..buried in the paper recycling box (I was scuffling about for envelopes and scraps to dye) – when I found this:
No. Haven’t uploaded the wrong photo.
It is the manual to my faithful old printer. (11 years old, some bits have fallen off, but still working, I digress.)
The treasure is in the 7/8 of the pages which are printed in languages foreign to me, almost entirely text-based, on nice absorbant paper.
I love using printed paper especially when the forms of the words aren’t distracted by their meaning.
All it wants is some color…Beginning in drips
Water and ink, drippier and drippier
Then the bit where my inner-kid gets all excitable
Gasp!
Ta-da!
A good swish of dylusions yellow to soften the purples, then on to the next page while this dries!
I’ll post more as they dry and develop 🙂
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The mundane transformed into the extraordinary – look forward to seeing more posts about this! =D
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I like the way you nurture that inner kid!
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It’s gotta be done – inner kid prone to toddler-style-stropping if not kept entertained!! 😉
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cute!
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What a brilliant idea 🙂 Absolutely love the colours too – can’t wait to see it develop.
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THankies! I’ll be posting some more pix later. It’s a lot of fun + made me realise that all those old instruction books will have a new lease of life too!! 🙂
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I may have to have a dig through my stuff and see what I can find. I was eyeing up some magazines, but they’re quite new and I might still want to read them… but old instruction manuals are perfect journal fodder! 😀
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Cool! It’s amazing what can be put to use as journaling/art ingredients when you start to look round @home! 🙂
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I often save Ikea tags and things for the same reason. I now know the word for “cotton” in about 32 languages…most of which I can’t pronounce.
: )
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oh, cool idea! (Note to self: probably don’t have to throw anything out again. Ever!)
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um, yes. That does get to be a bit of a problem. Don’t ask about my box of tags from clothing….
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I dyed something the other day with a very similar method and totally squealed like a school girl when I pulled the pages apart. Definitely a neat effect!!
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Yay! Best bit is, if the effect isn’t totally squeally – just add more! (or even if it is!)
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You just can’t buy paper like that……!
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