December Daily - a few more pages

time: 8 hours (13/14 Dec)

December Daily Album - Scrapbooking

 Page One: Pohutukawa flowers mean summer's here!

 Pages Two/Three: Ornament Exchange with online

 scrap-bookers in America .

I've been involved with this scrap-booking forum for 

7 or 8 years now and have a nice little collection 

of Christmas ornaments now! 

The card I received this year (from Flo) is on the right,

 inside I've attached a photo of the other little items

 she sent me (some stamps and chocolates)

Page Four: Whangarei Youth Music (WYM) 

End of Year Concert for Rosanna. I loved the 

way they decorated the tree with musical symbols

Page Five: Rosanna being farewelled by the 

President of WYM. She been part of it for 11 years!

Time: 20 hours (4-8 Dec)

Project X

My Project X is complete...

well, one of them...

I'm still working on another canvas which I want to

 incorporate the materials used for my Travelling Egg Project.

Here's how my canvas progressed over the week

 I wanted to try image transferring 

and had an idea of using this kowhai flower 

photo I took in the springtime

 The only gel medium I had was this crackle medium

 this was the image transferred on to fabric

Then I needed to go into to town, so went to 

Spotlight and bought some Modge Podge

and experimented with some 

other images on paper

It was this last image that formulated 

what I would do on one of the canvases

 I reversed the image in my photo-editing programme

and applied Modge Podge to the painted and gesso'd

canvas then use a spoon to burnish the image

 When it was completely dry I dipped my 

finger into a glass of water and carefully 

rubbed the paper to expose the 

transferred image...

 Despite taking care some of the transfer lifted off

and initially I was disappointed...

but I decided to use the "tattered effect" 

as part of the intended artwork as it

aptly reflects how battered I feel on 

this journey called LIFE! 

I've used scrap-booking paper and card-stock

 for the border and dried Artemisia absinthium

from my garden to embellish... 

and searched the Internet for quotes

 I'm REALLY happy how it has turned out!

Now to work on my "other"  Project X...

Time:12 hours (26/27/28 Nov)

 8 hours (3 Dec)

TOTAL: 20 hours