Hit the Book

Over at Anything But A Card this month they have a theme of 'hitting the books'.  So basically they are looking for anything to do with books, whether it be using the pages, altering a book or creating a book.  I decided to do the latter.

I created the front cover by spreading grunge paste over the chipboard and stamping into it to create the texture, for more info, see this video here.  Once completely dry I painted it with blood orange and French roast fresco paint.  I then used the negative of the umbrella man die, so it acted as a stencil, mixed black into some grunge paste and filled the gap.  As you can see I didn't smooth it off as I wanted texture.  This idea came from a challenge set by Arty Inklings.

Next I started to apply onyxite and ruby treasure gold to the cover to enhance the grunge paste texture.

And I added a few eyelets for decoration.

I used T!m's one the edge file die to create some dividers.  I embossed each one and coloured it with lumiere paints.

And the same with the backs.

This is the back cover, made exactly the same as the front minus the umbrella man.  I used the mini cogs to cover the holes of the book rings.

This is the inside of the book, once put together and stood up.  I just need to cut some paper to put between each divider, but I wanted to get a photo before it rained!!

This is the front of the book with the book rings and chain added.

I'm also entering into Altered Eclectics as they have an anything goes theme.

Simon Says Stamp Monday have a challenge of embossed, so I'm entering over there too!!

Masks and/or Stencils

I picked these mdf shapes up from the MDF Man at Ally Pally way back in April.  I used Golden coarse pumice gel through the time travel stencil on the base and bingo and cogs on the outer face.

This is a close up of it once it had dried.

I painted the base with chocolate pudding and French roast fresco paint and the outer with nougat and Irish cream.  Pewter treasure gold was used on the base to hi-light the raised areas, but it doesn't show up very well in the photo.  The outer piece raised areas were accented with onyxite treasure gold. I added some TH rub ons, a book ring with chain housing a rusty key.

So grab your stencils/masks and play along with us over at Out of a Hat Creations.

Use it Up

Over at Out of a Hat Creations this week they asking for us to use up our stash.  Everything I've used here is well over a year old apart from the hanger which I got from the Manchester ICHF show around September time.