Home collage Book Project

I'm going to take part in a new swap based on the project in this book ..... In This House, by Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn. You can view some of the pictures inside the book here.....

Amazon.co.uk: Books: In This House: A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques .

Here are four of my pages - my concept is the enchanted home....

There is a US artist whose work I love and she has a new blogspot - here is the link....
Jade's Funki-Junk

View my copy of the handmade Da Vinci Book here!

http://aolpictures.aol.co.uk/ap/viewHoo.do?type=photoPile&size=MS&logoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Faolpictures.aol.co.uk&aolAlbumId=1uXYxRKKm4SflNRatZLEctmYwQr%2FVHi8LfgX%2F7VeGi0%3D&noLogo=true&bgcolor=000000

It's really awesome and I would like to thank all the members of the Vintage Photo Image group who contributed

Remember those da Vinci chunky book pages I did some while back (see older posts at the bottom of the page.)? Well now they have been beautifully into a chunky book by Teri Chinen, and sent out to contributors. Here is one blogger's photos of the completed book.....

BETH'S DAILY RAMBLINGS

Gel medium transfers onto cardstock

I've been experimenting tonight with this transfer method and I am very pleased with the effect on matt (mount) board. It takes a bit of practice and the results are sometimes hit and miss, but when it works it's just great!

1 - Print out the images you want to use onto acetate. Cut to size and have them ready to use rough side down
2- Take some of the board and give it a generous coating of Omni Gel or any gel mdium should do it. Gel medium is clear acryllic paint.
3 - Let it dry for about 30 seconds then put your image on and burnish with the back of a spoon.
4- Lift a corner to see if it has transposed onto the gel - if it has fine, if it hasn't just burnish again and wait a few seconds and try again. The richer the colours the better it transposes it would seem.
On my first attempt with this technique I've had a 50% success rate. Don't leave the gel to dry too long is my tip. A generous layer of glue is good but not so thick that it squidges out when you pop your image on. Good luck if you try. Comments welcome. Photos of my successes ....

ATC's for new groups

Stone statues and nudes swaps samples. Here are some cards which took quite a while to complete because they involved the use of many different mediums, I used distress embossing to give the stone feel, glitter glue fo a little mystery and some great collage images. Nudes are printed on crushed tissue paper. There's a little of my favourite mica in there too!

Join my NEW YAHOO GROUP!

If you are interested in making advanced technique artist trading cards please check out my new site -

advancedartisttradingcardsuk : Advanced Artist Trading Cards UK

If you like experimenting - perhaps with Bernie Berlin's techniques, and enjoy receiving mini works of art in you swaps then this is the site for you!

There are lost of atc swap sites for those who are just starting out with atc's or like to do quick simple cards but this group is for those who want to stretch themselves a little! Current swaps at the moment are for Vintage Hairstyles, Stone Statues and Fabulous Frogs.

Looking foward to welcoming you!

JOIN THE NEW YAHOO SWAP GROUP FOR ADVANCED ATC'S!

It's up and running! The new Yahoo group is here ..

Advanced Artist Trading Cards UK

There are 3, 4/4 swaps on it at the moment that I hope you will join in - Fabulous Frogs, Stone Statues and Vintage Hairstyles so please come and support this brand new fun and friendly on line group. It's especially for those with experience who like doing what I call advanced ATC's. If you are familiar with the techniques in Bernie Belin's ATC Workshop book, this is the site for you. It's UK based but international members are most welcome. My trusty moderator for this venture is Heather Fenn-Edwards.

Membership is free.

Boys and their Toys

Here are some cards entitled Boys and Their Toys which I liberally interrupted into these cards using genuine vintage photos from my collection....

Vintage avery atc's

I really enjoyed doing these avery themed bird atc's this evening. I used an old book on bird keeping for the images. It's great that Teri thought of this theme for ATC world - Love vintage, Love birds!

Lisa Vollrath images

I have lots of collage sheets - I just can't seem to resist them! Here are some of Lisa Vollrath's images used on the Vintage Ledger Sheets I made yesterday....

Easter ATC's

Here I used images by Tuscan Rose for these cute ATC's for a VPI swap for March. I used gold leaf on the background. Sadly the low morning light does not really do justice to the shiny gold but at least you can get an idea...

Old Dictionary Pages

How to avoid wrinkly images!

With this swap I wanted to use some magazine images which were on very thin cheap paper. Using Royal Coat Decoupage Finish to glue and seal I found the first couple I did were dreadful. The image went all crinkly when I stuck it to the card. To avoid this I cut out the image and gave it a light coat on the rear surface with the product and let it dry. It curled up immediately but straightened out as it dried. It was easy then to apply more product to the card and stick the image down without hardly any wrinkling! If there was a little, I immediately took a clean dry flat paint brush and smoothed the image.

Vintage UK ATC's

Here are my efforts capturing the essence of Vintage Britain -

Sky Blue Pink

I just found this cool new site - take a . It sells stuff for collage / art cards / scrap boooking and altered art projects.


SkyBluePink: cool stuff for non-fancy prices
http://www.SkyBluePink.com/
We ship Internationally!