Work in Progress

Just a quick post today to prove to myself that I actually have been working.

Here's the current status of the piece (one of the pieces from my Canvas Journal Page series) that I showed previously during my stamping tutorial. Obviously, the stamping I did is just one element of the piece. I still need to finish it up and paint a background to mount it on, so pretend the concrete floor isn't there, ok? I'll post the finished piece when it's completely done, too.


I'll also been playing around in Photoshop Elements. I've had it on my computer for several months, but hadn't taken the time to explore it. While creating the Italy button on the right (go ahead, click on the pretty Italy button on the right hand size of your screen and sign up to meet me in Italy next June - I'll wait here for you while you do that.................no, really, I'll wait........................OK, back now? isn't Italy going to be fantastic???), what was I talking about? cappuccino? Tuscany? oh, that's right, Photoshop, thanks for reminding me. While I was creating that button I realized how much fun I could have with my photographs, using them in ways that I'd never thought of before.

Here's part of a piece I'm working on - it started as a photo I took of my son while we were waiting in line to get into the capitol in Washington DC earlier this year - which explains the wooly scarf and the alpaca hat. Oh c'mon use your imagination: they are there ;-)


I'm having a great time playing with fabric choices for around each photo and am about done constructing the top. Then I'll need to decide whether the whole thing gets a border or not, or whether I'm just going to quilt and bind it, or...... I haven't auditioned any border fabric options yet. I think I'll go play with fabric now. I'll try to remember to post the finished piece later.

By the way, it's embarrassing but true: I didn't even realize, until I took these photographs and saw them on my computer, that these 2 pieces are pretty much the same blue, green, and russet colors. Yeah, I know, how observant of me.