10 minutes a day : 2

Yesterday the timer went off when I had this arrangement, nothing glued down. All I know at this point is that I want to add more pink.

First up I gathered some washi tapes, a couple of pink papers, and opened my boxes of journaling extras. The box on the left contains rub-ons, stickers, journaling tags, etc. The box on the right is my "journal junk" box where I throw anything that might go into a journal some day...you can see a coloured tag, sprayed doily, a piece of card with negatives of punched shapes, some chipboard shapes...you get the idea

SET THE TIMER :: I wanted to add one of the pink papers, and tried out a couple of arrangements. Turns out I liked both pink papers

But I really liked the green spots that I started the day with. Here's the arrangement I decided on and glued down.

Not sure where to go from here...tape seems a good place to go, so I added a strip down the right-hand side when TIMER STOP ::

10 minutes can go really fast! See you tomorrow...

10 minutes a day

Back in March this year, Kelly Kilmer posted a 10 minute Art Making Challenge - the main premise is that if you've got 10 minutes in your day to watch TV, go blog surfing, or look at Facebook, you could use that 10 minutes to make art.
I decided to give myself a week of 10 minutes every day in my art journal and see what could happen...
Day 1 - opened my journal to the next "blank" page

Rubbing on this page was from my slipper (I just had to try it!) and had randomly stuck down that bit of leftover paper at some stage.
SET THE TIMER :: gathered an image and some background papers that I liked

Cut around the image and tore some of the papers and started to lay them down. Decided that I don't want to retain the rubbing and the birdy paper just isn't go to work so ripped it off!

Playing with layout

Needs a little more

TIMER STOP :: nothing glued down...let's see how far I get tomorrow. Would love if you would join me and show me how you go.

The Indian Wall-Hanging is Finished

It's finally done!

I've had such fun making this wall-hanging.  The last 2 main spots were filled by 2 stitchy pieces. The peacock feather was purchased with this wall-hanging in mind when I went to Taupo.

It just needed some sari ribbon, beads and french knots to finish it off.

The final piece started by sponging gold metallic paint through a masked indian stencil onto silk.

Free-motion machine stitching with metallic thread got it to this stage.

Then it needed a few beads, some bells, and a little sari ribbon trim.

I added a couple of other small bits and called it done.

Special thanks to Julie Prichard and Chris Cozen's Mixed Media Melange class that started the whole thing,

my talented friend Carole for her original comment that inspired the transformation of the original piece, and for Beryl Taylor's entire body of work. Check out her blog and her website and be inspired too.

Take a look inside her book via Amazon HERE

If you want to go back and look at the detail of stages, here they are :
February  - The base and first additions inspired by Beryl Taylor
March  - TAP transfers
April- beading and stitching
13 July - embroidery on the elephant
17 July - more hand stitching
9 August  - modeling paste effects