Samstag, 31. März 2007

More digital collage



I'm discovering a lot of tools on Photoshop and Corel. Then I made this collages. It's fun to make digital collages and I can save many trees.

You can see that I discovered the butterfly tool from Corel Photopaint. It's very fun. I made all the collages with lot of butterflies.

Daring Card Maker - Monochrom


The challenge from Daring Card Maker this week is monochrom.

This is my contribution to the theme.

Because I'm working with the opera "Madame Butterfly" to me Opera-Book all my figures have wings this week.

Donnerstag, 29. März 2007

Opern-Buch




Ich arbeite gerade an ein Opern-Buch. Da möchte ich die Geschichte, anhand von Collagen, von verschiedenen Opern erzählen. Und wie es so ist, wenn ich gerade an etwas arbeite, denke ich die ganze Zeit daran. Im Moment, weiss ich nicht wie ich den Text machen könnte.

Hier sind ein paar Vintage-Bilder, falls sich jemand dafür interessiert.

I'm working on a altered book about Opera. I want to tell die stories of some operas trough collages. Wenn I'm working on a sutff I think on this all the time. At the moment I don't know how to introduce de story. If someone wants, here are some vintage pics.

Mittwoch, 28. März 2007

Wednesdaystamper - buntig


Das Challenge von wednesdaystamper geht diesmal um Farben. Buntig heisst es. Obwohl ich sehr viele Buntstifte habe, benutze ich sie nie. Ich mag sie einfach, aber gebrauche sie nicht. Aquarell schon, aber ich habe mir was anderes ausgedacht als ausmalen.

Zuerst bestempelte ich buntes Seidenpapier, dann riss ich es in Streifen und becklebte damit eine Karte. Auf ein anderes Stück Papier stempelte ich den Pisa-Turma.

So entstand dann meine Meinung zum Thema buntig.

Dienstag, 27. März 2007

Digital collage



I'm Trying to make digital collages and today I finally found a tutorial to overlay two images with Photoshop. I'm really happy about that.

Wieder mal Fotos



Die zwei Fotos sind von zwei verschiedenen Parks hier in der Gegend. Den einen Baum gibt es vielleicht schon 60 Jahre oder mehr. Man nennt ihn "Figueira", aber ich weiss nicht ob es ein echter Feigenbaum ist.


Die blaue Bananenstaude ist blau geworden wegen der Einstellung der Kamera. Ich habe die Digitalkamera auf Abendlicht eingestellt. Ich finde das Ergebnis gut.


This two pics are from two different parks. The big tree is called a "Figueira", but I don't know if it really is a fig tree. It is very old, over 60 years.


The blue bananatree is blue because I have used nicht licht on my digitalcamera. I think the result is very good.

http://isascrapandstamp.canalblog.com/

Isa has also weekly challenges.

This week is a challenge to make a page like a model on his page.
Very nice.

Montag, 26. März 2007

Kinderträume - Shrine-Karte


Ich liebe Kinderbücher. Hauptsächlich diese, die schöne Zeichnungen haben. Ich glaube, dass Leute, die Kinderbücher schreiben und illustrieren eine andere Art von Menschen sind.

Diese Liebe zu den Kinderbüchern hat mich dazu gebracht mal etwas für/über Kinder zu machen.

Es ist noch ein bisschen primitiv, aber es wird bestimmt besser.

I love kids books. Specially this one, which have colorful illustrations. People who write and illustrate this kind of books, are another kind of people.

Because of this I have try to made something for/about kids.

It's the first one, I thing the next will look better.

Sonntag, 25. März 2007

Katzen


Präpositionen und Adverbien

mit Katzen:

(frei nach Sonia Hirsch)

IN – das lieben sie, in der Schublade, im Schrank, in Körben, Tüten und hauptsächlich Schachteln. Innen rund das ist das Beste: eine Schüssel, Sushi-Verpackung noch besser.

DRAUSSEN – um sich zu sonnen, mit Vögeln flirten, den Wind an der Nase fühlen und die Gerüche erforschen.

AUF – dem Kleiderschrank, den Regalen, auf dem Fernseher mit dem Schwanz vor dem Bildschirm, auf dem PC, auf den Büchern und Zeitungen die man gerade liest, sie schlafen und recken sich.

UNTER – dem Bett, Sofa, den Decken und dem Bettlacken, wenn man das Bett macht.

AUF – uns, wenn es kalt ist, auf und unter den Decken, auf unserem Bauch, dem Rücken.

NEBEN – dem Körper, niemand bewegt sich mehr, ein Insel Mensch von Katzen umringt.

NEBEN – Fenstersims, Fenstern und anderen Plätzen nur damit man Angst bekommt.

NEBEN – uns, immer.

AN – unseren Beinen, sich anschmiegend.

UM – eine Kakerlacke. Um eine können drei Katzen stundenlang sitzen. Eine Art Fussballspiel, wo der Ball lebt. Es endet wenn die Beine weg sind. Von der Kakerlacke.


Sonia Hirsh (1947 geboren) ist eine brasilianische Journalisten, die hauptsächlich Bücher über Frauen, Katzen und Gesundheit schreibt.
Das Buch “Os Gatos” (die Katzen) ist ein kleines, liebes Buch über Katzen, das nur derjenige lesen soll, der Katzen liebt.

Site dafont - Fonts


Auf der Seite

http://www.dafont.com

gibt es sehr schöne "fonts" zum free herunterladen.

Ich habe ein paar Dutzend heruntergeladen und einiges geschrieben.

Freitag, 23. März 2007

Twins or more


Daring Card Maker has the challenge this week to make a card announcing the birth of twins or multiples. Here is my card.

Inspiremethursday - Wishes



The challenge from inspiremuthursday this week is "Wishes". A piece of art with our wishes.


She mentioned the site from http://anahata.typepad.com, which has some gorgeous collages. On this site I found Maggie Taylor and I was surprised about the stunning collages Maggie does. Visit her site: http://www.maggietaylor.com . The images here are from Maggie Taylor.

Donnerstag, 22. März 2007

Colagem



Finalmente consegui fazer as colagens com fundo transparente no Corel Draw.


Endlich habe ich es geschafft die Collagen mit transparenten Untergrund im Corel Draw zu machen.


Letztes Blatt vom Altered Book


So! Das letzte Blatt ist fertig. Fehlt nur noch das "cover" und der Titel.

Wednesdaystamper - Eyes


This is my entry for wednesdaystamper this week.


Dieses Challenge war ein bisschen schwer für mich, da ich normalerweise dieses Thema in meinen Collagen nicht benutze. Aber es ist trotzdem was geworden.

Mittwoch, 21. März 2007

Daring Card Makers


This bookmarker is very simple to make: a stripe of paper, a stencil and some paper scrap. Cut the scrap in form of a butterfly, apply the stencil over the paper stripe and glue the butterflies over all. That is my contribution. You'll take about 15 minutes to do that.
A good challenge Gillian!
The Wednesdaystamper I'll do only tomorrow, because today I went to a Patchwork Show and I'm very tired.

Dienstag, 20. März 2007

Celebrating the feminine



The challenge from inspiremethursday is about the feminine.


Two yeas ago I made three works for an Award here in São Bernardo. It was about womens pain. I looked at old pictures from women and I could see there some strange sadness and suffering and I began to think why all there had this sad eyes, this faces without a smile.

Womens dont have a good life in the most parts of the world. In Afrika, South Amerika, India and other poor countries the life of womens are plenty of suffering. Suffering and blood. The birth is blood, the periode is blood, the whole women is blood. Blood is life, but it is dead too.

There is a lot of pain and I based my work on this thoughts.
Of course is Louise Bourgeois my favorite woman artist. And Nazaré Pacheco too. She is a brazilian artist abouth whom I want to post something this days.
I mean that we, sometimes, must think about that womans in this big world. That womans who has no chance to have a good life.

Francisco Brennand



Francisco Brennand was born 1927 in Pernambuco. His parents wants to him to study Jura, but he was an artist and he wents to Paris to study there. After his returns to Brazil he went to work in the family tiles factory. He has studied painting, but meanwhile he begans to work with clay. Step by step he has built a new factory with his work. It is like a temple with his magic figures, his surrealistic womens and birds and eggs.


The fabric still produces tiles to mantain this big museum of pottery. Some of the pieces are about 2m high.

Vintage clip art for free



I have a lot of vintage images. If someone want to use them, be my guest.

Sonntag, 18. März 2007

Altered Book



Finally I finished this book. It's an altered book in style from Karen Whimsy. I call it a "Venezian Masquerade".

Casamento Francine


Ontem foi o casamento da Francine. Ela estava muito linda e diferente, bem mais mulher, já deixou de ser aquela menina que eu conheci anos atrás.


Eu te desejo, Fran, toda felicidade deste mundo, pois você merece. De verdade. Você é tão esforçada, íntegra, carinhosa. Percebi ontem, na igreja, o quanto de carinho vinha de você. Com que carinho você preparou tudo e como as pessoas também sentiam um enorme carinho por você.


Às vezes, acontecem coisas ruins na nossa vida, mas isto é apenas para que as portas para as coisas boas se abram, e foi o que aconteceu.


Vejo uma vida muita luz pra vocês dois. Apenas não esqueçam, que é na alegria e na tristeza, na saúde e na doença. A doença às vezes pode ser difícil, quando temos que abrir mão de nossos próprios interesses, para o bem esta do outro. E aí não vale jogar a toalha.


Que você seja muito feliz.

Samstag, 17. März 2007

Collection Crusade 6 - Michelle Ward



Today I finished my collections pics.


I have many small collections. For instance, I have a collection from gifts people gave me. Little stuff, they brought from journeys just to say " I was thinking on you". Then I have a collection of "found" objects, which, sometimes, I probably want to use to make an art piece. There are medical instruments for womans, which I wanted to have used to make some art pieces with the theme "pain".

There are a collection of dolls and angels because they are "so nice".

Once I began a collection of wine glasses. Everywhere I had been, I bought a wine glass.


The same with my shells. During my trips to the brazilian beachs I always look for it. Then I have a lot of shells from many places from Brazil.


I don't know I can say this is a collection. It is more a sample of things I like and I must have around me.

Gillian





Here is the card I made for Gillian's DCM. I was difficult, but fun.I gave my husband 16 numbers to choose 4 other 5. He choose this things.

Freitag, 16. März 2007

Gillian Hamilton - Gutes Challenge

Here is the complete text from Gillian's Dare today:

This week at Daring Card Makers
the fantastic Kel has set a brilliant dare that is a real challenge.Firstly make a list of 10-20 crafty items you have in your stash, whether it be brads, ribbons, peel-off's, craft robo, dies, stamps, glittter, buttons, flowers, patterned papers, paint...
You get the idea!
Give them all a number or print them out a sheet and pop them in a hat all folded up.Next, ask someone non-crafty to pick 3-5 of your numbers or pieces of paper from your from your hat.Finally, make a card using ONLY the items chosen. A card blank, some sort of sticky stuff and your basic craft tools are allowed If you want to make it really challenging, list plenty of items that you haven't used in a while, or thought you may never use again!
So what went into my draw.... I hear you ask.....
metal embellishments...Ribbons...acrylic stamps...cuttlebug templates...Paper tabs...Doodling...Paint...Dymo Tape...Stickers...Vintage Images...Eyelets...Brads...Tags...Chipboard...Flowers...Rubber Stamps...Buttons...
And I was quite comfortable with the bits Jacob pulled out for me..
Chipboard, Flowers, Rubber Stamps & Buttons..
I threw in printed paper but made myself only use a tiny little bit...
and Well Cardstock..but you'll all be using that too..
Random bits for this card are - Treasures Cardstock,Hero Arts Bold Floral Pattern Stamp, Catslife Press Doll Face Stamp, Heidi Swapp Blossoms, Maya Road Chipboard label holder, Vintage Button from my yummy collection, Versa Color Ink Pad - 104 Lagoon Blue, Versa magic Ink Pad - Jumbo Java (label holder rubbed over with this), a little bit of Basic Grey Printed paper & My Sewing machine..
So have you Dared to DARE yet?..... COME ON I DARE YOU!!!!!!

Donnerstag, 15. März 2007

New Page /Altered Book


Today beginns the new Serie of "House". The third here in Brazil. I love Dr. Greg he is so grumpy, so sarcastic, and I love this.


Artchixstudio

Today I have received my stuff from Artchixstudio. Thanks Good there was no problem with the brazilian Post Office neither taxes to pay.

Helga send me too a little gift. Hm! She is really nice!

Gillian Hamilton


I have made this card for Gillian's DCM. It is not a card in the Scrapbooking Style, but I thing it is interesting. I called it "The utopic of living together" (A utopia do convívio).


Today I want to do one in a scrapbooking style.

Mittwoch, 14. März 2007

Auto-retrato

No site
http://pikipimp.com

você pode criar um novo rosto para você. É fácil e divertido.

Auf der o.g. Seite kann man sich ein neues Gesicht verschaffen. Fun!

Juraci Dórea


Recebi hoje um convite para uma exposição na Caixa Ecônomica de São Paulo. O nome do artista é Juraci Dórea. Ele é de Feira de Santana, Bahia, e começou seus trabalhos pintando com PVA e carvão. Hoje em dia ele usa tinta acrílica. O trabalho é comovente, e reflete o entorno do artista. As coisas simples e populares do Nordeste, o grafismo remete a um patchwork.


I received an invitation today from Caixa Econômica de São Paulo, a bank from the brazilian gouvernment. They have many art expositions during the year. And at this time the artist is Juraci Dórea. Juraci was born in Feira de Santana, a city in Bahia. His work has the simbols we can see there. The fishes, the birds, the cactus, the houses there. He began to work with PVA paint with chalk, but today his work is with acrylic. I love it, because it is like a patchwork.

Wednesdaystamper - movies


Mein Beitrag zum Thema "movies" von Wednesdaystamper. Heute ging alles daneben. Keinen Drucker, keine geeigneten Bilder, als ich dann Bilder gefunden habe und sie kleben wollte, blieben sie überall hängen nur nicht auf das Papier. Na ja, man hat ja schon solche Tage wo die Sachen nicht so gut laufen.

Wenn ich an Filme denke, denke ich hauptsächlich an die grossen Divas, den "film noir" und diese Klassiker. Die modernen Filme sind meistens nur Blockbuster und die mag ich nicht so sehr.

Leider gibt es keine brasilianische Filmindustrie, alle Regisseure brauchen die Unterstützung der Regierung und Sponsoren und dadurch gibt es wenig Filme. Die meisten sind über Armut und Favelas und nicht jederman Geschmack. Verstehe auch nicht warum man immer nur die dunkle Seite zeigen muss, wenn man hier gute Schrifsteller hat, die wirklich eine gute Geschichte erzählen können.

"Movies" me lembram minha infância, quando uma vez por semana íamos ao cinema. Todos os domingos à matinê. E aí rolava todo tipo de filme, desde Tarzan até filmes românticos. Até hoje me emociono quando ouço aquela música italian, cujo nome não sei, que sempre tocava antes o filme começar. O cinema era outra coisa. Lembro que quando meu pai e minha mãe iam ao cinema, ele era obrigado a usar gravata. Cinema era coisa chique, que exigia vestido e terno. Bons tempos. Também, havia o fato de que os cinemas pegavam fogo por causa das películas. Quando havia super-aquecimento iniciava-se um incêndio. Lembro de que isso aconteceu uma vez num cinema perto de casa, e houve até gente que morreu. Enfim, adoro filmes, pena que o cinema nacional seja tão pobre e só fale de pobreza, quando temos tão bons escritores contando outro tipo de história que não de favela.

Movie


Das Challenge von Wednesdaystamper diese Woche ist "movie". Das erinnert mich immer an Marilyn Monroe, die berühmteste Film-Diva, meiner Meinung nach. Ich hatte eine Arbeit über das Thema Marilyn vor einem Jahr begonnen und es doch nicht weiter gemacht, weil das Thema, vielleicht wegen Andy Warhol, ein bisschen zu abgedroschen ist.

Dienstag, 13. März 2007

Salão de Arte Contemporânea Santo André


Recebi comunicado hoje que meus trabalhos foram aceitos para o Salão de Arte de Santo André.

Um dos trabalhos é este, feito em tecido, e cujo título é "Garotas tem que ser magras".


Ich habe heute die Mitteilung bekommen, dass drei meiner Arbeiten in einer jährlichen Ausstellung zur gegenwärtigen Kunst, hier in Santo André, angenommen wurden. Eine der Arbeiten ist "Frauen müssen mager sein" und es ist ein Quilt.

Scrapbooking / ATCs and more

Gillian Hamilton has an interesting blog, where are a Challenges every Friday. He calls this Challenges "Dares" . He is a profi in scrapbooking things.

This week the dare is to make a card with the theme "Super Heroe".

http://gillianhamilton.blogspot.com

Collage stamps



I made some collage stamps with Photoshop.

Embossing at brazilian way


Ir is very hard to find stamps, inks, embossing powder in Brazil. There are only few stores, and they don't have the gorgeous things we can find in USA, Europe... Sometimes I buy some stamps or collage sheets per Internet, but it is always a problem with the brazilian Post rules. We must pay to much for the delivery in USA and sometimes we must pay some charges in Brazil too.


So I made a kind of embossing with home a home made stamp (linol cut), a kind of brazilian silk dye (there are no fabric dyes in Brazil) and gold powder. It is not really an embossing, but I think the result is interesting.

Montag, 12. März 2007

Art/Architektur














Das Challenge von http://inspiremethursday.com dieser Woche ist Art/Architektur. Architektur ist nicht nur das Bauen schöner Häuser, sondern auch leere Plätze so auszustatten, dass man dort wohnen, einkaufen, arbeiten und spazieren gehen kann.

São Paulo hat als Stadt keine Architektur. Es ist eine Unarchitektur, denn alles mischt sich, es werden Strassen und Häuser gebaut, wo es gar nicht möglich oder sogar riskant ist, etwas zu bauen.

Die neuen Reichen der Stadt bevorzugen das Neoklassische, eine Unart der Architektur, ein Mischmasch aus Klassizismus und Rokoko, ein Spritzer Barock dazu, mit einer Prise Pseudomoderne und so haben wir was die Paulistanos Architektur nennen.

Keine offenen Plätze, keine Plätze der Kommunikation, des Zusammenlebens. In erster Linie kommen die Autos, es gibt kein Platz für Menschen in dieser wilden Stadt.

Das rechte Foto ist das Projekt von Oskar Niemeyer in einem der wenigen Parks in einer Stadt von 12 Mio. Einwohnern.

Paper Dolls




Some paper dolls I made from fashion magazines.

Samstag, 10. März 2007

Noch eine Seite!


Noch eine Seite zum "Altered Book".

Shops

Dois ótimo lugares para comprar folhas de colagem e carimbos:
Zwei gute Shops für Collage-Sheets und Stempeln:

http://paperwhimsy.com
(lindas folhas de colagem)
(sehr schöne Collage-Sheets)

http://lost-coast-designs.com
(carimbos maravilhosos a bons preços)
(Schöne Stempel zu guten Preisen)

Chests



I've found this chests on a old magazine from 1969 "1,001decorating ideas". This is a old new idea.

Achei estas cômodas numa revista de 1969, e a idéia não é ruim (com algumas variações mais modernas) para se reciclar um velho móvel e ter uma peça diferente em casa. Papel todo mundo sempre tem.