OK, so I think the papers are basically dry – they don’t feel greasy and have a kind of crinkly feel to them. I am cautiously optimistic that the glue will hold but I’m watching it to see! Working in my Health Journal, the pouch one.
A fellow artist sent me a link to some free collage items. I grabbed them – I’ll always try a new source with a freebie and see if I like working with them before I buy anything nowadays. It has to really grab me in a big way for me to buy yet more stuff. These were full sheet items so I printed 4-to-a-page to get it to the right size.
Good thing too, because there was a kind of line on the first one I cut but I really didn’t discover that till I was ready to stick it all down. Doh!
This is weird. I had printed a scanned piece to make something, and then found I needed a second copy. I had bought some replacement ink for my printer and when I printed…look at the difference!
eeek! But the drab one kinda worked for this page. And it was the right size to cover a two page spread.
I fiddled about with a few placement ideas and then when I settled on one, that was when I noticed (and you will not be able to see it) that fine line that ran thru the face. I cut another of the four, and that one was fine, but I also edited it with my scissors, removing the things at the side of her head – and in fact if you look at the final page you can see I edited even a bit more before I stuck her down!
Now here’s the thing. I finished the page
and then thought, well, I should bring a bit more of me to it, so I added some marks. And I really maybe liked it better before I did that. I really wanted to bring in the blue and add a bit of shading round the figure but now feeling fairly ambivalent about the whole thing.
{sigh}
Poppy did get the all clear. She is back to eating her dry food as well now and her gums are healed so all good. Can’t say she is mad keen on the Plaque-Off treatment but if it means no more teeth getting pulled well I bet she would gobble it down with gusto!