Last night I finished a cover to one of my books. I usually do the covers near the end of a book because other wise I am smashing the embellishments and when I am working on the inside the art on the cover makes it hard to get a good impression and such.
The technique that I did on this cover is a faux leather technique. I love it because it uses recycled grocery sacks. Perfect for an earth day project.
Ingredients
- Brown Grocery Sacks torn into random pieces
- soft gel medium
- glue brush (a paint brush dedicated to glue)
- Substrate in this case my book cover
Steps
- Glue the pieces of grocery sack down on the substrate.
- Cover with gel medium. Let dry
Easy peasy huh and it makes a great background. I have a page I will show later when it is finished that I did the same thing. I used an old nylon paint brush I got at an estate sale and as I was spreading the glue bits of the bristles were coming off so my book has these interesting black spots that I had not planned for at all.
Next I stamped the white swirls using white gesso. Let that dry. Then stenciled using sequence waste the purple and yellow dots. 
To the spine I add some ribbon flowers along the spine. These are different then the technique I talked about the other day. I will show you how to make these later when I do some step by step pictures. These particular flowers I made last year for Artfest as trades and forgot to trade them.
Final step was to stamp something on the front. Coming up with titles for my altered books is very random. What ever word pops in my head I use. In this case, April the month it was worked on and it fit perfectly.
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