Raisa's Art Journal

The journal I made for Raisa's journey

is an altered book.

For the front cover

I created a window cut out,

did some stenciling,

added fabric paper in and around the window,

added real flower petals, vintage jewelry,

metal letters, and a pressed leaf.

I made a book mark using black velvet ribbon,

and added a key for weight.

The key says 'memory'.

 When you open the altered book

you see black and white collage

with embellishments added.

If you look closely at the keyhole

you may see someone looking back at you!

The next page is collage

with black stitching around the edge.

The words say...

So many people

were shut up tight

 inside themselves

like boxes.

This photo is an example of what my collaged pages

looked like beforehand.

I have 7 sets of these in the rest of the journal

for the other artists to work on.

I glued many pages together

 to create thicker 'pages'

 throughout the altered book.

They can add pages to these if they wish

to have more than one set of pages.

I expect the journal will be quite full

and artistic when it returns to me in a year.

I know they will use their imaginations.

This shows the back of the journal.

Very simple, with some simple stenciling on it.

Now  my journal and my doll start Raisa

will be mailed tomorrow to Gail in North Carolina.

I am excited to see what Gaill will add to it all.

I am also excited to receive a doll start in the rotation.

WhooHoo....

here we go!

Yvonne