Altered Notebook

This is a notebook that I altered. Originally it was a free notebook given by a computer company as advertising but I pulled off the cover and made it 'mine'.

The cover was easy to take off as the spiral binding had a gap, once the cover was off, I painted it with black paint and then with some blue paint that has a metallic tinge to it. I'll have to find the name of the paint and edit this post later as it's a really nice blue. Aaaanyway... the flourishes were plain chipboard from Buzz and Bloom that I inked in gold then embossed in sections with gold then with a pale blue/green embossing powder in places then clear embossing powder over the top. This gave the flourishes an antique and uneven look. If you click on the photo you'll be able to get a nice close-up look of the chipboard.

The word Journal in the middle was done by using up bits and pieces that I had, an old tag that I crumpled and aged, a spiral clip and a button and then a faux-clock face over that. A sticker originally intended for scrapbooking, a metal eyelet thingy, a stamp and a bubble sticker.

To finish off, I added some fibres to the spine and then tied an old gypsy-type earring with a moon & star motif and with bells hanging off it.

That's it! Hope you like.

Family Shrine

Okay well it's not my family but it is someone's. Unlike most of these vintage/arty collage things, the picture is of family of someone I know.

I thought this shrine was really cool when I saw it at Paperific in Sydney a few years ago (you know how you buy things and then don't use them for ages?). Anyway, I bought it from the Studio Astarte stand. It came flat-packed and in plain red cardstock so I stamped all over it in Versamark then dusted it in Aztec Gold Pearl-ex then edged the whole thing with a Krylon marker. Right at the top of the shrine is an acrylic piece that I ran through the Xyron then coloured the back with Pearl-ex. The inside of the shrine was collaged with a pretty napkin, some handmade lace and the family clip which had it's edges aged with some Tim Holtz ink. The last bits to go on was a fancy button with a cloth flower glued on top and three pearls from an old faux necklace to frame the top of the family photo.

Norma Jean's Dress

Wow! At least one person has found me and left a comment on the previous post (thanks Lulu!) so I'd better post something new.

Here's a canvas I painted and collaged. I love love love doing canvases... they're so liberating! This one came together really quickly - I was going through my folder of clip art and found the picture of Marilyn Monroe that I had cut out ages ago and I just started thinking about her and what she might be thinking in this picture. Going through my folder again I found the picture of the dress on the dressmaker's mannequin and went from there. The background is simply large brushstrokes of blue painted so that there was the white background of the canvas showing and therefore emulating whispy clouds in the sky. The chipboard flourishes by Buzz and Bloom were painted with Pewter Lumiere paints and glued down onto the canvas with Gel Medium with the dress slightly overlapping them. The clip of Marilyn was then glued down (again with Gel Medium) so that she is right on the corner of the canvas just coming into the picture. The caption was stamped in blue and cut out and glued down.

Hope you like. :)

Hand over the coffee!

Here's an ATC I made a while ago while I was on the Buzz and Bloom Design Team. My theme was Two-tone and I was restricted in using only two tones - those were coffee and a burgundy. I love this little guy so cute yet he looks a little bit stressed - perhaps it's because he's standing precariously on a chair or maybe it's the lack of coffee?

The background was done by sponging on a coffee ink by Nick Bantock and a Mahogany ink by Tim Holtz. The little dude was cut-out and his clothes slightly coloured using the Mahogany ink with a blender pen, plus I gave him some rosy cheeks. The caption "Hand over the coffee and no one gets hurt" was simply typed up on Word and printed then I cut out the caption and aged it by sponging it with the coffee coloured ink and edged the paper to give it definition. The border of the ATC was done using a Buzz and Bloom stamp, the little guy was a clip also from Buzz and Bloom and the scrapbooking paper just behind him I have no idea... I just keep scraps filed away in colour groups and grab whichever one I think will fit in.

Hope you like this. I have some more ATCs made with this Two-tone theme so I'll upload some more of those.

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Welcome to my blog. This blog is a non-business site purely for fun, enjoyment and sharing. Some work will be new, some will be work that I did a while ago that I'd like to upload to share with others.

I'm not going to publicise this blog so who knows if anyone will ever find me here, but if you do - please feel free to leave a comment, I'd love to hear your opinion.

Angela