TRansfer with watercolor pencils

This is an easy way to make transfers. What you need:

watercolor pencils
a sheet of light weight paper
a surface to make a "frottage" (you can use rubber stamps too)
Elmers glue (in Brazil we use Elmers glue for everything!!!!)
water
Lay the paper over the surface and go over with the pencil to make the "frottage".
Then mix the Elmers glue with water (one part glue/one part water) and with a brush wet the surface you want the transfer. Lay the frottage over the glue mixture, press a little, remove the paper and it's done.

Altered book - How to - Part II

And here is the finished book. I used paper to make the cover, but you can paint it, if you want.
And here are the pages.
I used this bold colors because I want to make an altered book about the fifties and I think this colors will work well.

Altered book - how to

This is the way I prepare books I'll alter.
Take an ordinary book, glue (you can use Elmers glue or other of your choice), some paper sheets (not too heavy), foam roller.


Take 2 or tree pages from the book you will alter and glue the first page with the foam roller.
Lay a sheet of paper over it and press well, maybe with an old credit card.

Then glue the three pages together with this sheet (see picture above).
Make this on the entire book (see pic).

When you have finished that, cut pieces of paper and glue them over the pages which have not been glued before.

Now you can paint the cover and embellish it.

Playing with handcarved stamps

This is addicted! Carve your own rubberstamps, stamp it over various papers and made collages with them! It's a great exercise.

Rusty piece done!

And here the embellished rusty envelope!

Happy new year!

How to make our own rusty things

I love to work with iron and metal. But, there are many troubles to work with them. First they are heavy and how to glue them on a surface? The best way to work with this kind of stuff is to make "fake" rusty iron.

What you need:
carboard
raw umber acrylic paint
iron rusty kit
pencil, cissor, etc.

To make the envelope use one as template. Lay it over a cardboard sheet, cut it out and glue it in the form of an envelope.

Paint the whole surface with the acrylic paint. Let it dry and apply the rusty stuff. Let it dry again. With my brazilian rusty kit the more I wait, the better it will be. Easy, doesn't?
So the fever of rusty things take me and I have painted some coasters, and little pieces of resin.
The leg I made with Fimo and used the same procedure above.
Have fun!

Photo transfer on leather

I'm doing a book for a friend of mine. She was in South Afrika and I wanted to add a rustical touch to her book. Then I decided to transfer a photo on leather.
It's very easy.
You need a photo from printer or fotocopy, acrylic gel and of course a piece of leather.

You must smear a thick layer of acrylic gel on the photo. Really thick! Then put this photo on the piece of leather, smooth it very well and let it dry. Wet a piece of fabric and lay it over the backside of the photo. Very carefully go over with the fabric and "rubbel" the paper until you can see the photo.

Um dieses Fototransfer auf Leder zu machen, muss man so vorgehen wie auf ein Transfer auf Stoff.

Dazu braucht man ein Foto (Printer oder normale Kopie), Acrylic Gel und ein Stück Leder.
Zuerst muss man das Foto schön dick mit Gel beschmieren. Dann legt man diese Seite auf das Leder und lässt es total trocknen.
Dann nimmt man ein Stück Stoff, feuchtet es an und legt es erst mal auf die Hinterseite des Fotos, damit das Papier nass wird. Dann das Papier ganz sanft abrubbeln bis das Foto erscheint. Man muss vorsichtig vorgehen sonst verschwindet das Foto. Ich habe vorsichtshalber, nachdem das fertig war, nochmal Gel über das Foto gegeben.

Great Exercise

When I read the newspaper or a magazine I always have a scissor near and I cout out all the images and types I find interesting. Sometimes I glued the phrases I found on my journal considering only the form, not the mean. This is a great composition exercise that you could use later for your collage work.

Card Background

Michelle Ward suggested we use stencil to make cards background. I followed hers suggestion and made this background. It is a photocopie transfered to a sheet of paper. Over there I layered a stencil and then I "sprayed" it with acrylic and a toothbrush. I will make a collage over there.

Eigenes Grunge-Papier machen/ Make your own Grunge-Paper

Man kann leicht sein eigenes "altes" grungiges Papier herstellen.

1. Stück Papier zerknüllen. Am besten man nimmt nicht so dickes Papier, aber es eignet sich auch für


Cardboard.
1. Scrump a sheet of paper. Is better to use a fine sheet, but it works too with cardboard.

2. Auf dem zerknüllten Papier leicht mit einem Bleistift drübergehen. Man muss nur aufpassen, dass man die Bleichtiftstriche nicht so sieht, deshalb den Bleistift schräg halten.
2. Go over the scrumped paper with a pencil. Make sure to do it gently, to avoid pencil marks.

3. Papier glätten und mit dem Finger drübergehen, um die Bleistiftspuren zu verwischen. Geh noch mal mit dem Bleistif drüber, falls du es dunkler haben willst.
3. Straight the paper and go over the pencil strokes with the finger to smudge the paper. Repeat the procedure with the pencil if you want darker marks.

4. Auf eine Karte aufkleben. Wenn man dabei Zeitungspapier benutzt und "gum arabic" zum kleben entstehen dann auch so schöne, alte Spuren.
4. Glue the paper over a card. If you use "gum arabic" and newspaper paper, the gum arabic will aged it a little.

Acrylic x inks - Technique

I made this ATC for a while and I like the aged effect I get. Here you can see how I made it.

Embossing at brazilian way

Ir is very hard to find stamps, inks, embossing powder in Brazil. There are only few stores, and they don't have the gorgeous things we can find in USA, Europe... Sometimes I buy some stamps or collage sheets per Internet, but it is always a problem with the brazilian Post rules. We must pay to much for the delivery in USA and sometimes we must pay some charges in Brazil too.

So I made a kind of embossing with home a home made stamp (linol cut), a kind of brazilian silk dye (there are no fabric dyes in Brazil) and gold powder. It is not really an embossing, but I think the result is interesting.