Stampotique 36 - Altering A Book

Wow this is my 250 th post. In celebration I will be giving away a book similar to the one I altered for this challenge. I will pick a random comment from this post next Sunday 21 August. Sorry there are a lot of photos in this post.
Valerie at Stampotique challenged us to alter a book. I had such fun with this one and ended up altering three pages in my book. The book was given to by my eldest son as he worked for the publisher when he was in Paris. I was going to give it to a niece or nephew but something told me I would want to play with it.
The book began life as this:

It has lots of different sized pages like the screen that  is a separate page

This made me think of changing rooms which are not places I like going into to.

I applied gesso to all the pages as they are quite thin and for that reason I used a mix of dylusion paints, inks, glimmer mists and water colour pro makers.

I tried adding some texture with the gesso

Inked, painted and coloured some of the existing elements on the page

Lots of ink dripping on this page

I stamped Stampotique's Olivia on card three times and then added her head and three sets of legs to the dress, I stamped dylusions Ruby Rainbow legs and Love Struck Lucy onto card and added them. I wrote the journalling on the paper that I had used to protect my pages and stuck it down. "Does my body look okay in this?" and "Why am I the wrong shape?"

I outlined the original girl and changed her clothing a little. On separate pieces of cards I stamped Stampotique's Angel Boy and Oh Dear on card and added the wings and Oh Dear the page,  then Ruby Rainbow in three layers. I also used my new stamps from Shady Tree Studios for borders and words. "Embrace your curves, bumps, lumps and imperfections!"

I used more border stamps from Shady trees and the number stamp from Paper Artsy. I drew a danger sign on card and added it to the page.

I hope you all embrace  your bodies - or maybe you are that rare breed and actually love your shape.

The book I'm giving away is Colour Your Way Round Russia. I will post more pictures in another posting to avoid too many pics.

Lush Birthday Stash - I love it!

My new stamp

My wonderful birthday stash

I had been trying to ignore my birthday as my brain was refusing to process my age - I normally (except when had flu) feel about 10 years younger than my actual age - plus I had been feeling so horrible that I didn't feel up to celebrating. However I began to feel a little better on Wednesday and when my birthday dawned the next day I was still feeling okay - 2 days in a row - a bit of a record for this month. I had a quiet day and was able to enjoy dinner with the family in the evening cooked by Lens Guy. I had left a  list of crafty supplies I was lusting after on my iphone and they checked it out, so I was delighted. I was trying out my new Boy Angel with Wings Stampotique stamp on scrap paper and decided to emboss him with mahogany distress powder and then colour him with my new pro markers and distress the background with new firebrick red distress ink. Then I was thinking of walls and making your own stamps so tried sketching a very vague brick shape on foam and defining it with a biro. I think this would work as a background.

Foam drawn into with a biro

It's rough and ready but I think it will make a goo background - very potato print like

Can you spot the luscious dylusion paints and red heart that shows I bought this from the wonderful Art from the Heart store. I am hoping to play with my new paints and other bits and pieces this afternoon but my lovely mum is coming for a visit so I might not get any time. I have also had to run around the house frantically cleaning so she won't mutter about the state of my house. How old am I?

pro markers

Wonderful packaging

There is coredinations card there too and a white gel pen to try