Princess Bubbles Creates

The page on the left is made of a paper napkin.  On the left is a quill pen that was given to me.  I would never use it so into the journal it goes!

I have had a couple requests to see more of this journal so here it is.  I have put anything calligraphy related into this journal.  Practice sheets, envelopes, clippings you name it.

I love playing with sheer fabrics.  The color can be so vibrant and bright.  I used three colors to make the layers of the flowers.  I also used transfer crayons on rubbing templates to create the leaves.  It is actually a technique that I came up with and will be in Cedar Canyon's new book on rubbing templates.  Pretty cool.

It is signed and sealed.  I am super pleased with this painting.  I really love the way it turned out.  I pushed past the fear of ruining it.  I actually did ruin it by spilling some blue paint on the yellow part of the leaf.  Fortunately I was able to fix it.  I can still see where it is but I doubt anyone else can, at least no one in my family can.

Sometimes I wonder if have ADD.  There are times when I find it difficult to stay with one topic.  Really though I just have a lot of ideas.  So I have moved onto my third idea for my bead journal project.  I think most people pick one theme and stick with it for the year.  I just can't do that this year. Here is my water idea.  I have needle felted, stitched and beaded this piece. I also trapped some Japanese paper under some tulle that is held in place by needle felting.  I thought that was a clever idea.   It will be a 'page' in my book.  I hope that I can stick with this idea for the rest of the year.  I do have four more page bases to use so I should be good.

Here are a few more pages.

I had showed this book I made to my sister when she was here visiting in the spring.  She was asking me a few questions about it today and I realized that I had not taken any pictures of it and therefore I had not posted on my blog about it.  So this book is a collection of calligraphy related pieces.  Most of them are from swaps.  Being a member of the Royal City Calligraphy Guild it has it perks.  The swaps are really awesome.  It is so cool to receive pieces of art from other members.  The problem is what to do with them.  Well, I made this book in the Remains of the Day style and it now houses all my swap pieces.   A great solution I think.  I have a few more pictures of it and will post them tomorrow.