Summer of Color Week 6

I ran out of time this week to get the gelli plate out plus I couldn't work out how to make sage green or sepia from the colours of acrylic paint I have.

So the easiest option was to go with Distress Inks - Bundled Sage and Vintage Photo - plus a Sepia Archival Ink.

I went to my local crop today and took the inks and some tags.

I put the inks on my glass plate and sprayed water on and swooshed the two tags on the left through the inks.  I used a blending tool with the inks for the tag on the right.

I took the tag on the right and stamped with the Sepia Archival Ink.

I stamped some butterflies and flowers on a piece of old map.  I stencilled the tag on the left and then put the butterflies on.  I stamped on the middle one. I used the flowers on the one on the right.  The phrases are from 7 Gypsies 97% Sticker sheets.

To see what other people did for this week's challenge visit the challenge website.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art Day 21

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 Choices with  inspiration from the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost.  The technique challenge is Dyan Reaveley's ghosting technique.

Here's today's page.

I sprayed the page with Dylusions inks.

I put the stencil on top and sprayed with water but got no obvious effect.

I tried with a different stencil and still got no effect.  I think the book page probably sucked up all the ink.

So, I tore two pages out of my Dylusions journal and wet one page and sprayed it with inks.  Then I took the other sheet and pressed it on top to take a 'print'.

I sprayed water through the stencil and got a great ghosted image.

I cut one of the sheets down to size and stuck it into my book.  I put white acrylic paint on the chipboard signpost I found in my stash!

Before I stuck the signpost onto my page I turned it over and placed it on the tag and inked the tag.  I stuck two pieces of map page on as well as the quote and verse.  I stamped the diamonds using distress ink.

Here's the finished page with the tags in their pockets.

And this is what yesterday's page now looks like.

So have you noticed the 'deliberate' mistake yet?  Well quite!  I didn't use Dyan's ghosting technique - I used her bleachout technique instead.  I'll come back to the ghosting technique later in my book!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

A Summer Tag

On 12 Months in View Nicky gave us a tutorial on making a summer tag.

I only own the metallic Distress Paints so I used re-inkers instead.  I put Salty Oean, Lemonade and Iced Spruce re-inkers and some Brushed Pewter Distress Paint.  I sprayed the colours with water.

I swooshed the first tag (left) and then sprayed some more water before swooshing the second tag.  They came out rather more green than I had meant them to.  The Distress Paint didn't go well with the inks - I think to do with the drying time of the ink over the acrylic.

I stamped some images and coloured them with Spiced Marmalade and Peacock Feathers DIstress Inks and then cut them out.

I used a map stencil and Stormy Sky Distress Ink to put the pattern on the background.

I attached the cutouts and stamped the phrase.

I decided the yellow was too yellow and toned it down with some Rusty Hinge.

You will have to wait until the start of next month to see what I have used this tag for!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice