Passport to Art Day 20

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 theme for today is disobedience with inspiration from a poem by A A Milne.  The technique involces watercolour paint and bubble wrap.

Here are the next pages in my book.  There is a folded page on the right.

I decided to do the technique challenge on a separate piec of paper and stick it into my book.  I used the Dylusions inks on some cheap watercolour paper.  I sprayed the paper with water and then with the inks.

 I  used big bubble wrap on it.

I didn't get a particularly striking result.

So I wet the page again with water and put small bubble wrap on it.

While that was drying I put the double sided tape on the folded page to make pockets for two tags.

The bubble wrap lift looked okay while it was still wet but dried to almost nothing so I sprayed White Linen through a stencil to get the effect I was looking for.

I cut the paper to size and and stuck it into my book and put a vertical piece of map paper.   I also sprayed inked the tag.

I stamped the arrow round the edge and on the tag.  I stamped the globe and the butterfly collage then added butterfly stickers.  I cut up the verse and the quote it, inked tham and stuck them on.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Rocking Your World

I've just realised it's Friday!

And on Friday there is the meme on Celtic House called Rocking Your World which is
'the moment to step back and take stock of your week, to work out the positives, the things that have made life more bearable and to celebrate these facts. Pop a post together, come back and link each Friday and let's share our positives around. It's a great therapy and stops life slipping through our fingers or spending too much time dwelling on the negatives. Not sure if it's for you - give it a go - you'll never know until you try!'

And I've realised I haven't posted a Rocking Your World since the end of June.  I was away on the first Friday of July but have no idea why I was MIA last Friday - could have been the heat!

Talking of which - I don't do well in 28C (82F) - I'm okay at about 22C!  Still I am pleased to say that I am surviving the heat - just!

Find out about Scorchio here.

Despite the heat I'm pleased to say that I have managed to do 25 minutes of exercise each day - usually before 9.30am to try to beat the heat.  I use a Rosemary Conley Salsacise DVD.

And I'm equally pleased to report that I've lost another pound in weight this week.  That makes 5 pounds in 7 weeks.

And reflecting on the last 3 weeks, I was really pleased to be able to meet up with my friends from college.  We left college in 1970 and only meet up once in a while but it's the sort of friendship where the conversation starts from wherever we left off last time we met.  We went for a walk in the Yorkshire Dales and it rained for the first 3 hours but it didn't dampen our spirits or the amount of chatting we did!

Roger & I walked the next day on our own with blue skies!

More reflections next Friday.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art Day 19

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.  On the last day of our Virtual Journey we are visiting Philadelphia and Laodicea.  The challenge is to put a border round the page.

I decided to leave the double folded part in the middle and to make a pocket on the next page in the same way I did yesterday.

I put gesso and distress ink on the page.  I used a Kaisercraft crackle stamp to put maplike marks on the page.   I printed the foot as a border around the page.

For the tag, I stamped the crackle stamp and then inked with Picked Raspberry.  I used the same colour through the arrow stencil and then used the crown stamp I made the other day.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice