Derek Gores- collage

Derek Gores creates these fantastic collages! Wow! So clever, intricate, detailed and realistic! I also love the subject matter!

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Shamekh Bluwi- Paper cut out fashion illustration

"ShamekhBluwi is an architect and fashion illustrator based in Amman, Jordan. Shamekh mix his passions for architecture and fashion illustrations by creating beautiful paper cut-outs fashion sketches with women whose dresses become whatever you hold them up against that comes across on the streets." -Creative Spotting

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Similar to some of Edgar Artis work:

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Em's Pirate Party

I have made various pirate themed party food and costumes and a full pirate party would be great. So many food, game and decoration ideas. The costumes can be so simple too. These are pirate cookies I have made from here. Not only do they look great but they taste yummy too! I used a block of caramel chocolate instead of Rollo, which still worked great:

My version

My Pirate chest cake: Tried to find those edible necklaces to add but couldn't. I think it worked better with the limited colours/lollies! I also thought of kit-lat or choc finger biscuits to create the wood but think the frosting works really well!

Our go at Jack Sparrow! People thought he was drunk all night but he was just in character

Arrr me hearties! Another chance to dress up

Em's Jumper/Sweater Cushion

I have been waiting for winter to arrive so the op shops put out their winter stock so I could find an orange jumper/sweater to turn into a cushion. I wanted to make cushions from jumpers for a while, especially since we bought a bigger lounge. I needed more cushions. They had to match the retro print ones we already had and I thought orange would be perfect, with big buttons, maybe orange plastic ones. Well I couldn't believe my luck when I scanned the jumper rack in the first op shop and saw this one in the perfect shade AND it had big buttons!!! I love the wooden buttons and think it works really well.

The jumper before

It was very simple to make and took all of 20mins? I also had bought a cushion from the op shop and used the existing cushion cover as a template, worked out what part of the jumper I wanted and cut a square from the front and back. Then sewed the two right sides together all the way around, turned it the right way and hey presto! Done! The beauty of it is I can use the buttons to put it on the cushion so their was no need for a zipper or any hand stitching.

Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik- paper mosaic

Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik cuts up and rearranges paper from different literary and media texts, including comics, collaging them, mosaic style, into new images using strong lines, shapes and colour. I love how the negative space creates clean lines with a mosaic effect.

"My work is visual biblical commentary; I call it “paper midrash.” I always begin with text — often bible and other traditional sources, but also the words of poets and musicians. My work is influenced by elements of the natural world and how tradition understands its connection to the Divine"

Kedusha

Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire

Seven to Seventy

Flame On: Burning Bush

Fantastic City

The Flood

Brittany Lee- Paper craft

Brittany Lee is the artist behind these great paper and sketches. Britsketch is her blog and she sells her work in her etsy shop.

Queen of Hearts

Muse of Arts

Muse of Literature

Spirit set- Sake, Absinthe, Vodka, and Tequila. 

Little Mermaid

CTN-X- I wonder if I could do something like this or a wedding card!

Bride- another good wedding card idea..

It's a small world

Em's Holiday Crafts

After going on holidays I collected shells on the beach and some interesting bush leaves etc. I have turned the leaves etc into some very interesting looking native potpourri. I added some nice smelling eucalyptus and paperbark leaves to create a great native aroma. I will add essential oils to it once it loses it's smell. I found a perfect wooden bowl in an op shop to hold the potpourri.

 

 

With the shells I bought a shadow box frame and filled it with the shells. It took me a while to get them to sit and stay just where I wanted them to. I tried taping the back with various different tapes but the tape either stretched or came unstuck. In the end I used the frame stand to create some tabs to screw in to the frame and hold the back in place as well as putting a piece of soft woolen fabric behind the shells to hold them. It looks great in the bathroom!

Em's Jumper/Sweater Blanket

I saw this awesome inspiration on Yellow Suitcase Studios to make a blanket out of old woolen jumpers/sweaters and had to have a go. It just looked so cozy and warm. I collected jumpers from op shops, which were ideally wool, however 100% wool was hard to find so a few are mixtures. I then pre-washed them all and cut them all up into 25cm squares. Some knits were more prone to fraying and got a little messy but stayed together enough to work out the layout order and sew them. I numbered each square and then sewed each row before sewing all the rows together.

I bought some black fleece for the backing as the other colour fleeces available really didn't match the jumpers, then sewed the two pieces together around the edges, leaving the edges raw at this stage, as well as sewing along all the other seams to hold the two pieces together. It really needed this as it moved around a lot. I then did a blanket stitch all the way around the edges with some wool/yarn to finish it off. I love the look of blanket stitch and was most excited to do it.