Collage
Painting, or more specifically, what constitutes a ‘good painting’ is something that has no doubt been contested since the dawn of time when man first began daubing paint on cave walls. You can almost discern, through the mists of time, the first critic carefully contemplating some abstract image of a hunting party bringing down a [...]
I’ve spent a large part of the day scanning and enhancing some cigarette cards that we have and after much to-ing and fro-ing between Picnik and Photoshop I’ve managed to remove most of the signs of age from this set of Dickens Characters. These cigarette cards were collected, we presume, by Alasdair’s Grandma in 1912 [...]
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Firstly, there are now felt brooches in the shop. Each one of these is entirely handsewn by me and available for a bargain price. I made my first Inchies this week too and am excited by the results. The first set is for the A, B, C, D, E, F Inchie swap on ATCsforall and [...]
I’ve decided to start swapping again. The first of the swaps I tackled this week was to create two Vintage Fashion ATCs. Here’s my interpretation and a bit of a how to. I love this effect and it’s really quick and easy to acheive. First find an old dressmaking pattern that you are done with [...]
Over the years I have amassed quite a collection of vintage buttons. This morning I set out to sort my buttons, after all what else is there to do on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon? The following pictures show the results of a day of hard labour with the button tins. first I organised them [...]
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Bent, Bound and Stitched: Collage, Cards and Jewelry with a Twist by Giuseppina Cirincione I have to tell you, I fell in love with this book even before I opened it. The front cover reached out to me with it’s vintage quality that told me the contents was to be worth the wait to get [...]
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