Altered Book Lover

 

I'm once again joining Mia from Craftartista, our host this month at Art Journal Journey. Her theme is Fish.  This will be my final entry for Art Journal Journey this month.

This turned out to be a disaster on my part.  The lady was supposed to be on the opposite end.

The first thing I did was run the glue stick along the top of the page (110 lb cardstock) I cut to the size of the napkin.  Then I stamped a row of fish using two different colors.  I then laid a portion of the napkin down with glue stick, then stamped more fish.  Because the fish on the napkin were in rows, it was easy to see where I needed to glue each time.  I stamped, then glued, stamped then glued until I reached the end of the napkin.  The lady was supposed to sit where the word "enjoyed" is now.  All that work and I messed up the final bit.

Once I messed up, there was nothing I could do.  There was no way to remove the lady from the fragile napkin.

That's when I decided to make the best of a bad situation.  I hope you can read the words "She enjoyed" that I glued in place where the woman was supposed to have been.

I placed the word "swimming" upside down.  At least all the stamped fish were going that way!

Once again, the stamped fish are upside down, but the two words read "among the."

Here I turned the word to match the stamped fishes and added the word "fishes."

One more time, the stamped fish are upside down relative to the lady.

But here, the stamped fish are right side up, while the lady is upside down.  In case you can't read the entire sentiment, it reads "She enjoyed swimming among the fishes."

Bleubeard and I are delighted you stopped by today.  He is not really proud of me, though.  Please remember, you still have a few hours before we announce a new host, so we hope to see you at Art Journal Journey with your own take on Fish.  Perhaps Bleubeard won't be quite so disappointed with me next month.