Mixed Media Wall Hanging

As you read this, I am en route to Israel.  My dad is being inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for tennis, and I am meeting up with my daughter who is there on Birthright.  Here's a little video of my dad being interviewed during the 2009 Maccabiah games:

Yesterday, instead of packing, I had to create art, because I was so jazzed by Corrine Gilman's tutorial over at Artists in Blogland.

It's not often that I see a tutorial and have to try it immediately.  But I was so inspired -- I couldn't wait!

Corrine's tutorial showed us how to make a mixed media wall hanging from an old book.   It just so happened that I had a very old book that was losing its pages, so I didn't mind following Corrine's instructions to gut the book and give it a makeover.

This month's Cloth Paper Scissors magazine had a great tutorial by Serena Wilson Stubson about creating seascape ornaments.

I had a picture of my grandparents in a rowboat, that I've been wanting to use in a project, and the Captured Memories challenge at Our Creative Corner was the perfect motivation:

I received some beautiful sea glass in a mail swap from Kathy Oakland.  Plus Pia Rom's July challenge at Mix it Monthly is "Go to the Beach."

All these came together for me as I followed Corrine's instructions.

The broken circles are from my Bubble Girl stencil from Stencil Girl.  The boats and water are collaged from gelli prints.   The poem, At the Seaside, is from "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson.  The "sand" is made of corrugated cardboard, another nod to Corrine Gilman, who often uses it in her work.  And I added some rub-ons from Ranger.  Thank you Corrine for the wonderful inspiration!

Linking also to Mix it Monthly,  Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Everyday.  

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