Altered Book Layouts in Fun, Muted Colours: Collage + Mixed Media
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Thank you from the bottom of my ink-smudged heart for all of your supportive words and thoughts. It means more to me than I can say. I was also surprised and delighted to see so many comments with a hearty YES to more altered books. So today I have two more collage and mixed media layouts in my latest altered book.
The book is a vintage bank book I bought in Turin in Italy. The stamped pages make great backgrounds for collage. You can find the free, printable version of the book here on my website:
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Kelly
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Loved the blue napkin/yellow bird. I was thinking no to the butterfly, but the spot where it landed was just right! Thanks for sharing your process, very helpful.💐
Hi Sandy, it is my real pleasure. It was also just a treat to do nothing but play around with the pages yesterday. My idea of paradise! Kelly
More gorgeous layouts in my favourite repurposed book ❤✂Yes, we have TK Maxx in Australia!
Hey hey! Who knew??? I love that place but it's dangerous. 😎😎
A very nice sized project. I like the yellow bird branch followed on in the opposite page in a way. The cormorant was lovely too. It is hard to make decisions and I too feel a fear when using or incorporating vintage papers. Often it’s because it feels personal, I am using someone’s story/correspondence!
Well, using original papers takes a leap but you can get used to it. I do keep every, single, little bit of scraps to use in collage or smaller projects, though. But then again, most of the stuff I am using are old legal documents. It would be different if they were love letters or something like.
I like and follow many crafters and artists, but your style inspires me because it's closest to my own. My progress is slow because I struggle with permanently altering vintage items, but I enjoy the process. You are such an inspiration.
Why thank you, Susu. This means a lot to me. I understand about the process when using original pieces. It is one of the reasons that my altered books take weeks or months to make. Last year I started to make art journal pages in a blank sketchbook and easy-to-find images from magazines and coffee table books and really enjoy just slapping stuff down and layering and making a mess and seeing where it goes as it makes a change from the planned and replanned altered book pages. Of course, what I learn in the art journal stuff informs what I end up making in the altered books. And you?
Love your videos! I think the napkin is from VanGogh's almond blossoms.
Thank you, Sunnie. And I believe you are right. TKMaxx had a bunch of napkins from museum gift shops and I went nuts.
Such beautiful layouts again! This booklet will be small masterpiece once it's completed. Thanks for showing!
Thank you so much, Centi. I knew when I picked this book out of a box of stuff that it would be special. All that texture and ink. I am having a lot of fun making it, too. Now for the covers!
You had me at yellow roses. Love this. Will you sell this when you are finished?
As usual so inspiring.
You are a far superior artist to me but if it was me I wouldn’t touch the outside covers. I love the way they are.
Sue, Australia
Hello Sue and thank you for this lovely message. As for the book and if I am selling it, would you mind sending me an email at kelly@bookandpaperarts.com The answer is complicated 😮 and I am afraid it will come out wrong in a short comment. (Sorry to be so mysterious! It's just that it is and it isn't.) Anyway, I will be thinking about the covers soon. Thank you very much for the feedback - I really do like comparing notes and ideas. 🦋Kelly
Beautiful layouts Kelly. It's always a blast listening to your thoughts out loud! Thank you so very much.
Thank you, Lynn. It was a treat to just make pages!
I’m glad I discovered your videos. I like your style. I find many art journals too busy and layered where you use less ephemera yet results are beautiful. I also like how you step by step us through the choices you make of each piece you add and why.
Thank you so much. This is truly nice to hear. It's been a couple of years since I discovered I could teach making layouts by showing what doesn't end up on the page but it seems to work!
You gave me a good laugh when you were making the birds talk to each other! 😊 Thank you for sharing the printables!
Hi Lori, it is my real pleasure. And here's to birds chitchatting! 🐤🐤
Always love your layouts. And get lots of ideas. Thank you
Thank you so, Dorothea! That is truly nice to hear. 🌻🌻🌼🌼🌷🌷Kelly
❤ the textures & layering in your layouts.
Happy Fall 🍁
Thanks bunches, Nola. Do you have Autumn in Texas? When I lived on the coast of Mississippi we had one season year-round and that was Hot. Wearing sweaters in January was quite the thing for making us feel wintery. 😎
Nice one . Hope you & yours is well Peter Scotland xxx
Thanks bunches, Peter. We are well and Wales is unusually sunny. Hope the same for you!
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who 'over-plans' my layouts. I audition so many pieces, that I forget half of it. I started taking photos now, to compare and remember what I did 🤣 Love how you 'play' with your pieces (the birds talking) - had a good giggle
Yes! I sometimes photograph possible layouts because I know that three days later my brain will hate me. I guess it's because if I'm making a layout in a vintage book using original pieces then with each layout the stakes get higher, and more than once I get 2/3s through a book (weeks worth) and it either breaks on me or I glue in a layout upside-down (that was a bad day) and so the planning and re-planning becomes a thing. And you?
@@BookandPaperArts Yeah, I've glued upside down too - haha... I struggle with collage most of the time, then I just leave it a bit and when I come back the pieces 'speak to me' - not always though.. I will keep practicing. It's not as easy as people might think...
I started teaching collage when I was on the design team at The Graphics Fairy and they said they had had a lot of requests for collage advice on where to put their elements. That seemed so obvious I could hardly believe it but as I have been teaching it a few years now, I have found that the best way to show where and how things go is to explain where and how they didn't go. It really seems to help. You are right, walking away from it for a time is a good strategy, too.@@TimelessTreasuresByV
I love your altered book layouts/layers/mixed media technology! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Sharon. This is truly nice to hear. 🌻🌻🌼🌼🌷🌷Kelly
Always love your pages and ideas
Thank you, Jessica. That is truly nice to hear. 😺😺Kelly
It's so funny to hear you say "Modge Podge" which is what I called it for years!
Well, for my money Modge Podge is pretty much just glue and water but so many people swear by it that it gets a regular namecheck. 😺
Hmmm, in the U.S. the name is "Mod Podge", not Modge... 😉@@BookandPaperArts
What the what? Oh my, I feel goofy now. But thanks for the heads up!@@johnkblanchard
This is such a well done book.. you did an awesome job of carrying your theme throughout your book..
Thank you, Mitch. The more I make the more I understand about holding the whole thing together. It's not essential but it feels sound. 🦋🦋Kelly
Fabulous an beautiful! 💙💚💙
Thanks bunches, Barry. It is getting there!
So beautiful! 💛
Thank you so!🌻🌻🌼🌼🌷🌷
I only want to say this: you showing several layout options, what works and what doesn’t, really helps us with our own layouts, at least it helps me. Thanks for always inspiring me 💙♥️🧡💚🖤💗❤️💛💜
Thank you, Alexandra. It is funny that what doesn't get used is such a powerful way of teaching but there it is. I hope you are having a creative week, my dear. 🌻🌻🌼🌼🌷🌷
Thank you
Coral, it is my real pleasure. 🌻🌻🌼🌼🌷🌷Kelly
Love your bird conversations!😁
Thanks bunches, Katie. One of my favourite, improbable saint stories is about Christina the Astonishing who could speak to birds in their language. If it isn't true it ought to be.
@@BookandPaperArts Oh, I’ll have to look her up. I talk to birds - all animals, actually, in my language (American English). Not sure they always understand but they certainly pay attention!😁
I like it. I talk to trees and sometimes lichen. I hope it will not sound blasphemous (not meant that way) if I say I sometimes wonder if God speaks lichen. Old time and all that.@@katiehanrahan5293
@@BookandPaperArts Not blasphemous at all. I’ve no doubt there is Spirit in all living things and we are just a part of that large and wondrous web.
Amen.@@katiehanrahan5293
adorable 😍