Melange Team Image Transfer Challenge - A Young Scottish Lad In America 1865

This is the collage I created using a direct paper to paper and paper to fabric transfer using Golden Gel . I Really like doing these transfers because they are quick , pretty easy and require no printers or copies !!! The image above is done this way . The last photo here shows a small image ( there are few others on the piece ... musical notes ) done with silk from an old handkerchief

Melange Challenge ~ Favorite Quote ~ Altered Book ~The Little Dog And The Puppy

This weeks challenge was to use a favorite quote . I am using this quote as inspiration .

" NO MATTER HOW LITTLE MONEY AND HOW FEW POSSESSIONS YOU OWN, HAVING A DOG MAKES YOU RICH " by Louis Sabin .

I really couldn't think offhand of a favorite quote but when I saw this e on the back of a book I was looking at while I was also toying with a photograph I had just altered with a boy and a dog I thought VIOLA !

I took an old battered book , gessoed , painted and distressed it . I added torn pages from a 1920 magazine with advertisements for dog kennels . Pages from a childs storybook about a lost dog , an altered old photo were added . I copied the large image of the dog from another dog book and cutout . Vintage game pieces I painted became " balls " . Standing on top is a porcelain doggy perched on a dominoe .

Photographed on a shelf with my 2 FAVORITE dog planters .