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unlikely treasure

..buried in the paper recycling box (I was scuffling about for envelopes and scraps to dye) – when I found this:

No. Haven’t uploaded the wrong photo.

It is the manual to my faithful old printer. (11 years old, some bits have fallen off, but still working, I digress.)

The treasure is in the 7/8 of the pages which are printed in languages foreign to me, almost entirely text-based, on nice absorbant paper.

I love using printed paper especially when the forms of the words aren’t distracted by their meaning.

All it wants is some color…Beginning in drips

Water and ink, drippier and drippier

Then the bit where my inner-kid gets all excitable

Gasp!

Ta-da!

A good swish of dylusions yellow to soften the purples, then on to the next page while this dries!

I’ll post more as they dry and develop 🙂

some days of my pages

hey guys, where you been?
I’ve missed you!
….you were here all the time?
no way! It must be me then 😉

Time, tide and that other thing have been conspiring to keep me from your screens, but I return, and with bountiful supplies of recent pages! 😀

So without too much further ado…

Day 21 (thurs 5th July. Wow! big catch up!) The 2 shape really lends itself to swooping swirls and leafy shapes. The page is collaged together with left over shapes cut out from old projects for a different old project. Re-re-cycled!

Day 22. Look closely to see the “2”s, they’re cut from the plasticy remains of a laminated map. Soaked in water, the papery bit comes away without much of a fight, leaving a nice sturdy sheet of plastic stuff with a map printed on its underside. Top corners are wearing some of the ‘things made with dyed paper’

Day 23 The scaffold along the left edge is made up from the dyed paper, cut into strips and glued onto scrap paper into a stripey background. Sliced n diced, this across the stripes making new strips of little boxy segments. The right side border is made from these

Check back soon and we can catch a bit further up.
Meanwhile, I need to see what you guys have been up to! X

gathering momentum: destination unknown

But who cares? it’s the journey that’s the fun bit, who cares where we end up!

The dyed paper things are growing and multiplying.

(They kept me up really late last night …Love them, but they’re so moorish!) 😉

A book of eggs

For a little something extra in the current page a day book, before I began I laid some kinda Easter Eggs.

Randomly placed between empty pages, I hid inky scraps of paper, and splattered a little extra ink for good measure.

Some pages just have swished and dripped inks (for a colorful Rorshach effect!)

The book was shut tight for the colors to squish and be absorbed by days yet to come.

12 in 12 update

Unbelievably the first 1/2 of the year is almost through! As is the 12 in 12 book.

It’s a while since last update, so here’s the tail end of May’s (Blue/Green) pages:

Which nicely lead into June’s (Green) pages:

more things with dyed paper

I found myself cutting and gluing again last night… exploring the contrast with cut and torn edges

(apologies for the not so good photo quality.)

dyed paper things, part 2

Pondering what will become of the dyed paper things, the first few were homed straight away in the new page a day book.

I can feel some greetings cards coming on. And maybe a long tall collage in this sorta shape. And some other stuff too!

dyed paper things

When I was doing my paper dying some weeks back, it was without any real plan as to what comes next. Then last night I found myself making these.

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There’s about 125 of them at last count, and already a few have found a home on today’s page a day page (more on that later!)

bring me sunshine!

Beginning in my usual fashion: enthusiastic tearing and shredding of the scraps from which latest textile project will be made!

Early days, but it’s taking shape

Not sure yet if it’s going lampshade or window hanging/blind kinda thing, but what I do know is it needs to be backlit!

Y’see? Get those yellows glowing!!