Torso Book

Just a quick little project today.  A book made rom a recycled Huntley and Palmers Cracker box.

I covered the box with book paper and then covered that with brown pattern tissue paper. Once it was dry I painted it with Mahogany and Tattered Twigs Distress stain.

Once it was dry I added a gorgeous chipboard mannequin/torso From Imagine If NZ.
I painted this black then with Blue Patina inks.  I then added ac ouple of metal gears.

The closure for the jurnal is two picture hangers that I attached using brads on each side of the cover. I then made a chain closure using a lobster claw and added another meatl gear charm.

I sewed in 9 signatures, each containing 7 pieces of coffee dyed paper giving a total of 126 pages.  Some of the pages are paper bags which can used as pockets.

This was neat little project to make and I will defintely be making more of them.

Eco Dyeing

I decided to have a play today with something that I have been wanting to try.  So I raided my garden which consists of mainly weeds and did some eco printing/dyeing.  Here are the results. Not bad for a first attempt.

Then I decided what else could I do so I used the same method but instead of foliage between the sheets of paper I used shelf liners and doilies.  Here are the results.  More subtle but just as good I think.

Secret Journal Swap 2016

Last year I did a secret journal swap with a bunch of very talented ladies. Here are the Pages that I did in each of their journals.

This was Joan's page and the theme was "Fantasy and Magic"

This was Brenda's page and the theme was "Lost my Mojo"

This was Fiona's journal and the theme was "Awesome Colours"

This was Frances journal and the theme was "Great Outdoors"

These are Karen's pages and the theme was "Crazy"

This was Kath's page

 This was Louise's page and the theme was "Tell our Stories" (Favourite Books)

This was Paula's page and her theme was "Seeing Eye"

This was Tracey's page and her theme was "Frames"

This was Willie's page "Dream to Create"

Workshop Projects

Over the last weekend I attended workshops held by Andy Skinner and Tracy Weinzapfel. Here are the projects I made using their techniques. It was a great weekend where I met some wonderful people and had a great deal of fun creating these projects.