If you have been reading my blog regularly over the past year, you know how much I enjoyed Collage Camp! And you will enjoy it too! KC packs her videos with all her techniques for creating the fabric collages she is famous for. You don't have to be a cowgirl to enjoy this Collage Camp!!! The techniques she shares with you are applicable to any artwork that you may want to have a vintage time-worn look! Or not!! The collage techniques are good for any fabric collage art work! 
So, don't let the prairie grass grow under your feet! Ride over to KC Willis Collage Camp and have a look around the spread! Join in the fun! You won't be disappointed!!
You should recognize the Silversmith's Daughter (6"x6"). I had done this little piece a year or more ago with a corrugated board frame. The turquoise is a string of bits for making jewelry. I mounted the picture on a coffee dyed piece of fabric, then all of that on another piece of corrugated board. I finally glued it to the canvas. Love the doo-dads! It looks like bits her father might have used to make jewelry for her.
This is a little child that I mounted onto the small canvas (4"x4"). I love the colorful bead trim. It might have been a piece off of her costume.
The top row of three aprons are called "workday aprons." I think that is because housewives wore them while doing housework. The bottom row of two are "party aprons." They were usually made of voile or netting. The white one is flocked. Not useful fabrics if you are doing housework! All of these are vintage.
These are in my stash right now. I have been using them lately in my fabric collages for KC Willis Collage Camp.
I had a beaded bit of fabric in my stash so I used it on her pages. I thought that perhaps that beaded bit could have been part of one of her costumes (well, not really, but it is nice to make up these things!). The denim ruffle at the bottom of the page is actually from a little girl's skirt that I found in a thrift shop. Just cut off the ruffle and used some of it here. I am going to use parts of the skirt in other projects.
Little Ruby Culbertson appears again. This is one of my favorite images. She was a real cowgirl wannabe as the left page says. Too cute!
I wanted to do something totally different from the Prairie Doves fabric book. This is where I started. Lots of girlie fabrics, lace, whites and off whites, and plenty of color. There will be lots of neat ideas tucked inside as well. I will update you as I get pages done. Once this one is completed and on Mystic Paper's class schedule, I am going to do another one very similar to Prairie Doves for all the cowgirls out there!!
I bought an old leather skirt at a thrift store and that is the backing behind the photo and the lace. Also an old bandana from a thrift store is on the opposite page. This book was the perfect place to use these.
"Corsets! Too tight! Rather wear my camisole and my pantaloons. Sarah." I have added a vintage garter/stocking piece as well as more lace and a small doily. I don't think they had those fancy garter pieces when this picture was taken. I think these ladies either rolled their stockings or used elastic type garters.
The quote says "Bronc ridin' is more fun than cookin' and cleanin'. Prairie Rose Henderson." I used a bit of glitz that I thought might have been on one of her fancier costumes and an old bead necklace that she might have worn. What a gal!!! Certainly couldn't picture her cookin' and cleanin'!!
A little bit of black velvet and lace, a little bit of red silk, and part of an old child's dress.
The picture on the right is Lulu Parr. She was a rodeo star. I framed her picture with a piece of tatting sewn down with a zigzag stitch. This was a fun challenge! Besides, I think I will make another book.
Here is a pic of the book from the bottom edge. It is filled with fabric, lace, trims and doo-dads.
That's all for this time! Want to get you to come back and see more of the inside pages of this book!
This first one I have called The Silversmith's Daughter. She is Navajo and probably lived at one time on the large Navajo reservation here in northeastern Arizona. There is an old postcard that has her tinted image on it and describes her as the Silversmith's Daughter. I have loved this image for a long time. I incorporated this sepia image into the collage. I used silver doo-dads as well as some turquoise to give the feeling of the jewelry and beadwork she must be wearing. Lucky girl to have such a talented dad!
This collage is called Hopi Daughter. Another image that I find intriguing! The Hopi Indians also have a reservation in northeastern Arizona. Their reservation is entirely surrounded by the Navajo reservation.
I think this gal is riding her horse or she is in charge of a buckboard with two horses. Whichever, she is telling those horses to "Giddyup!!"
I printed out a bunch of transfers in a small size (there are more to come) and ironed them to small pieces of the dyed canvas. Then I just used left over bits of fabric and some embellishments to complete the tag. It doesn't take much. I have to remind myself to "KISS" -- keep it simple stupid -- because I tend to over do!
There is a tiny doll bib that I attached to the dress and made a pocket out of it. From the pocket I draped a tiny pink pearl necklace. Perhaps you can see (it's awfully tiny!) that the little girl in the picture has on a pearl necklace. I used lots of vintage trims and old fabrics. The lacy piece on top of the ticking is an old dresser doily. The coffee dyed it up great.
