My new favourites ( only discovered in the last few months – how did I miss them before ?) are the Craftcast Podcasts by Alison Lee. They are absolutely excellent ! About an hour long , with reviews of new craft books and interesting items and then one main interview. The choice of guests really [...]
Posts Tagged ‘collage’
Five on a Friday – Crafty Resources.
Posted in Create, Five on a Friday, Inspire, Personal, tagged collage, craft, podcasts, polymer clay on October 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Treasuries and Mosaics – ways to play with Colour.
Posted in Create, Etsy, Inspire, colour, tagged art, blog, collage, Etsy, mosaic, Photography, Treasury on May 19, 2009 | 12 Comments »
“Flickr Favs” Mosaic
Created with Flickr.com photos from the following photographers
1. Looking towards Victoria by Gary VanDenBerg 2 3. Roof Lines 4. Obertravenstimmung
Inspired by a post on Mitsy’s blog this morning ( the fabulously creative Artmind on Etsy) I decided to have another go at making a mosaic. Using this tool and also a colour picker tool that [...]
The “12 City Project” continues….
Posted in Create, Photography, tagged collage, creativity, Europe, polaroid, prague, sx70, Travel on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am enjoying this “Farewell to Polaroid” project. I started with a fairly vague idea but it is taking shape and developing with each city I visit. The “last gasp” Polaroid film is just as unpredictable as the expired SX70 film that I still have – but I am managing to be very – ok [...]
The creative flow….
Posted in Create, Photography, tagged collage, creative, florence, italy, Photography, polaroid, Travel on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
……..when it strikes you just need to hang on to it and keep going. Its taken me a very long time to realise that creative work doesn’t happen at a constant flow all the time. There are periods of intense activity followed by others where ideas seem thin on the ground. I’m trying to relax [...]
Picking up the threads again….
Posted in Create, Live, Photography, tagged Add new tag, collage, italy, Photography, polaroid, Travel on October 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
With a busy month behind me including some travel I’ve fallen behind a little – so this is the time to catch up again.
I’ve been shooting with my “last gasp” polaroid film. The colour is very different to the “normal” film I’ve been used to, but the faded vintage colours were perfect for Italy. There [...]
More Etsy research…
Posted in Inspire, tagged claudinehelmuth, collage, Etsy, italy, shopping, starrybluesky, vespa on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have long been a fan of Claudine Hellmuth’s collage work, and the first thing I bought as part of my Etsy “research” was a little mounted print from her shop. A woman on a vespa ( well, what else, given my current Italian mood )
I wanted to make the picture link to Claudine’s Etsy [...]
