Handy, part 2

If you missed the first part of this journal, you can find it here.    Before we begin, I want to show you what I keep getting every few minutes, or as I'm trying to leave a comment.

I can't seem to stay online.  Not sure you can tell, but on the far bottom right, this was taken yesterday afternoon after a particularly frustrating time trying to stay online.  For those of you I normally visit, you can see why I'm so far behind reaching out to you.  I DO apologize, but at least you can see I'm not making this up.

If you were here yesterday, you saw this is where we left off.

Here are the next two pages.  It's fairly obvious, even though the subject is hands, I'm also joining Valerie at Bastelmania, our host this month at Art Journal Journey, with her Geometric Shapes theme. 

I grabbed a couple of my old S & H green stamps to make the top photo look less like an ad in a trade magazine.  I was thrilled to find the other three images, too.  

In case you can't read it, the hand cut from sheet music I colored using one of my  handmade shimmering mists, reads "Hands of Time."   Therefore I added two clocks left over from my Time altered book.  By now you can probably tell how dry and cracked my hands are from washing them every few minutes (I'm a bit anal that way).

Need a hand? 

More gestures from the book I picked up.  Perhaps I could learn sign language while on this forced hiatus.

I had a page I used to test my mists, so cut it into rectangles to back the two "check please" images.

I dug into my security envelopes and found one that fit the background of these two "blah, blah, blah" images.  The page started with a page from a British newspaper I had been gifted. 

This is the final page.  It is attached to the first page I showed before.  It was definitely left over from my Hands AB.  Adding a few sewn images to the page contributed to the background.  Yes, that's a label from a Hershey's Caramel Kiss.

One of the first "stamps" I made years ago was with a potato.  I cut a large baking potato in half, patted it with a paper/kitchen towel, then allowed it to dry out for a day.  I pressed a hand shaped cookie cutter in one side and cut the outer portion away like you would if you were carving a stamp.  I turned the cutter upside down and did the same to the other half of the potato.  That's why one hand is marginally larger than the other.

I treated the potato stamp like any other solid stamp.  I started by inking it with VersaMark, which gave me time to use embossing powder on the ink.  From there, I used my heat tool to turn the powder into molten goodness.

For "Pointing Fingers" I used my ink jet printer and covered as much embossing powder as I could while the ink was still quite wet.

This is Day 6 of 22 and I finished my Hands journal.  Remember, you don't have to sew in these journals.

Bleubeard and I are delighted you stopped by today. We hope you will also join us at Art Journal Journey with your own art inspired by Geometric Shapes, the theme Valerie has chosen for us this month.