Art Bags
If you've been following my experiments with Golden Products Digital Grounds, then you'll know that I've been using this product to develop the process I use for my making my "Art Bags". In fact I am in love with my art bags - I love the process, I love the results - and not to make you jealous at all, I have to admit to owning quite a few of them by now. And I just can't stop making them - I think I have the "Art Bag Bug".
In the meantime, please enjoy ...
Art Bags
Famous last words … It’s almost done! At this rate I should be finished later today. I am finished now, but that was a long day. It was eleven days ago in fact. But here it is finished, my latest art bag, Lavender Crush. It’s difficult photographing this style bag …
I always look forward to picking up a copy of Stampington’s Haute Handbags magazine; it always has some truly inspirational ideas for bags and purses. But this edition is kind of special – because I’m in it! Well not me exactly, my art bag Geisha. It’s always kind of exciting …
As you know, I recently began a new art bag. You can see the preparation of the samples here. I find that once the samples are prepared and the technique is fine-tuned, and all the bits and pieces are assembled, it’s amazing how fast things go together and how smoothly …
One of my very favorite things to work with is texture on fabric. I love exploring new and creative ways to make it and to use it. And I particularly love to use stitch as a way to create raw texture on fabric or fabric paper which can then be …
This is what I did this weekend. It doesn’t look like much does it? Until you get up a little closer. And closer still. Yeh, all that machine work took a long time to do. These pieces are panels for a new art bag that I’m making, in the same …
Infinity Art Gallery have just announced the winners of their online Fiber Arts Show. I didn’t win but I was a finalist, which is almost as good. And here’s the finalist (drum roll please) … Blush an Art Bag You can read more about Blush here and of course don’t …
Some new work ahead – a new style art bag and a slightly new design process … Red is one of my favorite colors and this textured digital art design combines many of the beautiful shades of red, a rich and complex melange of warm colors which I’ve called “Blush”. …
Quilting on fabric treated with digital grounds is not difficult – once you know how of course – and today I’ve finally finished the project I began last week. I began by using one of my digital art designs printed onto fabric treated with digital grounds and then machine quilted …
This week I’ve been trying to get back into work mode after taking a break over the holidays but I just can’t seem to do it! Having some down time was far too good and I want more! It wasn’t that I did absolutely nothing over the last couple of …
I finally finished adding the feet and handgrips to this “Summer Rose” clutch bag. I’m really loving this design. You can see where it all started here.
It’s always a wonderful feeling to be acknowledged for the work you do whether it’s the ordinary day to day stuff that comes from a 9 to 5 job, or the personal work that’s close to your heart and comes from months and often years of honing your creative skills …
Last week I finished designing a new clutch purse using fabric beads in unusual ways – for handgrips and purse feet. You can see the finished design it here. Now the same clutch purse design takes on a whole new persona. Instead of using plain fabric, this one is being …
This week I’m sharing with you some of my favorite techniques. On Tuesday we looked at machine needle felting, Wednesday was all about Titivating Embellishments, Thursday was about the wonderful world of Fabulous Free Motion Quilting, and finally today we look at printing on fabric, specifically using Golden Products Digital …
When I said the other day … “I’m not sure if I’ll embellish this art bag.” Of course I was going to embellish it! Plus I found a fabulous way to use up my old broken jewelry. I really love the way it turned out. What do you think?
I’ve just finished a new art bag using one of my latest digital art designs called “Reminisce”. Isn’t she pretty? I can’t wait to take her out on my next shopping trip. And yes! I do actually use my art bags because they’re not only beautiful, but they’re designed to …
I’ve just added some lovely new handbags to the store so stop by and check them out. Careful though, no drooling on your keyboard. These handbags are just the perfect size to travel lightly and brightly through your day, so make a statement and … Wear Your Art on Your …
It’s been a while since I posted any photos of my art bags but I’ve been quietly working away on a few new designs – this is one is called “Geisha” and I just love the way it turned out. As with all my art bags, this design is prepared …
If you remember my recent post about The Making of “Daisy” The Art Bag, then you’ll recognize the design on this new art bag. This is “Daisy” Version 2. I just loved the “Daisy” design and wanted to try it out on a different bag shape so I chose the …
I shared the other day about my new art bag “Poppy”. I *love* the design so much I just had to do another art bag, but this time I decided to do a different shape. This one is a quite large, about 14″ wide x 10″ high and 3″ wide …
As I mentioned the other day, I just purchased a new wide format printer – an Epson Workforce 1100. I’ve been playing around with it this weekend, putting it to the test, and it’s done *really* well. In fact it has a very nice feature that I didn’t notice first …
I posted the other day about a journal cover I made using a digital art piece called “Poppy”. I really like this particular design so I used the design again to make this art bag. These art bags are made using digital art printed onto fabric treated with digital grounds …
Ever since I began using digital grounds for my inkjet prints, I’ve also began taking an interest in digital art. It’s taken more than a little re-education to understand fully how Photoshop can be used to create interesting art because the most I ever used Photoshop for was to tweak …
I wrote the other day about how to attach invisible magnetic snaps which are a great closure for purses, bags and other items where either you don’t want the closure to be apparent or that have no obvious closure flaps. For that particular project, which was a bag, I couldn’t …
I’ve been working on this “art bag” project for a couple of weeks and just as I was about to finish it off yesterday, I thought it might be useful to someone to demonstrate how to attach a magnetic snap closure. Magnetic snaps are a simple, quick and elegant way …
And if you want to see how the "Art Bags" developed, you might also like to see my "Art Journals". The art journals were the first stage in developing the process for making my art bags. By testing the process using small prints (which I eventually found were an ideal size for journal covers), it eventually led to printing larger pieces resulting in the art bags.Art Journals
When I began using digital grounds to print the artwork for my art bags, I always began by first printing a smaller print to test the design for color, composition and any apparent design problems. As you may recall, these test prints were just the right size to make journal …
Using the same technique as I used on this journal cover, this is another of my digital art designs printed on fabric paper treated with digital grounds. I’ve treated the surface with a sealer which gives it a soft gloss finish and helps to protect the fabric paper. The results …
Taking a break from Art Bags, I whipped up this soft fabric journal cover using one of my print samples. This is a similar image to the one I used on this art bag, except it has a different background color and this image was printed directly onto fabric using …
This is a journal cover I finished recently. The image is a digital art design printed onto fabric paper using digital grounds. I’ve used this image before, but it’s taken on a whole new persona now that I’ve added other design elements. These journal covers are about 7″ x 5″ …
This weekend I played around some more with my favorite fabric paper and my very favorite digital grounds, and combined the two together to make a lovely journal cover. I collaged together an image in Photoshop … … and printed it onto a sheet of fabric paper treated with digital …
