Journal pages for September 2013

These are a few pages I have been working on in my daily art journal. I try to use my journals for any new techniques I have read about or discovered whilst doing some other art project. There is no end to the fun involved!

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Treasure Life's Wonders

I have been missing from the blog for quite a while, but am still making art. Loving all the Pinterest images, and tutorial...so much inspiration right at your fingertips.
Here is a page from my art journal...I do try to indulge in some sort of artwork every day - it keeps me sane!
The gold rose is Viva Inka Gold pushed through a stencil.

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Face Drawing for May 7

This journal page started with a previous splattered background of stencils and spray colors.
I drew the face and continued on with the other elements on the page, but left her face with the original background colors. I really like to draw faces, but have not taken a class to learn about shading etc.

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More Katy Keene book pages

I am thoroughly enjoying playing with molding pastes and other caulking products to produce texture on these pages.
Here is page 3 of my Katy Keene book, the Gold page.
You can find the first two pages here:
http://sewinart.blogspot.ca/2013/03/chipboard-book-pages.html

I started with sewing tissue crumpled up and glued down. The process is the same as with the first two pages. After glueing down the image, I use Diamond Glaze or Clear Tar Gel by Golden to prevent the image from color spray damage. (I use a variety of colors of spray, mostly muted shades.)

I am currently picking out embellies for my next page!

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Blue on Blue Challenge

This month's Challenge on the AB Yahoo group is all about colour and textures.

The Blue that came to my mind for this Challenge is the song ‘Blue on Blue’ by Bobby Vinton.

I printed the lyrics of the song and began collaging strips and scraps of papers and text onto the page with the lyrics, along with some serviettes pieces and washi tape.
The next step was the blue glaze over everything.
The chipboard letters were covered with gesso, then textured paint, then a thin layer of crackle paste, and more paint to show the cracks. I did some paint dribbles, and other dimensional paint scratches, giving more texture. The broken heart seemed fitting!

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Altered Book Completed

If you are like me, you will be altering a variety of books simultaneously. I will pick up any book to work in, as I am not a 'theme' worker.
I have various sized books and journals, bound differently, with a variety of page quality.
Wherever the mood takes me - I work with it.
Well, I have completed an AB that I started ages ago, and have put the finishing touches on the last two spreads. Here they are, along with the jeweled cover:

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Altered Book for card album cover

I saw an album on Pinterest sometime ago, and thought I would try a variation of it for my favorite cards, given to me by special friends and family.
I gutted an old book, (keeping those pages for future collages) covered it with scrapping papers, and inserted binder rings with some bugel beads threaded onto them. I decorated the cover with fabric roses that look like dried flowers, and glued on a couple of embellishments. Top right one is made with Model Magic air dry clay, painted with acrylics and my new 'love' Inka Gold.
Have you tried this type of album?

 

a few cards added - I think it works well

I will make another for Christmas cards.

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AB Group Golden @ 13 Olympics

The Yahoo group Altered Books has a challenge for the Olympics plus celebrating our 13th anniversary. This is simply a collage, and I thoroughly enjoyed putting it together in my LARGE book.

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Handmade books

Here are two small books I made using caulking and paints for the covers. The butterfly is a chipboard piece. I went through my stash of papers and cards which I used for doing samples, techniques, and experiments and came up with quite a bit that I could use for the pages in these two journals. They were fun to make:

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Art Journal Pages

Well, I have been doing art on a daily basis, sometimes quite involved, other times just making a background or two...splashing some watercolours around - you know the drill.
I made a book using sheets of columnar papers, folded into signatures which had covers of cardstock.
This is one of those pages, a purple sheet of cardstock - face painted with acrylics, hair and extras are pencil and markers.

Here are a few pages from one of my altered books:

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Altered Art Journals

 These spreads were finished recently - just having fun with paints, stencils and rubber stamps (and anything that gets in the way whilst I am altering!)

These images are from an old French textbook. Watercolor background, plus some anaglypta wallpaper, a few stickers and background stencils.

A soft ghosty image of a little girl, rubber stamps, stickers, and watercolors. Here I used Portfolios and some Gelatos. yummy!

This spread holds a myriad of technique pieces, collaged. Just playing around with paints, stamps, embossing powder (top left)

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Create a memory

This is a page inspired by a favorite uncle of mine - an avid golfer who enjoyed his cigars. Yes, I can still smell the wonderful aromas of that tobacco! Memories ~~~~

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Art Journal pages

These are recent pages done randomly - as in using up my stash of materials. I do enjoy just working without a theme or idea...very freeing!

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Altered Books Group TIP-IN Swap

For the group swap I decided on Woven Pages as my technique, and made 10 pages, all different. It would be difficult to made two the same!

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Leather Covered junk-mail booklet

I started this book a while ago - using junk mail for the pages. The stock is very stiff and makes wonderful sturdy pages...some of them are double, some are triple folded, and some have flaps on all four sides...amazing advertising formats...great for an altering person!
There are four signatures and over 60 pages of collaging, painting, stenciling; you name it, it's in there!

Here is a sampling of some of the pages:

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Altered Book Challenges

This was the August 2011 Challenge for the Altered Books Yahoo Group - Using larger books for altering

This spread is the September 2011 Challenge - A positive summer memory

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All Ablaze

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Princess Love

This book is almost done, just a few pages left to alter.
This spread was done only with 'stuff' close at hand on my tables.

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Fashion Plate

Paperdolls from the newspapers, and some serviettes - also buttons and inks for stamping on the right hand side. The tree is from a box of spritz boards.

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Queen for a Day

A simple spread in my Altered Book - more spritzing with mists and stencils for the background. Also using cardboard for mark making with inks.

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