I have spent most of the last two days playing in the studio creating my page for the Sweet Tweet Collaborative Journal Project sponsored by Random Arts in Saluda which is due tomorrow. 75 people participated in the last Random Arts collaborative journal project and the journal sold at auction for $500 to benefit the Saluda Senior Center.
For this project, each participant received a packet with a bird shape and a heart with instructions to make a 5 1/2 inch by 7 inch page. Participants could choose to do one side or both of a page. All of the pages will be bound creatively. The last journal was fabulous! This one will be auctioned on Ebay with proceeds going to an art charity for children.
I decided to do both sides of my page. Below you can see what I created with fabric, paper, paint and rubber stamps. You can see more of the wonderful pages at Jane Powell/Random Notes.
For the front page, I made a collage of Moda Nest fabrics. I painted the background and rubber stamps a bird border. I reduced the bird image a little and cut it out of the Moda Nest fabric. II used one of my favorite quotes from Emily Dickenson as my theme.
Back of my Sweet Tweet page
Thanks Jane for another fun challenge. Now if only the art fairies would come and clean up the chaos I created in the studio in the past two days, wouldn't that be perfect.
Oh, Betsy - I just love the poem that you chose to make these pages. I often use it in therapy sessions, it seems to be very appropriate - on the right occasion! I'm looking at the theme of Hope - both in college and as the possible basis for a workshop - so I would like to talk more to you about this.
Wonderful idea for a fundraising as well - I'm off to see some of the other pages now...
Posted by: Roz Cawley | February 14, 2009 at 06:04 AM