Well the celebrations have come and gone and now it is time to get on with the next year. It has been an extremely busy 2010 and I didn't manage to get to my COLOUR CREATIONS blog much because I earnestly started my new full time work as a Freelance Photographer. My Laurette's Photography blog was also started here: http://laurettesphotography.wordpress.com/ so all my creative arts and crafts were put onto the back burner. Hopefully I will get some time in 2011 for more creative crafts as there is still lots I would like to do. Below you will find some of the crafts that I teach and give talks on at various places like Craft clubs and VLV etc. plus interspersed you will find some of my photographs. So take a look and hopefully you will find something that will encourage, inspire or just give you joy! Please feel free to leave a comment!
This necklace I created on felt with embroidery and beads.
I write poems and use my photographs to illustrate them in books.
A copper embossed elephant I created on one of my dyed paper backgrounds.
My ever popular crocheted flowers which people use for all sorts of things.
A teabag folding card with one of my created backgrounds which I sell.
Zentagling is one of my favourite crafts because it is so simple to do and one doesn't need much create a beautiful picture.
One of my very popular Teabag Folding papers. I have given many talks, demonstrations and classes on Teabag Folding and I sell my papers of which I have thousands of designs.
A card I created out of seeds and seedpods.
This is a sketch I did with a blue ballpoint pen.
Sally the snail that I painted with watercolour and embellished with gel pens and fineliners. I did a series of these garden creatures for children's rooms.
A prick and stitch birthday card I made for someone.
My Iris folded sailboat where I used some of the marbling paper I made.
I painted this in watercolour with a thickening medium and used a toothpick to create the feathered effect.
My cardigan that I knitted which took me about 3 months to complete and eventually caused a trigger finger which I had to have operated on.
Some recycled art I created with jute, bottletops old cards, silver foil from chocolates and corrugated card.
An Abstract sketch I did with Aquarelle pencils.
My popular crochet handbags.
My 'African' series of cards is basically a cutout with patterns around the edges with pens and kokis.
Here I used paper that I dyed with bits of dried twigs and stems.
Watercolour painting and calligraphy.
A little simple parchment craft.
I used poppy petals and seedpods for this card.
Yesterday I went to visit a friend in Somerset West and as I was leaving I saw a huge pall of smoke. On investigation I found that it was orignating from the Helderberg Nature Reserve. As I had just done a photo shoot I was armed with my camera. They were not allowing anyone into the Nature Reserve as the fire was moving too fast through the reserve, but we were allowed to observe from the gate. Here are a few of my photographs taken through the few hours I spent there.
