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Roni has been sharing lots of great techniques for calendar pages on her blog. So far, I have managed to get the first three months done. Here is my January page:
Using alcohol inks and hair spray to create the background was so much fun. And, I used a berry sprig stamp from Stampington and Co. Then, I used a tiny hole punch to add extra interest - since I decided to layer my pages to a black base, the black shows through the punched holes and makes it look like there are more berries. The alphabet stamps are from European Papers.
Here is my page for February:
Roni calls this technique "gradient embossing". I used one pink and two purple inks for my background. This one took a lot more time; but it was well worth it. The heart stamp is from Penny Black. Mounted on a black base again.
For March:
For this page, I could only find one shadow stamp which is from Magenta. (there are more in my stash somewhere!) I used three colors of ink on the stamp initially and stamped on white cardstock. Once they were stamped and dry; I added another color for the edges. There was too much contrast between the greens and white for my taste, so I then stamped the shadow stamp at an angle randomly on the piece using yet another green ink. Accent stamp used is from Judikins.
Hop on over to Roni's blog to join in the fun. I will probably just do three at a time and then post.
TFL!
I have been involved in an altered book round robin since September. We are to do a double page spread in each book as it comes to us; we have one month for each book. Sue asked for "anything that flies" for her theme. Here is my creation:
Sorry for such a poor scan; the book is a thick child's board book and we were to keep everything as flat as possible. However, I did pop up the little girl and the kite for some dimension. The sky was sponged; the hills and sun were created with patterned paper, the flowers punched from origami paper. I wrote the haiku myself; something I enjoy doing. The Asian doll is a rubber stamp from Hero Arts, the trees from Rosebud Rubber Stamps, the kite from Penny Black, the Asian calligraphy (faintly stamped throughout the sky) from Inkadinkadoo, and the birds from Portfolio.
Here is how the haiku reads:
This was a fun spread to do - I hope Sue enjoys it when it finally reaches home.
Am glad to be back from my trip to Parker CO; have a long list of projects to work on!! Thanks for visiting my blog!
