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One of the ways to add text is to use book paper. How do you feel about tearing a page from an old book to use in your art projects?
I have a great solution to that dilemma! I'm still working my way through a pack of paper ephemera put together by a lady who used books that were beyond hope in terms of resale (damaged bindings, some pages scribbled on etc) - she put a random selection of pages in a clear pocket and sold them to crafters. You could get anything in your pack from children's story book pages to sheet music, comic book pages etc. As it happens I used a scrap on the card I just uploaded to the gallery!
I went to yard sales a few years ago and bought a few old dictionaries and encyclopedia and sheet music books that were tattered with missing pages for quarters. ( and they are fair game ) I tell my self they are "paper" and I use them :mrgreen:
I love to use old book pages on my cards and projects...One cool way to use them is to paint over a page with gesso so only a bit of the text appears (usually not readable). I have a couple of books, a thesaurus, an old atlas, old sheet music that I've gotten at second hand book stores or an antique fair to use. I especially like to use ones written in a foreign language if you can find it. :p
I have a pack of SU dsp that has text and a few stamps. Most of my books would never be sacrificed for paper crafting.
But, I just thought about magazines. I have a tote of pastoral music planning mags that I keep moving around. I didn't want to pitch them and we have no recycling options locally. I can use them for crafting, maybe even make some gel prints!
Repurposing project ahead!
__________________ Kim in Illinois, Dirty Dozen Alum, QFTD#207, FS798, VSN Moderator, Weekly Sketch Challenge Team
Sorry for being MIA from this thread. The last three weeks have been beyond busy. When I get home on Saturday evening, I'm looking forward to a relatively quiet week with DH away, and maybe a chance to catch up with things a bit.
I love books, love the feel and smell of them (so long as they're not from a smoking home, and not really cheap paper). And I'll never use a bulky bookmark in one. But I have no hesitation at all about using old books on my cards. Almost all my gel prints are done on book pages or old sheet music. It was my grandmother's, and there's very little of it that I've ever played, though I've kept a couple of albums of Chopin pieces intact.
Our library has a shelf outside where people leave books for others to take, so I've picked up a few from there. It's a good place for getting them in foreign languages.
When we cleared out my dad's house after he moved to a rental near my brother a few years ago, I took one volume of my mother's Shorter Oxford Dictionary, and while that was harder to use, I felt that in this day and age very few people were likely to want to give over 6" of shelf space to one dictionary. (I've probably got more than that dedicated to dictionaries on my shelf, but that's two different editions of an English one, plus French and Greek) At least it's getting good use rather than being pulped. Every time I use it, I can picture just where it was on one of the bookcases in the dining room when we were children.
We have two new Dirty Girls as of yesterday! Did you know there are challenges for Fan Club members? Here is a link in case you might have been missing out on this perk! August Gallery Theme
MIX342 looks like a lot of fun. I have never used hand sanitizer with inks before. I will have to give it a try!
me neither, but I have a bottle on the table so it will be an interesting thing to try (handsanitizer + ink)
I am still mentally flipping through my stencils wondering if any of them will make a cool impression with paints from monday.
and I have a little more oomph today, so I am thinking I will play a little later this evening if its not too hot upstairs,
I love all the Handpainted Jars on the IC today and now I want to paint one. It was hard to decide which one I wanted to use today for my card. I will go back for more inspiration, especially for holiday cards of all kinds.
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__________________ My Blog---My Gallery---My PinterestI'm a Punchkateer! (Prez) FOREVERDirty Dozen Alumni2014 CAS Spring DT--- Inspiration Challenge Co- Hostess 12/02/17-12/28/19 Watercolor Wednesday Design Team Hebrews 13:2Brenda
Angie, your card with the rainbow stencil was great.
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Today's Featured Stamper has a beautiful gallery! So much inspiration! She features gorgeous designer papers beautifully. Stop by and congratulate her, you might even be inspired to CASE one of her cards!
Oops! It was a crazy Monday for me again and I didn't post the TLC but it looks like tons of fun! And the gallery is so pretty.
Our COLORS today will make very pretty summer cards. Let's hold onto summer as long as we can! The extra points for this challenge is FOIL.
The Teapot Challenge is to use a superhero for a super 5 year old little boy who just rang the bell on his last cancer treatment!
Questions: Do you like the look of Mandalas? Do you have a favorite stamp?
I do like the look and I would like to play in the TLC! My favorite stamp is an IO stamp, I created with it onTHIScard.
What is your favorite kind of summer card to create?
I think it would either have to be a card with lots of flowers or a card with fish. I don't love creating beach scenes but if I practiced I would probably get the hang of it!
Do you have any super hero images? (i may have asked this question before but I can't remember!)
I don't have a single super hero image! Can you believe that. So I may have asked this before but what would you use if you didn't have a super hero image? I am thinking I could create a card with sun rays but what next?
Not madly into mandalas so I don't think I have a stamp, the closest world be a filler for a dreamcatcher.
Favourite summer cards: beach scenes win hands down, no contest.
No super hero stamps either. The last time I needed one for a TPT I used a fighting rhino from StarvingArtistamps, and comic book words from The Cats Pyjamas. I rarely buy or use digis, but I did find some nice superhero animals on Etsy which I would probably use again, so I got those for my card for Finn. Which I'll upload when I get home from work. I used TH cityscape dies for a suitably comic-strip city look on the card. Those and my comic book words are enough to suggest superhero even without including one, I think.
Enjoying my staycation and got a whole three cards made on Sunday, but yesterday I was out most of the day so I didn't get to try the TLC either. Hope to make a start in it today if I can fit in time to watch the video, or wing it without watching.
I don’t have anything close to a mandala. I do have one super hero stamp... it’s an old lady with a cape. Gladys the superhero! I don’t think she will work but there is a sentiment that I think I can make work.
Last week with the CAS challenge, it was a fairy, this week a super hero... I’m being stretched out of my comfort zone!! :razz:
I think my one embossing folder is a Mandela. Is there a challenge to use one? I could give it a try.
An embossing folder wouldn't work for the challenge, Kathy; it was Monday's dot art mandalas that inspired Angie's question. Being something of a perfectionist I'd been wondering about tracing a template on the back and piercing through everywhere I should place a dot, but in the end I just winged it.
The sketch challenge is one of my favorite types of sketches! I love a large angled layer! I have a lot on my list for today so I don't know that I will be able to play in the challenge today but maybe I can use the sketch and post it later.
I enjoyed everyone's take on Mandalas and superheros! I do think the TLC was very striking so I would like to try it sometime.
I do have a couple of city scape background stamp. I am not sure I have a "hero" sentiment. But that is a great idea to use a City Scape and a sentiment for the superhero challenge.
WT754 is up! Feel the breeze in your hair, the sun on your arms, Sail Away!
The photo that Sabrina added to her challenge post makes me think of the movie High Society. 1956 Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and the amazing Louis Armstrong! A little sail boat and a big sail boat make appearances in the movie.
Has anyone here seen that movie? Do you love it or dislike it?
I first saw it on a little black and white tv screen during the late movie when I was about 10, I think. I now own and it and have shared the movie with my girl. I am sure you guessed that I love it!
If I could play in the challenge today I would use a new sailboat die how about you?
Oh, I'd forgotten about those scenes in High Society. So you can take it that I do like them. I have both that and The Philadelphia Story. I probably prefer The Philadelphia Story, though I love the musical scenes with Louis Armstrong in High Society.
Loving the sea as I do, I had a few stamps to choose from. One of the few pictures I have ever bought is of an old sailing ship, with a tropical island and palm trees in the background. It hangs over the piano. Pure escapism.
And Jeanne is sending us Under the Sea in the Free 4 All today.
I don't usually "retro fit" for challenges but I was just on the point of uploading a card featuring an octopus that I've blogged today and it seemed just too much of a perfect coincidence to pass it up!
Thinking I might need to have a play with leaves as well now!
The Inspiration Challenge is up! Stacy is our hostess and has chosen Corningware for us. There are some very striking patterns out right now! I hope you will have some time to play along!
I am probably in the wrong place but need help. Have not been active here for a long time due to family coming before my stamping. I now have more time and want to join swaps like I have in the past. Could someone tell me where to go as I have not been able to find it. I appreciate your help.
I am probably in the wrong place but need help. Have not been active here for a long time due to family coming before my stamping. I now have more time and want to join swaps like I have in the past. Could someone tell me where to go as I have not been able to find it. I appreciate your help.
If you look over to the left of this post you'll see a box with quick links which take you directly to other parts of the forum, including the swaps area and the challenges forum. Just click on Swaps and it will take you there.
Today'sfeatured stamper is JRHolbrook, Judy AKA Gracie. Her cards are fabulous - DH still hasn't let me take down the (April) birthday card she sent me.
