Love Story, Altered CD

I absolutely love altered Cd's so I wanted to share this with you, I received this one in a swap with my sister in law, Thank you so much Jen, it's really lovely, I will look forward to the next one that we do !!!!!

Altered CD " Schooldays "

I am doing a altered cd swap with my sister in law Jen, as you can see from the picture it's in my favorite colours, shades of brown, I tend to be working more and more with these colours as you will see when I post the pictures of my paper bag book that is finally coming to the end, anyway the cd for Jen was great fun to make, I liked it so much that one of the pages in the book will be very similar.

The cd is covered with loads of torn text pages, coloured with ink pads then a layer of white gesso was applied, 3 holes were drilled for the cord and the hanging numbers at the bottom, the child image, the pens and the word schooldays were all stamped onto card and coloured, the letters and numbers are chipboard that I painted and then sprayed with a gold glitter, the numbers at the bottom are attached with jump rings, a piece of brown leather thong to finish. Jen has already seen a picture of this cd and says that she likes it, hope she means it !!!!!!

Dream, Altered CD

I have been having a play at altering a cd, I am pleased with the way it is, but think that maybe I should have done more to it ? although I am not sure what !

The cd is covered with canvas then layered with lots of different torn papers ,a couple of old tickets and postage stamps, I had inked the edges of these in shades of brown, when this was all done I decided that it was to much so I painted a thin layer of white gesso over the top to tone it down, added stamped cutout images of the lady and crow, stamped dragonflies, a piece of mesh, chipboard letters, toiled butterflies and some reddish brown chipping, not sure what these are they look like glass but are not sharp, inked around the edge of the cd to finish, Loved doing this and am ready to start another one,.