The frog in his pocket page

Here is the frog in his pocket page. I think he would make a great bedtime toy while you read the story to the child, or a car and travel toy to take with you on the road.

The Famous Jumping Frog of Calavaras county

This little felt froggie doll was designed as well as made by myself. I gave him a little felt vest as well.

The Spiral Dance

Today I made a new fabric journal page with a batik fabric with spirals printed on it. The subject matter seemed perfect to depict a figure doing the Spiral Dance. I stitched inside and outside of each spiral with a running stitch in tie dye embroidery thread then I painted the figure which I designed on my own , with FolkArt metallic Champagne paint. I rather like the way she turned out. ofcourse I  bound the edges of the page with more gold lame bias binding. The flip side is another batik print but I've not decided on the theme of that side of the page yet.

Taking a break from journaling

Just for fun today I took a little break from journaling and made some little felt pins, a heart, a cupcake, a cookie with a bite out of it, and an ice cream cone.

The Salamander

This is the Salamander that is representative of the element of Fire. first i sketched out the salamander, then i painted the background metallic gold with Tulip soft paint. When that was well dried I began painting the salamander red with tulip soft paint and I added orange toward the center of the body to give him a bit of a highlight. When he was well dried I used Tulip liquid bead paint in a pewter color to put a diamond pattern down the salamanders body. I gave him eyes with the black fabric pen and wrote the element of fire with the fabric pen as well.

Bridgid and the new fire

This page has quite a bit to it. First I spray dyed the background in yellow and bright green. When the dye was dry I added some overpainting from water in which I had washed gold metallic from the paint brush. Doing this with just the brush washing water, well stirred, left a very delicate gold wash on top of the green and yellow background. I did two or three layers of the gold wash and let it dry well between layers. I stitched a bit of batik fabric to one end of the stabilizer layer then stitched the painted background fabric over the rest of the page. I sketched on Brigid with a micron pen, then i overpainted all the flesh areas with white Tulip soft paint. When that was dry I added the peach fabric pen coloring and some pink for her cheeks and lips. Then I redid the facial features with a brown fabric pen and outlined her hands and arms as well. I used the brown pen to color in her eyes and the black micron pen for her pupils and a tiny drop of white soft paint for the reflection in her eyes. I used a pearl blue paint for her head dress and gown. I added a little white paint for highlights on her clothing while the blue was still wet. When the blue was dry I added sketched lines of darker blue for the folds in the fabric. I used black fabric pen on the little cauldron and red and orange soft paint on the flames. If you would like to read about the story of the celebration check out  The Starwitch Chronicles here on blogspot.

the flip side of the moon and sun is Bebo the owl

On the back of the sun and moon page I did an owl on a leaf print batik fabric I got at Joanns on friday. I found a bit of a dull yellow/tan fabric to cut the owl out of, and a tiny pinch of lemon yellow for his nose. I apliqued those pieces on then added the eyes which are a twisted metal spacer bead a large tan seed bead and a tiny brown seed bead. I used the fabric pens to draw in his feathers and wings in brown. I also drew in a branch and some toes under him but the branch didnt really show so I used rows  of chain stitch in varrigated thread. Then I sewed 8 fairly large glass leaf pendants which are a pinkish beige color, around his head. They are only attatched at one point each so they swing freely. He is named Bebo for the owl familiar that Athena had.