A Piece of Broken Glass.

 This piece of broken glass obviously came from a vehicle and had been lying here in the bush for quite some time. I just liked the way that it was broken, but had also remained somewhat intact.

 Of course I just had to play around with the image in Photoshop! An interesting effect, but no one that appears to have immediate use.

                                        Another piece of glass further on along the track.

   This reminds me of some item embedded in ice, an artefact from a past civilization perhaps.

Fantasy Birds from Far Away Lands.

Regular reader of this blog might recognise the background art work for these pieces.  Printed for an exhibition called 'Fantasy Birds from Far Away Lands', this is my 'Crane-Crane from Marskapane'.
The background is watercolour, the 'city' is a hand carved stamp and the crane-crane is a screen print.

New Pages.

           Again I have used bits and pieces left over from other projects.....it's very satisfying!

 Unfortunately I miscalculated the width of the fabric cover for this signature, and it's little bit wider than the paper pages.  Oh well, it's all hand made after all.

                                  More gelatine prints and a large hand carved flower rubber stamp.

 These butterflies are my own carved stamps which I have printed on to painted Vliesofix paper and coloured in.

                                     I'm not sure about the bee, I just loved the bright yellow.

More Dragonflies.

 The front page of a fabric only signature, with a commercial print background, appliqued machine stitched and digitized butterfly and an appliqued dragonfly from another commercial fabric. The lupin picture is silk and has reacted to the glue in the Vliesofix on the back , darkening the print unfortunately.

 The centre spread on my hand dyed fabric. The large dragonfly is from a commercial print, as is the butterfly, with appliqued digitized and machine stitched plants. The commercial plant print is in the middle where the fold is, as the stitched ones would have been too bulky to fold. The band along the lower edge is because I cut the fabric just a little too small!

                             The back with a large print of a fern frond printed on fabric

The Next Signature.

 In my quest to use only the supplies that I already have, this page for the front (and back) of the new signature is some fabric that I've had for ages, but don't really like.  The green isn't to my taste, but it does have dragonflies and butterflies in the print. The darker band is a digitally altered gelatine print of a fern frond.

 These pages ended up with an Egyptian theme, an appliqued  machine embroidered motif, a strip of commercial themed fabric, some commercial rubber stamps and my own hand carved butterfly stamp on a background of painted blue & gold Vliesofix. Oh, and another strip of commercial fabric that suggested pyramids to me.

 More gelatine prints,  several of my own stamps and a couple of commercial stamps for good measure. I'm still using the hand made paper with the vegetation embedded in it, but I'm getting to the end of my supply. For this reason I've limited this signature to just one page of the paper rather than the 2 that I've used previously.

 Some more gelatine printed dragonflies from my stamps, plus an appliqued gold sweep of dragonflies (?) This was a design that I digitized many years ago, and this test strip didn't make the grade. Look closely and you can see the 3rd set of wings from the top on the right didn't sew out properly. The dark green fabric was printed with another of my designs, this time screen printed.

The back cover. I thought that the gentleman looked as if he might have a butterfly net over his shoulder, though I suspect that it's just a walking stick. He's got plenty to catch here, but it looks as if he only has eyes for the lady! I'm really starting to make an impression on my huge stack of failed experimental pieces, test embroideries and saved scraps thank goodness.

Super Duck!

What an amazing hot air balloon! It flew over a couple of days ago to the sounds of all the neighbourhood dogs barking. The basket below the balloon looks tiny in comparison with the balloon itself. I think NBN stands for National Broadband Network.

New Stamps.

I decided that I needed more than one hand carved stamp for the paper pages of the book, so I carved 3 new ones, which, while they still need a bit of refining , look quite O.K when coloured in.

New Pages.

                             Using a commercial dragonfly print again, with fused on extras.

        Central panel with left over digitized plants and another commercial print lower border.

                         The back, with an appliqued screen print of a poppy fused on