Princess Bubbles Creates

The letter B

The letter A For those who asked what an abecedary is, the following is the definition from wikipedia.  I hope that helps. An Abecediary or Abecedary is the full alphabet carved in stone or written in book form, historically found in churches , monasteries and other ecclesiastical buildings. It can also be spelt Abecedary and is pronounced as 'Abbey-see-duh-ree'. Don't forget to leave a comment to get a chance to win some transfer foil!

 This is the first page of my collage abecedary.  The tassel is kind of fun.  The letters start on the next page.

Starting tomorrow I will be posting a page a day from an abecedary book I created.  I will post a new picture each day.  That will make over one hundred posts this year!  Wow!  I didn\t know that I had that much art to show and that much to say! So, in honour of my hundred posts and it being Christmas time I am going to send out a package of transfer foil to a lucky commentor.  All you have to do is leave a comment on any or all December blog posts and your name is entered into the draw.   If there are lots of comments I will draw more names!  Transfer foil is really hard to photograph!

This is a journal page I started during the play day.  I painted Iridescent Stainless Steel (Coarse)by Golden on part of the page and then applied the alcohol inks.  I love the way the paint still shines through the inks. I also applied the inks to a piece of mica and a butterfly plastic die cut graciously supplied by Nancy. Here I applied the inks to a transparency that had letter stickers applied to it first.  The stickers act as a resist.  When you remove them you have clear transparency.  It will look really cool in an altered book with a background showing through. Thanks to those who asked to see what I did on our play day!

It is so cool to have friends to share art together.  Today we got together to play with alcohol inks.  Pictured above are from left to right Mary Lynn, Lois and Nancy.  Nancy hosted our play day.  She is amazing!  She went shopping at Vincenzo's for us.  She bought all kinds of yummy treats!  She also had a little gift at each place setting when we got there!  She was over the top good to us. I said I wasn't going to post about this but  I might as well humiliate myself.  As we were getting ready to leave when I knocked over my chair which knocked over a plant and broke the planter!  Yikes!!!  What a spazzz!  Nancy was so kind and gracious about it all.  Lois laughed and laughed - she was so relieved that she hadn't done it!  Nancy did the piece below on photo paper.  We had read that aren't supposed to use photo paper but thought why not try it any way.  I think it worked great. The piece at t...

I used chip board letters and covered them with regular kitchen foil on this page.  I was hoping to get more texture with the foil but I realized I had the Tim Holtz texture hammer and so I had at it.  The texture hammer worked great.  I will have to hide the hammer from the men in this house.  They always want my cool tools and they don't put them back. I then applied gesso to the page.  After that dried I applied the alcohol ink.  I also added a kirigami cut  out.  I like that the foil shines through the alcohol inks.  The inks did bleed through to the back of the page so I will have to paint over that.