Handmade cards

Some recent cards that I've created for birthdays and Mother's day.

Cutout Books framed artwork

This week I have been busy making a framed piece of work for my colleague and friend Stu for a wedding gift to him and his wife Jo. They both love books so I thought I'd make them a book themed artwork along the same lines as my Butterfly wall art.

I used thick cartridge paper and cut out 9 shapes of opened out books, then I made thin paper pages and glued them behind the cartridge paper books. Next I selected some vintage music sheets with text on them to use as the background. The whole thing was then framed in a deep box frame.

If you'd like me to create a similar piece of wall art for you then please do not hesitate to contact me!

 

Music Paper Flowers

I decided to make some little and large paper flowers for card making and maybe other collagey projects. I used some music sheets I had bought, and some other translucent and cartridge paper, beads and sequins. Watch this space to see what I use them on!

Miniature British Jubilee Collage

Because I was so pleased with my British Jubilee Collage I decided to make a miniature version.
This cute little box framed collage features many of the same things as the large one, such as buttons, ribbons, fabric and bunting but measures only 88mm (3 1/2") square.Very cute I think!

British Jubilee Collage

This box frame of Britishness has all you need to celebrate the jubilee and all things British this summer, made by me!
It features delicate paper bunting, buttons, london fabric, ribbon and screen printed british icons.
A perfect souvenir from the summer of 2012.
Available from my Folksy shop now, one of a kind so get in quick!

 Bus, phone box and stamp are all from my Best of British screen print.

 

 

Pick Me Up Exhibition Part 1

On Saturday I visited Pick Me Up, a Contemporary Graphic Art Fair at Somerset House in London. The exhibition runs until this sunday and is well worth a look if you're nearby!
The art fair featured mostly screen printed work, collage and illustration. It was a great place to get ideas and also buy some yummy prints for my house.
Here are some of my favourites from the day.

Jon McNaught has done some lovely nature inspired prints, and was featured in the Pick me up selects section.

Yoko Michishita was also featured in the Pick me up selects section of the show, She works mainly in pencil on these delicate drawings.

The next artists that caught my eye were Zim & Zou, a french duo who create beautiful creatures and three-dimensional artwork.

I was really looking forward to seeing some of my favourite artists, Peskimo. Here's one of their latest prints that they have on sale at the show, called Catnaps.

This is the Puck Studio section, who are a creative print studio from East London, they had a very creative stall area, which I managed to ruin by releasing one of the helium balloons by mistake! oops.

Owl collaged screen print - V&A museum paper

I've used my much loved Caslon Owl (see older post) design for some screen prints, some are screen printed with three colours. My favourite however are my collaged versions, where I made the body background design from various different paper stocks, and then I screen printed the Caslon bit (the letters which make up the body) in black paint on the top.

I'm really pleased with the results, I did four different versions with different papers so watch this space, more to come!

Butterfly Wall Art

I made this Butterfly wall art for my bedroom. It features collaged music sheets in the background and cut paper butterflies in front.

More owls

I've modified my owls in a tree image, so I can have a zoomed in version, which I plan to frame and put up in the stairway next to the whole tree of owls :)

Owl Collage

I decided to create a new Owl collage using coloured paper on board. I used a themed paper pack I had bought based on birds. I rather like the autumnal colours.

Flowers in a box

My latest creation is a little garden of flowers in a box frame. I punched the little blooms out of floral paper and then embellished them using beads and sequins. The free standing flowers are suspended on pieces of tiger tail.

Character Owl Painting 2

I have done a second little owl to accompany the blue one, this one a little fatter and more purple :)

Character Owl Painting

I decided to make my owl character into a collage/painting and I am rather pleased with him :) I used tissue paper, old music sheets, permanent pen and a little bit of paint, glue and glitter.