Faerieluna

NOTES FROM THE NEST
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I hosted a bookmark swap to celebrate January's New Moon
Two of you jumped on board and played along.

Lynnie and Andrea.

So I made a bookmark for each of you
to accompany the swapped bookmark you will receive
from the other.

Here are the simple steps I used to create these.

As the base for my bookmark,
I used the same mixed media paper
that I used the last time I
created a bookmark.

You can see it HERE.

Dark blues and shimmery gold with black Golden paints

rolled onto thick Arches Paper

The next step was to choose a face image

to represent Mistress Moon.

Ethereal and gentle.

Then came text carefully torn from my stash of book pages.

They were lovely at that point,

BUT

I wanted something special.

Taking ecru colored felt for a backing

and ecru organza,

I sandwiched the bookmark in between

then did some free form sewing,

allowing extra organza for the bottom to fringe.

Now I feel they are special and ready to be mailed out.

So I guess I HAVE done a little bit of art.

Thank you, Andrea and Lynnie for playing along.

I won't show your creations
so that you can have at least one surprise.