Creating With Wendy

In the facebook group My Year 2017, for February, Jeri Bellini hosted a bonus project to make some paper heart dolls/angels. The idea was wonderful and I could not help myself when it came to thinking will I or won't I participate....lol..of course, I will... I used a piece of background paper that was sent to me by Peggy Strong (Youtube) for the heart shaped body, some left over thin cardboard for the arms and legs and some gelli printed cardboard for the wings. The whole process can be viwed by clicking below. And here is a still shot of the finished Lady Love Angels. The hair is made from a mop head I have been cutting strips from. I think they turned out rather cute.

Making some index cards as part of a challenge from the facebook group MY YEAR 2017 by Cindy Utter. Cindy threw out a challenge to make some tags for February so I twerked the challenge to suit the style I was following in February and my inspirational artist for the month whom is Banksy. I started using two normal index cards and two pieces of patterned card. On one index card I glued a brick work pattern and the left over piece I tore and glued to one of the cards. I then dabbed some Distress paint dabbers on them to put some colour on the back ground. From there I used a lead pencil, black gel pen, a white chalk pencil and white signo pen to add scribble on each of the cards. I also done some random stamping using a mixture of different stamps. On two of the index cards I also used stencils to add more interest to them. The picture below shows the finished back grounds, which are all looking pretty cool... Once I was happy with the back grounds, I hunted the internet findin...

I am participating in a year long free journaling course that is being run from a facebook group, MY YEAR 2017.  I made a journal from recycling pamphlets and brochures and I plan on using it as a creative journal and not as a day-to-day 'normal' journaling journal. I am also finding creative inspiration from other well known or not so well known artists. The inspirational artist I chose for January was Tschabalala Self.  Below are a few of January's layouts. The prompt for January was Bubbles, Confetti and Bling. I chose to do a double layout using the prompts individually. The first being bubbles... A process video of my layout... My second layout here is confetti and I have also tried to incorporate Self's style in my layout and that being an abstract depiction of myself sun baking on the beach...Every time I look at this picture I smile and have a little chuckle. I think it is a good likeness...lol... For the confetti I used a hole punch and punched ...

I started making this journal around November 2016, working on it a little bit at a time. The theme of this journal is 'Bugs and Blooms' and I was so happy with its progress until the spine of it split on one edge, needless-to-say this journal I will be keeping now and not swapping it, as this was my plan to start with. It really did turn out lovely and I had a lot of fun making the tags and putting it all together. This video shows a flip through of the completed journal. A few of the pages inside are shown below: Hope you enjoy! Thank you xox

Recently, our Australian Art Swap Group held a swap for 22 altered playing cards...you know the ones from a deck of cards. We had to alter them as well as put some sort of inspirational quote on them. I used a sheet of 12 x 12 patterned paper, with the patterned side facing down. Then, I glued all my playing cards on to of the paper. This way I had a nice backing on my soon to be altered cards. After giving the cards a very light sanding,I proceeded to gesso the substrate I am using (the glued down cards) and then once that was dry, I continued to decorate it by using some acrylic paints, stencils, stamps and really, anything I felt like doing at the time...lol..Once the backgrounds were dry, I cut the cards out individually and ended up with 45 altered background cards. My process for the background can be seen on my you tube channel here: Once I had completed all the backgrounds, I then went through my box of bit'n'pieces to find some images I could glue down fo...