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!

AB 101 Covering

In the review I see I forgot to strengthen the inside cover and first pages which are attached to the cover rather than the spine. I had gotten the Mulberry paper so all I had to do was apply some gel medium after I chose the colours.

I liberally spread the gel medium right into the centre and then placed the mulberry paper, brayered it down and added more gel.

The two pages got a smaller piece of the green.

The inside cover got 2 pages of the purple which I overlapped in the centre for extra strength.

The back cover is where the niche goes.

I forgot the darn plastic clamps from my son in law while I was there yesterday. He has lots of cool tools while my dear farmer is of the old school called 'make do' and has old, dirty, rusty and not so state of the art. But I don't think my clothes pins will do the job so I await the DSIL's cool clamps. Or I can add them to the weekend's grocery list!

In the meanwhile I played with gel medium, paints and paper for my Common Threads Challenge. The theme is garbage and right now it is kinda looking like that is where it will end up. lol The base fabric is drying after its 4th layer of paint which will likely save it from incineration! I'll work on this next journal quiltlet tomorrow.