Guest Artists: Lorri & Bec Lennox Part 2

Name:  Lorri Lennox

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Lives: Perth, Western Australia

Known for: Being addicted to ATC's, Running groups on Flickr & Swap-bot, Working 'spiritually', Collecting owls.

Blog, website or gallery: Artivity Blog ,  Artivity ETSY Store, & Scrappindipity of course!

Loves to: Hear my daughters Bec & Amy sing, make art, relax with a good book, drink a little red wine & Socialise with friends.

Loves to create:  Altered mini-books, off the page projects, Artist Trading Cards & Aceo's - Grungy things, Image transfers.

Favourite Darkroom Door product: All the stamps!! but I Love the papers too.

Have you ever been in a darkroom? A long time ago back in high school, where I remember a 'boy' trying to touch my boobs!!

Let’s say you’re invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you?  A big smile, an old roll of film that I have no idea what is on it (I love suprises) and my camera for taking pics of Rachel & I enjoying a red wine afterwards... lol

Are you afraid of the dark?  Who Me?? No way!

Venice Mini Book:

Darkroom Door Materials:
Paper: Venetian Collection
Photobooth: Ladies
Montage: Venetian
Wordstrips: Venetian

Other supplies: Kaiser book, Collections paper, 7 gypsies rub ons, and other small embellishments.

Instructions:
I started with a Kaiser blank "Designer" book  and covered the pages in Darkroom Door background papers. On two pages I combined different papers together to create a different effect. I then inked all the edges of every page, using Tim Holtz inkpads.

Using a 'Collections' paper, I cut out the flower and adhered it to the first page of the book, and adhered a small flower embellishment in the centre using mounting foam. A Collections word "Forever Dreams" was also used on the front page of the book.7 Gyspies rub-on "Photographie" was used in the inner pages.

When all the pages were covered, I chose various pictures from the Ladies Photo Booth, re-coloured them using Tim Holtz inkpads to change from the black & white & sepia colours into a darker tone. Again, I then inked the edges of all pics.

I chose the 'tags' from the Venetian Montage, cutting them out and inking them the same way as the photos. I used these in the central pages of the book, but other pictures or photographs could be used to personalise this book, or a combination of both.A small section of the Venetian Wordstrips was cut out, inked and adhered to the 3rd page (that shows from the front of the book).

The word "Venice" was attached in letter charms. Other various charms & embellishments were used to complete the project - this could be adapted using a personal preference. I cut out the word "Venetian" and a strip of the words "Venice, Italy, Venezia" for the 3rd page (that shows from the front of the book) inked them and adhered them to the pages. The binding holes were all covered using 7Gypsies black cloth reinforcements. Various fibres were tied through each hole to hold the book together. A couple of charms were added to the fibres.

A huge thanks to both Bec and Lorri for sharing their artwork (and Bec's birthday!) with us this week!