Inspiration Avenue: TIME

Can Maggie really be serious?  TIME?  TIME? This week's Inspiration Avenue challenge is time?  What could be more perfect than time! 

So let's step back in TIME and I'll show you a few of my favorite spreads from my Time Altered Book (AB).  If these photos appeal to you, and you want to see more, there is a link on my right sidebar that will take you to the entire AB.

Open the cover and step inside the pages of Time, the book.

Although this page seems to be falling apart because of poor adhesives, I'm fairly certain you can read the quote, which led to the Memories and Dreams I created from stickers.

This was one of those "extra" tip-in pages I made for a "Memories swap.   I started to cut the image from the tip-in, then realized how much I liked the background and the dry brushing I used over the image.  Silly me had already started the cut when I realized I should keep it intact.  I used a bit of green scrim for the backing. 

 

Maggie gave us many quotes to help inspire us.  I had a few, too.

What happens when you are trying to run a ring of gold leafing around a CD and the ink suddenly floods out?  You make the best of it by making it appear to be planned.  I was so lucky to have found these old calendar pages I printed out on a weekly basis from when I was in grad school.  It appears I never throw anything away.  Seems these were the remains of my birthday party.  In reality, most of this trash was leftover bits and pieces from the vinyl letters I used and were on my craft table at the time I created this page.  A genuine "flopportunity."

It would have been so much more enjoyable to see these two pages together.  The yarn is only attached at the two ends and under the airplane.  The yarn flops free otherwise.  I must have had a lot of extra CDs when I was making this AB.  The metallic blue and red paints were both scraped onto the background, while both CDs were covered with portions of a mileage map.

 

Another two page spread, this time with no CDs (grin).  The calendar on the left page is framed with four 10 cent stamps with the words "TIME FRAME" created in vinyl letters.  The frame on the right is composed of calendar pages, while the picture is an actual postcard by a famous artist.  Do you know who the artist is?

It was hard for me to edit the 95 spreads in the book down to just a few. And I had a lot of favorites.   I can't even classify some of the ones I showed as favorites.  But I thought they were probably representational of TIME.

I hope I didn't waste your TIME and you'll also visit Inspiration Avenue for links to other participants.