Catalogue Killing

I am still completely lacking in the creativity department so I thought I would put up the latest photo of one of my catalogues. (This is a project with Maggie Grey if you haven't come across it before).

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This catalogue has been dried out since I took this first photograph but it gives you the idea. I slashed the surface deeply before I put it outside.

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Like a very silly person I haven't kept a note of the processes I went through in Photoshop Elements but I think one was probably "Find Edges" which is a bit of a favourite of mine.

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I like this effect above too. I suspect that this is "cutout" which gives it an illustrative effect and definitely has possibilites. I hope you can't guess which publication it was that I used. I need to play about with this much more, especially as I've been exploring gradients and I've discovered lots more alternatives in the dropdown menu in Elements' Gradient box. The 'invert ' option is exciting too. The trouble is, it all takes so long. Maybe that's why I'm not getting anything practical done!

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I still have an old phone book outside which will probably have disintegrated by now. It was very crumbly and a bit slimy the last time I looked at it. Yuck!

Do you remember the jacket I posted about here? I sent an email to the company that made it and I've had a reply. They've told me that it was designed by Emma and was made on the Altiplano in Bolivia. It was made under the Fair Trade scheme so the person who made it would have received a fair price for their labours. I'm really pleased that I asked about this and I am delighted that I have such a special garment. (I don't have any affiliation to the company).

Nature's Marks Experiment

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Yesterday I was looking in at Dale Rollerson's blog in Australia and read that she was thinking of putting a piece of fabric out into the garden after she had worked on it a little to see what happened. This set me thinking. I had had an idea for some time to put a canvas panel in the garden to see what marks the elements would make on it but had never done anything about it. The idea started when I saw this piece of hardboard laying about at a venue I went to.

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So, spurred on by Dale and Maggie Grey, I have put 4 surfaces out into the garden to see what the weather can do to them. They are, clockwise, canvas with rusty blades, silk, cotton, and satin (I think). They are in different areas of the garden so I'll see what difference that makes too. Dale has been working on her fabric before putting it outside and may stitch on it first. As it is summer in Australia the effects on the two sets of fabric will surely be different. If I can find the time and energy tomorrow I think I will prepare another piece of cloth in a similar way to Dale and put that out too. Good job we don't get too many visitors, they'd think I'd completely lost the plot! I probably have!!!! LOL