K3 & eclipse

I made 2 new pages in my ARTicles book.
The first one is about a Flemish band called K3 who announced last week that they were quitting after 17 years, it’s not that I’m a fan or so, their public are mainly kids, but still I wanted to include it in my book.

I started by collaging blocks of patterned paper on which I wrote some of their hits 

I took out my sewing machine to add some real stitches. (although the sewing machine is still not my best friend) I must say it went a lot smoother then last time, even changing the color of thread, I know the sewing is not up to scratch, but only practice will get me better, no?

Then I applied a light coat of gesso and divided the empty space in equal lines to add my rainbow colors (inspired on one of their outfits), the color was added using inktense pencils.

I added some music notes to the rainbow and finally stenciled a woman’s face 3 times, one in each color of their hair (they were known for that: there was one blond, black and ginger)

The second page is about the partial eclipse we could see here past friday, this is my interpretation:

I started with adding blue acrylic paint with a credit card as background.

I wanted to add some interest and texture with a paper napkin, but when I thorn it and laid it down it reminded me of a city, exactly what I wanted to create next with gelli prints. No need for that anymore.

I stamped birds onto gelli prints and cut them out.

I wasn’t able to catch the beauty of the sun however.

In fact I’m not that sure about this whole page, maybe I still change it. 
What do you think?
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Birthday calendar - June

For this months calendar I cut 31 squares from 5 cm x 5 cm, glued them to a piece of white scrapbook paper and stitched them with my sewing machine.

I must say I have a sewing machine but hardly ever use it, I’m actually totally useless at sewing. I even still ask my mum to sew on a button, I know shame on me.

So now and then I feel the urge to learn to sew and that’s where this page came from.

So and as you can see it is very amateuristicly sewn, need lots more practice but it just doesn’t appeal to me, the time I can spent crafting  I rather spent it with getting my fingers painty an inky than learning to sew.