Fat Pages galore!

Jenni received her fat pages from me yesterday so I can now blog them. And I recently jammed again with Patti so I'm adding those I sent to her too. As usual, click to get a better look.

Here's what I sent to Jenni for her Icon theme. It's that fabulous style icon, Coco Chanel. The front represents her famous suits with the braid edging (did you know it's all done by one elderly French woman who also runs a farm, so Karl Lagerfeld has to wait until she has time to get weaving? :-) ).



The back is supposed to look like those quilted Chanel bags; I used a diamond texture plate.

Here's 'pretty, witty Nell' Gwynn for the Women in History theme. Orange peel background and stage curtain are my oft used crayon/Brusho resist papers. The image on the front is from a marmelade label; the back has a painting (by Lely, I think). On the front you can just about see the words 'Oranges' and 'are not the only fruit' which apparently was Nell Gwynn's pickup line used on Charles II. What can she mean? ;-)



I was inspired by these lines from The Band's King Harvest (Has Surely Come) for Lyrics:

Scarecrow and a yellow moon
And pretty soon
A carnival on the edge of town



For the front I digitally manipulated an image from google (or flickr) ie I added a filter LOL Then I scribbled over it with oil pastels. Another wax crayon resist on the back.

The jam I did with Pattie was technique based. My suggestion. And boy was it hard. I chose toilet paper papercasting, Pattie chose tissue paper (any technique). We did two of each.

For papercasting, you find a stamp, texture or object and layer toilet paper over it, wetting with water and using your fingers or a paintbrush to mold the paper into the cracks to define the shape. Then you let it dry overnight before lifting it off. I got the idea here, and also found more about it here.



Hello Sun. The sun was cast from a foam stamp so is quite shallow. Once it had dried, but before I removed it from the stamp, I painted it with yellow Brusho (which meant I had to leave it to dry all over again). I then inked over with Adirondack butterscotch ink. I hand tore the rays as cutting them with scissors would not have looked right. The background on the back is papercast from a texture plate. It reminded me of trellis. The flowers are stamped on crayon resist paper. I also adhered die cut painted kitchen towel.

Graven Image. I cast a wooden angel head with the intention of creating a spooky doll face. However when it was done, it wasn't smooth enough and the features were ill defined (check Pattie's blog for some really crisp paper casts). So I decided to make it into a primitive stone head in a jungle. I had to pad it out with cotton wool before painting with Brusho, acrylics and inks. I stamped lots of leaves and added greenery made for model railway enthusiasts. The back is digital with added stamps.



Good Luck. I know Pattie loves oriental themes so this was a no-brainer. The tissue paper was variously painted/stamped/embossed/folded then corners dipped in Brusho. I made the parasol with cocktail sticks and layers of tissue paper. The peel off (yes! shock! horror!) is Chinese for Luck.



Someone sent me bits of old dress pattern along with a swap and, of course, it's made from tissue paper. Cue Sew and Sew. I added bits from a dress pattern envelope. I used 'stitching' stamps and that old collage standby - buttons.



Last week I put together a digital birthday card for Pattie. I'm still feeling my way through Photoshop Elements so I used a Flickr photo and pieces from a digital scrapbooking kit. I also followed a template so it's not very original but looks quite pretty, I think.



Finally, here's some ATCs I did for swapbot: