It's been such a crazy busy time! No complaints really, I have been having the time of my life with workshops, preparing for them and getting together proposals for new classes. Unfortunately, it leaves very little time for actually working in my books. In the mean time, I have had to get off some collage sheets that were ordered from one of my classes. I went to 2 office supply stores that didn't have the cardboard mailers I wanted, so I decided to make them out of file folders. Of course I couldn't leave them "as is" and had a blast reworking them with supplies left on my work table from a project I am working on .... So much fun!
Today I did this spread in my "Tall Journal" that I started awhile back. I actually cut the stencil out of the Vitruvian Man for another project I am working on but decided to test it out in this journal first.
It's rather hard to tell, but I used a black glaze pen that gave the text written on the black background a raised somewhat shiny finish. It's difficult to capture in a photograph, but it adds a very nice yet subtle effect to the pages. Below is a photo of the pages with just the background before I started stenciling and writing on them.
