The Sneak Peeks Revealed

A number of weeks ago I showed little tidbits of my exchange with the group I call my 6 x 6 group: Six artist creations in Six months by Six artists. This was the sixth and final creation for this swap and was for a wonderful soul, Gina Wise, who left our realm of existence last November. Gina's theme was "white on white" one of my favorites. I must make myself a book using this theme and have always always been so inspired by True Colors! My favorite artists are in that book. If you do not have a copy, RuN and buy one at a number of different places, especially on Amazon. It is worth hours of inspiration and then more.

White is always fascinating to me since you really don't think about how many colors "white" is....

I really loved creating these pages in Gina's memory

I was able to use images I have had for a number of years along with other embellishments sitting around,

This "door knocker" was bought when our local Recollections was going out of business. How many years has that been - still miss that store. The image is another one of my favorite's and I always end up printing her on canvas.

It gives her a longing and haunting look,

Just remember it is "hump" day and the weekend is not far away! Have a lovely evening!

True Colors - one more time in the Breeze

Yes, I am revisiting my favorite book, True Colors, and today looking at the "White Book" which Lynn Perrella originated. When I saw the pages by the various artists, they took my breath away.

White is an interesting color to work with and there are so many variations. However, white is daunting to me and I have done only one layout on facing pages. I used pages from Martha Stewart's Living and cut out an image of Vichyssoise. I layered the pages in different white scrapbook papers and then found a beautiful crocheted flower.




This page I called "Cold Soup"


And of course I had to use a little clip art ... what would white be without a wedding party? I did use a gold leaf pen to decorate the sides of this piece....

The right side I called White Marsh (I don't have a clue where or why I came up with that name). The white lace is from my Grandmother's stash of lace. I loved how it had stained and yellowed...

I need to run and get dinner..... but one last item. I love our blogland and sometimes a special surprise comes when I look and see that someone signed up to follow life in the Honeysuckle Breeze here. I always click to see who it is and usually, if they have a blog, go over to visit. I found a very special one the other day, called Fabric Photo Memories. Not what I expected. I went over and there was Lovey's Grandmother's sewing machine. My heard skipped a beat. I have my Grandmother's sewing machine and this photo is for Lovey...... Grandma's sewing machine in my hall way. Go over and visit Lovey and say Hi!

Grandma's gone - 1987. Thank you Grandma - I have cherished it all these years and think of you everyday when I see it.

True Colors in the Honeysuckles

One of my favorite books is from Stampington and is called True Colors. It features these artists: Lynne Perrella, Sarah Fishburn, Teesha Moore, Marylinn Kelly, Linn C. Jacobs, Nina Bagley, Michelle Ward, Anne Bagby, Karen Michel, Monica Riffe, Lisa Hoffman, Claudine Hellmuth, Lisa Renner, Judi Riesch, and Keely Barham.

Yes, all of these artists under "one roof." I am taking this quote straight off Stampington's web site:

"Fifteen amazing artists wanted to see what they could do with a single color scheme. Each artist contributed a journal cover in her chosen palette and a page in each journal. The finished works are filled with page after page of techniques and mediums, including stamping, painting, sketching, fabric art, metalwork, transfers and layered texturing – a wide spectrum of artistry and skill."

If you go over there, you will be able to take a peek at some of the art work. Just incredible. Absolutely beautiful works of art. I bought my copy in February 2006 and was so impressed with it I started making notes on the art work. At that time I was just venturing out into altered books and sliding away from making cards. This book opened my eyes to some of these artists for the first time. I began searching out their web pages and blogs. I was also able and lucky enough to take workshop classes with two of the artists I so admired in this book: Michelle Ward and Claudine Hellmuth. It has been such a pleasure to get to know these two artists personally. They are both very special souls.

One of my favorite books in the Colors was the Red Book. Loved Lynne Perrella's layout on page 38. I so want the stamp called "Maiden Voyage" - but it is gone and Stampington hasn't brought it back (they have been reissuing some of her discontinued stamps).... I want that stamp. I obsess about that stamp. Breathe.... I was especially moved by Judy Riesch's Red Riding Hood layout feathers and all...... it was the first time I had really paid attention to the photography of Lewis Carroll. This inspired to do my own layouts in red, a color I don't really use alone in my layouts. Using a magazine ad, I created the page "Sun-Sation." It was fun.



The next layout I created in my book is called "Color Blocked" and once again used a magazine ad, a catalogue page using a tape transfer and clip art from ArtChix.


This is just the beginning of a few posts discussing my venture into my True Colors..... buy the book! It was not only inspirational for me as an artist but also "instructional" when I looked closely at the art to figure out how it was done....... Stay safe tonight!

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." Louis Bogan