An Open Book

Is anyone or anything really an open book?  I decided to add a zipper into my book with the hidden message that not everyone would see unless they looked for the zipper to open up and delve into the details.   The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is an "x,y,z" challenge and asks you to be inspired by any of these letters.  Obviously the "Z" caught my attention and inspired me to pull out a zipper.

Here is my book with the zipper built into it.

I started with a zipper that already was shorter in length and fit the book page size.  I measured how long it was and started cutting a slit using my exacto knife down the front. 

I repeated it until I had worked my way through many, many many pages.  :)  I am a book lover but don't worry I used an old cook book which already was damaged and not usable.

After I had my pages cut I then laid down the stencils both on the front pages and the inside pages.  I used my embossing paste to hold up my top pages from the bottom while they dried.

After everything dried I went at the pages with yellow, orange and abandoned coral sprays. I did this multiple times and on my folded pages many different angles to get color in the folded pages.

I then stamped the words on tissue paper and decopuaged them into the page.

I sprayed multiple other scraps of white cardstock to cut out my flowers and butterflies.


I played around with the Tattered Florals die cuts and spritzed and scrunched them to form my flowers.

Products: Sizzix Tattered Floral Die, Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Mustard Seed, Barn Door, Abandoned Coral, Stampers Anonymous - Butterfly Watercolor , Stampers Anonymous - Butterfly Watercolor Stamp, Stampers Anonymous - Live Your Dream With Passion, Stampers Anonymous - Possibility, Zipper, Signo Uni-ball White Gel Pen, Memory Box Lanthenay stencil,  Wendy Vecchi White Embossing Paste,   Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black, 

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Travellers

This card started as a journal page about Home. I was playing around with a sheet of an old ledger and liked the composition so I tore the page out and created a card.

The background was misted with a combination of glimmer mists and a white opaque mist.  I then stamped the images using black ink and masked the keyhole to place the family behind the image. 

I highlighted all the images with a touch of gold watercolor pencils. I then cut a little slit for me to hang my chain from on the key.  I added a few screw brads to the key hole.  A touch of tissue paper and done.

Products: Darkroom Door - Key hole, Key, Henry & Harriet, Welcome Home,  Glimmer Mists, Dylusions - White, STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, Tissue Tape, Screw Brads, Idea-Ology - Clip

Happy Saturday!

Suzz

I Believe

Awhile ago I was playing with inks and messy backgrounds and created a art journal page:

I started with Dylusions sprays in pink and purple. My hands were pink and purple for a few days! 

 I sprayed the two colors onto the paper overlapping until it was covered.   I applied white paint across the surface. I added a layer of water spritzes and let it  dry.  I sprayed the entire surface with water.I threw a bunch of sea salt on the surface and let that dry.  I scraped off the salt and attached the butterflies.

I stamped the sentiment from the Artistic Outpost - Quote and Quotables  in versamark and heat embossed in white embossing powder.  I also added the Hero Arts Flourish around the edges using the same method. The edges were distressed with a distressing tool.

I love this quote from Audrey Hepburn. I ended up using this for my blog header.

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Suzz

Dylusional Dragonfly

Sorry about the pun. :)  The challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp and Show is to stamp without ink.  I knew immediately I was going to be inking up my stamp with a spray.

I had just received my new Stampers Anonymous set with the beautiful dragonfly and decided to use the Dylusions ink spray to stamp the dragonfly.

For this version of the dragonfly I spritzed the spray on the craft mat and smooshed the stamp into the spray and stamped it off.  I practiced a few times to get the color and effect I wanted. 

After I had one of the images I liked I cleaned the stamp up and repeated the process with the yellow ink spray and created a shadow by stamping over the first image. 

I then used the sprays to create an inky background.  I finished off my card with some tulle and gems to add a bit of bling.

 I also tried stamping with spraying the ink over the stamp to see if the image was cleaner.  Here is one where I stamped from the sprizted ink: 

I think that they are cleaner lines on the images when spraying the ink onto the stamp, and it depends on the effect you want. :)
 

 This card is going to go to my niece, I thinks she will like the colors and the snaps bling! 

Products: Dylusions - Lemon Zest, Vibrant Turquoise, Stampers Anonymous - Classics #1, 

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher, Stampendous Treasures Kit - Glitter

 

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Suzz