Kate's Page for Soulbrush's Book

I was trying to figure out something good to make for Soulbrush's sketchbook and I remembered how much she likes artist trading cards. So much that she has over 400 of them! Well, Joss, here's a really BIG one! I did a paper collage about friendship done with my dyed tissue paper, fuzzy thread, rubber stamps and postage stamps from the US.

But that's not all. I also attached some of my real artist trading cards to the main page with clear corners that can be removed if she wants to store the trading cards somewhere else. Hope you like it, Joss!

This book is winging its way to Caroline in Malaysia right this minute!

Flip side of Mim's page by Caroline

I bought some lovely handmade paper yesterday and couldn't resist using it right away! I decided to do another quick something for the back of the page I made for Mim, so began by cutting out some paper dollies from a magazine page. I then covered them with this swirly world- like paper!

Kate's Page for Marianne's Book

This is my page for Marianne's book. Marianne's cat Sjimmie is traveling the world through her book. She wants him to get a feel for life in each of our areas and so I call this painting "Sunday In The Park". Here I am taking Sjimmie on a nature walk through my favorite sculpture park, Pyramid Hill. We had a lovely day enjoying all the interesting sculptures that many of you have already seen in photos on my blog. He especially liked watching the ducks in the pond. Thank you, Marianne, for letting Sjimmie go with me on this special nature walk.

A page for Suki by Soulbrush

I wanted to make some sort of 'angel' figure for Suki.
So, I drew her and stuck bright papers all over, in a mosaic -type pattern, with black outlines.
Then I looked at her and realised that all the paper may come loose in transit around the world. So I placed a piece of weaved fabric over her and stitched it round the edges with black cotton to hold it all in place. (you can't see the cotton here).
I like her. She is calm and gentle and will be with you Suki, helping you in your quest to find a new and wonderful place to 'rest your weary bones'. Made and sent with my love.

Mim for Lisa's book

The artwork in this book is amazing - thanks Lisa --it goes off today to Lynn - and is just wonderful!! wait till you see it. Here is my little contribution.

A page for Mim by Caroline

Here is my page for Mim's travelling book. Mim's lovely book is all about Women around the world so I plunged right in with a bevy of international gals and a flock of international birds for good measure! This has been created with oil pastels using the 'sgraffito' method. It was such fun to do and I have written a complete post on my blog about the techniques I used - hope you'll pop over to see! The book will be winging its way to Lisa on Monday! Now I have no books :( ..... looking forward to receiving another soon!

Lolo's page for Caroline

I had so much fun doing this page! I always start out a bit intimidated without a thought it my head, but then as with most art it just evolves.

The first thing I did was draw a raven in pen and ink cross-hatching on this light green tag. I didn't like the way he turned out so I added colored pencil to darken him and acrylic paint for the highlights. I then painted the branch and juicy blackberry with acrylics and added a whimsical vine with a sharpie.

The little bag that holds the treasure was embellished with rubber stamps, Distress-Inks and glitter glue. The card inside the bag was a piece of cardboard that came with something I bought and I kept it because of the wonderful vines and flowers. I thought I'd use it in the future for an atc or something.

I painted only a few leaves and one flower in watercolor. Then I added that wonderful diamond glitter, after all the flower holds magic!

The background is patterned paper which I embellished here and there with colored pencil in aqua and light green to tie it all in. The postage stamp and words are stickers.

There you have it. Raven's search is over. Who knew he'd find the flower in Malaysia?! Now he'll fly to London so Jossie can do her page.

What fun this was!

(The flower card didn't scan well at all. It's really very pretty!)