Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

Art Tags "Invisble Crown " #4-#6 : Wilma Simmons  Here's my other "favourite" stamp for the Tag Tuesday challenge - "always wear your invisible crown" ... I have used it before, and loved the result of small tags created with the stamp and a  British postage stamp depicting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in a stylised format.  The challenge this time around was to create  with 'brown".  Previously I used the stamp to create a set of "pink" tags. Art Tags "Invisible Crown " #1-#3 : Wilma Simmons   

 Art Tags - Your Crown :  Wilma Simmons 2019  I love creating with postage stamps... so this week's Tag Tuesday, hosted by Sandie made me happy. The theme is Mail, Postmarks or Postage Stamps. I made three small tags, each with a British stamp, depicting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. I thought this saying about wearing your invisible crown  went very well with the stamps and  just couldn't resist using this stamp  with a stamped border ( its source is unknown as it was a gift). The background is Tilda decorative paper. For my other tag, I made a collage of envelopes, a magazine page and an Australian Postage Stamp, commemorating  National Stamp Week. I machine stitched a few lines to add to the touches of colour contrast. I hope to make some more tags using more of my favourite paper material , postage stamps. Art Tag - My Post: Wilma Simmons 2019 

Finally on Friday, my project "Seasons" for the Hello Dollies challenge was ready for presentation on Saturday... as usual, last minute touches were needed. I decided on a "flat doll" project, for this challenge which was to "create your own fabric" to make a doll from a basic pattern provided. I thought the stump doll pattern lent itself easily to the flat doll idea. I had been working on the idea for a long time, making all sorts of different fabric, most of which was rejected and has since found other uses. I finally settled on four bits of  machine embellished  and embroidered fabric to complement a piece of space dyed commercial fabric on which I had stamped face images.  Trying not to use anything other than what was in my stash, I chose a neutral coloured fabric for the background and gave it a bit of depth by going over the surface with a black fabric pastel with a textured mat  underneath. My original idea was to have these dolls appearing to ...