Sally's Scribbles

Now, onto the cover. I was very pleased with how this turned out. Another Claudine technique! I cut out images of men, and text for their shirts.



Then I trimmed the text, and painted gold paint over their shirts and part of the picture, to blend it in.




Then I cut out hats for them out of patterned paper, and added a short verse to their shirts.



I punched 2 holes in each page of the zine, and then I tied 8 pages together with ribbon, to make the zine.



After I had the zines put together, I glued the men to the front cover.

Now I started concentrating on making some of the things for the insides of the zine. I had just bought Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond The Unexpected by Claudine Hellmuth, so I experimented with a lot of her techniques for my fillers.

I made some people, and then used the tissue ppaper smooshed onto wet paint technique to make some tags, and then glued the people to the tags. That's all I did to the tags, figuring it's somewhat of a jumping off point, so if they want to add to the tag, they can.



Then I went to work on some ATC's. I was involved in a couple of other swaps that used a Proverb's verse, and the one I had chosen for another swap worked perfectly for my zine topic, as well, so that's what I used. - I just realized I never talked about my topic. I finally settled on the issue of poverty/hunger, and highlighted the organization of Compassion International.

For this ATC, I also made a plain one that they can use to create their own ATC. I used the verse Proverbs 21:13 - If a man shuts his ear to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered. I painted a playing card with hot pink poster paint. I really like using poster paint. It is thicker than watercolors and not as watery, but it still has that translucent quality to it. And then I placed sewing pattern tissue paper into the paint and let it dry. Then I sponged gold acrylic paint on top. For the finished one, I added gold embossed screen, torn walnut ink dyed paper (which I also printed the verse out on), and a child cut out of an old catalog I have.



I made another ATC out of an Emily Dickenson poem. I love her poems, and found one that fit perfectly. I glued an old map and old text to a card. Did a green watercolor wash over it all. Then I took a cork, dipped it in the pink poster paint, and stamped circles all over the card. Then I edged the card and the poem with the pink paint, and added a person to the card.