Altered Notebook 1 by Nikki Acton

Hi everyone. I recently found a couple of cheap notebooks I had bought and left lying around my craft room! I decided I should alter them. Today’s project is the first of these and tomorrow for the new challenge I will share the second one.

I started by placing a piece of copy paper between the cover and the inside pages to avoid getting paint on the inside lined paper and giving the covers a coat of black gesso. I took the large That’s Crafty! Fossil stencil and sponged PaperArtsy Chalk coloured Fresco paint over the front and back cover. Once this was dry I repeated with DecoArt Fluid Acrylic Dioxazine Purple. 

I added black gesso to piece of white card and embossed with a folder from my stash. I lightly sanded the surface to reveal some of the white underneath and then added a Quinacridone Magenta wash. I stamped one of the quotes from Tim Holtz Motivation stamp set in Black Archival and added a wash of the pink/purple paints.

Finally I took some of the That’s Crafty! greyboard butterflies and stippled a little gesso for texture before painting the same colours.

I adhered my layers to the surface of the book and once dry coated in matt varnish.

Version 2 is a little more grungy so do stop by Addicted to Art tomorrow for all the details!

See you next week!

Nikki

Addicted to Art.

Supplies

That's Crafty! 8ins x 8ins Stencil - Fossil - TC8008

Embossing Folder

That's Crafty! Black Gesso

DecoArt White Gesso

DecoArt Matte Medium

DecoArt Fluid Acrylics - Dioxazine Purple and Quinacridone Magenta

Tim Holtz Cling Mounted Stamp Set - Motivation 3 - CMS291

Ranger Archival Ink – Black

That's Crafty! Surfaces Bits and Pieces Greyboard Sheet - Small Butterflies and Dragonflies

That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive Pen

DecoArt Media Ultra-Matte Varnish