With a completely clean table in the craft room (which is where I've been laying the wood for painting) I decided to do some book pages in one of my altered books. I played with a LOT of stuff.
One of the things that I ordered recently came wrapped in a newspaper page that had these crocuses pictured. Perfect for a day when it has been snowing since 4 am. Yes.... I know this first hand. I ran out of melatonin two days ago. :(
This next one was just painting a lot of things in white that I consider prettier than all of this snow we're getting. Just simple outlining and shading with white paint and stencils.
This one started as an exercise in resist painting. I did the right hand side by first stenciling some gears with Perfect Medium, then heat embossing with UTEE. Then I layered some turquoise paint, waited for it to dry, then wiped off the embossed area with a baby wipe. Then I did the embossing thing again and painted with the yellow. Baby wipe. Then embossed, painted and baby wiped with the white.
On the left hand side of the page I did because of something in one of my Somerset Studio mags that they did with pictures from fashion magazines. Well, I haven't got any fashion magazines.... but I do have some old pattern books. The most interesting part about this is that I didn't consciously look for a dress pattern that matched the colors. I only had in mind one that the pic wasn't overlapped with another model. The mind works in mysterious ways.....
I traced and cut out copies of the model, one in cardstock and two out of discarded book pages. I sort of stenciled some black outlines, then glued down the book paper models, then the actual pic from the pattern book.
Then I used the cardstock version to trace and stencil on this page. I smeared a heavy coat of Perfect Medium (from the re-inker bottle), then put down a heavy coating of UTEE, heated it up, then painted around it in black and then did a bunch of stenciling around the empty space.
That's it for today. After cooking breakfast, doing the dishes, shoveling the driveway (EW), sanding two boards and then starting laundry.... I think after this post I deserve a hot coffee, a chocolate bar and a blanket. ;)
Stay warm!
