Little Leather Eye Books

I made some little spooky / scary eye books with a leather cover.

They are rubbed with black stazon to create a worn look and coated with gloss varnish which really brings out all the textures.

These are for sale in my Etsy shop.

Mini Leather Eye Books

I came across this video showing how to create these fab books which I totally fell in love with, so I just had to make some.

I glazed the eye over on this one using DA liquid glass.

Eyes were painted with DA multi surface satin for the colour and media acrylic for the carbon black and titanium white whilst the blue was still wet. Also added a metal corner.

I gave them all a coat of DA media satin varnish once they were finished. This one was my fave so have kept it for myself.

And these are the backs. I gave two of them closures, one which is stuck down and the other you can take the band off so the book opens and the other three I left open.

Products used were by DecoArt.

Fly, Fly Away

Using DecoArt heritage chalky paint and weathered wood I crackled the mdf plaque. Once dry I stencilled through the diamonds with white crackle paste. I mixed up chestnut brown primary elements, satin varnish and water to create some drips and as you can see it ran down the wood. I also gave it a spritz of orange media mister.

Close up of the dried white crackle paste with the primary elements running through them.

And the other end where I spritzed with the orange mister.

I rubbed some DecoArt metallic lustre in champagne ice over the textured areas.

And over the spritzed orange too.

I stamped some of the raindrops by Ryn designs in black stazon, flicked some white shimmer media spray onto the background and added pen marks with white posca pen at the top of the rain drops.

Close up of the stamping, the white pen marks and metallic lustre.

And here the white splatters of media spray paint. I need the iced espresso metallic lustre to make the diamonds darker!

I stamped a large butterfly in black stazon onto a piece of gelli print paper and cut it out. I added some white pen over the really dark blue.

I doubled up on the idea-ology spinners and a brad for the body.

I cracked open the burnt sienna and raw umber DecoArt media paints to paint the wooden letters after a coat of gesso. Gold and silver were added for a bit of contrast.

Wrapped copper and silver coloured wire around each letter.

Decided it needed more contrast so edged in carbon black media paint.

Finally I added the letters and the butterfly to the background and I've used some liquid glass to accentuate random rain drops and hi-lighted the top edges in champagne ice metallic lustre.

PaperArtsy have a theme of Shiny Stuff this week

Country View Crafts have a theme of drips and drops

All products are from DecoArt unless otherwise stated.

Notebooks - Unzipped

Before we start, I need to tell you this is a very long post - mostly pictures - So, let's get on with it then. I bought some of these A6 notebooks from the Range as it's just opened in our town.

Gave the backs a thin coat of white DecoArt media modelling paste and stamped into it.

Close up some the stamping.

And another one.

Once thoroughly dry (I left them over night), I gave them all a coat of paynes grey media paint.

Close up after the layer of paint had been applied.

And another of the back covers.

I added stenciling and modeling paste onto this cover and painted with DecoArts Americana chalky paint, the colour is treasure.

I added script tissue paper to this cover and painted the triangle with transparent yellow iron oxide.

More stencilling with modelling paste and white crackle paint, texture sand paste was added and coloured with a wash of quinacridone violet.

I edged this cover in DecoArt black gesso. I love this stuff, it's one of my fave products of the range.

Emma kindly sent me some micro beads in a variety of colours, so I covered the triangle with a thick layer of DecoArt liquid glass and sprinkled four colours of beads in and left it over night to dry. It will dry clear.

I added some spellbinder cogs and the zipper die from Die-Namics which I had to order from the states. Using the chalky paints I painted everything, colours are rustic, and timeless, the silver is from the DecoArt media paint range.

I tore up some tissue paper and applied it over the stencilling using a wash of ultra media matte varnish and water, it makes a great glue!! Once dry gave it a washed out coat of cobalt teal media paint and the zip is phthalo blue and the silver again.

These are the five that I ended up with.

In more detail. The heart is stencilled in white crackle paint and coloured with red gelato. Spell binders cogs and the zipper die added. Cover given several coats of soft touch varnish for a soft spongy finish.

Dry brushed the cover with white gesso and also used silver metallic lustre. As you can see, the liquid glass has dried clear just leaving the micro beads visible. 

I rubbed champagne ice metallic lustre over the front cover to bring out the stencilled parts.

Modelling paste was used on the bottom of this cover and then silver spark metallic lustre was applied over the top. The background tissue paper is coloured with watered down quinacridone burnt orange and the zip in heritage chalky matte paint. Texture sand paste was applied in the triangle and swooshed over with the silver lustre. 

All the covers have been given a few coats of the soft varnish. The zip was painted with rustic chalky finish paint.

These are the metallic lustres, they are really soft and creamy and extremely easy to apply to any textured surface. There is only one problem with it, because it is so shiny, it's really hard to photograph!

These are the back covers of all the books.

For this one I firstly used the black shimmer, let it dry, which doesn't take long, then added some silver spark.

This is a close up. Hope you can get an idea of the shimmer.

And this one is the black shimmer and then the orange flicker.

It probably looks gold, but in real life, it really is orange!!!

DecoArts products were used on these projects.