All three of us collaborated in this, Teresa came up with her vision & design [and the stamps], Jan helped in finding this great background paper, and I recommended the metallic ribbon. For the car she used a technique of hand-painting in the stamped image: with Dewdrops quick drying shimmer pigment inks. I instructed her to rub some ink directly from pad onto an acrylic block and pick up color with an EK Waterbrush. The result was stunning [sorry about the photo it's from my iPhone]. While she is painting away with pale blue and platinum planet, I stamped away about a dozen cars so I will post another version of the card that is much clearer of this design so you can see the results. Meanwhile, Jan was hand-coloring and stamping a background for her stamped birthday card and practicing using the heat embossing tool - something each of us are always happy to have more practice with.
Great work ladies!!! Teresa I hope your Hubby loves the card : )
Well since the postal trip yielded no additional distress, I moved on to the "CHEW ON THIS" experiment...more to come I am putting together the pix into a video...Sb
I sent my book through the mail. It cost me $2.75 but it was still tied up the next day when it came back [FYI - USPS doesn't allow tied packages - but they made an exception because it was only going 7 miles across town]. It was only a slumber party...my journal came home the next afternoon...AND...I taunted my mail carrier..."Wet is Better"..."Not Fragile"..."PLEASE BEND"..."PLEASE DROP ME"...they usually crush everything into my cubicle at the community mailbox...this time I don't think they saw the humor in this experiment!
What will come of my Journal next...Sb
(honey, GUM, syrup, glue, sucker, marshmallow).
Honey - CHECK. Mint Chocolate chip ice cream - CHECK. Blackberry preserves, nice and PURPLE and STICKY [yummy on an english muffin, too] - CHECK. and Sweet & Sour Sauce from a bottle, not a package - real thick and sticky...more items may follow after honey dries...still waiting 3 days later...Sb
continued...Happy Friday!! I'm still waiting for the honey to get tacky or solidify so I can move on. I don't want it to drip off or attract the ants. Anyone think it will help if I put UTEE on it and heat emboss it??? Seriously! Tomorrow it's getting tied and bound closed and going on a little trip via USPS...weeeeeeeeeeee!!!
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movement with the journal...OK. GO! I tried to crumple the book up and I pulled a muscle in my neck doing so...OK a little too enthusiastic - but it's done now...
No longer pretty - my book lays down now looking like a bird with a broken wing...
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How can I destroy a book?
I'm going to have to take inspiration from my altered artist friend
Judith, who had a round-robin altered book themed "fold, spindle, &
mutilate" - an exploration of tearing apart a book and artfully
putting it back together. I remember taking my alotted 40
pages...tearing 30 of them out and making little envelopes glued
together into a bridge when opened and the remaining 6 pages for an
origami book that folded out. It was a challenge and the book was all
black and white - one of those 'inside information' books. Oh yeah -
I just realized a Freudian - I edged everything I glued back in in RED!
So back to the burning question? How do I go about wrecking a
perfectly pristine book???
