Sally's Scribbles

After I had figured out what my pages were going to be, and how many per zine I needed, I needed to figure out my theme, and decide what I was going to use for filler and ephemera in the zine. I went around my art area cleaning up, and I accumulated quite a pile of 'stuff' that I knew I wasn't going to use, so I decided to include that in my zine. I also like to handmake things for the zine as well, so I decided on what to do for that aspect. When I looked at my pile of stuff, I realized that this was not all going to fit in my zine, because my pages were too small. So I had to think about how to include them with the zine. I was cleaning our office area up and I came across some big 6x8 envelopes. Bingo. I decided to use that to store my zine and the ephemera that wouldn't fit inside the zine. So then I had to decorate the outside of those, because just plain white envelopes just wouldn't do :)

My color scheme for the zine came from some patterned paper that I had and loved - it was pink with brown, green, orange, and darker pink circles on it. And then I had some more coordinating paper in those colors. Hence the orange dye and pink paint. I had decided on gold as my accent color, and so I decided for the envelopes, to do something with brown, green, and gold paint.

Well.............I didn't have any brown paint, and was too impatient to wait until I could get to the store to buy some, so I decided to make some. It looks brown and painted brown, but the technique I had chosen to do for the envelopes lifted some of the paint away, and when that happened, the colors making up the brown separated a bit, and so the brown ended up looking more purple than brown. So the envelopes ended up not really matching the zine, LOL, but they look cool in their own right.




I painted, and then placed plastic wrap on top of it, and when it dried, pulled the wrap off of it. I got the idea from one of Claudine Hellmuth's books that I just bought. Fun book, great ideas.