Damaged By Salt Water

When I got started on my travel tags I posted to my blog about my art process, with the full intent of coming back and sharing how the rest of the creating went.  Unfortunately I procrastinated until the last minute and totally forgot about that promise until just now!  But that’s okay, I didn’t do too much more and it’s easy to share what/how I did it.

The original post can be found here:

http://pennywisearts.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-is-process.html

And this is where we left off:

In fact, my table still looks very much the same!  M.E.S.S.Y. Ü

Here is the seashell wave I made using Sure Tac glue, shells and clear micro beads:

When it was dry I took a bottle of alcohol ink and just squeezed drops over it all, letting the ink run wherever and however it wanted to.  Deciding that it needed more interest and dimension, I went back over it again just touching some of the shells with a drop of a darker ink color as well as some with a pearl color.

The acetate waves were applied to the tag with huge dimensional glue dots to raise them up off the page and make it “fat”.  I love that they are clear as well, so hardly show at all.

Once they were on the page I hit the edges of the acetate with a heat tool causing them to buckle and curl just a little.  I really liked the effect!  It really made the waves look more realistic!

Next I glued a fancy bead trim across the bottom of each tag:

Baby tags were cut with my Cricut to mimic the same shape as the big tag and embossed with one of my favorite verses in a sparkly glitter embossing powder:

The backs papers were also cut with my Cricut and I spritzed with water to nearly soaking.  Then I sprinkled table salt all over them and let them dry completely.  Then I took my finger and rubbed at the paper until some of the fibers rubbed away and tore. To pull some of the purples in I spritzed some eggplant color wash randomly and stamped “Damaged by Salt Water” across the back. 

Stamp Credit:  Nick Bantock

Here’s the final product of my travel tags for the fat book:

It was a fun process that spanned a couple of months.  Being a social crafter I always found it easier to create when I had company over.  I am grateful to all of the gals who helped contribute thoughts, ideas and opinions and to Leola for helping me redo the little tags three times to get them perfect!  Ü

Explore

Diane Walter is sure to keep us all from getting lost with these spiffy compass pages!

It’s hard to show in the picture but the back of Diane’s tags look just like a real luggage tag with the cut out border and acetate over her info!  (Of course for privacy reasons I had to block out some of her information.)

G’day!

Cathy Varner takes us on a little trip to “Oz” with her fun “down under” theme:

Are we there yet?  I so wish we were!

You Are Here

This page was created by Annette Lanker.  Famous for her use of micro beads and bling Annette’s collage is wild and fun!

Whenever anyone does something interesting on the back of their page I like to show that too!

See The World Fat Book Swap

I’ve started the process of photographing the fabulous artwork from our most recent fat book swap on the PennywiseArts yahoo group! 

Here is the first teaser,…. My book (I know it’s mine because my page is on the top!) Ü

I’m excited to share the rest of the pages with you! Hang on!!

Clipboard Minis

A couple of years ago I saw these darling little mini clipboards for sale on eBay.  I purchased a dozen and then forgot I had them until Marianne’s design team package arrived! 

These tiny little guys only measure about 2” by 3” (that’s my best estimate without getting up from my seat to actually go measure).  The clips actually work and they have a cute little ball chain attached for adding to other things.  hmmmmm…… the wheels of my brain are turning,…. wouldn’t that be a fun thing to add to a fat book!?

Marianne sent some blank ones too – and I’ve added them to the treasure box of prizes that we’ll be awarding on our next blog hop!

Thank You For Being A Friend

Marianne Colschen has been my friend since the early, early days of Pennywise.  She is an amazing support to our creative endeavors and has worked many conventions by my side.  I appreciate her for her kindness, her friendship, her creativity and her fearless rattle snake skinnin’ heart!  (You’ll have to ask her about that story sometime….)   Ü

Thanks for being such a good friend Marianne, and for making this bubble beaded card for the blog too!  Ü

Marianne and me at ARTS 2004