Princess Bubbles Creates

I started by making the base fabric.  It has silk, dryer sheet, fancy yarns, threads, sheer fabric, hand painted fabric,fancy fabrics, glitter and paper in it.  I used a watered down glue to hold it all together.  I cut this piece from the larger piece that I created.  It's hard to tell but there are some gaps and holes in this piece that I quite like. I think the beading adds nicely to it.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was not difficult to to needle through this fabric.

I don't know why I didn't think of the beads yesterday.  I am glad I thought of it today though.  I think they make the cover better. 

It was an extremely hot day today and I was feeling the need for an art project that I could complete in one day.  I have been enjoying some youtube videos on 'Remains of Day' journals.  They inspired me to create the above journal.  I have so many papers that it was easy to go through my stash and find some hot colored ones that suited this day.  I also went through my painted fabrics and found some for the cover.  The fabric I used for the tie closure is from Little India in Toronto.  I couldn't resist it when I saw it but I didn't know what I how I would use it.  That is often the case when I buy things but you only regret when you don't buy those things that speak to you, right!

I came across these fun little pieces while looking through my stuff. I thought I would post them today as I don't really have anything new to show right now.  I did these pieces in Jacqueline Sullivan workshop a while ago.  I like them, I was hoping they would fit with the art journal I'm working on right now but they don't.  Actually, I don't know if they will ever fit with my work.  Oh well. 

Sorry for not posting for so long!  Don't you just hate when life gets in the way of art and blogging! I have been taking an art journal workshop with Sandra Spagnuolo.  I can't find her web site but I am pretty sure she has one.  Above is a piece of fabric that I painted and then did a rubbing to get the wings.  On the back of the fabric I adhered some painted paper towel.  I love the texture that I got with the paper towel.  You can see it in the top picture, the right hand side.  The pages are complete yet but I think I have a really good start.

Need I say anything?  The colors are magnificent!  I am trying to get a lot of photos together so that I can make an iphoto book.  I don't own a Mac but my son does and he is kindly letting me use to make the book.

A while ago a friend took me shopping at a local Indian store.  On one side there were groceries (yummy simosas) on the other side of the store were fabrics, trims and clothing.  We found a huge bag of trims for practically nothing.  They were gorgeous and I figured I could use them in my crazy quilting.  I haven't done that yet but still plan to.  I did however use some of the pretty trim on one of my journal pages.  Cool idea, eh?