~Brag Book~

Inspired by Misty Mawn Altered Photo day Misty's altered photo challenge.
I am creating what's called a "Brag Book".

This is also inspired by the Somerset Workshop Magazine (August 2008 issue)

by artist Shona Cole.

Here are my three altered photos so far

In this little book I'll be bragging about Bijou

my cat.;-)))

I am not to sure how many pages I will make for

the book. I used 81/2 x 51/2 handmade paper

with a coat of gesso on both sides. Just love

working on this.

Will continue with progress on other posts.

Mariette xox

Musician

Yellow Mellow.. for Saturday

I close my eyes

As I let the sound of music

Seep thru me

Relaxing, so relaxing

And I fall in a deep sleep

Mariette xox

"There was a little bird"

Green Wednesday;-)
Inspired by Gustav Klimt 'Two Women One Nude'
http://www.imageenvision.com/stock_illustration/details/0003-0710-2521-2530/two_women_one_nude_by_gustav_klimt



There was a little bird so green
Who sang a song so sweet
He went 'tweet,tweet,tweet'
Then to his feathers he preened.

DAY 11:Sweet Innocence

Sweet Innocence was created mostly in photoshop.

DAY 8:Weary Angels

Journal entry for day 8.

Background created with various papers.

Two angels that just need a little rest;)))

Mariette xox

DAY 6: ANGEL of PEACE

Mother Nature is sending us rain again today.
What better time than to be creative;-)))
I made some homemade batik oil pastel papers, and this is
a painting I did with one of the piece.
I used the tag, you can see below , and a piece of the batik paper.
In my journal entry for Day 6.
Distress ink for the very background.
Batik oil pastel paper (homemade), and tag painting on it
in my Journal
Four wooden buttons on each corners
Rhinestones

Mariette xox

DAY 4

Applied some modgepodge on journal page and glued little bits of scraps I save in a box.

Then I used a layer of gel medium, let it dry.

Afterwards I used watersoluble color crayons to fill in the spaces.

When I was finish playing with background, I let it dry, then sketched my flowers with gesso.

When gesso was dried I painted with acrylics

Mariette xox

PROJECT JANUARY

DAY 1: The first picture is the Journal I am using for my entries. I made this journal book last
year, and thought it would be a great book for my January entries. A project was started
by Milliande at her site. The goal is to do a journal entry every day for the month of January.
Come and join in if you wish. Only two days to catch up.
Tiles and doors in my entry are provided by Milliande at her site. http://milliande.ning.com/
If you would like to post a link here to your site , I would like to see what you create!
Get those creative juices flowing.
The beginning of my pages in my journal are aspens on the left, and hands towards the heavens.
The hands represents a dual meaning here for me. Last year I broke my wrist and it was a learning curve. I learned how to use my left hand for painting, writing and other things. It is also embracing the Beginning of the New Year. Above there's a chinese symbol. In english it translates" Of a Good Beginning Cometh a Good End".
Following is the Old Door of 2008, closing the door, entering a new door for 2009. Milliande gives a gread video on how to create the doors. Check it out!
Day 2: My day 2 entry is Embracing the Goddess.
"I Embrace the Sacred Goddess Within"...I celebrate the magic!



Mariette xox

DAY 2

Whimsical Flowers for you;-)))

Hello Dear online friends!

I've been creating whimsical

flowers the last couple of days!

When I signed up with Willowing's Ning site, I became

inspired in playing with my watersoluble crayons.I normally use them for backgrounds in my journal.

I was making purrty little faces when the idea of making flowers grew out of them;-))

I really enjoy creating these.

I use heavy watercolorpaper, and watercolor crayons

(this included watersoluble oil pastel, lyra watersoluble crayons and some caran d'ache.)

The butterflies and hearts embellishments were done with a puffy pen

Mariette xox