Glitz-Oh Girl

Renaissance Humor

The ‘Bind Your own Book’ round robin that I’m in with some of the Ten Two Studios gang has been fun! This is Livia’s book – with a Renaissance theme. Her page papers are gorgeous, but somehow I had a silly streak in working with this book. Livia had the image of the Venetian masks [...]

Paths and parallel universes….

…is the theme of the book I’ve worked in today- another Hawaii Round Robin book. The title led me to think immediately of Robert Frost and monoprinting…yep- my brain made that leap without telling me in advance – the nerve, huh?

I ‘mono-printed’ using acrylic paints – both heavy-bodied Golden acrylics as well as fluid acrylics. [...]

Round Robin altered book spread

This 2-page tip-in spread is for a book in the Hawaii Altered Book Round Robin that I’m in.

We are to share a technique in the theme of the book in which we work. This book’s theme is images of London, Paris, Rome and Asia. I chose to do a paper weaving technique. The following image [...]

Summertime…….

….is hot here in SW Oregon – especially the Rogue Valley, where I live- temps near 100F and above in late July and August. As I age, I like the heat less and less…love to garden though! So when it’s too HOT to play in our garden retreat, I think of what to create indoors. [...]

Yum! Paper! Books! Recyclables! Hands! (did I mention books?)

Life- so funny how it ‘interferes’ with my PLANS! (that’ll teach me to make plans!) My husband is now 3 weeks post-op a 3RD surgery on his right leg- hoping his broken femur will finally heal and we can get on with making ‘plans’. )

So what’s a girl to do? have fun with books, [...]

Two more “Thumbs Up!” postcards

I’m having so much fun making these postcards from the child ‘hand’ board books from Ten Two Studios. Images are also from there.

I used some napkin and scrap paper for backgrounds, a bread bag ‘special’ label, and art pen, rubber stamp,acrylic paint colored tape, and masking tape. The reverse sides are painted, with a white’ [...]

It’s Bound to Be Recycled

A few of us on the Ten Two Studios Design Team are doing a “Bind your own Book” (BYOB) round robin. My book is made entirely of recycled stuff- cereal boxes, cracker box, tea box, tea bag envie, tissue box, etc, recycled junk mail envelopes, an old bingo board, cream cheese container seal, plus colored [...]

Round Robin pages

This is one of three spreads I created in Patti M.’s book, for our Ten Two Studios Design Team Altered Book Round Robin- it is my rendition of one of my favorite spots- the Oregon Coast. I used napkin collage for the ‘window frame’ border, and then craft acrylic paints and a few artist pens [...]

A Zen Card for Mom

“Thumbs Up!” Altered Board Book Postcard Book

I cut apart a cute little ‘hand’ board book, to create this altered book, with the pages as individual altered page postcards, ready to send as needed!

I used acrylic craft paints, old book pages, rubber stamps, and the color-themed images from Ten Two Studios, as well as faux postage. Individual card images can be viewed [...]