I'm leaving tomorrow for Stowe, Vermont, for two weeks. My mom lives there still (I grew up there) and is turning 90 on Friday. She is having a big party for all her friends and I will be there to help.
Then the next week all my kids, their spouses, grand boys and my husband will arrive. We will be having a family celebration on the 23rd along with one of her two surviving, older sisters, a few nieces, two of my brother's kids and their significant others, and my two brothers. It will be quite the family reunion and a grand celebration of this very important milestone!
So I finished this altered book page today, though I should be packing! I won't be doing any art for the next few weeks so had to get my time in now. This page has a cutout with a suspended corrugated cardboard heart. (I followed this video of LorriMarie Jenkins.)
The heart is cut from a piece of corrugated cardboard with added rusty book pages and Distress Ink. The microscope slide on the front is one I've had for a long time and might have been received in a swap. I attached it with wire. On the back there is a vintage image cut from a scrapbook paper.
The background is collaged papers with texture paste through a stencil and watercolors.
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| Front of page with microscope slide attached with wire |
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| Back of page |
I love the effect of the suspended heart. Now I will need to create something very interesting on the pages before and after this one as they will peek through!
I'll be back in a few weeks...
2 comments:
love this Susan ... can't wait to see what else you do with the other pages ...
sounds like the reunion will be awesome ... safe travels and have a fab time ...
I read this the other day and immediately left a comment but for some crazy reason, it just kept sitting there and not moving.
I love the corrugated heart. It's perfect!
So happy for you to be able to still have your mom with you. What a treat to have the family with you to celebrate her day. Safe travels.
xo
SuZeQ
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