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Saturday, 4 February 2012

Lost in Lace

 I was so taken by one particular piece that I saw at the Lace exhibition in Birmingham the other day that I decided to use some of my pics for a journal page. A few days ago I bought myself a new Moleskine journal.....a nice red one.......and I decided on a ruled one just to give another dimension to the pages. The idea is to leave some of the lines showing or to actually use them.....not too sure I achieved that on this page! Oh well!
 First step was to use up the left over watery brown paint you can see sitting on the tile in the picture above.....ooops made the pages curl.....heat gun sorted that out!

 Before it was completely dry I rubbed over some Pan Pastels in orange and brown....................

 ........then stamped some lace around the edges and used a credit card dipped in black paint to echo the lines in the photos......................


 The finished thing..............my natural inclination was to add the pics at angles and overlapping each other but I resisted and put them down on the page straight as contrast to all the crossing lines


 If you are interested, the artist who created this installation in the exhibition is  

Oh yes.....I used my Poloroid Pogo mini printer for the pics.

8 comments:

Helen said...

That looks great - the edge of the credit card is a great tool... I relaly like these pictures you took.

Sandy said...

Wow Sue this rock.
Thanks for sharing the process. Brilliant.

I wish you a gorgeous weekend my friend.

Effie said...

What a fabulous page.. Those pictures look great with your credit card lines..very atmospheric

Carol Q said...

good to see the way you built up the page Sue. did you see that there's a Lost in Lace app for the iphone?

Siobhan Brignull said...

oooh delicious work, did I tell you I got a pogo for rxmas, a pink one, have had some battery problems, did you have any . . x

Sid said...

Fab pages, must get some more journalling done !!

Ingrid Dijkers said...

This is fabulous!
I too have a Pogo printer....time to pull it out again.

Carol Q said...

having managed to get there yesterday Sue - have to say this was my favourite piece.