The Secret Life of a Funky Bird

This is the latest spread in my Coptic Journal. A fresco style page on the right (that proud little Peacock Chicky) and the other side and the little insert booklet is matched in colours and paints. I wrote a bunch of inspirational quotes and did a funny little bird collage/painting in the centre insert. Just wanted to show that even with the traditional fresco style you can do some unconventional colours and designs, and hey, I just had a lot of FUN ! and that is what it is all about right ? PLAY pLaY Play ;)

Playing Peek a Boo at the shipyard

A journal spread I did recently in my Coptic while tossing with some ideas and techniques - I intend to make a litte poem to go on the right page. I got inspired by all the shipping containers that are being brought to my area at the moment. We'll have about 400 all up, walls of them.

They are put there to protect our village suburb and our houses from the falling rocks from the hills and cliffs around. I understand that, but I really do not like them, getting through the village is becoming a sort of a peek a boo game and apparently they are here to stay for quite some time, because they just don't know what to do with these hills and everytime we have a half decent aftershock more comes falling down.

Sceptical

A journal page I did recently, questioning things seems to be a daily occurrence happening in my head nowadays

Free Spirit

In my handmade Coptic journal with the different papers.
I made this journal when I did the
Pam Carriker Strathmore workshop
This journal page was inspired by
Monica Zúñiga's free spirit group
As always, after I finally decide that enough is enough already and I post it,
I am not completely happy with it, maybe I should try and free my spirit some more still....

'Make a Wish' and 'a Kiss'

and another couple of pages I did in Mum's journal

playing around with profiles and frontal faces

Little Red

another spread in the journal

with my first succesful crackle ! Yay !

and little windowshutters that keep an old piece of parchment

to write on.

Toadstools & Ferns

This is one of my own favs from the book for Mum

Filigree Frame ~ The Lady

Another page from the Journal Book for Mum

Stories from the Garden

First spread in the journal

Feather Lady

This is one of the journal entries from the coptic journal I made.
I found the Guinea Fowl feathers while visiting a kids-petting-farm.

The fowl were loosing their feathers and these were too irrisistible....

I could not take them back with me to New Zealand though, NZ is pretty stricked in bringing in animal- and organic bits and pieces,

so I just had to use them right there and then.....
A5 size - portrait on a piece of frayed and stained printed cotton fabric in the coptic journal

♥

The book for my Mum

I finally finished this book as a gift for my Mum
remember ?
It started as my first Coptic Book a while ago.......
I took it with me half finished...I always run out of time.
Now it's her turn to write some stories or poems in the open pages or in between the drawings and paintings.
When I get home I want to make another coptic journal, it's loads of fun !

Teaser

teaser for something I am working on....

Brown Paper Booklet #1

I already have too many unfinished projects, too many ideas floating inside my head and definitely too little time, so of course I thought I'll sqeeze in this little project that has been nagging me for a while ever since I saw it at this blog by the very creative iHanna

-Painted brown wrapping paper (both sides) ripped into pages and making it into little booklets-

and the kids LOOOOOVE to do it too!!!

Coptic Binding

I wanted to try out this coptic bookbinding for myself, and this is the result.

I used watercolour paper and covered the cover with textured paint.

I wanted to make it look a bit old, vintage.

I will still decorate the front and show it again.

The process is really enjoyable and will certainly make more journals/books in the future.