The Travel House

Today I'm joining Art Journal Journey whose theme for October, chosen by Sheila at Orange Esmeralda is Architecture and Moo-Mania (and More) whose theme this fortnight is Patterns, with a spread in my Houses altered book (AB).

I call this the "Travel House."   Each window represents a place I'd love to visit.  Ironically, when I was choosing these stamps I had been gifted with (they are from Hero Arts), I didn't realize they were actually depicted as postage stamps.  Missed my chance a few months back at AJJ, didn't I?  Today they represent windows of travel.

I chose various patterns for the Travel House, too, including the chimney and the patterned roof.  Most of you who visit my blog all the time know I don't doodle because I can't grip a pen or pencil.  This is the type of pattern I chose to show for Moo Mania, instead.

Don't you just love the name of the paint chip sample?  Oh, you're a dog lover?  That's OK, even dogs love Kitten Fluff.  Of course, I had to add a bit of sewing to the assembly, too.

I realize I made a MESS of these stamps, because the stamp pad I used was very juicy, and the paint chip samples have some sort of non-saturating material that keeps "floats" the ink on top of the chip.  I finally allowed the ink to dry overnight before I scanned the page.  I even redid the Italian one, but didn't have any more paint chips to redo the others.  The door is another pattern.  I love it and wish I had a larger piece.

One final look in my Houses AB, where the background was gessoed, the house was made of card stock, the windows of paint chip samples, the door, roof, and chimney of patterned paper, as well as three rubber stamps, deep blue pigment ink, and variegated thread.

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