Hi Everybody!
Have a great weekend!
On the fifth of each month we start a new challenge at the More Mixed Media challenge blog. Our challenges are always anything mixed media goes, with an optional colour addition, which is orange - very suitable for autumn and Halloween! You have 4 weeks to enter, and can enter as often as you like. There are digi-papers as prizes.
I made another art-tote, 18" x 20". I 'liberated' a paper bag (from Prada, no less!) which was waiting to be collected for paper-recycling, so I saved it from a fate worse than death! I drew a large circle on it, which I divided up into 4 quarters representing the 4 seasons - spring in fresh green, summer in blue, autumn in orange (it looks more red here than it is in real life) and white with glitter for winter. I added TH branch trees in various colours, some golden stars and stenciled the Dina Wakley birds, flying through the year. The sentiment was hand written:
I decorated the reverse with circles of various sizes and colours painted with diluted acrylics and stenciled with stars and dots:
And here I am, trying to hold my various totes - not easy. But I will not be going out with them, they are just for storing journal pages etc.
Some more autumn impressions:
A beautiful start to the day:
Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!
Fall makes us so creative with its colors, I love your work, you always have the best ideas!☺
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to recycle bags with your lovely art work.
ReplyDeleteHi Val, good evening! It's still raining cats and dogs here, and it's very chilly. Love this post, your new tote is fantastic, I think it's my new favourite. Great colours and wonderful photos, as always. Sunrise from your balcony is always amazing. Hope your back is feeling better. Hugs, Sarah
ReplyDeleteThanks. My back is still bad, I'll be going to the doc's again on Tuesday.
DeleteThose pumpkins could be right here, Valerie. The supermarkets and the farmer's markets are full of them right now.
ReplyDeleteLove how you have decorated the recover tote bag. They haybale pumpkin people are great. Gorgeous sunrise photos.
ReplyDeleteHi Valerie you always do so well with your mixed media challenges,beautiful work my friend,well done.
ReplyDeleteOh I love the pics of those pumpkins,lol I love Halloween xx
Love those bags, how they look, so awesome. The super pics of those pumpkins never looked better...Have a lovely weekend.xx
ReplyDeleteLovely totes and pumpkins, the photos look great.
ReplyDeleteand you look great too!
DeleteThanks, but I think the bags look better!
DeletePrada should pay you to design their bags. Really lovely. The pumpkin people are cute and clever. The bird on the post reminds me of the gull I saw sitting on the chapel steeple at Enders Island. Beautiful sunrise photos. Enjoy your day
ReplyDeleteThanks! The bird on the post is a cormorant, I love watching them dive into the water and come out with a fish - they see everything up on their posts or tree branches.
DeleteI love your bags Valerie-very fun art project and never would have thought to alter one of the those bags-cool
ReplyDeletebeautiful sky photos and I love those pumpkins
Happy weekend hugs Kathy
Piękne fotografie . Też staram się dawać drugie życie papierowym torbą. Super pomysł z wymalowaniem na nich wzorów farbami. Pozdrawiam:)
ReplyDeleteThanks Lucyna. It's a fun thing to alter such bags, glad you do things like this, too!
DeleteThat are cool totes. I really like how you did the trees and the quadrants. Great bold colors. Just like that sky. Wow. And autumn is definitely here. We had frost today. Have a great weekend. Hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteThanks Erika! Cold here, too - we had a frosty nigh and a cold but sunny day just now.
DeleteYour bags look amazing Valerie! And wonderful photos too.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend,
Alison xx
Fun bags. And that verse is purrfect. What a lovely way to look at the end/beginning of seasons.
ReplyDeleteLook at those pumpkin people.
That is a beautiful sky.
Enjoy the weekend.
Hugs
Your totes are beautiful. I love that you saved the Prada bag and gave it a new design and life. Just gorgeous. And those sky pictures- wow. Breathtaking! Have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDelete~Jess
What a beautiful fall you are having! And I just LOVE it when you make your art totes. they are so clever and fun!
ReplyDeleteGreat work - and pics!
ReplyDeleteLove the fun alterations to yur tote bags Valerie x Very clever to upcycle the x Love the Halloween pumkin people and as always your photos are amazing xx Sending healing hugs as a painful back is not very nice xx
ReplyDeleteAnnie xx
Thanks for the good wishes, Annie, much appreciated
DeleteBeautifully altered bags Valerie, I love them - beautiful photos too, the pumpkins are great.
ReplyDeletexxx Hazel.
Hallo liebe Valerie!
ReplyDeleteDeine aufgepimpten Pradataschen sind ne Wucht. Prada sollte dich als Designer engagieren. Klasse Idee und so noch viel schöner und fröhlicher. Die herbstlichen Fotos sind auch wieder sehenswert. Hoffe dir geht es gut.
Wünsche dir eine schöne neue Woche.
Ganz liebe Grüße
Sabine
You've made good use of those bags Valerie, we all need large carriers to keep our big journal pages safe in. I especially love the changing seasons and your words written underneath, so true is the circle of life.. unless man steps in the way and tries to destroy it. Your photo's are showing signs of my favourite time of year, warm & rich colours. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThose pumpkin people are so cute, although i'm a little concerned about the one crying :/ Wishing you a great start to the week.. Hugs Tracey xx
Your altered shopping totes look great - I really like the profound words about circles on the first one. Love the pumpkins! And you probably can guess how my breath is taken away by those extraordinary sunrise photos... stunning!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
I love this Valerie, such beautiful happy and bright colours, you realy know how to decorate a bag! Your photo's are fabulous too, what gorgeous skies. Have a great week, Sue xx
ReplyDeleteBellísimo Valerie ...todas las imagenes son espectaculares, colores alegres y otras muy simpaticas.
ReplyDeleteBESOS
I love your bags, the colours you've used are brilliant :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photographs, I love this season and the many colours it brings.
Hoping your back is feeling a little better …
All the best Jan