Make Your Mark - 1st session

 I've started my New Year creative journey.
This is my 1st session on Life Book 2018, its called 'Make your mark'. Its just a nice little warm up exercise and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ive used lots of different mediums, watercolours, acrylics, patterned papers, pen and ink, tissue, in lots of layers, using lots of different techniques.

I am going to enter Country view challenges Jan2018 - Anything goes
Altered eclectics - anything goes
Mixed media monthly challenge- Ring in the New ( I have started my new Life Book 2018 journey)

If you would like to start your own Life Book journey, now is the perfect time to join up as there's 20% off. Just click on this link to Willowing Art 

Can't wait to start on my next lesson, 

Thanks for Looking

Hugs Sue x

Altered notebooks

Afternoon all, I hope its nice and sunny where you are, coz its wet and miserable here today. But at least that means I can spend time in my craft room. 👍

For todays make I would like to share a couple of altered notebooks, in a bit of a vintage / steampunk style.

I started out by removing the back and front covers of the notebooks and used a stencil and texture paste to create a raise design, before painting with starlight paints to add colour and a shimmer. 

After die cutting some cogs, clocks, locks and hinges, I painted them black and lightly rubbed over some of them with gold gilding wax to give the effect of metal. On the others I used red and gold acrylic paint, stippling it on to produce a rusty look.

These were then arranged on the notebooks with some chipboard nuts and bolts which I had painted in the same way.

Finally I stamped and embossed some words, teared around them, inked the edges and glued them in place.

The back covers were also stenciled and painted in the same way, although I have not taken any pictures to show you.

I reassembled the notebooks and Voila there you have them, finished.

I'm going to enter them into a couple of challenges:

Country view challenges -metal

Altered eclectics September-challenge

Creative artiste mixed media-challenge-30 

Mixed media monthly challenge #40 - vintage 

Thanks for taking the time to look,

Hugs Sue x