PATH OF LOVE ALTERED BOOK (Purple Passion Page Spread)
By: Barbara Matthiessen

Materials: Opalite™ Orchid Ice and Golden Mist  inkpads Versafine™ Onyx Black ink pad Purple acrylic paint Sheet of purple tissue paper Leaf Background and Tassel rubber stamps, All Night Media®- Key, Rubber Stampede Inc.- Appointment-Time2Fly, Uptown Design Co.-Three Heads Eyes Closed, Renaissance Art Stamps LLC Vintage photocopies of lovers and woman 3” square of light colored cardstock Sheet music Book text Mica Shard Brass charms Fabric trim Aleene’s® Instant Decoupage Matte Aleene’s® Paper Glaze Paintbrush Scissors Heat gun if desired to speed process

Instructions: 1. Protect page behind niches with plastic wrap. Decoupage tissue paper to left page. Brush medium over pages then place tissue paper in wet medium. Smooth paper into place using a brush wet with medium working from the center out to the edges. Allow decoupage medium to dry. 2. Paint right page including sides of niches and cardstock square with purple paint. Allow paint to dry. 3. Rub Opalite™ Orchid Ice inkpad randomly over the left page. Repeatedly stamp Leaf Background on right page using Opalite Orchid Ice ink. Allow inks to dry or heat set. 4. Over stamp both pages using key, watch, tassel and face stamps with Opalite™ Golden Mist. 5. Stamp tassel using Versafine®™ Onyx Black ink onto left page and leaf background onto purple cardstock. 6. Remove protective plastic from page backing niches. Tear sheet music to form mats for some of the vintage photocopies and line smaller niche. Arrange papers including book text in layers. Place painted and stamped cardstock, vintage photocopy and trim in largest niche. Decoupage all papers into place. 7. Apply a few dots of Paper Glaze to back of fabric trim then place it in niche. Glue niche page block to backing page by coating both with decoupage medium. Place a large book on top for weight then allow to medium to set. 8. Arrange charms on pages and in small niche. Use dots of Paper Glaze to secure charms and mica shard in place.