts. but they are cute. Shout out to Elizabeth Humphery !! Thank you for your beautiful paper flowers they were so inspiring  I had to try them… and thank you for all the fun in a box…   WhiteRoseTemplate

Hope you enjoy the flowers ……………………

Black and white with RED 2

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I took a photo of the art work ,   I love the way her hair came out , I used texture paste and mixed black  acrylic paint  in then drew her hair with a stylus tip….I gave her layers  FUN STUFF!!!

 

Black and white with RED…………….

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I love doing these almost as much as black and whites……