Tea for Two?

 Another image from the Altered Board Book.  

My collection of fancy paper napkins is far too large, but so useful when looking for images to use. The zebras and the lizards are napkin animals released from their paper jungle.... did you know that all paper napkins (or serviettes if you prefer) consist of three layers of very thin paper that have to be separated before using the image in a collage?

I'm not sure where the teapot came from, but the background is a print of maple leaves on rice paper.  The zebras look quite puzzled, they are wondering where the teapot came from too.

Snowfall

 Around 40cm of white fluffy snow arrived from the sky between Saturday and Sunday... that's just about 16" deep.  And that was added to more snow that fell earlier in the week, the total being more like 63cm. Definitely a Winter Wonderland.... but not everyone appreciates it. Driving was horrible, nobody slows down to accommodate the weather conditions, and there were loads of fender benders and cars getting stuck in the snow.  Toronto police issued 2,393 tickets to vehicles parked on snow routes.

I was visiting Younger Son and family for a couple of days, so I just stayed where I was for an extra night and avoided the chaos, driving home on relatively clear highways in the morning.

The big arse snowblower!

There's a car under there somewhere.

The deck behind my house when I got home.

Bloomin'

 I'd like to introduce Phyllis the Amaryllis.

She came to live with me back in December when she was just a dried up bulb in a box er.... I mean cute fat little baby with lots of growth potential. 

Liberal applications of encouraging words, TLC and H2O and look what happened.

Phyllis certainly warms up a cold snowy day with her bright smile. And it's Saint Valentine's Day soon.... the perfect day to wear red, Phyllis's favourite colour.

Scary?

She was a gelli print transfer from a fashion magazine, acrylic on rice paper.  A bargain packet of assorted Japanese origami papers found at the local thrift shop provided the floral arrangement, with some black tissue paper.  

I put my scissors and glue stick to work and this was the result, I never really plan, I just let it happen.

Scary? Possibly. What do you think?

Fantasy Streetscape.

I've heard of a watchdog but this is definitely a watchcat.  

The girl came from a fashion magazine, Vogue or perhaps Elle, and the moggie was advertising cat food.  The streetscape is a page from one of those European River Cruise brochures that mysteriously arrive in the mail, even though I have never actually ordered one.   The sky is gelli print on rice paper. 

Suggestions for a title, anyone?

Flower Power.

Another page from the Altered Baby Board Book. 

Background is acrylic gelli print created with a home made stencil. Flowers were cut from homestyle magazines... Chatelaine and Style At Home.... and the balustrade came from Vogue, minus the model who was leaning on it, somewhere in Paris I think.

Altered Baby Book

 No I didn't alter a Baby, just some Baby Books.

You know the ones I mean... those colourful story books with board pages, about 6 inches (15.25cm) square, meant for little people to enjoy,  almost non-destructible. I like to remove the images (medium sandpaper does a thorough job) and add my own artwork.

So I'll post some of my refangled pages. I use all sorts of media and collage, lino prints, gelli prints, pages from magazines, origami paper, tissue paper, grocery flyers, whatever I can find.

This one uses origami paper, gelli print background, the sun is hand made wrapping paper from India, the lady arrived from a gardening magazine. Anyone got a title for this?