16 Jan 2015

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

Thanks for stopping by.......

13 comments:

  1. Like the idea of stamping the words onto crackly tissue and tearing. Love the girl. Textures are fabulous. Really love it! Xx

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  2. BEAUTIFUL pages Lin, love the colours and the crackly tissue paper words look fantastic :-) xxx

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  3. I LOVE this - and it's so good to see you blog again, it's been so long!

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  4. I love your page Lin. The little girl looks fab on her tatty card lol xx

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  5. I love altered books and these pages look great! I really like that sentiment and stamping it onto the tissue is a wonderful idea! I love the texture given by the Grunge Paste and paint. xxx

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  6. Oooh lurvley pages Lin, great colours and glad you've got back into it xx

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  7. Stunning pages Lin! Lovely the little girl and the fab colours combo. xx

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  8. Beautiful pages, love all the texture from the papers and grungepaste. That little girl is adorable too!

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  9. Lovely pages, the colours look great and love the little girl stamp looking out. Claire x

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  10. This is really beautiful Lin!!! A lovely book that keeps trace of your love of the nature too (as far as I can I remember, you love the nature and your garden). Gorgeous! Coco xx

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  11. Gorgeous - I love the words and the textured background. In fact I've just had a quick peep at other things you've done and I'm loving what I see - the portfolio is amazing, what incredible effects you've achieved - and I am completely in love with your metal flower, it's so Art Nouveau and I am now desperate to have a go at that technique! Just a joy to visit your blog.

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  12. I'm going to miss Chartreuse! This turned out great, love those fragile layers Lin!

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  13. Fantastic journal page. I love the texture.

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