PATH OF LOVE ALTERED BOOK (INSIDE COVER)
By: Barbara Matthiessen

Materials: Inner Cover Browning Poem Page Spread Supplies: Opalite™ Golden Mist and Cypress Frost inkpads Brilliance Cosmic Copper inkpad Versafine™ Onyx Black inkpad Olive Green and Super Copper Lumiere paints from Jacquard Browning Poem rubber stamp, All Night Media® Face of Effie, Large rubber stamp, River City Rubber Works Greco-Roman Collage Elements rubber stamp sheet, Non Sequitur Gold and clear micro beads Handmade paper, soft beige tones Vintage photocopy (Artchix.com) Text clipped from book Matte decoupage medium Aleene’s® Paper Glaze Paintbrush

Instructions: 1. Protect surrounding book pages by wrapping in plastic wrap. Paint pages Olive Green then streaks of Super Copper. Allow paints to dry. 2. Stamp face image across page spread using Brilliance Cosmic Copper ink. Allow inks to dry. 3. Use any of the rubber stamps and Opalite™ Cypress Frost ink to stamp images across both pages. Repeat with Opalite™ Golden Mist. Allow inks to dry. 4. Stamp Browning Poem on handmade paper using Versafine™ Onyx Black ink. Stamp Greco-Roman collage elements onto both pages using Versafine™ Onyx Black ink. 5. Tear around Browning Poem and book text. Trim vintage photocopy. Apply to pages using decoupage medium. Allow medium to dry. 6. Squeeze Paper Glaze out onto pages over and around stamped images with “tendrils” flowing out randomly. Sprinkle on gold then clear micro-beads. Allow Paper Glaze to dry then shake off excess beads.