Small Wonder

Hello crafty friends..

Welcome to another month and I am back with my altered art project for Rhedd’s Creative Spirit. You can make anything but a card but altered art or mixed media only.

I have today a shabby book to share with you! It’s the size of a palm and unravels a big SURRISE in the end!

The book cover is a shabby chic style...after a long time from my side. For the cover, I dry embossed a white CS and then used DI peacock feathers to color it. Then took another scrap PP from Prime Sunrise Sunset pack and created texture with crackle texture paste. Once dry, I sprayed in some green and blue inks randomly.

I then decoupaged this lovely napkin onto this paper and then dabbed on some gesso on the sides.

The spine is using Tyvek paper and then I covered it with this pretty lace, (my prize win at Lessology). I inked the edges of the lace with tea dye DI and pierced an eyelet to hang this cute bottle charm. 

I have filled it with colored white sand. I colored white sand with peacock feathers DI. Love that color and some wooden beads and some silver charms give it thet perfect girlie look! The ornate metal corner is colored with silver alcohol inks too. I named the book “Small wonder”.

Ready for the ride ahead????

I shall now open the book and you can see the first SURPRISE...well, its not a book here!

 I altered a tin box to look like a book! On the lid i have a frame where I have used resist technique to color. I heat embossed a pattern with clear embossing powder and then mopped up the colors mustard seed, crushed olive and peacock feathers from the craft mat!

Well that not it...There is another SURPRISE inside this book.

Out comes a mini book...no ordinary book. Its a mini star book. It says “Short Stories” cos i have used the pages inside to showcase my daughter’s childhood photographs and against each picture I have these one line quotes from Inkadinkado.

There are 3 layers to this star book and on the final later I have used PP from Prima sunrise sunset stack and have done some stamping around the pages.

The colors in pink and yellow urged me to use up some more lace for the base of the page! It surely looks pretty with all that dressing, lol!

 Once the pictures and the quotes came in, it becomes an attractive display.

The advantage of a start book is that it can be a display on table or can be closed into a book at any time!

My daughter loved seeing herself in my craft project today! I hope you enjoyed too and play along with our challenge. Do drop in to see what the team has to show you.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

 I would like to have my “small wonder” enter the following challenges.
The Crazy Challenge- Shabby chic
Dream valley Challenge- recipe-Lace, pink, embossing
That Craft Place- Ag mixed media
Loves to Create Challenge- Ag mixed media
Lessology- Its reading time ( up cycled tin box)

Until my next creative Journey,

Happy crafting and re cycling.

Cheers.