Sunday, 23 January 2011

Notebook Three

I decided to have a go at making a notebook following the technique of making paper fabric backgrounds by Jill A Kennedy having read about the process on Emma and Jill's blogs.

I realize that what I have made is very simple as I have only added some texture from another piece of paper used free machined stitches and applied treasures gold around the edge.





I only used copy paper having read the information on Jill's blog. All coloured to start with; pale and dark pink as well as mauve. Cheap wax crayons, markal paint sticks, oil pastels and iridescent oil pastels. To finish with I used watered down watercolour paint. I liked the oil pastels and iridescent oil pastels best of all.

Here are a few more sheets ready to be used. I hope to be a bit more adventurous with these. I am taking one of Kim Klassen's courses at the moment so not so much time to make things.










Hope that you all had a good weekend and wishing you a good week too.

7 comments:

Emma said...

Just lovely. That's the beauty of this technique - you can use recycled paper of course - mine were old letters from the kids school or brown paper - & it can be as simple or as detailed as YOU want. It's great using all those oil pastels I've been hoarding, too ;)

Thanks for the link to me!

Jill said...

You can never have too much of a great idea. This looks great, and they are great fun to do.

Jan said...

I like yours, great colors you are using. I'm already enjoying your personal creative goal.

Linda said...

The colours in the notebook cover are very 'you' - looks like a fun technique.

The other sheets look like they have great potential too....

Hope you're enjoying Kim's class :-)

DesigNeAl said...

What an interesting technique, and the result is fabulous! Looking forward to your creations with the rest of the papers x

Cameron said...

Sue, Everything you do is wonderful. The colors are so vibrant. Hugs

Pat Brennan said...

I enjoyed reading your posts and admiring your work very much.