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Hi there. Zuzu here;
I am back for my second guest design team piece.
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I have begun to alter a book. It will be an ongoing project though so today I am going to share the cover and three inside pages with you. It started as a red scruffy leather (ish) little book of Shakespeare that's been having pages torn out and used in crafty makes for over a year.
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The theme is based ona Darwinian type explorer. A bit of travel and a bit of flora and fauna gathering and examining. (this is not to say they are always labeled correctly ;)
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As is almost always the case with me, this has been made to look very ancient and tatty scruffy and distressed. I deliberately don't stamp everything perfect and crisp as i want it to look distressed and flawed. THe Fly (known here as the Simpli-fly) is under a vintage glass optical lens and the "bird without wings" (which bears a startling resemblance to a snail), is under a microscope glass slide.
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Stamps used from The Artistic Stamper:
Travelling Words found
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Europe map background found
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Goose Grease found
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Calligraphy Mat 13 found
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Butterfly words found
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Insects and Butterflies No. 1 # 017 found
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Flourish Swirls found
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Other supplies available from The Artistic Stamper:
Distress inks : I used antique linen, vintage photo, fired brick, aged mahogany, pine needle, dusty concord, peeled paint.
Paint dabber: I used butterscotch.
Vintage Eyeglass: scroll down near the bottom.
Bigz Die Tiny tags and tabs: I used the wee tabs
Ideaology: I used a word stick, a game spinner and two metal corners.
11 comments:
You know I love everything you do and this is no exception! I love how it looks weathered and worn and all of your little details that make this journal so special!
That looks fabulous and so old!! I don't think I can tear up a book or do stuff to it but I admire thise who can, especially as nicely as this!!
Frankie
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always love all the detail you put into your pieces. Fab!
Great project and a super idea!
Excellent effects on your book....super project !!
thank you all.
Z x
This is lovely :))
Can i take a lesson in that tuffy scruffy technic? Omg....what a treasure. The look of the cover is breathtaking..and all the inside details...WOW
Elly
That is beautiful, I love it.
Brilliant & so inspiring! Love the tatty vintage look of it Zuzu! x
Fabby vintage/aged book. I wonder where the explorer will go next?
xoxo Sioux
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