Motivated

I am definitely using the green Go on the traffic light!

I spent the morning cleaning and rearranging the front room with design ideas for paint and accessories in mind.  I need to come up with a whole house plan so I am ready for any questions as we proceed with the renovations.  I shall proceed each day with a room and have a recap on Friday.  I think I have finally 'got ' it!  I was supposed to quit and move onto mixed media after lunch but then I had a late lunch!  lol

But my focus for the week is my Altered Book and the cover is shaping up and the weight is on for gluing in the spring tip ins.  Elizabeth has posted lesson 19 which is Bringing It All Together and that is what I am trying to do this week.  I used archival ink with a foam pad to ink the leaves on the gessoed  cover.

Then I sprayed with a couple of different kinds of green spray.  I added the transfer  which was from clear tape.

The last bit of spray was shimmer with Perfect Pearls.

The first section, Spring, were tip ins and the glue is applied and the weight is resting on it as I type. Tip ins are loose pages that need to be glued into 2  pages that have been cut leaving  one inch remaining  for inserting the tip ins.

It is definitely a green day!

Tuesday Toots

There are two more lessons according to my reckoning for the Altered Book Tutorial over at The Altered Book Lover's blog.  Elizabeth has been very generous with her time, her techniques and her tutorials. Lesson  18 has been on student's choice and I want to do the gel transfer to add to my transfer repetoire.

Surely not yet!

Altered Book Lover has done a fabulous tutorial on Magazine Images and Frames.

                                    

My theme book is Leaves and I wanted to do the winter section where the leaves are either dried up and blown away or are evergreen.  This page is just frost on meadow grass and a few dried weeds.  The tape makes a partial frame.

This is a typical prairie winter- snow with a few leafless branches. Again, these are as far as I've been inspired and I'll probably add some more.

The colour of the evergreens is pretty much covered with thick snow but then there is always the decorative aspect!  I'd like to add a big gold circle to repeat the wreath shape and frame it.

The first two pages will be tipped in to the book.  The blue strip is the back half of the two pages that were cut to hold the tip-in in its place.  I'll glue all the tip-ins when the book is finished.

This 2 page spread is just shown with different lighting and an image I haven't quite figured how to incorporate.

I gpt inspired and meant to put the large round tree cut in a circle on the left blue page but I had a brain stall!  Oh, well, perhaps I'll find something better for the blue page. vbsigh  I used markers to make a thin frame.

That should hold winter for a while.  Now back to summer!

Grand mothering

Things are slowly getting back to a familiar routine with some continuing babying of the throat. 

Soon as we drop the parents off for their appointment the grand Kiddies and I will be checking out the Children's Museum in the city.  I remember taking the youngest son and he just luved it there.  I plan on moving from bench to bench as they explore one fascinating area after another.

We got the Mother's Day necklace all done and boxed up for the big day. 

The altered book design elements are due Monday and I did a bit with my technique pages. 
I am really liking the idea of using maps.  They convey a lot- line, motion, texture.  I shall be keeping a eye out for maps on my field tripping!  I just hope my energy level can keep up to what the day's map has laid out.