PATH OF LOVE ALTERED BOOK (Red Devotion Page Spread)
By: Barbara Matthiessen

Materials: Opalite Orchid Ice, Golden MIst, and Glacier Blue ink pads StazOn™ Blazing Red and Ultramarine inkers StazOn™ Jet Black inkpad Brilliance Cosmic Gold inker Browning Poem, All Night Media®-Optical Box and Vintage Button Collage, Hero Arts, Devotion Slab, Post Modern Design Burgundy red tissue paper Transparency of a vintage print Vintage book text Sheet of black cardstock 1 ¼” ceramic heart (instructions to follow) 3 fractured stone dominos (instructions to follow) Brass charms Aleene’s® Instant Decoupage Matte Aleene’s® Paper Glaze Scissors Paintbrush

Instructions: 1. Protect page backing niche with plastic wrap. Decoupage tissue paper to both pages including sides of niche. Allow decoupage medium to dry. 2. Overlap stampings of Optical Box using Opalite Gold with Button Collage in Opalite Glacier Blue  over black cardstock. 3. Randomly rub Opalite Orchid Ice and Golden Mist across all tissue papered areas. Allow inks to dry or heat set. 4. Decoupage book text to left page. Trim then attach top of transparency to book text with a dot of Paper Glaze. Attach dominos and heart with Paper Glaze (Instructions to follow on both embellishments.) over text making sure they fit within niche on opposite page when book is closed. 5. Stamp DEVOTION onto piece of book text using StazOn™ Jet Black. 6. Use a line of Paper Glaze around edges to attach stamped cardstock to backside of niche. Decoupage DEVOTION to cardstock and attach charms with Paper Glaze. Fractured Stone Dominos Supplies: 3-Faux ivory dominos StazOn™ Blazing Red and Ultramarine re-inkers Krylon 18Kt. Gold Leafing Pen Rubbing alcohol Scrap of felt Paper plate Instructions: 1. Place felt in paper plate. Pour rubbing alcohol onto felt to make it damp, not wet. Drip dots of both re-inkers onto felt allowing them to blend together in spots. 2. Dot domino with gold pen making 3 or 4 puddles. 3. Dab domino onto felt picking up inks and allowing gold pen puddles to flow. 4. Set aside until dry. Ceramic Heart Supplies: StazOn™ Blazing Red and Jet Black Browning Poem 1. Rub ceramic heart in StazOn™ Blazing Red. Cover front and side edges evenly with ink. 2. Stamp part of Browning Poem onto heart using Jet Black StazOn™.