Altered Composition Books.

May 11th, 2009

I’m sorry to say that I’m a bit of a procrastinator……can anyone relate to that? Probably not, right? Anyway, I bought this iron-on patch thingie to put on a T-shirt for my daughter and it sat in my studio for SO LONG that now the T-shirt is too small. Yeah…..probably a year. I’m not saying I’m proud of this quality of mine….in fact I make myself NUTS, but there it is. So the other day I’m cleaning and ruthlessly just throwing crap away and I come across this planned project and admit to myself that it’s never going to get ironed on to that shirt (and now I would have to go one step further and BUY another shirt!), but dammit I’m gonna use that patch if it kills me! So I decided to make my daughter an altered composition book/journal/whatever you wanna call it people. And here it is. She loves to write and she was thrilled with it. And I FINALLY did something with the skull patch. Yay me!

This next journal is for a special friend, who shall remain nameless but who if she reads the blog today will know without a doubt that this book is for her. Watch your mailbox girlfriend. I got a vintage comic book from ebay and (GASP) tore the pages out of it to cover this book. I covered front, back, and both the inside covers with the pages. I sure hope she likes it.

And this one……this one is for Natalie. I wrote about her before here and here. She is my 18-year-old cousin who since March 15 has been in the hospital lucky to be alive. She has been working her ass off to just BREATHE and get off of that respirator. I made her a card a while back and showed it here so I went with the same theme as that to be all matchy. haha She is still on the wings of angels and I hope and pray that she stays there.

The wings were made with alcohol inks on my first time trying them out and seeing how they work. And considering I didn’t know what the hell I was doing and was learning to use the inks as I went, I think they turned out pretty cool. Natalie’s favorite colors are lime green and hot pink, and these are really a purplish and a tealish color but they were as close as I could get.

I really only found the alcohol inks in about half a dozen colors, and I want more than that selection. Do any of you know if they come in other colors that I just haven’t found yet? For Natalie’s and Summer’s journals I used the My Minds Eye “Laundry Line” paper. It’s so pretty in real life, just a hint of sparkle in there. I love it.