12 Tags of Artsy Crafts

On February 24th I am going to the Artsy Crafts event to take a workshop with Tim Holtz.   Sunshine Girl (who isn't at all excited about the event! [not]) suggested we make 12 tags - one per day in the countdown to the great day.   And yes I know there are 17 days until the day but there doesn't have to be any logic to it!

Anyway, here's my first tag. 

A background technique

Dyan Reaveley made this video of how to do a ghosting technique using her Dylusions Ink Sprays.

These are my first 3 attempts with this technique.  The first two samples are directly on to white paper.

The page below already had some left over paint on it from where I had been working on another page and blotted the left over ink onto the paper.

I don't usually leave this amount of white round the edge of the page ~ I do like the idea of some white but there's probably too much here.  When I come back to working on it again I'll maybe apply some more ink.

An almost finished project!

Recently I went to Artist Trading Post to do an Altered Scrapbook workshop with Anneliese.  This involved making an altered book using a discarded library book.  The one I chose has a beautiful silver cover (although you can't tell from the photo!) and was a children's book about the author Jacqueline Wilson.   The pages were very glossy and bright.    After tearing out pages and folding some in various directions we set about randomly painting, inking, stamping, sticking down scrapbooking paper and collage elements.

Some time ago I signed up for one of Shimelle's classes for which I had commercially printed a whole selection of photos on different topics.   Needless to say I haven't finished that project ~ I'm not sure that I got past about day 3 ~ but I had lots of photos.

The joy of doing this book was that I could stick photos anywhere.  They didn't have to be in any order or make any sense.  I've done some journaling on some of the pages and not on others.   It's a book I can come back to and add a bit here and there if I want to.

I put a couple of tags here from a swap I did on UKS.  Thanks to the ladies who made them.

Some more tags from the UKS swap

I don't like the backgrounds on some of the pages ~ they are too random!  However I love the idea of making this sort of book (now that I've got over the whole thing of desecrating a book by pulling pages out!!!) and will probably make another one but with a theme and a colour scheme.