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ion as they thought they had a lot of potential i took some pictures of what can be done with them the little folders are 8x8 with an overlapping front cover and top bottom and side flaps the side flap wraps around the front cover to close with a snap a button etc here is the book open with the top and bottom flap it s fun to add a pocket on the inside to hold some fun items related to the theme the book is then made up of cards scrapbook fashion each card gets slightly bigger than the one above and both sides are decorated for a rr or a journal this is where artists would do their magic and get to add stuff in the pocket the cards are held together with brads and a reinforced piece of ribbon it all gets hidden by the back paper eventually on the back cover here is another example with a graduation theme this should give you a pretty good idea of the potential for these books they could certainly be used in a round robin with as many members as cards can fit in the book or add one for altering the back cover and the inside cover with the page here are two pictures of the blank folders so you get an idea of how the pages overlap posted by socrates at 2 48 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels roudn robin marie antoinette round robin now i know how to spell round robin with only one b i have so much fun making those books i just signed up for another one this one has for theme marie antoinette the last queen of france is getting a lot of press these days i thought all the frou frou bling and glitz would be fun since it s so much out of my comfort zone i was let into the group at the last minute thank you fearless leader who took a gamble on me i made my journal over the weekend so it could be on its way to australia i grabbed some fabric that i thought looked rich and elegant for the cover and this eventually suggested my own theme because the fabric is black and gold with a red trim it suggested to me a confessions book where would marie antoinette write her deepest thoughts and dreams and confess what she couldn t tell even her confessor this is the sign up page for the artists who will work in it little tags that add up to the colors of the french flag i made a page to introduce her purpose for the book as a way to tell my fellow artists what to do in my book i made a digital montage with a picture of an elegant room a cutout of louis duc de normandie and marie antoinette as drawn by one of my favorite artists james christensen i colored it with colored pencils and added a bit of glitter and since i can never stop myself i added two more pages that really are not that interesting my journal is on its way to australia and one will soon be on its way to me to while away the time i m making one children s hardboard book into a marie antoinette present for my sister who s just had a bit of bad news i don t know that she ll feel better about the last queen of france who ended up beheaded but my sister step sister has a maiden name from an old royal family so maybe it will cheer her up all this outrageous bling and pearls and glitz has its own charm i have to admit posted by socrates at 11 25 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels altered books marie antoinette free motion stitching here is something i created yesterday after learning about free motion stitching i cut up some photos glued them on top of muslin and outlined the details in free motion i added some fibers for depth it s my interpretation of our world or a world for all people now i have to figure out how to finish it how do you frame or hang something like that i ll look for a small branch or a little twig to roll the top through and voila posted by socrates at 10 45 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest second round robbin i m also involved in another round robbin but this one is an altered book i love an altered book it s my interest for altering a book which got me into all this art stuff that i m so deep into now there are only 5 of us in this exchange 2 people in england 2 in canada and the hostess in the us i found a small book with few pages so it s not too heavy to mail around but sturdy enough it is was a copy of hans christian andersen in french i like to play with the words on the page but i guess in french that s being a bit unfair my theme is colors i am mainly interested in the altered books techniques since this is my first ab exchange i thought i d keep the theme simple so the ladies can be creative on the technique i m much into free motion sewing these days learning the technique i made the cover with some white satin a layer of lace which completely disappeared under the stitching i added a layer of very open lace trim and free motion sewed on top with metallic thread i put some angelina fibers but with the metallic thread they ve become invisible here is my sign up page and my own spread in the book i used my pan pastels for the background that s the one thing i learned in the class by cre9it from jessica that s about all she had to share and the back cover i left the bottom open in case someone wanted to add something to it posted by socrates at 10 40 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels round robbins round robbins i just finished my spread for the journal i am doing in the round robin for the sketchbook yahoo group i have rita s book and her theme is serenity i love that theme of course i knew exactly what i d do but by the time i had done it it was just a bit too stark after all so i added and added i hope i have stopped in time before ruining it i ve also added 2 beads that seemed perfect the little round one is a tibetan bead that i found at the sewing and crafts show saturday posted by socrates at 10 22 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels round robbins victoria sewing and craft show this amazing show was taking place in victoria vancouver island on march 12 and 13th i was all booked to go on the 12th classes paid and everything the little organizer that i am the weather refused to cooperate and after the most mild winter on record for 65 years it snowed snowed friday morning when i drove down to victoria not a little white fluffy stuff 3 inches in the space of an hour they closed the malahat for a while which is a nasty pass right before arriving to victoria so with much sadness i had to turn around thankfully the wonderful people at green tree shows was willing to reschedule me and i was also able to attend all the classes i had signed for which ran for 2 days how happy is that in the morning i took a free motion sewing class we were taught how to draw on a quilt or fabric freehand we learned how to make circles squares and wonderful designs i had been making free motion designs but this class really clarified a lot of what i was doing wrong and put me on the right track for what i d sense intuitively like you have to get your foot pressure up to maximum but that doesn t mean that you feed the fabric a million miles an hour very helpful i had an hour only before my next class to wander the aisles or as lisa would say to wonder the aisles what a feast for the senses not so good for the pocket book and lots of supplies and 5 books found their way to my bag then i spent the rest of my time gawking at kayla kennington s booth who makes works of art out of silks and beads she was here both days teaching an early morning class on fabric collage here is some of her work how is that for utterly gorgeous in the afternoon i took a class called some like it hot the instructor denise taylor shared with us so many bits of cloth and fabrics that can be heated burnt or steamed to create funky textures it was fun the smoke alarms never came off we learned about texture magic you use it under a top fabric do the free motion designs and when it s steamed it puffed up and fills the spaces 3d with an iron it shrinks a maximum of 30 in all directions you can imagine all the great designs you can easily do with that gotta love it we then painted some tyvek with metallic paints and submitted that to the heat gun fyi i was told that the tyvek enveloped given away freely by the us post office contains formaldehyde and pbcs same for the tyvek on construction sites it seems the one designed for crafts does not or maybe it s all propaganda but why take a chance here s what it looks like lots of possibilities with that flowers relief in paintings yum we next moved on to solvron it s a water soluble fabric that shrinks and puckers when it s soaked in hot water denise applied it to a bunch of colorful threads can have its uses i guess i m just not sure what yet we also played with melting foils on top of pellon and misty fuse submitted some felt not cotton to the heat gun it sorta puckers but particularly melts away and ends up looking like lace she also showed us how to use lutradur you can paint it tear it it doesn t fray and when heated it disappears in places again just like laces we melted some angelina fibers which are so gorgeous and she showed us also how to melt until part of the fibers so that whips remain that can be incorporated in a picture being the hair of an angel the fins of a fish etc many gorgeous applications finally to my eyes pleasure there was fantastic artwork on the walls of the conference centre this sure was so much fun posted by socrates at 10 38 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the muse is back it seemed i d do anything but paint for a few days but i am now back on track and painting phew as a writer i know how to deal with writer s block but with painting i don t really know how to get over it with writing i have a million ideas that seem to disappear in front of the white page so i just start writing anything jibberish then the thoughts come in but with painting what does one do paint anyway i guess that s what happened i started a painting with transfers they all failed probably because the hardboard was just melamine not coated with anything so after the whole mess dried i sanded roughly what was left since that board was a mess anyway i thought i d challenge myself with a color that scares me because it s so strong chromacryl cool blue it was still a bit intense for me so i pulled some of the colors with a crumbled piece of paper i added a few napkins with gel medium to get some texture then more experiments with the alcohol inks man that stuff smells strong i could get drunk just on the fumes some of the colors came out really lovely but when all was told i still thought it looked a bit strong so i used a light coat of white spray paint and voila while i was at it i found an older painting that never got anywhere and finished that too now i have a goddess in the works stay tuned posted by socrates at 8 42 am 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acrylic painting post vegas paintings i had a little event during the art and soul retreat in las vegas during a painting class yeah a painting class where i found myself unable to produce anything i liked blame it on the weird vibes of the town the loud lights the expectations that we could produce an intuitive collage i just couldn t paint finally after for disastrous paintings i produced this one considering the theme was the feminine icon this came out weird back in vancouver island i just couldn t paint i did everything but i made the little frames on yesterday s post but these are just for fun not real paintings finally yesterday i got near a canvas and pulled the paints here is the larger one a 20x16 hardboard panel i started playing with alcohol inks on top of acrylic paints and it makes the colors really shine you can click on the picture to see the texture and the details i made a smaller one just with the alcohol paints as an experiment this little panel is 8x10 posted by socrates at 10 31 am 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acrylic painting newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom my jewelry website www laurence jewelry com my etsy store www socratesartworks etsy com about socrates palm springs california united states view my complete profile imagine her gmail com followers create orange county come see my jewelry live where i create my vintage lace book my blog list flying fish inc collage my mind art journal no 1 part 1 2 months ago alisaburke painting a garden mural 11 months ago suziqu s threadworks khadi paper projects 6 years ago a stamper s touch gayle page robak ladies jewelry bracelet and earrings set turquoise rocks and blocks 7 years ago lorena s altered art intention 7 years ago trash to treasure art faux meerschaum ornaments 7 years ago janet s art play 7 years ago 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