Thursday, March 26, 2015

Dictionary Art

You all have been very intrigued on why I wanted an old dictionary.
Well today you find out, lol.

I found this old dictionary at the thrift store…which at even $3.00 was too much to pay, lol.
As you can see it doesn't have a front cover.






















Here is the back cover…which I love the feel and vintage look to it.
But it is falling apart :(
Heather suggested I make my own cover for it…and make it into a hard cover.
Which I know how to do, but just want to work in it.






















But what sold me on the, too high of price, dictionary are the inside pages.
I really really love the yellowed papers…..even though they are close to following out of the book, lol.






















Tonight I did my first page.
I took a word from the dictionary "nest" and stamped my image.
Most people draw their images, but because that is not one of my strong points and I have a lot of stamps, I decided to stamp my image.
The paper is very porous and the ink (Archival)  not only sunk into the paper, it also seemed to bleed a bit.
I then used my Stampin' Up markers to colour in the image.
I added the colour on an acrylic block and picked it up with my wet paint brush.
I also did some line work because the ink made the image look like it smeared.
I had to draw the tree as there was another image on that page that took away from my stamp, so I decided to colour over it and make it look like a tree.






















Even though the tree looks like an arm that needs its underpits shaved, lol.
I think I will try and draw my next image and maybe it will look more clear…we will see.
















Thank you all so much for joining me today, I hope you all had a very Creative Thursday :)

Tracy :)

12 comments:

  1. Absolutely gorgeous!! I've used old book pages to stamp images but never thought to use a dictionary as a journal!! Love this!! And LOL the underpits ;) Have a great evening :)

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  2. Beautiful I would be a stamper as well can't draw at all.
    Chris x

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  3. I've pinned something similar to this! Love it! What about the back side? Did it bleed through? I'm laughing about the armpit. ..

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  4. thanks for the morning giggle with the armpit mention. but I had to go back and look because obviously I didn't see it. I was just looking at your beautiful page. awesome job.

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  5. Wow that is amazing, what a good idea. I love it.

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  6. this is super Cool - You are so creative!!

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  7. What a great page, Tracy! Looking forward to seeing how your book progresses!

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  10. Just trying once more - commenting not playing the game today. Love this idea. I feel a visit to the book store coming on :-) TFS

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  11. Tracy, this is so delicate and beautiful. Love, Love old dictionaries and old maps!!!

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  12. Interesting observation of the stamp!!! LOL I'd like to try this too with a dictionary.......

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