As my crochet skills get better I’m trying more difficult projects. This week I’m making some crochet chokers. Some of them have a very gothic feel. Some are all nature and earth tones, and some are cutesy in pink. These have been SO much fun to design and make. I normally wouldn’t wear “big” jewelry but I think I might have to make an exception for one or two of these.
You can see the rest of them here.
These are some ACEO that I made using packing tape transfers of womens faces over paper with handwritten lines of poetry. I used colored chalks and fine point acid free pens to add touches of color to the black and white images. Some ink stamping was used as well as oil pastels. They’re all sealed with a matte sealer.
These are a few spreads from an altered book I made with a dark or gothic theme. I used a lot of images of demons and angels. There are words taken from magazines with phrases like “hells highway” , ” the devils handmaiden”, as well as some tag art done by myself. The pages are all covered with acrylic paints in black and red with some of the books original art and print showing thru. The first spread features a playing card, the joker from an old vintage Virginia Slims deck. The card has a door cut into it that lifts up to show a couple pages of images that you can flip thru like a tiny book inside the main book. This book is listed in my Etsy store.
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