SEW IN ART: Textures on Newspaper pages

SEW IN ART: Textures on Newspaper pages:  I was playing with a variety of textures on torn strips of newspaper. After tearing the sheets freehand, I glued two pieces together to...

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Textures on Newspaper pages



I was playing with a variety of textures on torn strips of newspaper. After tearing the sheets freehand, I glued two pieces together to make the pages more sturdy, but not the same height. I then proceeded to paint, spritz, and apply molding paste through stencils onto the pages. I also did some stamping.

I then folded them in half and placed them inside a leather cover, and stitched just one signature.

The brass clasp is from the hardware store....just love going there for supplies!



 

The Cover

~~~~ and a selection of the pages:

 

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Week 40 - Documented Life Project

Week 40 of The Documented Life Project was a joy to play with...three colours I never use. The centre of the hearts are fabric; the blue I really had a tough time finding in my stash!

 

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Art Journal Wisdom workshop

Styled after the free workshop Art Journal Wisdom, Day 3. Dirty Footprints Studio.
http://www.dirtyfootprints-studio.com/2014/09/art-journal-wisdom-day-3-get-it-out-get.html

Done with acrylics and oil pastels over a base of gel medium.

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Paper bag album with fabric cover

This is a large paper bag album made with bags from our local liquor store. They sure are sturdy!
I made the cover using heavy drill fabric, collaging trims and scrap material all over. Both covers have transfers from magazine photos.
The pages are the Mariposa stack paper collection and sewn with a Coptic binding, complete with three pockets for treasures.

Front cover

 



Back cover



left pocket is a CD file holder

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Cosmetic pouch

Do you ever think, "I can never have enough cosmetic bags"?
They keep, or give the illusion of keeping, my purse organized.
I whipped this one up today, after reading a really nice tutorial at http://www.noodle-head.com/2010/10/scrappy-make-up-pouch-tutorial_20.html

I used upholstery material, and lined it as well.

Do you indulge in these little helpers, as I do?

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Documented Life Project, Week 27

Week 27 - Add crossword puzzle, Sudoku, or word search to your page.
Collage of newspaper puzzles, gessoed over, inked with Distress stamp pads, alpha stencils with paints and paste, and an image of a lady reading or doing her puzzles, of course!

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Molding Paste on Vinyl

I cut out a tag shape from clear vinyl, and pushed molding paste through a stencil (from a produce bag) onto it. I rubbed out the paste in three spots then sprayed it with blue. I also cut the same tag shape from text cardstock and glued it behind the vinyl tag. I then glued the tag to my journal page. I did some stamping and spraying. The black and white dots are strips of fabric from a sewing project.

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Documented Life Project Week 25

Week 25 - Add hearts to your flap.

 



This week's planner page went fairly quickly, as I do love hearts.
Gesso, paints, stencils, masks, and stamping. Calling this one done!

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Crackled Heart

This page began with a background stamp using gesso. After a few days I went back to the page and ‘saw’ a face and part of a body. I drew these out with my Stabilo All pencil, and completed the figure. The heart is cut from a piece of book text painted with TH crackle paints from another project. A few bits of ephemera and the page was done.

This was a lot of fun-playing time!

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Dance the Night Away

Here is my journal entry for today. Molding paste through a couple of stencils, then Inka Gold rubbed on for instant waxy sheen. Background with watercolours. The image is from an old soap ad. (1920's magazine)

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Binder Cover for ICAD

The small binder I use for my ICAD's (index card a day) is plain old black. I decided to spruce it up a bit, using crackle, hot glue, masking tape, and lots of spray paint. Oh yes, also lots of beads, and Inka Gold rubbed over the high spots.
The centre bronze square is Lumiere painted leather. The centre tile is a counter sample, with a stamped leaf in layers of UTEE.
This was a truly fun project!

 

 

 

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A singed fabric rose



This was a fun experiment. I found some instructions on the web, and went to town!

I first cut the eight circles different sizes, clipped them from the ends towards the centre, but not right through. I then singed the edges over a tea light candle. I used 6 pieces of satiny type fabric, and two pieces of organza. Am ready to make some more.

Let me know if you have done this in the past, or plan to make some very soon!

Trust me, it was an easy project.



 

 

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Twinks Flower and fabric Jack Snow

These are the most recent pages in my columnar accounting book that I am altering.
The flower is made with Twinks and dimensional paints, from a class by Joanne Sharpe called Bling It On!
Lots of background stencilling and paint removing with baby wipes.
The bottom left is ground for pastels pushed through a stencil, then embossing powder heated. I like the resulting texture.

 

 This next page is the fabric illustration of a snowman doll I made for my sister Maureen for Christmas...she likes snowmen! I just could not throw him out...so a quick page evolved.

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Folded booklet

I started Sunday off by reading this tutorial from the ScorPal site:

http://scor-pal.blogspot.ca/2011/11/scor-pal-and-bo-bunny-week-day-2.html

 

I decided to whip one up...nice and easy!

 

 

With three sheets of double-sided 12x12 heavy scrapbook paper, I scored, cut and folded my way into a cute booklet, with lots of flaps and a couple of pockets.

Using scrapbook paper meant I didn’t have to glue more papers onto the cardboard, as per their instructions.
I sewed the three folded pages together with a Coptic stitch.

Now it is ready for photos, and any additional embellishments.

So tell me, is this something you would give to someone in lieu of a birthday card? A small gift perhaps?

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Chipboard purse book and acrylic skins

Acrylic skins are made simply by squirting paint onto a shiny surface like glossy paper, and making marks in it. Then you peel them off. The possibilities are endless.
Here are my efforts:

 

 Puff paint using gel medium

 

 Acrylic paint onto Golden Glass Bead Gel

 

 I glued the skins down with gel medium

 

This was a fun technique...I will be adding to my purse pages very soon.

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Collage, stencils with gel medium

I started a journal spread before Christmas, got very busy and only finished it end of the year.

It started with gluing down serviettes and strips of leftover scrapbook papers.

 

I then stenciled and stamped over the pages, and applied gesso here and there to tone it down.

Next I added gel medium through stencils, painted the areas with sparkly paints, added some oriental fabric pieces and images.

 

My first post for the New Year, 2014. I will continue on this journey, and hope you do too.
Cheers!

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