A long time....but projects are getting finished!

Thanks to my friend Patti and the group of Mixed Media artists in Edmonton, I have found a new niche.....mixed media.  I attended my first ever retreat in September 2012 and like most of us that attend classes, didn't finish my project and left it languishing in a corner.  Thank you to Linda, Dooreen & Kathleen for putting on this event and to the other participants for encouraging me to follow the yellow brick road.

 

TA DA!!!  It's done and I'm very pleased with the results.  I have picked five of my most favourite pages to show and tell with.

 

 

This awesome cover was designed by the girls that put the course on and I must admit I did not stray from the original design.

 

This has one of my sky photos as a background with trees stamped on the bottom.  Have to say I like the multicoloured ric rac on the outside edge of the page as it seems to finish the edges off.

My most favourite page....The Abyss was our prompt and all I could think of was "What lurks in the abyss?"  Consequently, the eyeballs peering through the cheesecloth came to mind.



Patti & I got together one day and created this beautiful mermaid. (The mermaid was orginally intended to go onto my Stampede parade float page....the long and the short of it...my girls & I rode a float dressed as mermaids for the Calgary Aquarium Society many, many years ago.)  She seemed to fit this themed book so well that I envisioned her playing a saxaphone.

At the time of this workshop, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was hugely popular and our prompt was the girl with the shark tattoo.  Using a graphic from THE GRAPHICS FAIRY and a shark tattoo found on the web, I created a book cover complete with its accompanying library checkout card.