A magazine journal mishap, resurrection and moving on.

Remember this lady from my last posting.  I thought I was raising the artistic bar by incorporating raised images in this magazine journal......bad idea. Not only did it cause the spine to swell and twist, pages began to separate.  What a friggen mess.  Time to go to plan B.  

Plan B 

My thought was this spread had to go onto a firmer substrate.....

So I considered my sheets of 100 pound water color paper. 

 Nope.  Not large enough.

A back off a cereal box....blah.

A page of my huge altered cookbook journal.  

Just the thing. 

 So I set about laying the underpants using two sheets of vintage sheet music from my stash.... this paper was so old it almost crumbled when I ripped it into pieces.  So I added some not as old music paper from an old piano lesson book.  

Much better.  

I named this one "Hope is never lost".

  It was fitting as my first thought was to toss her in the bin.  

This save made me so happy that I sped off altering more pages, and guess what?  I forgot to take my before pictures.  Bugger!😡

So here they are.  

This page was damaged by the above mentioned twisting and ripping, so I seamed the pages back together with my good old sewing pattern paper.  Have I said often enough just how much I love using that paper?  What a nice golden texture it creates. 

This page had a lot of text to cover and I need to admit, at this point I have started to shy away from using paint for page coverage  in case it continues to make the papers separate from the spine....so more sewing machine paper.  For this spread  I decided on the placement of a storage pocket as these pages will not be able to used for journal writing.....I will place some decorative tags in the pocket to be used for that purpose.  

Named:  Find joy in the ordinary.

This page was also just holding on....so I bound the two pages together with a strip of cheese cloth and Mod Podge.  I also created a pocket on the left side instead of painting out the text completely.  I applied a thin layer of acrylic paint and rubbed the edges with Distress Ink.  

This "Follow your heart" spread comes with a ready made Valentine to share with your sweetie.  

How nice!

 This page was a challenge at first.  All it was was text with black and brown paint smudged on it.....what the heck?  So I chose the path of least resistance and grabbed my black paint pot and labeled the spread "Lost".  Seems fitting to me.

This spread was fun.  I painted out the text on the right with silver acrylic and while it was still wet wiped turquoise paint over the entire page with the very wet paint brush.  Once it was dry I added the little picture of stone in the upper left hand corner.  This  was from the tale of contents for the magazine.  The large pendant on the bottom right that was from my stash "from who knows where."  The word "hallelujah" was trimmed from the left side picture.  I then sprayed both pages with a turquoise spray and then the focal image with a clear texture spray.  If you run your hand across the page it feels like the stones and flowers have a light covering of sand on them. To add a little bling, I added half pearls to the pendants, blue half pearls to the flowers, and a blue flower shaped stone to the pendant at the top of the focal image.  

Very happy with how this turned out.😘

Then a brain wave hit me.......why not take pictures of all the pages that are left in the magazine so I won't forget next time.  Why didn't I think of this before.  

Grrrrrr.  😖😝This menopausal brain is annoying.  

So moving on......these are the other pages that I worked on between painting my kitchen cupboards and going out for coffee and a quick shop with my mom this Sunday- with before and in progress pictures, as I feel I will be coming back to these ones in the next few days.

The text was painted out with antique white acrylic paint.

 And I added two pictures from the "Facial Recognition" spread from the same magazine.  They blended in quite nicely I think.  I have yet to Stabilo the edges of this page....not sure what else might happen before I am through.

 Lots of text here that needed to be painted out.  Three thin layers of antique white acrylic did the job.
I am starting to feel comfortable using paint on these pages again.  I am being extra careful to use multiple thin layers and drying each layer before proceeding.  It seems to be working.

I over laid two of the images with larger versions found earlier in the magazine.....and I continued with the circles found in the original images using a wine cork and Distress Inks.  Not finished yet, but will have to think where I want to go with this one.

Another busy text page, but I like the colors used in the two images.  I am sure I will be adding more colors as the process continues....lots of bright yellow and purple.  It should be a fun page.  

More to come when I get a chance to go back to my table and play.😊