Fodder Challenge 2023 - Part Two

Hi Everyone. 

I'm back today with the 2nd installment of my projects for the Fodder School free Challenge.

Day 8 - Mini tag book with Megan Quinlan.

 Day 9 - Mini collage art with Chris Karpiak.

Day 11 - Mixed media tag series with Shay Michelle Kent.

Day 12 - Fodder Catcher/Mobile with Susanne Randers.

Thanks for staying the course. I really enjoyed stretching my creative limits on some of these projects. There is one other project I may have a go at, so watch this space 😀

Have a great week,

Alison xox

Fodder Challenge 2023 - Part One

 Hello Everyone.

Fodder School recently ran a free Fodder Challenge on Instagram, featuring 12 mini classes from the tutors in their up-coming year long class. The year long class is a bit pricey for me, so I love it when they do the freebie 😀

Here is the first installment showing what I created. I only managed 9 of the classes in the time frame, so I picked my favourites.

Day One - Watercolour foliage with Tiffany Sharpe.

Day two - Book cover with gelli-printed collage fodder with added marks, with Barb Smucker.

Day three - Floating quote quartet with Alison Bomber.

Day 5 - Mixed media tokens with Kecia Deveney.

Day 6 - Gelli printed fabric ribbons with Yetunde Rodriguez.

Apologies for the photo heavy post. As you can see, there was quite a variety of amazing projects. Thanks for staying till the end of my post 😀

I'll be back with the rest of the projects tomorrow.

Alison xox

Fodder Challenge 2022

 Hi Everyone!

I'm back today with the remainder of my Fodder Challenge projects. Hope you like them.

Day 6 - Pocket Fodder Book with Karen Elaine. This is a perfect size to keep my quirky watercolour birds in, and I added one as decoration on the cover.

Days 7 & 8 - Photo Transfers on Buttons with Jane Chipp, and Vintage Photo Tag with Ricki Midbrod.

Day 9 - Prayer Flags with Dori Patrick. I used paper gelli prints instead of fabric on mine, with ribbon and stitching

Before I go, here's a little crochet project I recently finished. The kit was a Christmas present from my son, and her name is Morag The Highland Coo.

Thanks so much for your kind visit here today.

Alison

Willa Wanders' Fodder Challenge 2022 - Days 1- 5

 Hi Everyone.

Wendy Solganik's Fodder Challenge started last week, Tuesday I think. Anyway, I'm up to Day 5, so I thought I'd share my projects so far.

Day 1 - Peace Catcher with Lucie Duclos. I gifted this to a friend for her birthday.

Day 2 - Gelli Prints to finished art pieces with Drew Steinbrecher.

Day 3 - The Study of Shapes with Julie Hamilton. There is some fabric on these, the dotty green and black circles and leaves.

Day 4 - Paper Weaving with Rebecca Sower. I stitched it to some watercolour paper. Think I may have to frame it :-)

Day 5 - Luggage Tags with Liz Constable. The tags were dyed and stamped with coffee before I decorated them.

I hope you like these, I'll share some more pieces in a few days time.

Alison 

Using Collage Fodder with Leaca Young

 Hello All. 

Collage fodder is a new term to me, but I think I finally understand what it is after doing the Fodder Challenge course. Leaca Young sketches, paints and cuts out from magazines mainly botanical images, and she showed us how she uses these as focals in her art journal pages, along with painted scraps of collage material.

I made a page with a piece of the muslin fabric I painted recently, a piece of vintage music sheet, and some water colour leaves that I outlined with a black gel pen. I used some Tim Holtz phrase stickers to create a little story.

The background is made up of round teabag papers, with some black marks added.

I'm linking my page to Alison's Summer Countryside theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting me today,

Alison xox

Fodder Your Day

 Hello All. Here's an art journal page I made, following Kelly Anderson's class on Willa Wanders' Fodder Challenge.

I used brown packaging paper, music sheet, a teabag, gel-printed greaseproof paper, some of my hand-carved stamps and hand-made washi tape. I used to be really good at spelling ;-)

Another page for Alison's Summer Countryside theme at Art Journal Journey.

My tennis elbow is a bit better lately, as I'm being careful not to use it too much. A little bit of art every day, but no stamp carving or crochet for me at the moment :-(

Thanks for dropping by,

Happy new week,

Alison xox

Strips 'n' Stitches

 Hello All.

Tiffany Sharpe's tutorial on Willa Wander's Fodder Challenge was about using up those trimmed pieces of paper we all keep, and stitching them down for a beautiful background. 

Here's the start of another page in my art journal. I attached my stitched piece over some teabag papers.

Then I sketched and cut out some book page flowers.

I decided the flowers needed more colour, I used Stabilo Woodys for this, and I also added some white ink splashes.

I'm linking my finished page to Alison's Summer Countryside theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Alison xox