My Faerie Tale Altered Book

I've started another round of altered books. My theme - Faerie Tales. These are the sign in pages. What I'm having each player do (there are 12) is choose a faerie. Then they have to write about why they choose that faerie!! They can add anything they want to the pages just as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's page. Here are the faerie pages, I'll upload mine as soon as I finish! I think they will LOVE this - at least, I hope they will. I think this was a pretty clever and original idea for sign in pages. :O) The pages are all in order too, so as you scroll down, it's like flipping the page.

Stampboard

StampBoard is pretty cool. Here is one that is the size of at ATC (2.5 x 3.5). I used a direct to stampboard inking with versa magics blues and greens, then I used a davinchi lady stamp that i have and stamped her in black staz on. Heat set with my blow dryer because my heat gun died :O( then used the tool to scrap away the color I had added so where I scrapped - it's white. I put magic tape around the outside edges and dipped it in purple glittler - you know how I like to make things sparkle!

I tried to make her whole head stand out from the backgroud and then just accent her features and hair. I made 2 more for my "Art By The Month" group. I hope they like it!!!

These Hands

Hello, I did a really cool swap where our Hands were the size of the book. I did the covers and my own pages. Since there were only 5 participants, including myself, doing 5 sets of left and right hands, front and back and all origionals was not that difficult.

This is the cover, the inside has everyone who participated on each finger. They are made out of very thin cardboard, or chip board and just hand painted. Everyone has the first letter of their name and the 'H' in hands done with flexible wax and the rest are stickers or hand done.

These are my outside pages. I call my spreads "Eclectic Oriental" LOL!!! I used Stamp Zia's oriental chop stamps, and then just lots of asian emphemera that I had lying around. Each page is a little different depending how many of what I had. I really liked the fortune cookie sayings a lot, they were perfect for the fingers. I used Stampin Up brushed copper cardstock - SU has the BEST cardstock hands down!





And these are the insides. I really like them, I used lots of silver and verdigo embossing poweders (they made such a mess in my living room - my vacuum has never been prettier!) I used Stamp Zia's Ginko and Luna Moth Stamps, and filled them in with puffy fabric paints.

They were a bit time consuming, but that was mainly in the planning, I had a lot of fun though. Can't wait to see what comes back!

Spring Seasons Spreads

Hello, I've been at it again, here are my spring spreads for the season's round robin. This is the first page of the spread. It's on the right side of the book.











When you flip the page, you see the full spread, here is the page on the left.




















Here is the page on the right.

And here is the page on the back. What 'Who Has Seen the Wind' poem is one that I had to memorize in the fourth grade!

Loop and Ladder Bracelet

My very own, loop and ladder bracelet. I did this at The Queens Ink with a wonderful teacher - Anne Townsley. It took be about 12+ hours, but I had a lot of fun, and I can't wait to show this baby off!!

Altered Puzzle Pieces

These are some altered puzzle pieces. They were a lot of fun to do, cheep to get and look great as pins, or put back together in a puzzle. The single peices were all part of one swap. 12 of us got a 12 peice puzzle and mailed out 11 of those to the other participants in the group. We had to choose a color and put that on the back of the peice as well as which side up the top. (I choose "cool colors") This swap was called Texture Puzzle. The goal was to have some sort of touchable texture on each peice. I used either UTEE or gesso and paint as my textures to use. It was fun!! Then there is one whole puzzle I did some time back thrown into the mix here too.

Puzzle Piece

Here's an ATC that I made today. I made 10 of them for a swap I'm in. I used black cardstock, then painted swishes of lumiere paints. Stamped the card in brilliance and stamped the puzzle pieces with staz on and then painted over with some lumiere paints. Hope everyone likes it!