Dream

By now, many of you know Art Journal Journey's host this month is Alison (aka Craftytrog). Alison has chosen the theme Pockets and Tags.

I give you my latest entry I call Dream.

I began by adhering a sheet of rejected handmade paper to a page in my Challenges altered book.   I tore several pieces from a sheet of German text and adhered them over the handmade paper.

I used a faux credit card to swipe three colors of dye ink over the tag I made from a used file folder (yes, they seem to still multiply in my basement).  I also added the hole reinforcement.

I wound some of my wax thread around my hand, then adhered it to the tag using lots and lots and lots and lots of staples.  Once I was sure the wax thread wasn't going anywhere, I stapled the tag to the page. 

I stamped the word Dream to the tag and stamped the crow on part of my leftover handmade paper, then fussy cut the crow and adhered it to the tag.

This was one of three sheets that was part of the last batch of handmade paper I created before the blender quit working.  You can see the large lumps of paper that didn't get blended that I didn't pull from the paper pulp before I pulled the print (technical term for pulling the print out of a vat of blended paper and water).

In order to hide the staples on the back, I adhered (glued) two book pages to the back side of this spread.

Thanks so very much for joining me today, and I hope to also see you at Art Journal Journey.