The Spirituality of a Fortune Teller

I had posted these journal pages on Instagram a few days ago
and thought I would share the details.
I love the gypsy boho style of these pages and I
am fascinated by Fortune Telling.
This is my Halloween journal I made a couple of years ago.
I try to create pages in it every year around this time.
I created this journal with an idea of it being the journal of  the
daughter of a 17th century undertaker and her obsession with her
fathers work and the death of the people he brings into
the mortuary where they also reside. The question of how,
when and where they died was something she was always trying to
figure out and this journal is where she documents everything
she discovers.

These pages are of the mysterious death of a Fortune Teller but the focused
is on her spirituality rather than her death.
I started with two pages that I had already sown on coffee stained coffee
filter and doily. I added some lace trim to the coffee filter that I had
made look grungy with some barn door, black soot and
vintage photo distress ink. On the opposite page I sewed on a
fabric flower to create a tab then distressed it with a little
black soot distress ink.

I stamped on the page with the distress archival ink vintage photo, ground
espresso and walnut stain using Tim Holtz fragments and the tree is a
wood mounted stamp from Inkadinkado 2016. The paper was coffee stained
prior to binding it in the journal. 
 

I stamped on the coffee filter with ground espresso archival ink and the fragments

stamp. The eye is from Tim Holtz Cadaverous stamp set. I added an 

embellishment under the eye that I cut from a piece of a vintage sari which 

I purchased from ETSY.

For the other page I added another piece of the vintage sari with a 

coin pinned to it with a safety pin. The head image came from a vintage book

about fortune telling. It came from the section on how to read

the bumps on a persons head and the vintage tickets were

purchased from Instagram. @tremblayspapershop @the_mad__fox

and @paperharborco are a few of my favorite. They always have

amazing vintage paper goodies. 

I made this journaling card using a vintage mini file divider. It was coffee

stained then I stenciled on some Ranger Texture Paste opaque crackle. 

The stencil was Prima I believe it is called Cherish. 

After it was dried I sprayed seedless preserves, broken china and

Victorian velvet distress oxide spray. I added lots of droplets of water. I love

that look. Added some stamps from Tim Holtz mini Halloween 5 set and 

correspondence stamp set. I added the work Palmistry typed with

my vintage type writer. The final touch was adding this

vintage cabinet card photo with a paper clip. 

When I stamped on the coffee filter and then flipped it opened
the stamp went through to the other side and it looks like it was stamped
on both sides. Didn't know it would do that. Happy accident.

Thank you for stopping by
I am sharing this at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge
Rebecca

Count Dracula

Hello everyone, I so enjoy the month of October. The weather is cooler
and everywhere I look I am reminded that this is the month
for mischief and me ham. Where the wicked, scary, creepy and
odd get to shine. I am a Vampire fan and one of my favorite things to do in
October is watch and many Vampire movies as I can. So of course
the second altered page of my series "The Society of the Supernatural"
is Count Dracula. I am drawn to his dark and tragic love story.

I started by standing up the album page and spraying it with Tim Holtz distress Oxide 

spray in black soot, fired brick and ground espresso in random spots than

sprayed water so the colors would drip down the page. Then I dried it with a heat gun and
rubbed black soot distressed ink pad around the edge. Then I did some water drops and
splattered it with black soot, fire brick and pumice stone Oxide spray. I added the bats on the top
left with a stencil and black soot distress ink and the top right is Tim Holtz Decayed stencil
that I sprayed distress oxide spray pumice stone on and flipped it over and did
a print. A technique he showed on Facebook live.

For the "Count Dracula" plaque I used moulding clay in a Prima Marketing IOD mould. 

Sprayed it with Pumice Stone Oxide spray and distressed it with black soot 

distress crayon. I rubbed it in with my fingers and added a little water to get it in 

the grooves. Then I printed "Count Dracula" from my computer on a sheet

of transparent sticker paper. The words "Blood is Life Love is Forever" are typed

on a piece of coffee stained paper with one of my ole type writers and then torn and 

distressed with black soot ink. I decoupaged them and a torn and distressed piece

of paper from the Tim Holtz abandoned paper stash.

I used red sealing wax and a seal for the lower right with some gauze behind it. The
gauze was stained with black soot oxide spray. I dripped some of the wax in
random spots. Added some washi tape, stained gauze and a bat from The Tim Holtz
Halloween adornments that I colored with black soot alcohol ink. I also melted some wax
behind the bat over the gauze then pressed the bat in it. I like the dark blood red color.

Added another bat from the Tim Holtz Halloween Idea-ology line and a red resin rose to 

to the middle of the wax seal. 

And for the Count himself, I photocopied an old cabinet card on to coffee
stained card stock then inked the edges with fired brick and black soot distress ink.
Then I used an oval shaped piece of card stock to mask the Count and sprayed
some water to give the edges a faded and distressed look. The hat I did the same
as the first page "Witches and Warlocks" that you can see here and the fangs I
just used distress spray ink Picket Fence and a pen nib calligraphy pen.

Thank you for stopping by and
Have a spooky day.
Rebecca

Sanitarium

She looks like she doesn't want to be there. Like she wants to escape.

Everyone whispers about her. "Such a beautiful girl, why does she 

always look so unhappy?" She longs to be free. Free from the 

judging eyes and free of her own dark thoughts.

This project I did with a background that was made using a technique from
 Tim Holtz live tutorial. I started with this antique tintype of this beautiful girl
with such a haunting look on her face. (notice how shes not wearing any shoes)
I couldn't help but imagine what she might be thinking.

I did the print technique from the tutorial. I spritzed a piece of cardstock
with water. Then I sprayed Tim Holtz Walnut Stain, Wilted Violet and
Spiced Marmalade distress Oxide Spray. Then I added some
Black Soot distress Spray Stain. Sprayed it with water
and moved it around. Then I laid another piece
of cardstock on top to soak up all the colors. I am always amazed
at how colors turn out. 

After it was dry I sprayed some Rusty Hing Oxide spray and added

some water droplets. Then I splattered some Picket Fence. I Added

a piece of an old proscription and Pharmacy postage stamp. The stamps sets that

I used were Tim Holtz Architecture, Correspondence and Mini Halloween 5.

I embossed the palm reader hand with black embossing powder 

and splattered some black soot Spray Stain to look like ink spots. I distresses

the edges of everything with Gathered Twig distress ink and used 

Ranger Black Soot and Ground Espresso archival ink for the stamps.

For the bottle pen I uses Mushroom and Sepia alcohol ink to distress the bottle

and pen nib. I had to move the bottle around while the ink dried to give it that 

drippy look. Then I glued the nib to the bottle with hot glue. The label

is one of the sticky labels that came with the Tim Holtz Ideaology

Apothecary vials. I crinkles it up and distressed it with black soot ink.

I noticed that the stamp on the prescription is No. 11 so I put two of Tim Holtz

Ideaology numbered index clips on the bottom of the tintype. "11" Reminds me of that show 

Stranger Things. Love that show. 

Here is a free printable of some of my tintypes for you to use 

on your projects. This is my first printable and I'm not very computer savvy so 

I didn't do any digital enhancing of these. I just scanned and uploaded. If you 

are interested in a printable of the tintype I used for this project

let me know. The first scan I did included that one too but

it didn't work. I could try it again. 

Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Rebecca

Something Wicked This Way Comes

This is the first of a series of four that I am going to create called 
"The Society of the Supernatural". This one is Witches and Warlocks.  

I had these pages form an antique photo album that was falling apart 

and I've been wanting to do something with them for a long time now.
As I was looking around for inspiration I finally came up with
something that incorporates my favorite Holiday. HALLOWEEN!

I used distress and oxide distress inks and sprays with crackle paste to 

grunge it up.

  

      The apothecary bottle was simply done with tissue paper and distress ink

       that was glued on with mod podge. I added a string around the neck with a little metal

           tag. The stamps I used for this project are Tim Holtz Halloween

stamps except for the witches had. That is an older one I have .

I added some stamping and stamp embossing. The hats were done with

stamp embossing on card stock and then I fussy cut them out.
I have a collection of antique cabinet cards but I didn't want to altered them.
So I made a photocopy onto coffee stained card stock to use.

I glued the photocopy in before I added the hats. Then I wanted to add some 

water drops to the distressed photo frame. I didn't think about covering the
photo but it turned out ok. The water drops gave a great eerie/spooky
effect on the photo. See the one that landed right on his eyes. Love that.

Then I added the embellishments. The skulls and cross bones with moss and 

some tattered cheese cloth. Tucked in a couple of vintage apothecary labels and added

one of the Tim Holtz black resin roses with a little embossing to give it some 

crustiness. The metal adornment in the right hand corner also needed some crustiness. 

I distresses it with mushroom and sepia alcohol inks. Then did some embossing

to add the yummy texture.

Thank you 

Rebecca

Salvaged

Wow can't believe it's been over a year sense I have posted anything. I didn't even realize it had been that long. So I'm just going to jump right in. This is a piece I made for a friend. She loves horses and vintage so I wanted to use some of the old salvaged pieces I have been hording. That is my plan for this year, to get out the large ever growing stash of things I have collected and use it to create. I am not one for sticking to plans but this is something I really want to do and I hope that is enough to keep me motivated.

I used an antique book cover for the base.

Added some old salvaged pieces like a rusty nail, found bottle,
another rusty piece that looks like maybe a pipe clamp
and a horse cut out of salvaged metal that I got at
a Junk Flea Market.

A piece of an antique book page, some chipboard embellishments,
cheese cloth and flowers to soften it up.

I attached it to an old leather razor strap for hanging and that
was it. Oh I also decoupaged a piece of decorative paper
behind the horse to look like an old barn in the background.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my first piece and post
of the year.

Rebecca

Memories

Memories, sometimes I want to curl up inside my memories and close the door to the rest of the world. Ever sense the passing of my Dad I have been going through my memories of him like a scrapbook. Everyday another memory comes to mind. Like pages in a book I turn and remember another one and with bitter sweet sentiment I recall every detail of those cherished memories. 

Childhood Adventures

I love the journeys and adventures a story can take you on. My daughters imagination and love for books has sparked the memories of many adventures I had when I was a girl with just a story and my imagination.

 

Thank you

Rebecca