Page 35, "Worn Cover" is the subject of challenge #13 from the Tim Holtz Book, Compendium of Curiosities 3! This challenge is being hosted by Linda Ledbetter at her blog Studio L3 and sponsored by The Inspiration Emporium. A requirement of this challenge is to use the technique as described on the book, and, of course, to not reveal the technique (You should buy the book yourself if you are interested... it's worth every penny and Tim Holtz will even autograph it for you!).
Again, I have a back story for this challenge. In June and July of this year, my husband planned to attend the national convention of the American Hemerocallis Society (daylilies for the uninitiated) in Asheville, NC. Since we have friends (ranging from daylily hybridizers to college buddies to former work colleagues) scattered along the East coast from South Carolina through West Virginia, it seemed a good time for a road trip with the convention as the centerpiece. Now I'm not an avid daylily person, and touring daylily farms wasn't high on my list of activities to participate in, but we could manage to fit in a lot of visiting, good food and visits to historic sights as well if we extended this trip to visit all our friends, so I signed on. It wasn't a cheap holiday, but it was an epic one --- nine states in 13 days!
I won't bore you with the details here (For a detailed description, check out my blog posts for June 25, July
2 and July 9) but I did collect ephemera and took photographs along the way, as is my wont. Usually, however, such collections end up in a manila envelope in a box somewhere and that is the end of it. But I decided to use this challenge to create a small souvenir book of that road trip.
Since there was no single technique to be used, the creation of the basic book cover should be pretty self-explanatory. The materials I used were:
Tools included the Frameworks "Trellis" and the Distress Marker Spritzer, as well as the usual craft knives, scissors, rulers, paint brushes and craft sticks!
Here is the front cover:
Again, I have a back story for this challenge. In June and July of this year, my husband planned to attend the national convention of the American Hemerocallis Society (daylilies for the uninitiated) in Asheville, NC. Since we have friends (ranging from daylily hybridizers to college buddies to former work colleagues) scattered along the East coast from South Carolina through West Virginia, it seemed a good time for a road trip with the convention as the centerpiece. Now I'm not an avid daylily person, and touring daylily farms wasn't high on my list of activities to participate in, but we could manage to fit in a lot of visiting, good food and visits to historic sights as well if we extended this trip to visit all our friends, so I signed on. It wasn't a cheap holiday, but it was an epic one --- nine states in 13 days!
I won't bore you with the details here (For a detailed description, check out my blog posts for June 25, July
2 and July 9) but I did collect ephemera and took photographs along the way, as is my wont. Usually, however, such collections end up in a manila envelope in a box somewhere and that is the end of it. But I decided to use this challenge to create a small souvenir book of that road trip.
Since there was no single technique to be used, the creation of the basic book cover should be pretty self-explanatory. The materials I used were:
- Distress Inks ; Black Soot, Antique Linen and Vintage Photo
- Distressed Embossing Powder - Peeled Paint
- Distressed Markers - Gathered Twigs, Forest Moss, Peeled Paint and Squeezed Marmalade
- Card Stock - Paper Stash 6 x 6 "Menagerie, Lasting Impressions "Gardener's Diary" and Bazil forest green
- Remnant rubs - "Elements"
- Stamp - All-in-One INR-032-7 ("Daylily")
- Adhesives - Matte Medium and redline tape
Tools included the Frameworks "Trellis" and the Distress Marker Spritzer, as well as the usual craft knives, scissors, rulers, paint brushes and craft sticks!
Here is the front cover:
The label is cut from a page of a memo pad that was in the goodie bag at the convention, distressed with Antique Linen, spritzed with Gathered Twigs, mounted on the forest green card stock and then detailed with a Peeled Paint marker.
The flowers are photos form my husband's daylily garden, printed in matte ink onto matte photo paper and trimmed to fit the cover.
Here is the back cover --- I kept it simple:
Here is the interior, which includes printed and distressed itineraries for the trip, to be used and a sort of index for what I intend to fill the book with. Again, I kept it simple since I plan to fill this book with pages and didn't want embellishments to interfere with that:
I created some blank pages which I will ink up at a later date and use, along with pocket pages,
to display the ephemera I gathered along the way:
which I will use, along with selected photos taken on the trip, to create the album. Much will need to be scanned, reduced, trimmed and otherwise altered to fit in this small album but I hope it will serve a a pleasant reminder of two weeks spent with very good friends!
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