Some Page Altering - In The Deep Blue Sea

Something a little different for a Friday and my Guest DT piece for Alter It Monthly. This month's challenge is 'Sirens, mermaids and deep blue sea'.

So another head scratcher for me! But I fancied doing something stitchy with book pages and perhaps a bit of digital art as well.

You might recognise the mermaid? Erm...?

There are lots of fabric and paper mixes in this piece all coloured with ZIG Art and Graphic pens from Kuretake using watercolour techniques.

I've used both machine and hand stitching to add some more texture.

The slightly scary, ethereal, underwater mermaid uses digital art techniques and some playing around with image transfer.

It is nice to see that even my alter-ego fish self is nail obsessed!

Enjoy your mysterious underwater Friday.

Kim

One Day At A Time

This is very much how I feel at the moment, taking one day at a time, trying not to get my knickers in too much of a twist over things in the future that I can not control! So today's make is a reflection of me - Slightly scruffy and trying to be relaxed LOL!

I've used the lovely sentiment and flock of butterflies (is the collective term for butterflies a flock?) from the {Ippity} What Matters Most kit and I thought that as I have used Kraft card as a base that I would enter this card into the Gingersnaps Colour Challenge GC52 which is Kraft this month.

I've used a light layer of Gesso on a book page, stamped and embossed the image and then inked over the top.

You might have noticed that I am pretty much obsessed with altering book pages at the moment! But then I did find this wonderful old illustrated encyclopedia in a local charity shop for 50p, perfect for my new obsession!

Have a great book page altering day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - {Ippity} What Matters Most

Ink - Archival Black; Versamark, Versacolor various

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; 3D-foam

Other - Book page; Gesso; Jute; Mod Podge; embossing powder; Kraft card

Another Altered Page

Hi Guys, for anyone who regularly sees my makes you will know that I am a bit of the style-flitter - I jump around the different styles having not worked out what my style actually is yet!

I'm not sure if it is just my need to try out everything, or my very short attention span or if, one day, I will settle on a particular style.

I've been having lots of fun with altered pages at the moment! So I thought I would show you another one, slightly different from my Alice In wonderland - Inspired make. I've called this one Language Bird. Ok so I'm not so good with naming my makes!

I thought I would enter this into the Free As A Bird Challenge over at Ink On My Fingers which holds the Sunday Stamper's Challenge and as it is the 100 challenge it is sponsored by The Artistic Stamper and The Stamp Attic.

I've used a page from an old English encyclopedia and from a German book - however, as I do not speak German I have no idea what the page is about!

I've coloured the page with Watercolour wax crayons and then masked and used inks over the top. The bird and branch are Wendy Rhodes stamps and I've used Glossy Accents over the bird.

There is a bit of doodling and stitching and I used the Bazzill Templates for the stitched swirls. The stamp is from Japan.

Right off to flitter
(is that even a word, my spell check doesn't seem to recognise it? Where is my Editor boyfriend when I need him?)
about with something else.

Hope you are all having a great Saturday

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Wendy Rhodes

Ink - Archival Black; VersaColor inks

Colouring - Neocolor Watersoluble wax crayons

Other - Glossy Accents; Bazzill Templates; Stamp; embroidery thread; Prismacolor Illustration markers; Templates; Mod Podge

Curiouser And Curiouser! Cried Alice

I've been playing with paint and having a whale of a time! Why does playing with paint make me so ridiculously happy? LOL!

Well here is the result of a recent playing with paint session - an Alice in Wonderland inspired altered book page that has been rattling around in my head for a couple of months or so now.

I thought that I would enter it into the Sir Stampalot April Challenge which is all about 'Fantasy' and get this - you can win a Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter! Oh Boy Oh Boy! Yes you heard me right - quick, you have until Midday 29th April to get you entries in!

The details (skip to the pictures if you aren't interested LOL!):

For my altered Alice page I've used a range of techniques and materials. The background is painted in acrylics on an old book page and layered up on painted calico. I've used salt to give that broken-up speckled look and then a Tim Holtz mask to give the negative image shadow.

I really should have taken pictures of each stage as I was going along, but I didn't think it would ever get to my blog, LOL!

I've used Viva Decor glitter gel to add some dimension. Then stamped Paper Artsy and Tuesday Technique stamps on the background for the clock and clock parts.

Alice is from the internet and I've lightly coloured her with pencils - I wanted a tinted look rather than coloured look.

The Cheshire Cat was hand drawn using the recent Tim Burton film for inspiration. The key is a Stamps Away stamp on paper and then glazed onto the page with tinted Mod Podge (my new best friend!).

Of course I had to use fabric, lace, buttons and stitching LOL! Coloured, where needed, with acrylic paint. You might also have noticed some {Ippity} Stamps as well - the Mushrooms :)

This was such fun to do! It might take a bit longer than you average card - even at the rate I make cards! Which is very slowly!

Well thanks for looking

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend

Kimx

Materials:

Stamps - {Ippity}; Paper Artsy; Tuesday Technique; Stamps Away; Studio G Alpha

Colouring - Pencils; Acrylic paints

Inks - VersaColor; Archival black

Other - Buttons; Lace; Computer; Printer; Calico; Sewing Machine; Tim Holtz Mask; Mod Podge; Viva Decor; Glossy Accents; PrismaColor Illustration Markers