In my notebook, well, Notes app, I had the theme ‘altered images’ written down for August’s art journal session. Pondering this at 4am one morning (don’t you just hate a creative brain mulling things over in the early hours?) I looked up Altered Images, the band, and their hit ‘Happy Birthday’. After that, this mixed-media layout came together nicely, blending collage, stickers, AI-image generation and a little bit of experimentation:
I’ve been using polyurethane casting resin for a long while now, batch-making every mould I have when it’s out. Consequently, I now have containers full of paintable mouldings. Do I use them up? Infrequently! The latest challenge over at AAA Cards is to add small and few elements to a clean and simple card with the optional extra of ‘baked goods’. This immediately put in mind some of these cupcake mouldings languishing in my stash. A quick lick of paint later and the choice of a large card to make them look small, I came up with this:
