Paper and Stitch Sketch and Notebook

As you can see the Vintage Envelopes inspired these Paper Stitch

and Collaged Art books.

They are both for sale and are on my website.

You can see them and how they were made

in detail,

by clicking

Journal

or

Notebook

The sales post is on

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Art Inspiration

It is sometimes good to go back to some of your favourite art pieces

when you are practising particular media.

I have used the Vintage Envelopes I made last year and my

Vintage Lace Collages as a

starting point and added it to the Inspiration from the

'Textile In Focus', exhibition.

Alongside ingredients I had in my stash to make

a 'Paper and Stitch', collaged journal cover.

Click 'Vintage'

to see more of this inspiration.

Journal page 2011

So first page of my new made journal all about Goal setting and

how to maintain your ideas and enthusiasm!

I loved putting the pages together and creating out of a pile of old

magazines! I mean old, some were from the 80's and older.

I don't buy many magazines these days.

I grabbed a pile from the studio over Christmas to go through,

a real mis mash of gardening, craft and fashion,

many I had been given.

I flicked through pulling out the odd thing that was of

interest and left it all in a pile.

You know,one of those piles you get round to and it

gets bigger if you don't do something about it!

Now normally they would have gone straight into recycling

but with going away and flu they stayed in their box ready!

I must have known I would be needing them.

So on Tuesday I sat down and creatively went wild!

See more of my sketchbooks on my website

click on this link

www.art2inspire.co.uk