Wednesday 31 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 31

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.  The last day - welcome home!

Today's challenge was to add bunting to the page and to sum up the journey of the last 31 days.

I put gesso on the pages and sprayed ink and let it run down the page.  I stuck the folded page to the page behind it to make a pocket for the tag.

I inked the tag with Distress Inks and stamped the bunting with Vermillion Archival Ink.

I cut triangles from the painted paper I had left over from the Dyan Revealey bleachout technique and glued them to the page along the line I had drawn with black pen.  I added the map strip, the quote and the verse.

I used Black Soot Distress Ink through a stencil to added the triangle pattern.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing how I have put together the pages of my altered book.  Come back tomorrow to find out about the finished book.

Bernice

Tuesday 30 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 30

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.   Today's prompt asked where you planned to travel next.  The technique challenge was to use your favourite technique from the month but as I had missed out the Dyan Revealey Ghosting technique I did that instead.

Here's the next few pages.

I put gesso on the page and when it was dry, sprayed the fuchsia ink and the black on the page.

I stamped the leaves.

I put gesso on the folded page, sprayed it fuchsia and stamped the leaves.

Using a water brush I painted inside the lines of the leaves and dabbed it with a paper towel which removed some of the ink.

I used a dark green ink to paint in the leaves.  However the gesso absorbs the paint and the leaves are much lighter.

I stuck the folded fuchsia page to the page behind to make a pocket for the tag.  I used Distress Inks on the tag and stamped the leaves.  I used the waterbrush on the leaves in the same way as the page but didn't paint them again.

I added some map paper and the verse and quote.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice


Monday 29 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 29

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.  Today's journaling was about your favourite place.  The technique challenge was to use watercolour paints and clingfilm.

Today's page is the one on the right.  I decided to fold it over to make a pocket on the right hand side of the page.

I used Dylusions inks which are water based instead of watercolour paints on a piece of watercolour paper.

I bought myself an embossing folder that I had seen Ann using on her page for Day 2.  I used a piece of the map page in it and then inked over the embossed page before cutting out the boot prints.

I inked and cling-filmed the tag.

I cut up the paper and stuck it onto the main page and a strip on the folded part.  I made a pocket for the tag and stuck on the map strip, the boot prints, the quote and the verse.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice


Sunday 28 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 28

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.  Today's theme is about adventures and the techniques was to use alcohol inks.

All of the remaining pages of my book are the index.  If I'd planned the book I might have left more map pages in and taken out more of the index pages.

I cut a piece of paper to match the page and covered it in gesso.  I put a first coat of alchol inks on as stripes.

I put another layer of ink on.

I stuck a tag to a piece of kitchen foil with Matte Medium and cut round it.

I used the felt applicator to put the alcohol ink on the tag.
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I dropped some of the Blending Solution onto the inks which made the puddles.

I stuck the quote on the tag and stamped the feet with Archival Ink.

I cut the inked page to size and stuck it down.  I stuck down the verse and the map page strip.


Do you remember I left a couple of folded pages on Day 19?    Well I went to a tag workshop taught by Nicky where we tried out Distress Paints.  I've stuck the tags I made in my altered book.



Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice


Saturday 27 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 27

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.  Today's theme was about disappointment with inspiration coming from the John Masefield poem 'The Seekers'.  The technique challenge was to use wax resist.

The next page is folded up.

I decided to fold the corner down.

I covered the page with gesso and then drew patterns with a white wax crayon.  I used Dylusions inks poured into a palette and a very wet brush.

I echoed the pattern with a stencil and Distress Ink.


I stuck on the piece of page map and the verse.  I did my journaling on the piece that will be folded up.

I stuck the folded corner down and put the verse over the top.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Friday 26 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 26

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.  Today is all about Forgiveness and Freedom.   The challenge is to use Dyan Reaveley's bleachout technique.

Here are the next few pages.


I have enough pages left to use the folded page as a pocket.

I covered the page in gesso.

I sprayed ink over it.

I  used two stencils one on top of the other and sprayed water through it.

I inked the tag.

And sprayed water through the star stencil.

With this result.

You can see where the the white shows through where I sprayed through the stencils.  I added a strip of map page, the quote and the verse.

It looked a bit plain so I added the stamped hearts.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice


Thursday 25 July 2013

Passport to Art Day 25

If you want to join in with making an altered book through the month of July click through to the Passport to Art challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt.  Today's prompt asks 'Who are you?'   And the challenge is to use a vaseline resist.

Here's today's page.  The page at the front is folded down with a full page behind it.

I used the vaseline through the stencil onto a piece of 12x12" manila card. Although in this photo it looks more like Kraft card!

I sprayed inks over it but really wasn't very successful.  Perhaps I didn't put enough vaseline.

I used Kaz's method on the tag but managed to smudge that!

I cut the paper into pieces to match the page.

I stuck the piece on the left to the folded page.

I stuck the larger piece to the large page and then stuck the folded piece to the page to make a pocket.

I stuck a piece of map page on and the quote and verse.  I stamped some diamonds to echo the vaseline stencil. I also added some modelling paste through the original stencil.  I added the butterfly stickers.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice