Playing with new stuff

I've been so engrossed with cutting up images and making new ones that I've neglected some new things I recently purchased, so today I decided to play with them all!!  I scraped fibre paste through an Andy Skinner stencil, once dry added some Lindy's sprays, I recently got the French heritage set. I added some gold DA media fluid acrylic to some golden tar gel. This wasn't actually as drippy as I thought it was going to be, so unfortunately I ended up with bigger blobs than I really wanted, but hey ho.

I added some stamping to the background in iced spruce distress ink. Stamped in timber brown stazon the Dina image and Clarity word on separate card, cut it out, glued it on and outlined it with dark brown pencil along with some of the stencilled area. Used bronze pan pastel over the textured fibre paste. This photo was taken outside in the garden.

Journal Pages

I used a mix of magazine and printed images for these two pages.

Coloured the backgrounds with pan pastels.

Added doodling with coloured pens and pencils and went in search for some words.

Couldn't find any words but added a bit more doodling to the right page.

You never know, I might find some words one day.

And actually finish these pages - lol.

Another Collage Page

Added lots of collage images to these two pages including my little people.

I coloured the backgrounds for both pages with pan pastels building up the colours.

Then doodling added. Want to add some words to the left page, just waiting for inspiration.

Not sure that I really want to do any more to this page, quite like it how it is.

Love how the doodling came out on this page. I want to fill the space around the main image with lots of words when I find the right ones!

Building up a Page

First of all I added some collage pieces to the blank pages.

Next some colour was added. Left page is pens and coloured pencils, right page is portfolio pastels.

Lots more doodling and I really didn't like the border on the left page, so covered it with more collage pieces.

Close up of the blue page, doodling, dots, pencil work etc. I may go back in later and add some words to this, but still thinking about it.

Close up of the left hand page which I am now pleased with after adding a border, triangles and circles!!

Mini Book TM Style

I decided to make a little mini Teesha Moore style book as a thank you gift for a friend, using her 16 page technique. It's only 5.5" x 4". Prepped the pages with Dylusion paints and added some random stenciling. 

I like to work on the loose pages before I put the book together.

Images added to make the front and back covers and the inside flap.

And some of the doodling on the inside. I also used coloured pencils, something I've not done before.

This is the other side of the one above, again more doodling, colouring and some words.

These are the centre pages. I used a gelli pen for the dots on the left page. This means that the dots are all raised.

And the other side. The middle pages don't have any additional flaps.

All of them together.

And the other sides.

Finally I put holes in the pages and bound them to make the book.

As this is a gift, I decided to decorate the envelope too.