Just for fun AB complete

There are so many things I love about altered books.

• The feeling of completion when I've filled up the all pages
• The way they never close completely
• The warped pages
  
• The paint that got smudged onto the inside covers even though I thought I was careful
• The colorful pages just begging to be touched

I'm definitely going to start another "no theme" book. I love the freedom and chance to express what ever it is that I am feeling at any moment. It also gives me a great place to practice techniques and designs.

Palm painting

After a morning spent thirfting, I decided to play a bit this afternoon.
I know that my hubby was crossing his fingers that the front lawn would be mowed when he returned but that's not likely to happen. Sorry sweetie!

I used my "Just for Fun" AB to practice another tropical scene. I'm not satisfied with the one I created a while back for our upstairs bathroom. I have the vision of what I'd like it to look like but have yet to decide the medium. Maybe collage or another painting..who knows. It may be totally mixed media.

Life's short...play

I had a chance to play last evening. I broke out my "just for fun" AB.

Since I was in a sort of playful silly mood...likely because my sweet husband took the kids out and gave me some much needed peace...I threw down this fun polka dot tissue paper.

It just made me smile so I included my feelings of the moment. Or maybe it was just the wine.
Just kidding!!

Sail

I decided to pull out my "just for fun" altered book to use up some scraps on my work surface.

Well, technically, the tall ship packing tape transfer was adhered to the cabinet door. Everything else was just laying within reach both on the desk and the small drawer that I throw random small scraps into while creating. Bigger scraps go into my color coded files eventually.

It was really fun working in an altered book again. It's been a while...

Flowers

I had a chance to play a bit yesterday.

I mostly worked on putting the tip-ins I've received together with my own pages in a patriotic theme book. I think I still have a page or 2 coming so I can't say I'm done with that one yet.

Although I did make one new spread in my just for fun altered book.

Altered pages..just for fun

I was having art withdrawals so I whipped up these couple pages in my "just for fun" no theme alteredbook.

Everything on these pages is from my scrap heap. I keep trying to whittle it down some but somehow it multiplies when I turn out the lights.

Cards, puzzle, and book..oh my!

I've been saving the wrappers from my chocolate indulgence.
The Chocolove bar is my favorite!

Spring is a busy time for Birthdays aournd here. This is the card I gave to my hubby last week. We are getting to the age that celebrating getting another year closer to middle age isn't anything to celebrate.

I'm planning on ART-ing(act of random thoughtfulness) with the puzzle piece. So it's a secret...SSSHHH!!

Time to play...

It seems like an eternity since I've had a chance to sit and play in my craft zone. It was refreshing to be free to create. Life has been getting in the way lately. Such is life, right!

The puzzle piece will likely be sent as a postcard. Yes it is that large!

The two altered books spreads are in my "just for fun" book. That book is so fun...no theme, no expectations, only playtime!

Beyond Time

Yet another page in my "just for fun" altered book.

Tailored Man

Here's page that I did in my "just for fun" altered book. The book has no theme. It's just a great place for me to play and experiment.

Here are more in the same book.

Altered book pages

I picked up a this book at a local thrift store the other day. I had originally intended it for something completely different but decided since it was small that I should just dive in and play!!

I really like 3 of the 5 pages. The other 2, I am not so pleased with. I don't actually hate them enough to cover them up but may go back and revisit them later to see if I can make any good changes.

Can you guess which ones I like??

I still have plenty of room to play some more in this book. It's very freeing to work without a theme...at least for today. :) Sometimes I need a theme to get me started. In fact this book was planned to be a book in which each spread dealt with one of the senses. Yeah...that changed pretty quickly.