Princess Bubbles Creates

Last week I went to a lecture by Nancy Jacobi of The Japanese Paper Place.  She is so passionate about Japanese paper.  She is fascinating.  What is it about people that are passionate?  They make whatever they are talking about so interesting.  Japanese paper can look so delicate but it is amazingly strong.  Nancy showed a piece that was crumpled and then stitched.  You can imagine my excitement!  I couldn't wait to crumple the sample that was given to me.  The more I scrunched the more cloth like the paper felt.  The top picture shows three sheets of the washi paper I purchased.  The bottom picture is the piece that I crumpled and scrunched. 

I went to Scrapfest yesterday.  What a zoo!  I thought that there might be some good shopping there but it was way too crowded.  I doubt I will go again.  It was not worth paying to get in and then fight the crowds. However I did find a good deal on Smooch Inks.  I can't wait to play with them.  The colors are fantastic. 

I decided to add some more permanent marker to this piece.  I am starting to like it!  Stay tuned for the next installment.  My apologies for not posting as frequently as I normally do.  I totally do not know what is happening to time.  It seems to have sped up to an unbelievable pace.

So this transfer is till kind of ugly but it is getting better.  I used permanent marker to tone down the transfer foil a bit.  It was just too much.  I am not willing to give up on this yet.  I believe if I keep adding layers it will get better.

I painted the tissue paper with inexpensive metallic tempera paint.  I really like the look of it.  The paper appears sheer but metallic.  It is really hard to capture a digital image of it.  I am not exactly sure how I will use it so it will get stashed away for now. 

I have been wanting to post for  a while but either my computer or the internet connection were not co-operating!    Mind you I only finished  my bead journal project today.  I tired of working on my snowflake journal pages.  After all spring is here.   Today I played with kirigami and kaleidoscope kreator.  I combined the two together in this project.  I adhered the pieces to some painted rice paper.  I then added some stitch with metallic thread.  Of course I also beaded this.  It is odd that both pictures are not accurate in regards to color.

I found some easy to carve stamp material last month.  I love spirals and thought the round shape was perfect for a spiral.  I was really impressed with how easy it was to carve.  I have nine more of these round stamps to carve.  I need a few more ideas as to what to carve into them.