Thursday 20 January 2011

working with fabric for a change (UKS & FAMM challenges)


My friend Linda has posted a word challenge over at UK Stampers so I was determined to have a go and wanted to combine the words with fabric somehow as I havent done a fabric piece for awhile. The january challenge over at Fiber Arts Mixed Media is to use cotton, threads & paint.

The background for this piece is a print that didnt work but I like the way it looks ghostly..have added watercolour paints and stamped butterflies over this. I printed off the digi layout on to canvas and have surrounded it by lace..finished it off with a nice romantic stamped heart and lace bow.



I combined the photo of the trees in fog with one of my background paintings, a romantic image from magic moonlight and made a digi layout and then printed this off to combine it with fabric for the above piece


Today we have had freezing cold fog everywhere and I took a photo of the trees at school shrouded by fog. I have spent most of the day with my gloves on as its that cold..hope its warm where you are.

13 comments:

Janet Ghio said...

Nice piece-I love the photo of the tree in the fog. Thanks for updating me on Elmo-I really loved the color on him.

Emma said...

This is very romantic! Love Elmo too - i grew up on Sasame street & made sure my kids did too. Your school jotter page is great too, I agree with most of those things but isn't learning so much better now!

Lori said...

Ooo, this is gorgeous, Lorraine, and yes, ghostly would be a proper term, the end result is lovely.

Anonymous said...

Soft and romantic focus, lovely. Gloves, hats, boots, scarves and big fluffy down coats here. Going down to your -17C this weekend. xox Corrine

Unknown said...

We have fortunately plus degrees today. In fact, we had fog today as well. I get so happy when it gets warmer.
So beautiful your work. :))

The Sparkly Fairy said...

A really beautiful piece.

Rosie said...

Wonderful piece of art and I love the photo

Pat Beaumont said...

it's absolutely fabulous Lorraine

Mary said...

I love the effect of the layering.

Becca said...

Oh my gosh, I am loving that photo of the fog you took, and how lovely it looks in your fabric collage. Beautiful work!

Terry said...

Beautiful fabric piece. Love the romantic images! That picture looks very cold!

Lisa Fulmer said...

so sweet - glad you entered the famm challenge!

Lynn Stevens said...

beautiful and romantic! Love that you used fabric as well! Nicely done Lorraine!