coolest guitar case ever?

see it bigger here

I had wanted to do this to my case for a while but I've been SO busy with the wedding invitations (I will show them to you. I just think the wedding guests should see them before you do :-P).

I LOVE it! The pages are from a vintage gardening book - randomly ripped up and stuck on. I adhered the pages with gel medium (in matt finish) and covered it in two layers of the same. I was going to do the other side, but I think it looks good with just one half done.

I have decided to get some sort of routine on this little blog of mine. So, I WILL post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. What do you think of that? I expect there will be times where I will post more often. But routine is good, isn't it? That way, you know when to pop in :o)

I am still tweeting. I don't really understand why though. Is tweeting something I will just 'get' after a while? Advise me, fellow tweeters!

I cut up magazines for fun

Mr Pippa and I love pretty house magazines and often dream of how we will decorate our house. Previously, we kept cut-up bits of magazine in a folder but that was just no fun. So I made an ideas book. We call it our 'dream house book' and we like to flick through it whilst drinking tea and dreaming. We like to dream.

this and that

Well I've been working on a few different things recently, but I can't upload the photographs just yet because the camera batteries are charging. So here's a collage I did last week. Well, more of a mixed media piece really. I was just playing about but I really like it.

I'll post lots of pictures tomorrow (I scanned this).

colour-themed collage book - stage 4

Here are some off the pages with junk on. I think the purple page definitely needs more junk.

colour-themed collage book - stage 3

After having stuck plenty of junk into the book, I was having difficulty closing it...

... this is what the book looked like when it was being held shut...

So I decided to re-string it! I got my pliers out and cut the metal rings off and held it together with string instead.

"Thank you, Pippa, I feel so much more free"

"That's okay, little bookey wook"

As you can see if you look at the pages at the end of the book (the bottom pages in this picture), I haven't finished it. Good job I re-strung it when I did - it's only going to get fatter!

colour-themed collage book - stage 2

Glue-gun time! Before sticking the objects into the book, I thought I'd take a picture of them all laid-out first. I liked the look of it - something about having things in colour order AND all organised neatly really pleases me. So I took more pictures. I'm enjoying this little project.

I'm struggling to find white things to stick in. There is also a distinct lack of light purple. And brown. And gold. Okay so some of the pages are nowhere near finished. On some of the pages I haven't even finished the collage stage. But I think that this book is going to be a little work-in-progress. A bit like the Wreck This Journal: at first I was doing it non-stop, but then I would just do a page when I felt like it.

Some wonderful news: I have more PVA glue! My SIL got some for me (thank you!), so I can continue my arty life as usual. I tend to go through phases - sometimes textile work, sometimes painting, sometimes journaling, sometimes sketching, and at the moment it's collage so it's good to have some more glue.

colour-themed collage book - stage 1

I wasn't happy with the way the pages turned out when I scanned them, so I'm back to photographing my work - and I'm no photographer so please excuse the blurred ones.

What follows are a few of the pages from the book before I began gluing (glueing?) objects into the it. Don't you think that the orange page looks much more orange than it did in the previous post? (photographing vs scanning - I've chosen photographing)

These aren't all of the pages - you can view more of them on flickr (link on the left).

If you've never tried collage before, just do it! I find something very therapeutic about cutting up magazines - easy to do whilst watching the television too. Go on, have some fun x x x

orange

What a beautiful sight: a folder full of pretty pictures just waiting to be stuck down.  Alas, I shan't be doing this for a while as I have now officially run out of PVA glue.

However, I did LOADS of collage work while I had the chance, so the next few days I shall share what I have been up to.  As requested by Sian, here is an orange page from my new colour-themed collage book.  

The lack of PVA glue doesn't mean that I've finished though - not by any means! So now it's time to get the glue-gun out and stick actual objects onto the pages! Hurrah! 

red

Collage has been the activity of the week and I will be very sad once my glue supply has run out. I've been working on another colour-themed collage book, which I'm really enjoying (after all, that's what it's all about!). There's something very aesthetically pleasing about putting things in colour groups, don't you think? Maybe it appeals to my OCD! Here's one of the pages. I plan to stick objects onto the pages too, but haven't got to that stage just yet.

By the way, what do you think of my new banner?

junk journal

I did quite a big project on 'junk' a few years ago and really loved the little journal I had created. Each page had a colour theme. As the theme was junk, I found most of the items on the street. Either that or took things which were going to be thrown away (the purple fluffy pen, the insides of a walkman, a spoon, etc). First I stuck down paper or magazine cuttings in the colour of that page, then it was time to have some fun! Not a great front cover, but I think the inside is pretty cool...

So much fun to make! Also, I find something very satisfying about looking through a really chunky, full-to-bursting art journal. If I can't close it comfortably, I'm happy!

Once I had finished with the coloured pages, I just messed about on the other pages - making little works of art with junk. On the page above, I rubbed tea into it! Great fun!