Yesterday while blog hopping around I saw a piece of work that had some simple stitching and just a few French knots that was so effective I thought I would have a play. Check out the piece I saw here ALICE AND CAMILLA
So off to a journal I went............I was wondering (I do that a lot now I have so much more time on my hands!!) what I did before I discovered working in journals? I think they make the perfect places to play around and experiment in especially like yesterday when you see something you want to try out. Instead of working on bits of card etc that you wonder what to do with afterwards you have your journals to look back through.........so much fun!
Anyway back to the stitching.............I stamped the bird and then added the long straight stitches to look like grass and the French knots in amongst.
Next I decided I needed to add a few words and decided to stitch those too.
Finally I decided to stitch this page to the one after it to hide all the mess at the back and did that with just straight stitch around the edges.
9 comments:
Love it Sue, love the stitching, might give that a try. Must try some journaling, its just getting started and knowing where to start. Perhaps I should try a page rather than a card for a change. Its great this blog hopping and does help for inspiration at times LOL. Tracy x x
This is terrific, the knots and grasses, all the stitching is so very effective, love the whole effect. Annette
Very intricate work Sue. Love the image. I tried sending you an email but it says that I am temporarily blocked! Dunno what that means...are your settings allowing emails other than those listed on your list? ~Glen~
have popped over from Alice and Camilla to see your beautiful french knots and stitch on paper and LOVE YOUR BLOG~!!~ so much creativity and talent here~!
you are right about journals being so good for experimenting in and i think the work that you've shown here is wonderful. i'm a bit new at art journaling and still in the experimental stages but feel myself quickly getting sucked in . . . so many fun possibilities and opportunities lie within the "art page" . . .
:-)
libbyQ
Great idea Sue, (not that I can do a French knot) but it looks so good.
What a fab idea to incorporate some stitching - love the way it turned out, too. That's a pretty good argument for a journal - h'mm. That may even sway me... lovely to see you still creating!
Awesome Sue!! what a result and I love the background colour sooooo much.
Now I've been inspired by you to put some of these in my journal I'm doing in Kiwi Carole's class!
Love your blog! Margaret
Fantastic, the knots look great! awesome
Cool page, and thanks for the photo details!
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