Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Bookmark

So, I was in a challenging kind of mood.

In the mood for a challenge!

I found just what I was looking for over at the Crafting Ireland blog. 

The task, make a bookmark, using at least one kind of paint and an image from a magazine.

Here's the specific post... sponsored by the lovely people over at Mixed Media Place.






 Step one - I painted a piece of kraft card with DecoArt 'warm White' acrylic paint.


Step Two - I thought I'd use some multi-medium to create a bit of a resist effect. So, I smeared a bit of it through a lovely Studio Calico stencil I have.





Resist closeup



Step Three - I then sprayed it all with some Dylusions spray.


Then used a babywipe to take off a lot of the spray.




Step Four - Annoyingly we tend to recycle our magazines about a nanosecond after we finished them, so I didn't have a lot of choice when it came to finding something to incorporate. I decided to cut out the word 'Home' from this flyer.



Step Five - Distressed the word and also painted a little chipboard bird.





Step Six - I stamped 'Home Bird' all over the bookmark. I also smeared a little texture paste (which had blue paint added to it) randomly about.

I finished the bookmark up with some bird stamps from Dyan Reavely and some bakers twine/ribbon through a punched hole in the top.


I'm quite happy with it I'll boastfully admit - but to be honest I realised afterwards I shouldn't have added the chipboard bird - it's too dimensional for a bookmark! I'll be leaving dents in my pages!

There you go! Hope you like it :)

5 comments:

  1. Fabulous bookmarker, thanks so much for taking part in the challenge!!

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  2. like it?? LOVE it! thank you so much for playing with us!

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  3. oh, you are so creative. I really like you bookmark :)

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  4. Love this hun xx I didnt see this post for some reason xxxx

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