Money Wallets

Made a few Christmas money wallets today.

Close up's of some of the stamping on the front.

Pamphlet Journals

I finally found some more waxed thread in town today, so was able to finish my books.  These two are A5 size.

 

Two more A5 sized journals and this time I did a 5 hole signature, finished the threads at the top and added some beads.

These are smaller books and again I finished the threads at the top and added beads.

And three more of the smaller ones with beads.

  

And this is them all stood up so you can see the beaded signatures.

All going on my table at the Christmas fair.

Note Books from Off Cuts

I made these little note books from the off cuts of the gelli prints and the plain paper I put in the journal and beaded books in the previous posts.

Pamphlet Box 2

Three gelli plate journal covers

Front cover of the box

Back cover of the box

 

Inside the box, tissue tape around the edge

Pamphlets in the box.

Double Arches

Over at Artful Times this week we have a theme of 'arches'. I decided on a double arch, patterned paper and my lovely LP stamp of the butterfly lady, which I stamped onto script tissue paper. Several colour washes of fresco seaweed and chartreuse.

I just covered the back in a piece of script paper.

And the lovely Hazel kindly sent me a pad of totally indestructible paper, so I added a couple of words and sent this off to her.

Pamphlet Journal Box

The second project on the on-line class I've been taking with Kelley Walker called Monoprint Bound was to make a pamphlet journal and also the box if you want to make them into a gift.  So here are the journals, they measure 9" x 6 1/4" so are a decent size. Covers are gelli prints and they have been bound down the seams.

This is the front of the box.

And the back of the box.

The finished box with the books inside.

Another item for my table.

Second Gelli Plate Book

This is the second book I've made in exactly the same way as the first one.

This is the back cover and the canvas was painted in a bright lime green and stencilled with white diamonds and scalloped the edges.

And from the top with the four signatures.

Front and back cover with the canvas and binding.

A couple of the covers of the signatures inside.

The back of the fourth signature and the inside of the back cover.

Gelli Plate Books

I recently signed up for an online class with Kelley Walker called Monoprint Bound.  The first part was to do with making gelli print pages and the second part was related to binding books.  So here are some of my results after my mega gelli plate print marathon yesterday.  So here are the front and back covers, the middle is a piece of canvas painted in the new PA plum fresco paint and stencilled with snowflake.

These are the inside covers, I decided to use one gelli print so the insides are the same.

This is how it was bound and I finished it off with beads and buttons.  Unfortunately the coloured thread that I have was just too thick, so I had to stick with the white, but it looks okay.

I put four signatures inside and each signature has a gelli plate print cover, double sided.

And this is the finished book, it stand 8 1/2 inches high and is 5 1/2 inches wide.

I'm hoping to sell them on my table at the Christmas Fair in November.

Gelli Plate Prints

Been playing with my gelli plate again today, as you can see, it's very easy to get carried away!!

Some of my favourites.

And some more,

And some more!!  Shall be back later to show you what I made with them xx

Playing with Primary Elements by Luminarte

Earlier this week my parcel of Luminarte powders arrived. Lin found a craft clearance website selling them off at a fab price, so we got some.

After watching a few Youtube videos I rummaged to see what I could find to mix them with, and the answer is basically anything that comes in liquid form!! So we have white gesso, absorbent ground, matte medium, mod podge, triple gloss glaze, textile medium, crackle accents, satin, gloss and crackle glaze, mod podge dimensional magic and gum arabic.

What's in the pot doesn't necessarily relate to the actual colour you get!! From left to right we have ginger peach mixed with textile medium, deep coral mixed with PA gloss glaze, spiced pumpkin & pearl mixed with textile medium and spiced pumpkin mixed with inkseentials crackle accents.

This is the shimmer I got by adding the pearl to the spiced pumpkin. Pearl is the only metallic colour I bought.

And this is the shimmer without adding any metallics, this is ginger peach.

The small tag in the middle is the one above which I placed between the 2 samples we did at the LB workshop using silk acrylic glazes, as a comparison as it is made from the same powders. The reason they look slightly different is because the 2 larger tags are manilla and one has been gesso'd and I used a white tag.

Chestnut brown mixed with triple thick gloss glaze (Americana) and water, chestnut brown mixed with triple thick gloss glaze (Americana), cinnamon brown mixed with gloss mod podge. I added water to the chestnut brown mix as it was quite sticky and started to dry out, adding the water made it much more workable.

This left one was the very first one I did, just using water, gum arabic and golden jade. You have to use some sort of binder if just using water, if you don't, once it dries the mica just rubs off. Moss agate mixed with mod podge dimensional magic, again this was quite sticky, dried quickly and didn't blend too well.

Left to right again, true blue mixed with PA satin glaze. Autumn skies & pearl mixed with PA satin glaze. Autumn skies mixed with Golden matte medium. This one didn't mix or spread very well at all.

The pearl looks more silver with the blue, whereas above with the red, it looks more gold???

Wild plum mixed with Golden absorbent ground (white), the bottom half is mixed with water as it was very thick and sticky again. The part without the water is dull and has lost the shimmer as it was mixed with a white not clear to start with, but by adding the water, the shimmer shows through. Royal orchid and PA crackle glaze, this one didn't work very well either as it was way too sticky and started to dry out.

And finally to the gesso and GP. These have changed the colour and lost the shimmer as they both started off white and not clear. They have both been mixed with china black.

So basically it depends on what look you want as to what to mix the colours with. If you want a matt finish you need to mix with a medium that stays white when dry, but this will also lighten the colour. If a translucent medium goes a bit gloopy or sticky you can just add a bit of water to it, but this may slightly dilute the colour. In my opinion and it's only my opinion, the two best products were, PA satin glaze and FolkArt textile medium. Was good fun playing though xx

Christmas Gift Tags

Over on the PA blog Wanda used the new LB Christmas edition paints to make some fab Christmas cards which you can see here. I pretty much followed what she did to create the masterboards.

But instead of making cards, I made some gift tags using the small Clarity tree stamp kindly lent to me by a lovely friend and then I added some coloured fibres to the holes so they can be tied on.

Cling Film and Brusho Backgrounds

More Brusho and cling film backgrounds using perfect pearl misters.

I used Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist on this one, so it gave a goldish coloured shimmer.

Then I stamped a couple of images in black versa fine ink.

For this one I used Brushos in greens and Perfect Pearls Mint Mister for the glimmer effect.

More stamping using TH stamps from the classic collection.

Then I made them into birthday cards to put on my table at the Christmas Fair in November.