Altered Book

The theme at Saturday's Workout is altered books.

I haven't done many of these although I've got several waiting to be altered.

I've nearly finished an "ABC of Me" and here are pages L and M. I bought a cheap notebook and pasted pages together to reinforce them, and then used paint, scraps of paper, stamping and embellishments to decorate.

Splish Splash Backgrounds

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This was fun - create a splish splash background with paint, courtesy of Saturday's Workout.
I don't know who the lady stamp is by, but she is called Sophia. The lamp stamp is by Elusive Images and the soft corners by KI Memories.

Make a Collage

Saturday's Workout challenges us to make a collage. I combined different stamps with ephemera to come up with a travel theme.

Fossil Stone Technique

It sounds very complicated but all you need is a plastic folder, two inkpads and a brayer. The technique is here.

Thanks to Saturday's Workout for introducing me to the technique, which I've never heard about. I used Brilliance chocolate and ginger inkpads.

With some inspiration from May's Craft Stamper I used Paris images from Elusive Images, painting them with Twinkling H2Os.

Distressed gesso backgrounds

Saturday's Workout introduced me to a new technique today, creating distressed gesso backgrounds. There is an excellent tutorial here.

I created a card for a trendy teenager whose 18th birthday is approaching. Orange card was sponged with gesso and dried, then various ink pads were applied, followed by some more gesso. The stamps are by Artistic Stamper, Artifacts and Stampington. Metal key by Maya Road and felt by Fancy Pants. Background paper & letters from Colorbok.

I enjoyed the technique so much I made several different backgrounds. More to come.

Take your Acetates

The challenge at Saturday's Workout is to use transparent acetate.

I created a card for Bonfire Night using the Banana Frog fireworks stamps and various inks and embossing powders. The background was splattered with Glimmer Mists. I wrapped a sheet of acetate around the whole card and secured it with a HOTP cardmaker's accent.

Can I be grungy?

This was a fun challenge courtesy of Saturday's Workout. I must confess I have never attempted the grunge technique, but here is my effort. I handily had a chipboard skull to hand (Majistical Moments) which I painted with textured paint. I cut out letters "whatever," and splodged some paint and lime ink on the paper. I don't know if it's properly grungy but I had fun doing it!

Chalk It, Baby!

It seems there is a challenge every day of the week, so thanks to Sandy and Heike for giving me a diversion from the FA Cup today with Saturday's Workout.

The challenge is to use chalks, which is one of my favourite media. My card uses a cyclists' stamp by Elusive Images, hand-made paper from Lakeland and some green buttons. And chalking in the background of the cyclists.