Passport to Art Day 8

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 stepping out and the challenge is to use watercolour paints and salt.

Today's page had two folds which I decided to stick down along the middle leaving pockets on the vertical edge.

I sprayed water on a piece of watercolour paper and used Dylusions inks rather than watercolour paints.  The first piece wasn't very successful because there was insufficient water and inks for the technique to work.

So I tried again using a better quality paper and far more water.

The salt soaks up the inks.

When the inks were dry I brushed off the salt.

I cut the paper into a triangle just slightly wider than the folded page.  Here you can see how the pockets work.

I sprayed the White Linen ink through two stencils.

I inked the quote and the verse before attaching them to the page.

I inked the edges of the tags and wrote the journaling.

I also stencilled on the front of the tags and stamped a definition of faith and a bird.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art Day 7

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 inspiration comes from the poem 'Adlestrop' and the challenge is to add flowers to the page.

This is today's almost triangular page.

I put a piece of masking tape down the right hand side of the page before spraying with Dylusions inks and mopped it with paper towel.

I felt it was a bit bright so I sprayed White Linen ink through a stencil and then removed the masking tape.

I added the flowers by inking through a stencil with Distress Ink.  I stamped the birds and added the verse.   I wrote my journaling on the tag.

I stencilled on the other side of the tag and added the quote.  I used a large 7 Gypsies paper clip to attach the tag.

This is how yesterday's page now looks with the paper clip.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Dandelion Giveaway

Anita has provided a beautiful set of free papers on 12 Months in View today.

I made a quick and simple page using one of her papers.  I printed out the paper and then tore round the dandelions.

I printed out the poem and tore round that too. And then stuck all the pieces to the journal page.

With two colours of Distress Ink I coloured the page. Then I flicked some water on to the ink and dried it off.

There's room on the page if I want to come and journal on it.


Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice