I received my last pages in RR

Today I received the last pages in the RR I was in were everyone did my peach color ... I decided if I posted it with the rest of the photo it would all be out of order so for right now it's in a post all of it's own ....... Linda

Wand Swap

This is my "Queen of the Maypole" ... I am in an online swap and we are doing wands ... Maypole celebrations go back long ago in history ... in the 18th century it took the form from traditional and 'art' dance popular in Italy and France ... these were exported to the London stage and reached a large audience, becoming part of the popular performance repertoire ... adopted at a large teacher training institution, the ribbon maypole dance then spread across most of central and southern England and is now regarded as the most 'traditional' of May Day's traditional characteristics ... click to enlarge

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope is a warm wonderful day for all of you .... much laughter and chocolates ...... Linda

Getting ready for my Altered Book Workshop/Retreat

I have made the folders for the handouts and the memory booklets for the retreat ..... now to get the studio cleaned up and make up kits and print out the handouts ...... the hardest part will be cleaning up the studio ... lol .... as of 2-11-09 there is still one seat left if anyone is interested just click Altered Book Retreats in Texas ... click to enlarge the photo's

RR page Book

Well you have been watching the page's I have created for others and you saw the cover and such about 9 months ago BUT now you will see my book .... I still have to receive one page and tag to have it complete but it SOOOOOOOOOO very close .... my theme was houses, birds, Victorian and colors scheme was peach any shade of, antique linen, slight touch of walnut ink and since my fav. color is green it could have a little of that .... I love it and the artist I did this with are each and everyone super ........ thanks a million ... Linda click to enlarge

RR page

This is the last of the RR it's been so much fun working on everyone themes and color choices ... needless to say it has stretched me some and I have found out there are a few things I probably won't do again ...... when I get my book all put together I will post it ...... this theme was birds and vintage fairy children ... the color scheme was forest blue/green with sepia/browns ... click to enlarge

Shabby Chic Altered Book

I thought there would be no problem doing Shabby Chic but when it got right down to it I kept trying to put deep rich colors into the book .... here is the results for me this is very pastel I am not so sure others will think so ....... click to enlarge photo's

Published online

Altered Arts does an "E" magazine and I have been honored by being in there latest e-magazine .... just click to go to their website Altered Arts then in the right hand column close to the bottom you will see NEW INTERACTIVE E-MAGAZINE section and in the last of that you will find a link to the Mailbox Muse which is where you will find the link to the e-magazine my Chinese Slip Book in on the cover and the first article in the magazine with instructions on how to make it .......

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to you ....... I wish everyone health, happiness, love and laughter ... Linda

RR page

This is the one for December ... her theme was Women of Times past and her colors were black & white and our choice of one accent color - I choose mauve ...

RR page

This is the one for November .... her theme was Friendship and the colors were Lime & Hot Pink ... the swap ends in January 2009 so I will have 2 more to post ...

RR page

I kind of got behind on posting some of the RR pages I had done in the RR swap the last one I posted was back in Sept. so here is the one for October ....... her theme was Fairy's & Vintage the colors were antique white, foliage green, turquoise & rusted tin ......

Blog give away for new book

Susan Tuttles new book Exhibition 36: Mixed-Media Demonstrations + Explorations is for sale at Amazon you could look it up or click on this link for the book: http://tinyurl.com/64h9tm . She is having a contest/give away on her blog so just click the link and join in the fun ... http://ilkasattic.blogspot.com/2008/12/book-give-away-contest.html#links

Christmas Tip-in also

I used a Sizzix die to cut out a grunge board tree sprayed with 2 colors of green Glimmer Mist ... laid on the background of red Glimmer Mist and stencil ... added a strip of hymnal page and jingle bells accented with the poinsettia at the base of the tree ... I did just a little shadow work on the edges of the page with the negative of the tree grunge board cut out .... stamped Merry Christmas with Versa Mark then embossed with fine gold embossing powder

Christmas Tip-in

This is a pure joy to make .... it's a tip-in instead of a Christmas Card ... I used red Glimmer Mist for the background with a stencil and 3 greens sprayed over each other for the tag .... then took a page from my hymnal and crumpled it and used distressed linen inkpad to do direct to paper on the high spots then over that I used metalic gold inkpad to do some of the high spots, heat set that ... used ARTchix German scrap wings behind my lovely image and embellished with fabric poinsettes and ribbon then added just a little bling ....