Passport to Art Day 2

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 Passport and although I didn't make a passport for the page I did use a photo of myself.

I put a piece of masking tape across the page and spread gesso over the whole page.

I used Distress Inks again on this page.

I removed the masking tape.  I stamped on a tag and inked the edges.  I attached it to my page with foam so that it is raised off the page.  I cut up the quote and the verse, inked the edges and stuck them down.

I printed out a photo of myself using the mirror image setting.

I put the hand gel onto the tag as demonstrated on the video and put the photo on top and used the brayer to roll over the top.

I was impatient so I pulled the film off and so the image isn't totally complete.

The tag sits in the pocket.

I wrote my journaling on the back of the tag.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art Day 1

Welcome to my month of Passport to Art blog posts.  Each day through July I will be featuring my response to the Passport to Art challenge blog.  The blog has 31 days of prompts, quotes and technique challenges at the end of which I should have an altered book.

I chose an old atlas for this project and prpeapred the book ready.  You can find out what I did here and here.

So let's set out.

This is inside the cover of my book and I have chosen to leave it until the end to do something with it.  It depends what I choose to do with the cover.

On the next page I put a piece of masking tape across the page.  I plan to do that somewhere on every page so that the atlas shows through.

I put gesso over the top of the page.I printed out all the quotes and verses.

I used scrapbooking cardstock and card.I decide to use Distress Inks over the gesso.  It allows more of the page to show through and I feel more in control of where the colour is going.  Then I splashed it with water.

I used tissue tape and bits of my scrapbooking stash to create my page.

And here it is in closeup.

Thanks for stopping by.   See you tomorrow.
Bernice

Introducing July

Over on 12 Months in View we are starting a new month of challenges beginning with an introductory page for July.

The flower of the month is the dandelion and last year I seemed to take a lot of photos of dandelions so for this page I decided to collage them together using Publisher and then to put a quote on the top before printing it out.

The problem with using something like Publisher rather than Photoshop is that you can't 'tear' and layer so it all looks a bit rectangular.  However I like how the yellow pops out of the green and grey.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice