AAJ1 Challenge 10 & 11 - Altered Art Journal Challenge

April and May 2013 Challenge
Must include:

• There shall be a window between the two pages. 
• April is orange with fabric.
• May is yellow with a border.

APRIL
Top Book = Zoo, Bottom book = Red Bear

Red Bear had picked up some natural ephemera on one of her walks.  She used one of them to paint the meandering word tracks on her left orange page and around the window on her right orange page.

I just figured out that her bird is sandwiched between two layers of translucent-something and is in fact suspended inside her window.  How have I not known that all these years?

I decided to have fabric and borders on both pages. Used my Spellbinders Nestabilities Rectangle and Scalloped Oval dies. The fabric elements are the scalloped ovals under each flower page and the text frames on the window pages.

The same fabric was used for both months. April fabric was coloured with acrylic paint and fabric medium for the orange pages. This also stiffened the fabric so it went through the die cutter easily.

My April Butterflies: I wet the butterfly body and molded it around a reed. I held it in place with a binder clip while drying to give the body a cylindrical shape and to pinch in the wings against the base of the body.

The body was coloured with black and cold grey PITT pens and highlighted with GAC.
Gluing my die cut tissue paper window frames was an exercise in patience.

MAY
Top Book = Zoo, Bottom book = Red Bear

This was when Red Bear fell in love with spreading chalk around a Versa-mark/clear stamp inked image and rubbing the chalk into the ink and spreading it over the page.  She pretty much uses this technique every chance she gets now!  I think she learned this in her card class or maybe from a YouTube video.

My May Butterflies: Once glued to the page I used a Sakura Gelly Roll Black Glaze pen to define the butterfly bodies and when that was dry, covered it with GAC. [Inkadinkado Glossy Accents - Clear]

The text frame is 100% cotton fabric, pre-washed, with a fusible backing attached then die-cut with a Spellbinders rectangle die.

Gluing tissue paper frames on Flickr, orange, yellow.