tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12484390675912237872024-03-14T20:55:20.522+11:00Patra's Arts and Crafts BlogI've had pencils in my hand ever since I can remember, and as a child, colouring in books was my favourite activity. I've since graduated to calligraphy, and dabbling with various paints, pastels, charcoal, etc. I also like to play with paper, recycling things and making collages. This is a record of my projects in recent years.Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-28948078430390750972021-05-25T18:24:00.001+10:002021-05-25T18:24:42.771+10:00Mail Art<p> I have been fascinated by mail art since I read about it years ago (on the internet of course), and I bought a few books about examples of mail art around the world. I painted quite a few of my own, but sadly didn't think to take photos of them - or if I did, they have long disappeared into cyberspace or are languishing on old memory sticks or CDs...</p><p>So having renewed my interest after joining a ProBoards forum dedicated to Snail Mail, I have decorated some more envelopes and posted them to friends locally. They were all loved! Mind you, I copied most of them from examples on Pinterest, so if any of these look familiar, I am not claiming my art is original!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8FS_2qW1To/YKy0Mbi-BII/AAAAAAAAYFE/YbbsRFKiEyk_bbPlm1wOAUI-oqvzrBRJACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Mail%2Bart%2BMay%2B2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8FS_2qW1To/YKy0Mbi-BII/AAAAAAAAYFE/YbbsRFKiEyk_bbPlm1wOAUI-oqvzrBRJACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mail%2Bart%2BMay%2B2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-45232179732709863222018-12-10T23:58:00.002+11:002018-12-10T23:58:54.795+11:00Felt ornaments and Ceramic tile coasters.Here are the felt ornaments I have made this year. Mostly inspired by what I have seen on Pinterest.<br />
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These are coasters made from ceramic tiles (67 cents at Bunnings) with old street directory maps and old sheet music cut up and glued on using Modge Podge. They have adhesive felt backing.<br />
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<br />Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-13159177561785115042018-12-10T23:54:00.000+11:002018-12-10T23:54:00.997+11:00Christmas crafts 2018Can't believe it has been a year since I posted on this blog! I have made quite a few bits and pieces this year apart from patchwork and embroidery! I made some felt ornaments, and more Christmas cards. The first two are birthday cards.<br />
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These are this year's Xmas cards: They are all inspired by cards I have seen on Pinterest.<br />
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<br />Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-84349218195200162662017-11-19T00:12:00.002+11:002017-11-19T00:12:39.643+11:00Handmade Christmas cardsIt is that time again! And I am in another card swap on the Home Makers Forum, with two ladies both in England who will be receiving these cards well before Christmas, I hope!<br />
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I would have liked to do better than this, but I haven't been feeling up to par lately after the diagnosis of bladder cancer. Even though the operation removed all the tumours, and I am now undergoing treatment to clear any remaining cancer cells, it is all a bit draining. Still, I hope the recipients will like their cards regardless!Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-33560666159657648622016-12-04T01:32:00.002+11:002016-12-04T01:32:49.176+11:00Xmas colouring book boxes and more cards.I found this unique colouring book in a local bookshop last week. Each page is removable, to be coloured in and then made into a gift box. Very clever!<br />
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I've made two so far. Here is one of the sheets coloured, and yet to be made up into a box, and a box already made up. I'm using mine to put handmade soaps in to give to friends.<br />
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I have also made another card, for a friend who has recently adopted a Scotty Dog.<br />
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And added stars to a couple of my paint sample chip Xmas tree cards.<br />
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Everyone who seen my handmade cards loves the way I've used paint sample cards as above. So far I've only made stylised Xmas trees, but I've seen other shapes on Pinterest, and hope to made some more cards using different Xmas icons. <br />
The button card at the top of this page is the first one I've made using buttons. Again, I have sourced Pinterest for ideas, and this was a quick easy design to start off my button cards!Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-6276874105856096442016-11-19T01:38:00.001+11:002016-11-19T01:38:37.116+11:00Hand made Christmas cardsThis year I am in a Xmas card exchange on a forum. In fact, it was my idea to have the exchange as I knew there were quite a few members who loved making cards, and I thought it would be fun for them all to swap with each other. I got so enthused, I looked up the card ideas I'd been saving on my Pinterest account, and made these cards all in one afternoon! Some of my friends said they were amazed at how quick I was, but really, once you have all the bits and pieces on a table in front of you, it doesn't take long to make up a few cards. I don't spend a lot of money on expensive cardmaking equipment; I'd rather recycle things like old sheet music, paint sample cards, and cutting up old Xmas cards.
Then with some card stock and glitter glue - away I went!
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Find a square of fabric (mine is 5" square), and find a square of co-ordinating felt that is slightly bigger than the fabric. Machine sew the fabric to the felt, around the design, or at random, then around the edge of the fabric. Cut the edge of the felt with pinking shears. That's it! The samples on the craft forum were florals, and they had machine stitched roughly around the flowers, so the stitching on the reverse side, showed up as a design on the felt. I chose to use Christmas fabric for three of mine because I wanted to see if they would be good enough as small Xmas gifts. They will, but not these ones - next time I'll be a bit more careful with the stitching, and use contrasting thread so it looks better on the back.<br />
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<br />Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-57145532288426698992016-08-27T00:01:00.001+10:002016-08-27T00:01:58.574+10:00Hand made cardsOne of my friends always makes lovely hand made cards for me for birthdays and Christmas. So when her Mum passed away within a week of my friend's birthday, I wanted to make two special cards for her. This Sympathy card is based on something I saw on Pinterest, using paint sample cards. I used black marker pen to black out the names of the colours on the card, and the flower was on a sheet of decoupage images that I had in my stash. I glued the paint card on to a plain white card, and added the thin brown line around it.<br />
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For her birthday, I made this one, also based on something I'd seen on Pinterest. Yeah I know, I am a copycat, but there are such great things out there, and I don't have much imagination :-(<br />
I folded a piece of light cardstock, glued some Japanese paper at the top and bottom of the front. Drew the snails in green marker pen, and glued the buttons over the snail image. Added the words on a separate piece of decorative paper, and circled that in black marker pen.<br />
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<br />Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-16735197977741117752016-08-08T20:46:00.000+10:002016-08-08T20:46:07.001+10:00Hand made cardsI try not to get too involved in making cards, as like a lot of crafts, it can become addictive, and you can end up with dozens/hundreds of cards that you don't know what to do with! So I only make them when I have a specific reason, or person to send it to. <br />
On the Down to Earth forum, the moderators recently organised a swap, where the participants exchanged three recipes, plus a hand made card or a photo of your home town. I decided to do the hand made card because I'd seen something on Pinterest that I was keen to try. We crafters all know how important it is to have all kinds of paper and/or fabric to play with, and two item that can be used to make lovely cards or collages, whatever you are in to - are sheet music, and Asian printed newspapers or books. I have bought both at opshops in the past, and have found many uses for the pages. Such as this:<br />
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A friend was playing with this when I visited her a few days ago. She was looking on the internet for ideas for kids papercrafts and found this on a site called Grandma's Toys, or something similar. She remembered making them at school when she was a child in the 1950's but can't remember what they were called. I remember having them too; we used to sit around and wiggle the paper with our fingers in the pockets underneath! There were numbers or letters written on the paper and we used to count or spell, but I can't remember exactly what it was.<br />
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I don't think many people read this blog, but if you do, and you remember this game, please let me know, either by leaving a comment, or emailing me!Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-71116468107861270232016-08-06T21:17:00.001+10:002016-08-06T21:17:14.153+10:00Mail art workshop with the Calligraphy Society.Last month I attended a one day workshop with my paperlovin' friend Val. We had done workshops with this particular tutor before, and she (Marg) is a lot of fun to work with. She has a large studio in her back yard with every imaginable pen, paper, and ink that you could think of, and she is very generous in sharing it with her pupils.<br />
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She started out showing us how to make our own envelopes, origami style.<br />
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Then we went on to decorate them, using various mediums and styles of lettering.<br />
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The above photo shows bits of sponge that we cut into shapes like hearts, starts, fish, etc. then dipped into inks and used to decorate envelopes. Who would have thought?!Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-66742537405093767632016-08-06T21:10:00.001+10:002016-08-06T21:10:06.272+10:00Crafts with used stamps.I used to collect stamps. From when I was about 10 years old, up until a few years ago, but by then I had long lost interest in saving, soaking, peeling, and putting them in albums. So I sold most of the albums to a stamp dealer, and hung on to the few albums that I wished to keep. Old habits die hard, and I still tear stamps off envelopes and toss them into a tin for some future purpose.<br />
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I have seen this technique before, but I saw it again on Pinterest recently, and decided to play :-)<br />
The idea is that you glue stamps close together on a sheet of paper, then cut out a shape.<br />
So I glued stamps on to paper last night, giving them time to dry.<br />
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I don't know what other people do, but I figured the best way to get a good shape is to draw an outline on the reverse side of the paper, and cut it out from there. I chose to draw a rooster.<br />
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The first time I saw one of these mini clothes pegs was at an office where they were being used in the same way as glider clips, to hold papers together. I was entranced by these tiny pegs! Years later, I discovered them again, being used in various craft projects. So when I saw a picture on Pinterest of a mini clothes line complete with pegs, I decided to have a go. <br />
There were no instructions, so I drew the clothes on to freezer paper, pressed them on to iron-on interfacing and cut each piece out. Then I fused that to coloured felt pieces, machined around the edges, and cut them out. I wrote the LAUNDRY letters on to the felt in permanent marker, but I'm planning to embroider over that later.<br />
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I am taking a short break from patchwork and stitching, to play with some more paper crafts. The first item is a simple mail art envelope to a friend with whom I swap cards and envelopes from time to time.</div>
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This is one of "Val's boxes" I used a paint sample card to make this.<br />
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More paint sample card art. You can do millions of things with those sample cards! I used a craft punch to cut out the hearts from one side of the sample card, then glued them back on the other half of the card.<br />
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This didn't turn out as nicely as the one I saw on Pinterest. I cut the fish and seaweed out from the paint sample cards, and glued them on to a sheet of pre painted paper I did last year, using watercolour and salt to give the mottled effect. There is silver foil on the right side, part of an experiment, so it doesn't really give the effect of the sea!<br />
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These two were fun. I downloaded a bunch of stencils on to my hard drive, and printed them out on old sheet music that I found at the opshop. Saw this idea on Pinterest - where else!<br />
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<br />Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-4104279516174065942016-02-09T00:23:00.000+11:002016-02-09T00:23:00.462+11:00Little boxesMy friend Val has been making cute boxes out of greeting cards, and invited me and another friend to her place last week to show us how to make them. We had such a fun afternoon! I can see myself making little boxes in spare moments over the rest of this year, and giving all my friends one next Christmas, complete with a chocolate or two inside!<br />
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I made these two at Val's place - two different styles. The next day at home I made two more of the box style, while I still had the technique in my mind, as I can forget things very quickly if I only do it once! I haven't done the triangular box again yet, but I do still remember how to do it, so I'm not too worried.<br />
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<br />Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-87370065574554436872015-12-20T22:40:00.000+11:002015-12-20T22:40:05.671+11:00Felt Seahorse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sorry this is sideways. I have a new computer with Windows 10 OS and haven't yet figured out how to correct photos! Anyway, I saw felt seahorses on Pinterest, and as I have a friend who loves seahorses, I decided to make one for her for Christmas.Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-42056355195056172172015-12-14T12:19:00.000+11:002015-12-14T12:19:00.451+11:00Xmas mail art envelopesI have been admiring all the mail art on Pinterest and it motivate me to decorate the envelopes that I sent my Xmas cards in. I bought the Xmas stamps first, and tried to match my decorating to the stamps. Moderately successful...<br />
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This was one of two cards I made using scraps of patchwork fabric. Effective but simple! <br />
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Cut strips of felt, then cross cut the strips into squares. <br />
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Glue the squares together like the real allsorts. The rolled ones are two strips of felt rolled up with glue to keep them from unravelling.<br />
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They look very realistic in a jar - these are for one of my crafty friends, can't wait to give them to her! <br />
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I have started colouring in some of the books I have recently acquired. It is good to rediscover the boxes of pencils and other media that I'd forgotten I had! For the above I used el cheapo pencils for the first two, and Derwents for the third one. <br />
Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-20673309764655884452015-08-01T00:13:00.001+10:002015-08-01T00:13:30.481+10:00Week morning in Melbourne CBD July 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I want to take more opportunities to sketch whenever I have some time, and last week I had an hour to kill while waiting for the husband to have his hair cut at his favorite barber in town. Being a nice day, I had a coffee in Hardware Street and sketched this in pencil, using some pastel pencils for colour.<br />
Not really thrilled with it, but it's a start!Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-22728099088666101882015-08-01T00:09:00.000+10:002015-08-01T00:09:09.411+10:00Life Drawing Class, third week.This week's model was an older woman, and she gave us some very challenging poses to work with. I was fairly satisfied with my progress. The first few sketches are the two minute poses and done in graphite. Then I switched to red pastel on cream pastel paper. The last two are the 20 minute poses, and done in charcoal.<br />
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Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-31597819908320709832015-07-25T00:44:00.002+10:002015-08-01T00:04:45.514+10:00Life Drawing class, second week.We had another young woman for our model at this week's class, and she presented us with quite a challenge in a variety of poses. She told us she is also a life drawing teacher, as well as modelling, so she knows what we need to make us work harder on drawing figures. I thoroughly enjoyed this session, and feel like I'm getting to know the other students as we discuss each other's sketching. I haven't got around to photographing my sketches yet, but hope to get it done and posted here over the weekend.<br />
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Edited 31.7.15 to add sketches for second week. I haven't included all the sketches I did last week, as I wasn't happy with some of them. Even these aren't great, but they are the best of an average lot! The brown pastel sketch is very disappointing; the model had her hair pinned up and despite my attempts to fix this picture, the figure still looks like a boy apart from the breasts. The version in pencil wasn't quite so bad for some reason. I was happier when she let her hair down for the long pose, which I did in blue pastel.<br />
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Gina E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07532527261977368083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248439067591223787.post-25273021948698127412015-07-25T00:25:00.001+10:002015-07-25T00:25:35.085+10:00Colouring in books for adults.The term 'adult colouring books' always makes me smile, as people who don't know about them sometimes raise their eyebrows, thinking this could be some kind of pornographic material! But of course it is not, I have been buying colouring books for a few years now, but it is only very recently that the idea of adults "colouring in" like we all did as kids, has taken off in a big way. It's mostly to do with relaxation and stress relief therapy, although I don't look at it that way. Being a bit on the artistic side, I just love painting and colouring in for its own sake!<br />
I bought these today at the Craft & Quilt Fair, and will post photos of the other ones in my collection later.<br />
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As you will see I have a long way to go in improving my perspective and anatomy of the human figure, but at the end of 10 weeks (with some practice inbetween time) I hope to be a lot better!<br />
The first 9 sketches were warm up sketches, where the model changed her pose every two minutes. I did mine on an A5 sketch pad.<br />
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The last two were the final drawings where the model held her pose for about half an hour each time.<br />
These were done on an A3 sketch pad.<br />
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