background 15/100

For background #15 I just used different washi tapes and taped them diagonally on the page

I planned to cut the ends but changed my mind  last minute and just bent them around the page, glad I did because look at the result 

love

Let love fill your heart instead of hate.

When hate is in your heart,

There’s room for nothing else.

But when love is in your heart

There’s room for endless happiness.

Our next letter in the alpha/dictionary challenge over at The Craft Barn is L, which stands for love in the alphabet of happiness 

I wanted to use a resist technique with crayons and Distress stain (a newly rediscovered art supply, thanks to Carolyne Dube, more details of me rediscovering distress stains see here) to color the background. But unfortunately it didn’t turn out as expected, as these heart shapes 

didn’t really appear once I went over it with crushed olive Distress stain.

Oh well, no time to linger about. 

I typed out the definition on my typewriter (several times I must add as there is no backspace on a typewriter arghh),

Fussy cut this cute doggy in 3D and added some washi tape with hearts. Because the page was still a bit bare I started stamping (stars, doodles, butterflies) and doodling some myself.

Now it’s starting to look like it’s finished.

Owlsome

Yesterday I showed you how I used stamps to create a scene, today I will be showing how I used a stamp as focal image.

I choose a cute little doodled owl stamp.

But first things first, the background.

I started with a layer of distress stain: brushed corduroy and a hint of rusty hinge. Followed with some stenciling with walnut DI and metallic acrylic paint.

A  border of washi tape which I distressed with antique linen contains the page.

Slam bang in the middle I glued my owl which I had stamped on a piece of underpaper (you could not reconstruct the colors if you wished to).

Last but not least, yet another way to use stamps, I stamped the quote: don’t forget to be owlsome.

Nepal

This spread in my ARTicles book is about the devastating earthquake in Nepal.
I started this page then (so end of april) and only managed the other day to finish it. (ashamed)
I first painted a mountain landscape

on top of which I collaged (the thought behind this is that the small pieces actually resemble the broken country)

Next I emphasized the broken land even more by tearing up the page.

As a final element to the page I made some banners of flags, each flag is made with a different piece of tape (I seem to have a weak spot for tape, actually not only for tape when I think about it lol)