November ARTifacts

I'm once again joining Seth Apter in his ARTifacts collaboration.  Here is my November entry.

This is the photo Seth will share on his blog.  The rest of the photos are detail shots.

For much of the month of November, it felt like the end of summer, not autumn.  Then autumn arrived and quickly took on a wintry blast.  

November's autumn was represented by trees changing colors.

I really didn't have too much to decorate winter with, so I went with a gifted snow embossed piece of card stock.   I added the gifted snowman and one of my die cut butterflies.

For the left side, I began by sewing the two snow inspired images together.  I then sewed the black cardstock to the assembly and added the trees.  I sewed three sides to each of the images so I could add tags I made for this spread.

For the right side, I wanted to show I am playing all month in Art Every Day Month or AEDM.

I tried to represent a few of the things I did during the month, including

bringing my plants inside and planting seeds, making and cutting lye based soap,

creating pages in altered books,

creating die cuts, and hosting T Stands For Tuesday parties.

For my Second Thursday tutorial, I created various backgrounds, including the one I used for this spread.  

I also dyed some baby wipes and used the last of them here.

Since this is the final month we will show our monthly art (next month is a review and view of our book covers), I wanted to sign our names

and the year.

For this page, I sewed together various pieces, including magazine images, die cuts, and stamped images.  I also used the last of my dyed baby wipe and wrote AEDM in white ink using a gelly roll pen.  Although I normally cut the strands from my thread, this month I intentionally left them long to show sewing was also a part of my AEDM posts.

Thank you for sticking with me through this collaboration.

Once again, I want to thank Seth for creating this collaboration.  I have really enjoyed this project and am delighted beyond words that I decided to join this group of amazing artists Seth features.

This is Day 26 of AEDM, and I joined a collaboration of mixed media artists with a monthly journal page.

And thanks go to each of you for visiting today.  I'm very grateful for your visit and your support of my art and this collaboration.