recycled holiday cards, tarjetas para las fiestas con materiales de reciclaje




Since I have friends that celebrate the holidays but not necessarily Christmas, I made these greeting cards without religious motives using recycled materials that I have on hand.
This project was lots of fun and very relaxing. I took a brown paper bag and wrote down all my emotions with a black marker. Then I painted the bag with gesso. Once it dried, I painted it with red and blue acrylics. After that I used stencils imprinted with words. Then I took metal tape, wrote more emotions down with an old pen, painted the surface with black, blotted it with a paper towel and cut the vase. After that I cut flowers from a newspaper and pasted them on. Lastly , I used my sewing machine to accentuate the design.

mixed media with paper and cloth


I modelled this collage with watercolor paper background and fabric on top, then I stitched with the help of the sewing machine and by hand. This is one of the techniques I learned from the class.
Este collage lo hice con papel para pintura de acuarelas en el fondo y aplicación de diferentes telas encima, luego de varias capas de pinturas cosí encima con la ayuda de la máquina de coser en algunos lados y a mano en otros lados.

bookmarks


I’ve been taking a mixed media class online from Joggles by Jane LaFazio and enjoying it. Each week she teaches us a different technique and gives us an assignment. I modeled these bookmarks from this week's technique and gave them to my friends, who always loan me wonderful books to read.
He hecho estos marcadores de libros con una técnica que he aprendido en una clase que he tomado online por medio deJoggles.Son para mis amigas quienes siempre me prestan libros muy interesantes.