Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Glue Journal - Red



Once again, I sat down with my paper scrap pile and Smash book.  (This is becoming a fun challenge.) These were all scraps -- the old text sheet was painted with a white-wash that I never used.  The French newspaper came from my friend, Linda.  The red paper in the lower left was made by me.  I took red craft paper and stamped with a cherry blossom rubber stamp dipped in bleach; then I added squishes of gold metallic acrylic paint.  I always liked this paper, so there was a scrap to include here. The frond was an experiment when I took Michelle Ward's Frond Chronicles class.  We cut our own stencils...so instead of stenciling I traced the stencil onto scrapbook paper and cut out a beautiful frond.  It didn't work at the time, but found a home here.  Read more here.

Thanks for visiting, and thanks for including me in the Glue It Tuesday fun!

Linking to Artsyville's Glue It Tuesday.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful page...I live the shape of the frond, and the French newspaper really adds to it!
Lynn

Jo said...

Nice page, B.

storybeader said...

the colors look fabulous together. Beautiful scraps. Love your papermaking! {:-Deb

Beansieleigh said...

"Artist"!! Yes, you ARE!! (0; Beautiful page, Betsy!.. Have a great day! ~tina

Cheryl Gee said...

Nice work. You inspired me to sit with my paper pile now and think of something to do with them!

Sam @ Thrive 360 Living said...

Beautiful colors and composition! Love it.

Linda Kunsman said...

LOVE those touches of red and the French of course :)

Anonymous said...

Love that organic shape growing on the foreground. Marvelous!
~Dawn

Deborah Weber said...

This is a lovely page and I loved hearing the stories behind some of the elements. Your frond is fabulous.

GalleryJuana said...

I love how this came together! Cool technique with the bleached paper. And thank you for the bonjour suggestion.

Textile Recycler said...

Divine design!

aimee said...

oh, the composition of this is wonderful! it all goes together so well!

Anonymous said...

I really love this page! Nice job :)
Happy GIT
Jana