Altered Diary

I am delighted to be joining the Altered Eclectic team

 

For this challenge I decided to change my rather boring diary ready for the new year

 

 

 

 

 

My Diary ready for lots of inkiness next year

 

 This is how it started - really boring

 

 

 I crumpled up some wet brown paper that I received in a parcel

 

 

 I used lots of pva to stick the brown paper to the diary - lots of lovely creases

 

 

 

I then added Gesso

 

 



 I added lots of Distress Inks in Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge and Peacock Feathers and some texture paste through a stencil into the corners. I added some spray and shine at this stage to set the distress inks

 

 

 

This is the back page

 

 

As you can see I used  stamping, lettering, inking through stencils - I added some tissue tape here and there and generally got very inky

 

My diary is now certainly more pleasing to the eye 

 

This is my very first design piece for the Altered Eclectics Challenge - we don't have a theme just so long as you alter something from one thing to another

 

It would be great to see you taking part maybe you would like to go take a look at the wonderful pieces my new team mates have created - lots of inspiration there - it would be great to see you joining in