heritage photo album

I have a suitcase of heritage family photo's.
 Do you have heritage photo's?
 I suggest to make a date and have some tea with family members
and get the names recorded of all the people in those photo's before families
 become smaller and we forget who is in those photo's.

Here, I have re-purposed some family doilies from the actual
family members in those heritage photo's. 
How fun would this be, to journal that the actual album cover is
made from grandma's doilies?  

Start out with a sturdy corrugated cardboard chipboard piece for the album cover
  Apply a liberal amount of gesso or acrylic paint, dry.
 Dip the doilies into powertex and cover the cardboard.
Dip and decorate the cover with additional embellishments
 and dry well a couple of days.

Documenting the family history is a great hobby that will be so valuable to the family as the children grow to appreciate their ancestry.

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wine bottle cuffs

Using bronze Powertex on an assortment of t-shirts, lace doilies, burlap and cord,

 Ava created these wonderful wine bottle cuffs.  Once stiffened they where highlited

 with gold and copper Colortricx and embellished with buttons
Ava will be featuring her art at the artisans village located in Bradford

coast 2 coast demo with Ava

 

One of the great things at the Coast 2 Coast event is the demo area.

Every hour there is someone showing you tips and tricks for all kinds of products.

Above is Ava Gavloski

showing her techniques for creating this wonderful album cover

using bronze Powertex, a cotton t-shirt, plaster face, a 4x6" photo album

It is finished with copper highlites using Powercolor bronze metallic and Easy Varnish