Finished! Yeah!

I am thrilled that I have finished a project I started in November.  I went on a workshop with Steph Redfern called Thrift & Alchemy.   The idea was incorporate (recycle) bits and pieces you already had into a textile piece.

Health warning: this post has a lot of photographs in it.  And I mean a lot!

I decided that I wanted to make a fabric book based on the Fruit of the Spirit.  I had a book which was designed for scrapbooking which I cut up to use for the words in my book.  I started by painting and stencilling on different fabrics and papers.

Then I cut up some felt into 9 inch squares for the base of each page and tore strips of paper and fabric to create the backgrounds.

I bonded the papers and fabrics to the felt.

Then I machined and handstitched on each page.

Last Sunday I took all the pages to my local crop and tacked the pages together.  First assembling them in pairs and then putting the pairs back to back with a printed fabric 'spine'.

And then finally today, I machined the double pages together and stitched the whole thing together down the spine.

Inside front cover and page 1

Pages 2 & 3

Pages 4 & 5

Pages 6 & 7

Page 8 and inside back cover

Back cover and front cover

Congratulations if you've got to this point.  Thanks for stopping by and reading to the end.
Bernice

Identity: Heavenly Citizens

Today's theme in our study of Identity is being Heavenly Citizens.

I journaled my answers to the prompts.

I'm happy to leave space in my journal so that I can come back to it and write more when I wish.

In my art journal I did a simple page.  I wrote the word everything across the page with a Distress Ink Marker pen.  Then I went over it another twice using different coloured pens.

I used stamps of feet to tread on the word.

I drew the border lines and squiggles.  Then wrote the Bible verse under the word.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Identity: Royalty

Today's theme in the Identity study is Royalty.

As before I journaled my answers to the prompts.

Then I turned to the art journal.  I sponged distress ink through a stencil.  I stamped the crowns with black Archival Ink and then drew over the black lines with a gold pen.

I stamped the word royal and the border all with black Archival ink.

I used some small letter stamps to stamp the words. 

I drew over the word 'royal' with a silver pen and coloured the jewels in the crown with glaze pens.  I love these pens because when each coat is dry you can go over them again building up layers that look like enamelling.

And here are my three pages side by side: Recreated, Sonship, Royalty.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice