I experimented with magazine images and put some flat 3D objects underneath the pageand then lightly sanded over them. I liked the effect of it. The edges are acrylic and stamps. I used some specialty paper. The slide mount is painted with acrylics. I painted the back of it so it would peek through a little. It’s hard to tell from the picture. Thanks for looking:)
yep still catching up since I can’t work out of order and I was stuck on this. Every time I sat down to do this the theme song from Benny & Joon would go through my head so I ran with that.
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I finally was able to sit down and do this entry about what I never thought would be in my house. I water colored the background though you can’t really see it.
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I’m not too wild about this, but for now I’m leaving it alone. I don’t know if it is just crap, or if I’m overthinking again.
I used a mixture of watercolors and acrylics, my zig pen, some cut outs from magazines and a calendar page from my day planner. I was going to use the Saturday of the weekend spark, but that page is actually on the back of June’s month at a glance page so I settled for last Saturday instead. Oh, and the “S” is a basic gray monogram. I worked off of the colors in the “S,” which is something I don’t like to do, and that’s probably why I don’t like it. It seems matchy matchy to me.
Best thing to do when I get like this is to just step away from it and come back later.
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I had fun experimenting with making designs on paper using bubbles. I actually learned this on a kids show that my chillin were watching. You put some water and a small amount of dish soap in a pan, add paint then blow bubbles with a straw. Then you press your paper against the bubbles and let it dry. It will leave a cool bubble pattern on the page. This worked best with heavyweight matte cardstock. the kids loved helping with this. just don’t let them suck in on the straw or they will get a mouthful of nasty dishsoap. Thanks for looking!
I tried to make the corrugated cardboard in the shape of split apart yin/yang signs
This was a hard theme for me, but I finally decided to begin by collecting images that were either male or female to me and then blending them together. The more I try to make things simpler they more complex they turn out. I don’t know why. I put images from magazines, layers of paint, eyelets, corrugated paper, etc. My theme is about the balance of male and female power to create something that was stronger than each one alone.
I have done three pages to catch up over the last 3 days – I was ill last week and the muse must have been off sick too! Anyway, these pages were done fairly quickly so I haven’t given them loads of thought really – it was quite good to do them this way instead of agonising over them – ended up to be quite fun really! Thanks for looking and reading all the blah blah blah!!
This is my page for the ‘place to be’ topic. It was on a page I had gessoed and stuck on part of a lovely card my friend had given me. I thought I’d try the wonky writing, which was fun and used MM stamps and the flower is there mainly to hide a big mistake!! Main journalling is I don’t think I’m all that good at just ‘being’. Maybe it’s a state of mind or perhaps it’s something you just lose the hang of doing once you ‘grow up’ and responsibility and children take over your life! Then there’s so little time to be anything apart from what you ‘have’ to be. A combination of all these things I think. There are a few places I like to be – alone in my bedroom, sitting on my bed, quilt over my knees, reading a book, the paper, watching tv. Anything as long as it’s just me on my own. I like to be on my back steps looking into my garden with the birds singing and the sounds of nature all around. Phew! There are other random bits of journally around the page.
This is the page about ‘home’. I had no inspiration at first for this so I gessoed a page black(!) then took random pics of ‘stuff’ around my house (strangely enough mainly collections of junk! – apart from my kids!!). I just started sticking pics down and didn’t like it much at first, but I tried not to ‘bother’ about the process and I quite like it now. I used red acrylic and stamps to write little titles around the page – HOME is where my stuff lives. Lucy. Adam. Dave. Garden. Textiles. Lotions & Potions. Where love is. Art. Books. Ducky.
Finally, the favourite day of the week spark. Another page I had prepared with a paper cutting and some more gesso. Used psx stamps for the title and journalling reads – My favourite day of the week would be any day where I can have some time for ME jsut to do whatever I want to – this journal, reading, sewing, creating or whatever – sitting in the garden doing nothing. Just having a little TIME to be able to think with an uncluttered mind…
I also like waking up on a Sunday and knowing that none of us ‘have’ to be anywhere, no classes, no school (apart from Dave who has to work some Sundays). It’s an ‘unscheduled’ day – a free day…
Here is mine for home. First thing I thought of when I read for Home, was how frustrated I get with our unfinished house so I wrote about it. But deep down, I know that my home is really where my husband and kids are (except do I have to claim them today?!). I’m 100% digital so I started with a picture of some shelves we bought from Pottery Barn, had for months, finally put up and now still have nothing on them. Then I just “digi played” from there.
