on my mind, out of my mind, oh no my mind

Welcome to another post when I'm feeling out of my mind. I have a hard time transitioning to fall. I love summer even the hot and humid days. The only thing I do like are the colorful leaves. They are just starting to show themselves.

I work for a tax accountant and I start prepping for that horrid tax season in November. I think that's why I have so much anxiety for fall. I'll be busy from November through to April 15th. Also, I hate the cold.

In the fall my art is sort of a mess. I look at it and wonder where my head is at. So out of my mind is correct. To keep my mind focused I work like to work in mixed media collage. It keeps my mind and hands busy with little pieces of paper trying to make it work. I don't know why it's calming for me but it works.

This piece is called Many Moons. Here is a picture of my auditioned papers. I spend quite a lot of time auditioning pieces and sometimes they just don't work and I'm diving into my box of scraps looking for something else.

The long strips are dried wet wipes. I keep them and use them in collage all the time. I have quite a stack.  Some are a form of polyester plastic so I figure with gel medium they will last quite while and not disintegrate.

Here is the finished piece. Its hard to photograph because of all the metallic on it. What you think is white is silver.  I also added Seth Apter's Cling Rubber Stamps by Impression Obsession called Border Lines.  I'm obsessed with this stamp!

Another thing I've been doing to keep my mind focus is color. Every time I use a stencil I spray it with water and put it down on paper. I keep going on one piece of paper until I like the way it looks. When it's all dry I put it away to use another day.  Fall is here so now I'm pulling them out and coloring them in with watercolors. I'm not a fan of watercolors so in an effort to change my mind about them I try to use them.

Fall makes me feel like I have to squirrel away all my nuts for the winter and get everything in order so working on collage and coloring in a page like a coloring book keeps my mind at peace. Well, maybe for a short time!

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A New Collage: Mellow Yellow

I love collage. I like going through all the bits and pieces of paper I've saved. There are times where I just dump out my scrap drawer and find pieces for collages. I put them in separate envelopes so I can use them in the future. Sometimes I just dump them right back in the drawer because I don't like the combination anymore.

This collage I decided to create a background using white and yellow acrylic paints and a stencil called Tuscan Floral by The Crafters Workshop. My collages usually have lots of negative space but this time I didn't want to leave the background all white.

 

Next I took my pieces and auditioned them to decide where I wanted them. The yellow flower is actually the bottom of a water bottle. I tried to use it to create some stamped flowers but it didn't work that way I had hoped.  The blue and yellow papers are scrapbook paper, dry wall tape (holes), and two other pieces of scrap paper.

 

There are so many pieces I keep that I do go through it and throw some of it away. I know I can hear some of her screaming NOOOOOOOOOO!  When this drawer is to full to close, I go through it all.

 

 

 

Here it is finished. The bee I think was part of a piece of scrapbook paper but I've had him forever so I'm not sure. Oh, the two little greenish circles on the left is bubble wrap. See I keep way too much!!!



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SCRAPTOBERFEST 2016! 12 Hour Scrapbooking Event for Breast Cancer

Scraptobertfest is a breast cancer event to raise money for immediate needs for those with breast cancer such as wigs, prosthesis, etc. No money go towards research, it goes directly to those brave fighters of this awful disease.

 

This event is a 12 hour scrapbooking event.

Many participants have been coming to the event for over 10 years.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served.

Lots, and lots of raffle prizes.

 

The best part is everything from food, raffle prizes, t-shirts, etc. is 100% donated. Amazing!

 

This is year we had four venders which donated a portion of their sales.  Here is a picture of the room in full swing.

 

This year we had scrapbookers, digital scrapbookers, card makers, knitters, and a couple of crafters making wreaths.

 

Although I'm one of the volunteers,  I also pay for a spot to create art. I usually make cards but I mostly walk around talking to everyone. Running here and there.

 

This year, although I wasn't in too much pain with my back (herniated disc), if felt better walking around so I only created these.

 

An Alice collage that is not finished.

 

 

And these two tags

 

 

It was a fun event and one I look forward to every year.

 

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A Collage: Cabbage Rose

Hi Everyone,

One of the many things I like to do with The Crafter's Workshop stencils are to make miscellaneous embellishments for cards, etc. I created this Cabbage Rose out of modeling paste. You can see how I did it in this post HERE. I had one left and it was perfect for the collage.

The fly/dragon fly is a large stamp (no longer available) and the rest are papers I've kept.

The Crafter's Workshop provided me with stencils to create this project.

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

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Collaged Journal Covers

Hi Everyone!

I decided to put away some projects and work on something small.

I have these journal with white cloth covers.

This one I used a stencil in white paint on the background.

Using papers from my stash I attached them to the front with gel medium.

I believe the butterfly and frame are from Prima but I'm not sure.

That's it for now.

I'm working on a black and white one next.

Stay tuned!

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