Passport to Art Day 28

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 adventures and the techniques was to use alcohol inks.

All of the remaining pages of my book are the index.  If I'd planned the book I might have left more map pages in and taken out more of the index pages.

I cut a piece of paper to match the page and covered it in gesso.  I put a first coat of alchol inks on as stripes.

I put another layer of ink on.

I stuck a tag to a piece of kitchen foil with Matte Medium and cut round it.

I used the felt applicator to put the alcohol ink on the tag.

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I dropped some of the Blending Solution onto the inks which made the puddles.

I stuck the quote on the tag and stamped the feet with Archival Ink.

I cut the inked page to size and stuck it down.  I stuck down the verse and the map page strip.

Do you remember I left a couple of folded pages on Day 19?    Well I went to a tag workshop taught by Nicky where we tried out Distress Paints.  I've stuck the tags I made in my altered book.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art Day 27

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 was about disappointment with inspiration coming from the John Masefield poem 'The Seekers'.  The technique challenge was to use wax resist.

The next page is folded up.

I decided to fold the corner down.

I covered the page with gesso and then drew patterns with a white wax crayon.  I used Dylusions inks poured into a palette and a very wet brush.

I echoed the pattern with a stencil and Distress Ink.

I stuck on the piece of page map and the verse.  I did my journaling on the piece that will be folded up.

I stuck the folded corner down and put the verse over the top.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art Day 26

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 is all about Forgiveness and Freedom.   The challenge is to use Dyan Reaveley's bleachout technique.

Here are the next few pages.

I have enough pages left to use the folded page as a pocket.

I covered the page in gesso.

I sprayed ink over it.

I  used two stencils one on top of the other and sprayed water through it.

I inked the tag.

And sprayed water through the star stencil.

With this result.

You can see where the the white shows through where I sprayed through the stencils.  I added a strip of map page, the quote and the verse.

It looked a bit plain so I added the stamped hearts.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice