"Art is my vehicle through life; may we share the ride together." Ron Wickersham

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Another Round Robin Page

Here are the pages I finished this week for Debbie's book. Her theme is "Family Tree" and she wanted us to add photos of our immediate family. She used a chipboard flower-shaped book which she covered in Basic Grey papers.

I drew the tree shape freehand and colored it in with a marker. Then I scribbled brown Liquid Applique inside the shape and heated it with a heat gun. It puffed up and looks very barklike. I had found the quote in a catalog and knew immediately I wanted to use it for my page. I intended to stamp it, but I liked the look of the white letters on the darker background and ended up cutting the word blocks and using them as is.

I punched the photos, glued them to flattened bottle caps and applied a coat of Diamond Glaze over the top. Can you believe of all the stamps I own I didn't have one family-themed stamp! I did find a $1 clear stamp set for the word family and for the little tag at the top on the back. The hardest part of this project was finding current photos of everyone!


3 comments:

Linda Manning Findley said...

Susan wonderful .... you and DH and the kids ...... Linda F

Denise said...

Susan this is really cool love the technique on the tree and the bottle caps worked great, It is always the stamp we need that just doesnt seem to be in our stash, I only sy that cuz always is the way it works for me!...LOL
Denise

SewPaperPaint said...

This is such a cool page.
~ Autumn Clark