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Rick Bragg Southern Journal Entry for February 2012
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A blog about all things pretty and vintage - decorating your home and life with vintage fabrics, wallpaper, ribbons, and millinery flowers. Beautiful crafts and party ideas for entertaining.
D-4.Mar.2016 pigment ink on Gampi paper 42x28cm HAYASHI Takahiko 林孝彦
Learn to simple steps on how to make quilling paper swirls, the easiest way to add loads of dynamic elegance to your quilling paper crafts!
"So tell me Curly, how do you know Miss Cross?" Posting a little ahead of the ideal ‘promotion window’ for my book, but ah, screw it, here’s the first of several Wes Anderson dolls I’ve been piddling...
These ingenious movable postcards were published in 1922. Each little doll sits on a cushion & has lots of accessories to complete the s...
Photograph from The London Magazine Abigail Brown is a London based artist, after completing a BA in Surface Decoration and Printed Textiles, she has since developed her own techniques and individ…
This paper mache octopus project started with crumpled newspaper and masking tape. Then I wrapped wire coat hangers with tin foil to make the tentacles...
Learn how to add age and add wear with these simple techniques.
We really have a treat today! Cindy Williams agreed to show us exactly how she created her fabulous paper mache dragon. She's given us tons of photos and many
March 03, 1997. A BAMBI coloring contest. 10 winners received a video of the movie.
Mechanical Dolls Series 1 and 2
I love old wallpaper, so I decided to make some scrapbooking/design digital papers using public domain 1800's wallpaper scraps. The details on these papers are incredible, many with gold embellishments. These wallpaper scraps were all torn out of a book, so I had to rebuild the ripped sides. But I love doing that type of tedious editing and had so much fun making this set. Layer these over any of my textures in different blending modes to create gorgeous new papers! Download the CoffeeShop "1800's Wallpaper Sample" Digital Paper Pack! Do you want to download all of my favorite professional CoffeeShop PSE/Photoshop actions (including exclusive ones not found anywhere for free), textures, papers, clip art/design elements, storyboards, and Lightroom presets in one convenient zipped file AND help support this blog? Just click here for my CoffeeShop Mega Download Pack!
Paper mache is a French word for chewed paper, a composite hard material made from paper pulp, often reinforced with textile and glued with adhesive. Paper
Lovely roundup of varied vintage images, from Victorian brides to ornate architectural scrollwork
Okay, so this first photo is a tease. I'm not going to show you the front in detail yet. You'll just have to wait until my posts catch up with my progress.
At the age of 72, English artist, Mary Delany (1700-1788), began producing a series of 985 extraordinarily detailed floral collages after she noticed the similarity between a geranium and a piece of red paper that was on her bedside table. The realisation prompted her to pick up a pair of scissors and imitate the petals in paper. By cutting minute pieces of paper and sticking them to a solid black background, Delany could build up each part of a specimen, sometimes using around 200 paper petals per flower. She used smaller pieces layered over larger ones to create shading and depth, and sometimes enhanced parts with watercolours. So accurate was the finished result that when her friend Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, saw Delany’s paper artwork, she mistook it for a real flower. This spurred Delany on to make more collage creations and hone her craft. In the autumn of 1772, she wrote to her niece, modestly stating: "I have invented a new way of imitating flowers." Her stunning works, carefully constructed paper collages, or "mosaicks" as she called them, are a remarkable combination of art and science, often mistaken for watercolours. This is her Pancratium Maritinum, Hexandria Monogynia, Sea Daffodil (1778) Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background Via Kitt McKenna MetaFilter's julen put together a post on the wonderful Mary Delany, an artist in the late 1700's, who created collages, incredibly intimate images of flowers, beautiful and true with a botanist's eye for detail. Click the images for larger viewing. From Wikipedia: Mary Delany (nee Granville) (14 May 1700 – 15 April 1788) was an English Bluestocking, artist, and writer; most famous for her "paper-mosaicks...As a widow, Mary Delany spent a lot of time with the Dowager Duchess of Portland, a close friend. The two shared a kinship in botany, often going out to look for specific specimens. It was during her stay with the Duchess that Mary became acquainted with two well-known botanists of the time Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. This contact with the botanists only encouraged Mary's interest in botany and also created knowledge for which many of her flower paper-cuttings are based on... Continued from Wikipedia: Mary had always been an avid artist, but it was during her marriage to Dr Delany that she finally had the time to hone her skills. She was an avid gardener, something that she shared with Dr Delany, and was also good at needlework, drawing, painting, and cutting paper. Mary is most known for her paper-cutting, "For these 'mosaicks' are coloured paper representing not only conspicuous details but also contrasting colours or shades of the same colour so that every effect of light is caught"[9] In 1771, Mary began to create cut out paper artworks (decoupage) as was the fashion for ladies of the court. Her works were exceptionally detailed and botanically accurate depictions of plants. She used tissue paper and hand colouration to produce these pieces. She created 1,700 of these works, calling them her "Paper Mosaiks [sic]",[10] from the age of 71 to 88 when her eyesight failed her. During this time, Mary made nearly 1,000 of the paper flowers.[11] Continued from Wikipedia: "With the plant specimen set before her she cut minute particles of coloured paper to represent the petals, stamens, clayx, leaves, veins, stalk and other parts of the plant, and, using lighter and darker paper to form the shading, she stuck them on a black background. By placing one piece of paper upon another she sometimes built up several layers and in a complete picture there might be hundreds of pieces to form one plant. It is thought she first dissected each plant so that she might examine it carefully for accurate portrayal..."[12] Mary took great care to make sure that each of her flowers were correct, in number of stamens and petals. She also became so well-known that many donors began to send her flowers to cut.[13] They can still be seen in the Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum today. Upon her death, "The ten volumes of Mrs. Delany's Flora were inherited by Lady Llanover, the daughter of Georgina Mary Ann Port. Lady Llanover, who died in 1896 at the age of ninety-four, bequeathed these volumes to the British Museum..."[14] When the Dowager Duchess died, George and Charlotte gave her a small house at Windsor and a pension of 300 pounds a year. Mary had become familiar with the Queen Charlotte during her time paper-cutting, and while living in the house at Windsor, became an important part within the King and Queen's lives.[3] The King and Queen were great supporters of Mary's paper-cutting, "The King and Queen...always desired that any curious or beautiful plants should be transmitted to Mrs. Delany when in blossom."[15] Frances Burney (Madame D'Arblay) was introduced to her in 1783, and frequently visited her at her London home and at Windsor, and owed to her friendship her court appointment. Delany, in her eighties at this time, had a reputation for cutting out and making the intricate paper mosaics (collages) now in the British Museum. She had known many of the luminaries of her day, had corresponded with Jonathan Swift, Sir Joseph Banks, and Young, and left a detailed picture of polite English society of the 18th century in her six volumes of Autobiography and Letters (ed. Lady Llanover, 1861–1862). Burke calls her "a real fine lady, the model of an accomplished woman of former times". In the year 1980, a descendant of Mary Delany's sister Anne, Ruth Hayden, published a book on Delany's work: Mrs. Delany and Her Flower Collages, which was reissued in 2000 as Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers (British Museum Press)."
Okay, if I wait until I have the perfect photos this dragon will never get shown. So I'm going to force myself to stop taking photos and show you what I have.
Delivering Christmas cookies to friends and neighbors this year? This DIY paper plate cookie basket will keep your cookies intact (and look good doing it!)
Paper mache is a French word for chewed paper, a composite hard material made from paper pulp, often reinforced with textile and glued with adhesive. Paper
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What sparks your creativity? When does inspiration strike for you? The Creative Prompt project strives to help you along, one word at a time. This week's word, #215, is "Plate" I most often do a doodle, but as I passed by one of my vintage sewing machines, a different idea came to me. This is the face Plate on one of my vintage Singer machines. observing the elements in the design, I folded paper, drew the shapes, and began cutting and this is what I got
Hello everyone, I’ve done some more work on my dragon-like cat project. More about that below. But first a little sad news. My little cat Eddie died a couple of days ago. He got very si…
Where did this month go! I love wedding dresses. I love drawing wedding dresses. Above are two beautiful bridal gowns. The first is a short vintage inspired dress with flower applique. The second is a long trumpet gown with beaded detail and a bouquet. It's a lot easier for me tor draw beading and lace by hand, on the computer it's a bit harder because I don't like to copy and paste... I want a hand drawn look! I gave her a short veil with some glitter detail. I did one more sketch of a big Cinderella style ball gown but didn't have any time to do the computer lines. When I tried on wedding dresses, I was very surprised how heavy the things are! Especially the ball gowns! This may be my last post for a week. Be sure to check out the other great contributors to this fun collaboration project, links are below. PaperThinPersona PaperDollSchool Base
Heavy, old books always seem like a mysterious and infinite well of wisdom and imagination for me. That moment, when you pick up a vintage book from a shelf and wipe away a thick layer of dust from its cover, is full of magic. However, the book is so much more than pages full of words it is also a true paper artwork.
In this gallery are twenty-one exquisite Silhouettes of People with children playing, people talking, people with pets, and much more.
Here are the original posts showing the making of my Sea Dragon. I’m showing these posts from the first to the last and I’m leaving it as one very long page. And I’m sorry for…
Paper mache is a French word for chewed paper, a composite hard material made from paper pulp, often reinforced with textile and glued with adhesive. Paper
This pattern helps you create an over-sized jackrabbit head faux trophy mount for your wall. Cut out the pieces, tape them together, and cover with paper mache.
This pattern is part of my Pennsylvania Wildlife set. The cute black bear is a 5"x 5" block (5.5" x 5.5" with seam allowance) or a 10" block. Both are available to download after purchase. When you purchase this pattern, you will be able to download the PDF file. The pattern is full-color and clearly numbered/lettered. Basic paper-piecing instructions not included. There are many great print and video tutorials available online! This pattern is for personal and non-profit use only. For each pattern sold I am donating $1 to Blood:Water, a grassroots organization that works alongside African communities to improve access to clean water and medical care. You can read more about them at www.bloodwater.org
I have always dreamed of combining character design and lamp design by building my own special chandelier - namely in the form of an Octopus.
