Paper Slashed Art Journal Book

This is made in exactly the same as the fabric slashed book in the previous post, except it's made with newspaper and the lines are vertical as opposed to diagonal.

Inside front cover and first page.

Stamped images on some of the pages.

Some of the pages have been left blank but the sides have been edged in fabric.

The back page and the back cover.

Back cover of the book.

Front and back cover whilst book is laid out flat.

This is for sale on my FB page.

Slashed Fabric Book

For a change, we had a lovely three day bank holiday weekend. I actually spent most of it outside - crafting! I sprayed these newspapers with media misters and hung them on the line to dry.

I chose some fabric for the inside of my book and some images to collage. They have been sewn together.

This is the front of the book. Scraps of fabric were randomly placed on a piece of fabric which was then covered with a light peice of cotton fabric and diagonal lines sewn across. They are meant to be the same width apart, but as you can see, mine waivered off a bit.

This was the time consuming part, cutting between all the sewn lines without cutting into the bottom layer.

The next stage was to sew the inside cover to the outside cover.

This is the front with the inside cover sewn in.

I cut the excess away and trimmed the edges with the couching method and some jazzy wool.

Inside cover and first page.

Selection of the pages, some with stamped images, some with fabric and some left plain.

All the pages were painted in DecoArt multi surface satin paint.

All pages ready to be doodled and journalled on.

The back page and the inside back cover.

The back cover, slashed and trimmed.

The front and back of the book laid out flat.

This is for sale on my FB page.

T!m's Tiny Houses

I was looking through my ice cream boxes this morning and found all these images that I stamped a couple of years ago when we went to a workshop in the Peak District. So I decided to put some of them to use. He is my favourite Teesha Moore stamp, unfortunately, I don't own him - yet!!!

And this is the back, again another image brought back from the Peak District.

We also stamped some images in paint onto pieces of fabric. This is the image I used to make my Andy Warhol pages. Again, unfortunately I don't own this stamp, but I'd sure like to. This was sewn onto the cardboard using the sewing machine.

And I think this image was one that Linda bought for me in a pack for my birthday, but it was from James who runs the workshops. Again I used a zig zag stitch to sew it onto the cardboard.

These are the fronts of the houses.

And these are the backs of the houses.

And finally, these are the roofs. 

The backgrounds were painted with white gesso, modeling paste was put through various stencils and DecoArt multi surface satin paints were used to colour them once they had dried. I then swiped black stazon over the top to hi-light the modeling paste. I also added some extra stamping using PaperArtsy mini stamps. 

Bright Tags & T!m Stamps

Background was created with a purple, green, yellow and blue Decoart multi surface satin paints and then I cut the piece of card in half to make two tags. Stamped the dragonfly in versamark ink and heat embossed it with fine black wow powders. The rest of the T!m images were stamped in black stazon. 

The dragonfly on this one was heat embossed with blue wow powders and then re-heated and fragment powders added in a mix of blue and gold. Again T!m stamps used to fill the rest of the space on the tag using black stazon.

And the pair side by side.

Country View Crafts have a challenge this month of things with wings, so these tags will fit perfectly.

A couple of Tags

DecoArt satin paints used for the background along with Kate Crane stamps and various stencils. Parts of Crowabout and Teesha Moore images to create the main feature.

And more or less the same process for this one. Added some hi-lights in white and black pen.

And the pair of them side by side.