A bit of Tanzania

Wow, this week went so fast! There is so much work to do at the office and almost everybody is on holidays! Cannot beleive it is already mid-August!!

My week was not very creative but last week i had time to start a chipboard book. Wondering what project I could do with it and thinking about the fact that maybe I should think about incorporating more of Africa in my art I notice that there were enough chipboard pieces to play with the word T-A-N-Z-A-N-I-A.

So far it is TANZ... but I wanted to post tome pictures:

The process is quite interesting. I like working on small surfaces because it lets me experiment new techniques.

This is "T". I glued a brown background paper on the chipboard. I stamped the eastern part of Africa on a beige bazzil paper, cut it to the correct size and glued it on the brown brackground paper. I stamped a small T. I distressed a little bit the stamped paper.

For the A. I stamped and ambossed an Elephant. I also glued a 100 Tanzanian shilling coin. the letter "a" is lightly embossed and the background paper is distressed with ink.

the "N": i used some raphia fablic that is sold here for the backbround. I cut and glued it. I did a transfert using one of Benoît's photographs of a chimp. The transfert was made using tape. I used some brown cardstock for the letter. i painted the edged and I used stickes for the letter. Finally I tied some brown string around the chipboard.

Letter Z: the background is made of beige paper distressed with ink. There is aslo a piece of handmade paper coming from Asia. I glued part of a telephone card refill and a tax stamp used in airport. the circle around the letter was bought in a local hardware store. I stamped it with alcohol ink. The letter was is red plastic. I also stamped it with alcohol ink...

That is all for now. I still have to finish A-N-I-A. Hopefully this week if it gets quiet.