Inspiration Wednesday Oct 12

Another enjoyable exercise. 

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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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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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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Bird Language

The birds are under a layer of serviette tissue, with molding paste pushed through letter stencils.
I just cannot get enough of stencils - they come in so many patterns, and you can make them yourself out of plastic and a burning tool. These letter stencils are heavy paper ones from the Office supply store. Lots of spraying with mists done here as well. I am drawn to those as well...sigh.

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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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Send a Smile

I have added some finishing touches to my mixed media backgroung page that I posted here:
http://sewinart.blogspot.ca/2013/01/mixed-media-background-page.html

Here is the final page:

 

 

I added a quote stamp from Quietfire Design, "A Smile that you send out returns to you", and some other elements. A very simple page.

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LIVE Fabric Book

I jut finished making pages for a fabric book, which I will soon be binding.

Some of the background fabrics are dropcloths for my painting....mostly canvas.

I further embellished the fabric sheets, with painting, stitching, and addional fabrics, dryer sheets, art- used baby wipes, laces, molding pastes and more. Layers and layers.

Some pages were felted, then free-motion stitched.

 A bracelet along the right side of this front page. The star was edged with glitter glue paint.
Chiffons and cottons are layered and stitched.

The centre is molding paste on a piece of upholstery fabric, painted with lumieres.

 More cotton and chiffons.

 The centre is a rubber stamp on fabric, then layered with more cottons shapes.

Here are a few pieces of baby wipes, used for wiping up paint, and cleaning brushes.
Also a piece of a glittery gold and black doily.

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Plaster gauze journal cover

Here I altered the cover of this purchased journal, again using molding paste and caulking. Then Lumieres. There is also some round pieces of cardboard under the paste, as well as Plaster gauze. I love playing with these products!

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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 Gypsies Cover

This is the cover I made for my AJG Journal. It started with some molding paste, then colored with inks and acrylics. When dry I splotched on some Glass Bead gel from Golden products. I colored some places with alcohol inks. The plaque is made from air-dry clay, rolled thin and pressed over a carved jewelry box of mine, to get the bird image, then painted with H2O's. The oval glass over its face is also covered with glass bead gel. The flourish is Tim Holtz grungeboard. Oh yes! - this cover was a lot of fun to play with!

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ENJOY LAUGHTER EVERY DAY

Here is another spread in Juliet's journal
The left page is stencil work done with Golden's molding paste and sequin waste, then colored with dye inks. The scroll stencil is done with embossing ink and powders. Blue stamped image is harlequin and text.

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