Saturday 2 January 2010

INSIDE MY ART CALENDAR




Before I did my double page layout for January I decorated the first 2 pages of my book and here they are. I used Dabbers for the background and stamped here and there in black using Tim Holtz background stamps. I cut the letters out for the first page coloured and stamped on them, the small black labels which you cannot see are the months of the year, I went around all of these and the letters using black sharpie and white Inkssentials pen. The next page I printed one of Jill's quotes on to coloured paper and tore round it. I cut out the circles and wrote the words in the centre, drew round them lots of times and drew the lines with black pen as if they are hanging. Using a journaling stamp for a label saying who the book belongs to and at the very bottom wrote "journey" and used a rub on quote "destination unknown" finally the arrow pointing the direction.


My January pages are in blue and white to give the feeling of cold, I don't think you can see the white stamping very well in the photos but they are leafless trees and background snow. I printed out a quote for the top left hand corner definition of Day. I used 3 mini fairies from Lisa's Altered Art made them stand out by outlining in black pen. There are a few dabber circles here and there and finally I made a wax seal in gold. Now the only thing left is to fill in all the squares.

10 comments:

  1. These are both wonderful LOs Pat...x

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  2. these pages look great and they do look cold which is very apt. love it . x sue x

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  3. These two pages are gorgeous Pat, love the colours, as Sue says, very apt. Lot of work gone into them, lovely.

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  4. excellent pages...look at all those scraps of paper being used up...LOL!

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  5. Lovely, lovely pages Pat :-) Beautiful colours and the quotes are great. That's the difficult bit done - filling it in is the easy bit!
    By the way, I'm tickled that you've got my button on your blog :-)

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  6. These are beautiful Pat love the colours and all the quotes and doodlings!!! Have fun writing on the pages!! lol xx

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  7. .. very apt! brrrr more snow last night and it's frezzzzing this morning. Lovely pages Pat, looking forward to watching this grow. Happy New Year Lynne xx

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  8. Fantastic pages, looking forward to seeing it as you go on. Love the colours you have used, good for the weather. Love Sandra x

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  9. It's a paper wreath Pat... Lots of circles made into cones and then attached to a polysyrene wreath...x

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  10. Fabulous pages Pat! Just love the colours! I must think about my front page.........
    Lesley x

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