Unlike our fearless leader, Julia of WOYWW, I did spend this Sunday at home and got lots of time in the Fun Room. None since then, but such is the season....lots to do. At the end of the day, I collected my makes in the center of the table and this is what it looked like.
Somewhere along the line I even tidied up the window sill. I don't know about you fellow WOYWW'ers, but I was getting sick of that color wheel.
At one point in the day, my sweetie came in the room and mentioned that my work space had shrunk a bit...you know, down to about a 12 x 12 square. The rest of the table looked like this slightly messy pile to my left. Oh well. You know it's true what they say - if you see it, you'll use it.
I was busy making these little (3" x 4.5") composition book covers for my sisters, mom, and a few girl friends. Late Saturday night I started pulling out some papers and then stopped - duh. I make paper. So that's what I started with. Lots of luscious Dylusions sprays, some stencils, and some paint. And because I am getting wiser in my old age I gave the papers a coat of clear Gesso. I love the intensity of Dylusions, but sometimes I'm not so excited to have it react with the next layers. Enter the gesso. It gives the paper a great tooth and I can do just about anything next. You need to make sure the first layer is TOTALLY dry. As in maybe overnight. Even though I thought it was dry, I had a little bit of run when I did a final coat of matte medium to seal everything. In this case it was nice, as little streaks of color helped blend it all together.
Wait. That doesn't make sense. Maybe I missed a section. Whatever. Make sure it's dry...lol.
Wait. That doesn't make sense. Maybe I missed a section. Whatever. Make sure it's dry...lol.
So I pulled out some scraps, some Art Chix and Pringle Hill Studios images, my trusty white and black pens and went to town.
The banner was stashed up on the window sill and since I didn't want it there I kind of threw it down on my desk. A few hours later, I had a little a-ha moment. Another happy accident.
One of the hardest things was finding ribbon that would match. You would think a girl with literally shoe boxes of the stuff wouldn't be in the predicament, but I am just about out of seam binding which I normally color myself....and I was at a loss. Eventually I got pretty close. My sweetie asked why the ribbon - I thought if you were throwing this in your purse or whatever it would be nice to keep it closed.
I'm going to do a couple of larger book covers for some other friends....but at least I get to check this particular project off the list. Funny. That makes it sound like a chore. It was anything but. Things like this are why we call it the Fun Room.
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Enjoy!
