Kitchen Notice boards as altered art style layout, step by step guide

Last night I was looking at the jumbled mess of the ephemera from the noticeboard I blogged about earlier and decided I had to do something with it. As the materials I had were messy, distressed and not great pics I decided they needed a different and too me - totally new approach. I have been watching too many Donna Downey Inspiration Wednesday videos and have been inspired by her anything goes style. I photographed the process so here it is in all its messy glory.

Step 1 - I cut and stuck what I had onto white card (ever thrifty, it came from inside page protector). Many people would stop there but I just felt it needed so much more...

Step 2 - I mixed up some pva glue with dark blue acrylic paint and painted all over the page and then I switched to red acrylic paint.

Step 3 - I covered a corner of the page in pva glue and then stuck a sequin string that had fallen off a

bracelet. Then I got out the oil pastels and using a scalpel flicked bits onto the glue, then smudged it with my fingers. Super messy but great fun.

Step 4 - I took some glass beads I had stuck into a jam jar lid with pva glue (and left to set) the night before, prised them out with my scalpel and added to the page.

Step 5 - I had some yellowish Laura Ashley flock rub ons and I added these to different areas of the page. Then I took my aqua pro markers, coloured them in and wet them with a pva water solution. I then dabbed off some of the excess with a tissue (I did something to the tissue after that but that if for another day).

Step 6 - I added some staples and rub ons plus a musical chipboard note that I distressed and stamped. Finally I stuck on a butterfly that used to decorate a pair of shoes but had got knocked off.

Kitchen Notice boards and the strange things they attract

Our Kitchen Notice board 8 December 2009 – What a Random Collection?

 We moved house on 10th December 2009 and one of the last things I did was pull off the contents of the two Ikea notice boards and throw them into a canvas bag. I was investigating the contents of that bag today as I knew it contained an assortment of stuff and thought I might find my missing diary in there. I didn’t find that but what I did find was the following…

 5 Russian Items

• 100 rouble note
• No smoking sign
• A postcard of St Petersburg
• Another “propaganda” style postcard
• A brochure from the submarine restaurant in St Petersburg 
• 6 Photographs

• A photograph of my nephew from 2003
• 3 successive photographs of my niece and nephew sent as a thank you for Christmas presents.
• A photograph of my niece in primary one
• A photograph of the sail of my dad’s boat taken on a trip to Knoydart.

5 Tickets

• Concert at Glasgow Green with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Eminem and others
• T in the Park 2004
• T in the Park 2005
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers at Hampden 2008
• A ticket to Alwnick Gardens in Northumberland

1 postcard from Milan

1 school computer drawing when youngest daughter was in primary school.

I was wondering what on earth this all means and I am struggling to make sense of it. I wonder if other people have such a collection of random items on their notice boards? Why not take a picture of your notice board and send me the link. I think it might suggest that I collect ephemera for scrapping without even consciously thinking about it. What does it say about me? I like to travel. I enjoy looking at photos of family members. I enjoy going to music concerts. I sometimes hold onto pictures created by my children. I must turn this into a scrapbook page – but there is so much stuff. Do I photograph each item? Create a double page LO collage or…