Magical Moments......

Hi Peeps, ever have one of those magical moments? The hair stands up on the back of your neck and the skin gets goosebumps? I have have that a few times: once when I visited Flinder's Island and went to Settlement Point - that is where the small settlement of Emita was created.  Emita is home to the historic Wybalenna Aboriginal Settlement, where the Tasmanian Aboriginal population was forcibly relocated from mainland Tasmania in 1833. We do have a dark history of shame in Tasmania as well as many beautiful places.  I am not aboriginal but I felt their sadness there....in such a beautiful place - almost magical but not quite........

A magical capture from Settlement Point on Flinders Island thanks to Chasing Light - Photography by James Stone 

Again, Flinders Island is an island off the north east coast of Tasmania (an island of the south of Australia - another island!) Can you see a theme emerging this month?

I am not sure if the current challenge at Unstampbelles is creating too many magical moments for people but you can use the challenge to remind you of one, like I did!

Collage, collage, collage...

TWIST venture into multi- media too

Random Number Prize

Collage  is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. 

My base is a sheet of white paper 12 x 12

The subject is my Granddaughter Hettie

The collage is mostly tucked under the photograph - strips of torn paper and some cardboard, as well as die cuts. The multimedia is the Dylusion's paint smeared across the page and stencilled onto it. 

The place was Germany in winter

The reason was a Tattoo for the New Zealand Army Band, of which Hettie was a member and one of the main singer's for this particular act. She was just 19 yrs old.

She loves the stage!

The magical moment for me was seeing her on YouTube and watching her own that stadium in front of a huge audience and hearing her sing - hair raising stuff! 

So I created a scrap page for the moment - to freeze it in time!

What can you make to fit this theme?

Midway at Unstampabelles

‘There’s something about staring deep into the unknown’ 

A brilliant capture of our Milky Way from St Helens, near Peron Dunes, thanks to Adrian Speers.

www.instagram.com/speers_images

Time to stare into the unknown and start to create a collage!

Over at Unstampabelles , they are asking that you 

Collage, collage, collage...

TWIST venture into multi- media too

Random Number Prize

Collage  is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. 

So I made a couple of cards to showcase how to use both a collage technique and multimedia in the same card. I tried to keep this fairly simple as I wanted to not scare off crafters from entering - they find it difficult enough to create without using stamps!

In the first one, I torn random pieces of scrap paper I had kept and used them to create a backdrop. the sky was from using Dylusional sprays on another project.  I then used some texture paste and a stencil to create the sun, by adding some TH Wild Honey paint into the paste first to colour the rays. The centre of the sun is kiddie glitz glue.

I die cut a branch from some music sheets, and added the leaves and birds.

My sentiment is also diecut

In the second one, I used my Dylusional paints to create a backdrop and then die cut the trees from the music sheet and glued it on top

Two Christmas cards done!

It doesn't have to be that difficult to mix collage and multimedia - I got my inspiration from Pinterest but neither card looks like the card I got the inspiration from - it was merely the starter for the journey.

You can go to UNSTAMPABELLES and enter your contribution by the end of the month!

Collage for Unstampabelles - week 2!

Hi Peeps, weather has been a little wild and windy lately - this shot was taken by Andy Chisholm down the bottom of the island of Tasmania, offshore, and a place where the master surfers go when they are on an adrenaline junket - it is near a place called Pedra Blanca....look at those seals master the wave too! What an amazing photograph! 

I have been on a fishing boat catching tuna there - it was calm and oily and I was seasick! I have flown over it in a small plane too - it was windy and wild that day as well and yes, you guessed it - I threw up there as well! The plane had to turn back (not because I was airsick, it was too rough to land)  and when we flew back over a few hours later and things had calmed down in the air at least, I got some amazing photographs of the coastline with massive waves pounding on them - must see if I can located a few!!!

📸: Andy Chisholm

Eddystone Rock

Anyway, I am snug and warm and not ill in my craft space, and have created a project for today to showcase some collage - over at Unstampabelles we are asking you to use some collage skills and make something and while you are at it - thrown in some multimedia as well for the twist!

Remember last week I diecut and layered a butterfly onto a printed piece of paper with newspaper ads on it? I then used powder paints and water to create a mess - and when I lifted my diecut off the sheet the outline of the butterfly was left? I then replaced my butterfly with the blue one for that card which left me with a white diecut butterfly all covered in lovely sparkly paint and mica!

Here it is - I added it to the top of my repurposed container below - after I gussied it all up!

First I took off the wrapper from the container and then painted the inside of my plastic container with white gesso - it got several layers. You cannot actually see it now unless you take the lid off!

The lid got some paper inside and outside, a metal frame and some flowers, plus my mm butterfly!

The side of the lid got some washi tape treatment

It does look pretty I must admit with all that painterly goodness on the die cut!

The sides got some torn bits (left over from last week's work again) of the newspaper that still had spots and globs of powder paint activated by the water. I glued them on with Modge Podge. The lace was added also with the Modge Podge and then I added the strip of beads. The MP makes a great glue for things like that. 

I am not sure what I will keep in this but it will be precious!

There is a prize on offer for the challenge at Unstampabelles!