Altered Book Lover: A tarot card in my Hands AB

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

A tarot card in my Hands AB

This spread came about as a result of three disparate incidences.
1. Linda Findley gifted me with this lovely tarot card.
2. My Wichita art buddy Dana's latest project involved cutting squares and turning them into a frame.
3. Seth Apter created a travel journal that I thought looked like it was made from handmade paper. Although Seth assured me it was cold press watercolor paper, it got me thinking I don't use my handmade paper enough in my art.

Since I don't have red paint that is truly RED like in the tarot card, I went to my magazines and found images of Tiffany lamps that had the yellows, reds, and greens found in the card.

I began by laying down some of my green handmade paper, which didn't turn out so green in the scan, then added the small squares which I purposely didn't try to line up in a matchy-matchy way. Finally, I added the tarot card and fell in love with this simple spread.

7 thoughtful remarks:

Linda Manning Findley said... 1: looks good "E" ... wish I had time to read all of your blog ... keep putting all this great stuff out there I will get caught up sometime soon ..... Linda F; 9:01 AM, July 15, 2009
Dianne said... 2: wonderful! yes, your handmade paper should show up more often!; 8:38 PM, July 15, 2009
Debrina said... 3: This is fantastic stuff! Boy am I glad I found you and Bleubeard!!!; 4:59 AM, July 16, 2009
Anonymous said... 4: this is fabulous! i'm so glad i came to check you out.

did you make the paper yourself?; 7:01 PM, July 16, 2009
Julie said... 5: Great treasure..isn't this fun?; 10:31 PM, July 16, 2009
KV Creative Designs said... 6: Your Journal looks Awesome! Thank you for your kind words about my ASL bracelet.
Artful Blessings,
Kathryn; 2:57 AM, July 17, 2009
Mary S. Hunt said... 7: this turned out really nice! we should all use our special stuff more often
then
make more!
you have me thinking!!; 10:05 AM, July 19, 2009

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