All Change

Over on the Paper Artsy blog it's all change again..new start for a new year. It will now be a two weekly challenge and the first one is Fragile papers...Leandra did a fantastic post and video which you can check out here. I have loved all the posts and have been enjoying all the different ways people are coming up with to use all different paper...here is my contribution...

I started off using an old gardening book which I started to alter on a class with Lin Brown. I have almost finished it now but still a few pages to go. So I thought seeing as it is quite an old book that would class as fragile papers..I have also used some very old pages from a German book which literally falls to pieces when you touch it! some TH tissue wrap, some crackly tissue paper and wax paper...

After giving the pages a coat of gesso I started adding bits of the different papers and some grunge paste and crackle paste to give it some texture...

I then painted on some beach hut and added water so that it dripped and ran all over the page...next chatreuse and a touch of Autumn fire

I stamped the little girl stamp onto tissue paper and tore around the edges and then stuck it onto an old bookpage and tore around that curling the edges. I stamped the sentiment onto crackley tissue paper and tore each word out before sticking it to the page with matt medium. I used the prima sanding tool to knock back the grungepaste and edged the papes in black archival...done

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