I'm back with a double helping of challenges & prompts
from The Documented Life Project.
Continuing February's theme of
Layers you will love.
The Art Challenges areContinuing February's theme of
Layers you will love.
- Week 8. Repeating elements
- Week 9. Using at least five layers
- Week 8. It's worth repeating
- Week 9. Give me a high five
I was searching for the right five letter word for this journal page,
something to inspire me,
to have some kind of reason to journal, something worth repeating ...
I decided to look at my own blog & then it struck me ...
"daisy, daisy
as the second month draws to a close,
it's worth repeating the five goals you set yourself
at the beginning of January."
The first layer is a base of gesso.
The second layer is a watercolour effect background, created using Whispers Strokes. Annoyingly the permanent ink pens do not have their individual colour names on them, so here is a photo to record which ones I used.
The third layer, stencilled patterns, using ColorBox fluid chalk inkpad (Orchard Pastel) through the Tim Holtz Dot Fade stencil by Stampers Anonymous.
The fourth layer is my grid & my doodled letters & flowers. The grid template, which I use for my Moleskin book, is just the right size for this journal.
Finally, I added words & letters cut from an old book (Pride & Prejudice), printed text & Ranger's Texture Paste, through stencils (Typo & Dot Fade).
There was also some white gesso added on the top.
I did struggle to get started on this challenge,
but once I got going I really enjoyed the process.
It gave me the opportunity to use stencils & paste, both for the first time.
I also made use of an old ink pad, very old colouring pens
& a butterfly that I found whilst looking for something else.
something to inspire me,
to have some kind of reason to journal, something worth repeating ...
I decided to look at my own blog & then it struck me ...
"daisy, daisy
as the second month draws to a close,
it's worth repeating the five goals you set yourself
at the beginning of January."
The first layer is a base of gesso.
The second layer is a watercolour effect background, created using Whispers Strokes. Annoyingly the permanent ink pens do not have their individual colour names on them, so here is a photo to record which ones I used.
The third layer, stencilled patterns, using ColorBox fluid chalk inkpad (Orchard Pastel) through the Tim Holtz Dot Fade stencil by Stampers Anonymous.
The fourth layer is my grid & my doodled letters & flowers. The grid template, which I use for my Moleskin book, is just the right size for this journal.
Finally, I added words & letters cut from an old book (Pride & Prejudice), printed text & Ranger's Texture Paste, through stencils (Typo & Dot Fade).
There was also some white gesso added on the top.
I did struggle to get started on this challenge,
but once I got going I really enjoyed the process.
It gave me the opportunity to use stencils & paste, both for the first time.
I also made use of an old ink pad, very old colouring pens
& a butterfly that I found whilst looking for something else.
