Lemon Tree Tales: Art Journal: Laurie page finished

Saturday I had Laurie and Valerie over for an art day. I wasn't quite finished with Laurie's page so I worked on the last minute details while we visited together. Both Laurie and Valerie were happy with their pages so I'm very glad. Daisy is still on the mend from an illness so I'll have to give her page at another time.

Laurie's theme was "girlfriends" so I wanted to make 3D fabric "paper dolls" of the four of us. Well, they're a lot more svelte than we are in real life but I figured that these could be the more fashionable versions of us. Other than a passing nod to similar hair colors and favorite colors for our dresses that's the closest to any resemblances. If you remember from a couple months ago, Laurie's background wasn't my favorite at first. It went through many steps and many layers of fabric spray paint, stamps, inks and stencils before I decided that I liked it. Now it's perhaps my favorite because of the richness of subtle colors.

A closer look at the four figures. The flowers are ribbon roses woven on a spider web stitch. The hair are a variety of Tibetan lambswool and a generic "wool" doll hair.

A closer look at the friendship quote that I rubber stamped on fabric. I also added a dyed doily, beads, buttons, and of course the alcohol ink painted metal dragonfly that all the pages received.

Now I need to work on my page but first I'll have to show you the beautiful page that Laurie gave me. And in other news, Fiona is recovering nicely from her spaying last week. She's not too happy to have restricted play time and more crate time. But at least her incision is healing nicely.