Project Share: Rippie Landscapes

For a while now, I've been following Tammy Brackett's You Tube channel. She's a paper/mixed media/junk journal artist. She makes little scrap-busting collages with small decorative paper trimmings she calls "Chippies" and I always enjoy crafting along while watching her.

A couple of days ago I came across a little box of circles I had hand cut ages ago. They were multiple sizes, cut out of art gallery postcards I had collected during a trip to Santa Fe almost 20 years ago. My original intention was to stack them as part of a mixed media collage in my art journal, making them into abstract flowers.

As I was tearing through my paper scraps I dubbed my take on the Chippies as "Rippies". I'm also happy that I found a productive use for the mulberry paper scrap grab bags that I buy every time I go to Blick. Even though I hadn't used the previous bag, I buy another.

Trimmed.

Machine crazy-stitched

I love these so much!

Journal for Wendy

             

I initiated a swap with a lovely lady who is in a couple of my arty Facebook groups and happily she accepted. I've been wanting to get ahold of other artists journals but just don't have the bandwidth to do it. 

I had a small stash of naked journals from an OCD journal making binge I went on last year after a swap challenge issued in one of my Facebook groups. I had decided to try deconstructing a hardback book and had so much fun with it, I pulled out a pile of books and made 6 more.

This was really fun to decorate and it took a really long time.

A beaded spine tassel which includes hand made paper beads.

Inside the front cover. The butterfly is a copy of my original illustration

The pages are a mash-up of scrapbook paper, faux gelli print papers, book pages, coffee dyed paper, magazine pages and random papers I picked up at my local S.C.R.A.P. (creative re-use center)

Every Fall there's an Open Art Studio event where artists open their studios to the public and there's a hefty free guide printed with hundreds of thumbnails of art that one can pick up at art stores and cafes. I make collages with them.

I just love this cover so much.

101 Journals Project: "Embrace"

Another decorated journal from my 101 Journals Project. Omigosh!...the decorating seems endless. I do enjoy it though. I've really tried to refrain from making any new ephemera unless I get myself caught up in a bit of scrap-busting. I just enjoy making collages.

The main objective is to use projects I've already made.

The decoration in these journals is a mash-up of all of my ephemera making experiments.

Little collages...

Tammy inspired "Chippies" which are essentially little scrap collages.

Cheese stickers that I've painted and stenciled. I work in a cheese shop so I have sheets of these that I have faux gelli printed

I added an eyelet-ribbon closure.