Creating re-visited

The Simple Things project made us think about different words, how each word inspired us, and what it sent us off to our craft spaces to produce.

Hiya Claire here, with my interpretation of Create.

I stamped this Stampotique image onto some Canvas (the stamp is called The Crafter)

I also found a Tim Holtz stamp that I did not know I owned that says.... Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. So that also got stamped onto some fabric. I also came across some KI memories stamps all related to creating, that I had forgotten I owned (I'm noticing a theme here)

I used a Sassafrass Lass stamp to create the border & Thickers for the title. I have ripped up the dictionary definition for this one & attached it to the bottom corner of the page with a brad... why? because I like Tim's definition better :D

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Hi, Debbie here with my interpretation of the word create. I couldnt find any quotes that I personally liked so I decided to make this page one which shows the things I like to use in scrapbooking at the moment.

I started off by using a mask to paint some white acrylic butterflies, and then when dry I lightly brayered over lime green and pale blue ink.

 
I decided that this was too pale so carried on stamping using butterfly theme stamps and brilliance ink pads.

 
 
I cut the butterfly front from black shiny paper and the back using photographic paper. I alcohol inked the photo paper using citrus green and stream.

The bird was cut out in cardstock and inked and stamped. The embellies (wings and butterflies) were made from utee, using my own moulds.

 

I added tiny adhesive letters to spell create and inked around the edge of the page using distress inks.

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Dolly here with my Create page.

I stuck with the theme of flowers and nature for my album and to some extent this month was the easiest and most obvious. The flower I chose this month has to be one of the most outrageous.

I couldn't get the phrase 'creation' out of my mind for this word and so began to search for a quote that said what I wanted.

 I used bright papers to echo the showiness of the Passion flower

Although it is a digital page, now it is printed out it looks very very dimensional.

 

I have to say I loved this year long project and am staggered by the different ways everyone tackled and interpreted it.

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Hi from Caz!

I am once again humbled by the abolutely awesome work of my teamies. Aren't they a talented bunch :)

My CREATE page.

 

I loved creating a background of text, and plan to use this technique on scrapping pages too. You know one thing i've learnt while learning to art journal, is that this is a great format to try out new things. I think if I had tried a stamped 12x12 background I would have been totally overwhelmed by the size.

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Hi, Mandy here...

 This month I got inky & messy in the spirit of 'creating'....

  

 
 I wanted this page of my fabric book to have loads of texture, so I began by gathering together bits and pieces to glue onto a square piece of interfacing which was my 'base'...

 

I needed to use lots of watered down PVA glue, applied with a big brush...

 

I really enjoyed ripping the dressmakers tissue and pieces of medical tape, layering up lots of texture.  I found that I really needed to be liberal with the glue as it soaked into the interfacing base like a sponge!

 

Once totally dry I applied a coat of Gesso...

This is how the page looked once dry...

 

Then I got to work with Glimmer Mist & Cosmic Shimmer spray...

 

I used small dominoes (drilled with a 2mm teeny drill bit) for the title 'Create'.  I inked them with Alcohol Ink...

 

Then used rub-ons ...

I strung the dominoes with beads onto copper wire and sewed the wire to the page. 

 

 I also sewed a vertical row of beads down the left hand side of the page too ontop of the row of felt triangles.  Again using copper wire.

This fabric book has a famous quote for each monthly word and the quote I chose for this month said...

"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

 By Arthur Koestler (novelist). 

This sums up how I feel at the moment about getting more messy with the things I'm creating.

I printed my quote onto canvas and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist & inked the edges.  I hung the tag, and finally attatched the base page into the actual fabric book with staples.

 

I enjoyed making this page for my SIMPLE THINGS fabric book.. however I didn't like all the waiting for stuff to dry!

Back soon with some more creative projects.

IACW