Its an Artful Blogging Party!

Hello I'm back!! and a warm welcome to everyone who comes by to visit. I had a lovely holiday in France, great weather and really beautiful countryside, lots of brocante which I want to tell you all about.

But first when I arrived home from holiday I was met with a huge amount of mail and in the pile was my pre -ordered Artful Blogging mag. Many of my favorite bloggers were there including Kari at Artysmama and it made the magazine even more special that I knew of so many bloggers. Kari is celebrating her entry in the first edition by having an art party and just in the nick of time I am joining The Artful blogging day with her ( http://artsymama.blogspot.com/ ).

She has asked everyone to submit some inspiration in the name of art. Since I have just come back from France I am rushed with this and so no tutorial I'm afraid, but would like to share with you some textile art that was inspired from frescoes, and one of my favorite artists KLIMT
The Kiss by Klimt

To get the effect of a fresco I have used layers of felt and crumpled tissue then teastained and painted the layers. Once dry I have free machine-stitched the image of the lovers on to both layers and to get the effect of the lines of age and stone I have used a product called webbing spray in black by Krylon(that is really fun to use).

You might like to see something my mum has made to, she is also a textile artist (at a spritely 73 years of age)
She has designed this jewellery from scratch inspired from the art deco era. She used layers of gauzy fabrics on a backing of interfacing and free machine stitched the pattern in and then burnt back using a heating tool to achieve the pattern.

Hope this has added to the party atmosphere, and now with any good party where's the food:))