Loving Life with Mixed Media!

Hello Everyone!

It's Denise here today and I am sharing a mixed media project, an altered book canvas - Loving Life.

I took an old book, which I opened up and then adhered to the canvas.  I then used lots of gesso and covered the book and canvas, to keep it all nicely in place. I did not gesso over all the writing as I wanted some of it to show through.  I then added lots of ink and stamping to give it an aged and French Country look.

Here you can get an idea of how the gesso keeps the pages nicely in place and here's also a look at the quote on this book - "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back".

The 3 pink flowers I actually made.  The large pink one was made from layers of BoBunny petals and the 2 smaller ones, I layered die-cut flowers from patterned papers.  These layers were then spritzed with water, scrunched up and allowed to dry.  Once dried, they were carefully unfolded and opened.

I used a gorgeous heart laser chipboard and also did lots of fussy cutting for the various elements and layering.

I am absolutely in love with this Provence Collection and I absolutely love the French Country look.

I have lots of dreams and plans to convert my kitchen and dining room into French Country styling and this little piece has certainly fueled my energies to get going with it.

This "Loving Life" will certainly have it's place in my "little piece of French Heaven"!

Have a super day!

Denise x

BoBunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Provence, Cupboards, Elegance, French Quarter, My Secret Garden, Porcelain/ Provence
Jewels: Double Dot Mocha
Chipboard: Provence
Stamps: Wall to Wall Textures
Blossoms: Wildberry Daisy
Petals: The Avenues, Little Miss
Laser Cut Chipboard: Hearts

Beautiful Altered Books!

Hello BoBunny fans, it's Amy here on Off the Page Wednesday!

Beautiful Family Memories Altered Books by Amy Voorthuis

This time I altered some old books with the amazing Heritage collection. I went to a secondhand shop real close to my house and I saw some amazing books that I had to have.

I was wanting to make this for a very long time but I could not find the right collection for this.

First I used a couple of sheets from the collection and put those on the cover of the books. Later I took my favorite washi tape out and used them to cover the back of the books which is super easy.

On the lower book I used the pretty piano sheet sadly I stuck everything on top of that....later I wondered why didn't I use it for the top one, but then it was to late.

I had such fun making this off the page project.

If you noticed I used a couple of different alphabets, they are so much fun on every kind of project you make because you have bold letters, small letters in all kind of sizes.

The BoBunny Lace are so adorable and if you can get your hands on them I advise you to buy them because they look great on everything. For my books I used them to keep the books closed.

Here you see the Pocket Squares on my top book underneath it you see the stickable stencils clock used with the licorice pearlescents.

I hope I inspired you to make a wonderful new OTP project to display in your wonderful homes.

This project I will give to my mom who loves reading books do you think she will like it?

BoBunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Lifetime, Census, Register/Heritage
6x6 Paper Pad: Heritage
Pocket Squares: Heritage
Washi Tape: Kraft, Black & White
Pearlescents: Licorice, Sugar
Stickable Stencils: Love
Brads: Wild Card
Jewels: Double Dot Mocha
Lace: Natural Earth
Kraft Wood: Key's & Butterflies
Stickers: Licorice Alphabet, Tuxedo Alphabet, Combo Stickers Somewhere In Time
Blossoms: Natural Earth Zinnia, Natural Earth Pansy, Buttercup Pansy, Wildberry Pansy, Wildberry Bouquet