Getting Dylusional

Last night my order arrived from Art From the Heart with the new Dylusions Ink Spray Pads and the new small art journal.  I had ordered them because I had watched these videos.

And here is what I have experimented with today.

I used Lemon Zest, Calypso Teal and Fresh Lime on this pad.

I followed Dyan's instructions and produced these.

I made up another ink pad with Bubblegum Pink, Cherry Pie and Crushed Grape.

I used one of Dina's stencils for this page on the right and cleaned the stencil onto the left hand page.

After lunch I went back to the first colours.  I tore some pages out of the new journal and on this first one I put bubblewrap onto the ink pad and then pressed it to the paper.

I tired different stamps directly into the journal.

With this page I pressed the stamp into the ink pad and then took an imprint off the pad with a piece of acetate and then pressed it onto the page  which gave less of an edge.  I took repeated imprints to put the edges round the page.

I used the alphabet stamp onto a page in the way Dyan did on the video.

I pressed the book onto the ink pad at the top and pressed the ink pad onto the page at the bottom.

For a first try I'm quite pleased with the results.  I think I need to keep practising though.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art: a completed altered book.

I have a totally finished book. Woohoo!

Here's what it looked like before I started:

And here it is finished.

And here is a video showing you the whole thing.

I hope you enjoyed my altered book tour.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Passport to Art: unpacked

Thank you for following along with my altered book through the month of July.

There were still some pages left inside my book when I got to the end of the daily prompts.

This is the inside of the back cover.

I glued the last 2 pages together and put gesso on the pages in the first photograph above.  I inked the pages with Distress Inks.   This paper was left over from the shaving cream technique.

I cut a piece of it to fit behind the circular opening and stuck it down.

I stuck the page with the aperture down on top and then inked and stencilled the page.  I added two quotes that I hadn't used during the month.

Once these pages were finished I need to add the cover before finally gluing down the very back page.  You can see how I did the cover on Passport to Art.

Come back tomorrow to see the completed book.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice