All You Need Is Love... And 17 Oz. of Glue!

Here's the other project that had me so up to my ears in glue that I was sick of gluing stuff. Luckily, I had scored an entire gallon of US ArtQuest's Matte Perfect Paper Adhesive for half price when one of my favorite paper arts stores (Las Vegas Art Stamps) went out of business. I got a ton of cool stuff there but I'd really rather that the store was still there. Linda is happily retired now though and she's so nice that you can't really complain. She deserves it and she still looks too young to be retired which will be a nice thing for her to have people to remark on to her.

The project was for BookArtz (my favorite Yahoo group, now co-located on the ning social network at http://www.bookartz.com/), the songbook hostessed by lovely Lyn in Michigan (right under the thumb on the mitten, if you're way familiar with Michiganders). Now I'd been way involved in the preliminary discussions of this fat book idea, and had had a very firm idea of the song I meant to do from the beginning. What else could I do but my very own theme song, Love Shack? I even paid to download the sheet music which I was surprised not to find for free online. (If you find it for free, don't tell me because that will just piss me off, okay?)

So even I don't know how it ended up being all about All You Need Is Love!

As you can see from the shape I tucked into the pocket on the front (yes, I know that I like pockets a lot), shades of Fool on the Hill and Here Comes the Sun crept in there. There was a bit of Sgt. Pepper in there too, as evidenced by the tie-dye background. It's mounted on purple card stock because it was printed on a color laser printer from a PDF and I forgot that they print out just a tad smaller than the original. I think I heard that somewhere before. Hmmm...

I got sick of gluing because I had to glue the top of the front to the cardstock but not the bottom. That had the transparency with the words glued to it. I'd originally thought to do the words with a stencil but there was too much letters and too little background to make a good stencil. The back is stamped with commercial stamps. 'Love' is a bought stamp, wood-mounted. 'Is All You Need' was made up with some of my favorite clear alphabet stamps on an acrylic mount.

More on stamps and stencils in the next post!