AB Group Golden @ 13 Olympics

The Yahoo group Altered Books has a challenge for the Olympics plus celebrating our 13th anniversary. This is simply a collage, and I thoroughly enjoyed putting it together in my LARGE book.

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Altered Art Journals

 These spreads were finished recently – just having fun with paints, stencils and rubber stamps (and anything that gets in the way whilst I am altering!)

These images are from an old French textbook. Watercolor background, plus some anaglypta wallpaper, a few stickers and background stencils.

A soft ghosty image of a little girl, rubber stamps, stickers, and watercolors. Here I used Portfolios and some Gelatos. yummy!

This spread holds a myriad of technique pieces, collaged. Just playing around with paints, stamps, embossing powder (top left)

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Leather journal

More pages finished in my inspire journal…again using up my stash of images

Super Heroes and villains !

The circles birds are from a serviette..isn’t it cute?

The left page is littered with Claudine Hellmuth’s foam stamps… I couldn’t resist that dressform stamp.

The next two are some pages in stages. I have added some serviettes to the first one.

This next one I added some gold stamping with Claudine Helmuth foam stamps…I love them!

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Be the Best You – 2011

Here is my New Year’s page – 2011

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7 Day magazine collage

The Cloth Paper Studio Yahoo group is having a 7-day magazine challenge this month. How cool is that?
Unmind-boggling, that’s what it is! My efforts:

DAY 1

DAY 2

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Stencil Play

I bought some new stencils, and just had to have a go at them.
The background on the left is a basket weave made with a Fiskars plate.
The oval is also made with Fiskars punches.

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Mme 2AX

This is another day of just playing – using up some resources at hand.

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Art Journal Gypsies Week 4

This is my Week #4 of the Art Journal Gypsies prompts.

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Serendipity booklet

Well, I have finally made a booklet from a rather large piece of ‘junk’ mail. I folded it a few times and got 3 pages plus the covers, at 6 x 6 inches. Yayy!
I covered all the pages with scrapbook paper stack of the same size. I then used images from the book ‘Bathing Beauties’, adding lace, ribbons, rub-ons, etc.
The front cover has a piece of grunge paper, smooched with alcohol inks. The metal flourish is door hardware. The flower is made from stamped fabric, paper painted with distress crackle paint, and an antique button.
Serendipity is stamped on gauze ribbon.

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French Lunch

The challenge this month at Altered Books Yahoo Group is a lunchbag theme.
I have a serviette on the left page with paint scraped backgrounds. The right page has a mushroom paper bag, with some funny characters riding the wave!
This is mostly collage, with a stamped image of the River Seine in the centre.

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