Journal 52- week 8

When I signed up to take part in Journal 52, I just knew that it was NOT going to be easy for me.
However, we are at week 8 and I find I am tackling things I would never have dreamt of doing, or even showing you the result. As always we had our prompts and guides on this weeks theme....................

'Found Poetry'

Well I do love to read poetry, but this was right out of my box. These are the words I picked out from my chosen book page, I was also lucky to get some that were in order and made sense to me. 

'Moonlight painted her hair

He was in love.'

All it needed was coats of  gesso,acrylics white, turquoise and blue. A bit of random stamping and the Wendi Vecci  face image . I have yet to find the courage to try my hand a painting faces. Oh dear hope that is not an omen for a future prompt.

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Magical moments.

'Anything Goes', is the new theme. over at  Fashionable Stamping Challenges .All we ask is that stamping must be a main feature on what you make. Please pop over for all the details and see what my design team sisters have been making.
The words under the stamped image read-- Silences make the real conversations between friends. This is a Paperbag Studio Image, stamped onto a piece of art canvas using Archival ink, edged with Vintage photo distress ink.  I also stamped the image onto tissue, this was partially layered on to the original ,to give a bit of added texture .

The base layer of this project, you will see it in the next photo was a piece of chocolate covered card, dry embossed through a leaf design  folder, before swiping over with Picket fence distress stains.
The next layer  started off as a piece of corrugated card. Painted with Linen coloured acrylic paint, then  painted with brush- fulls of Old paper distress stain, swipes of Picket fence and some watered down Bundled sage.
A  bit  random French script  stamping
Next came the stenciling, when the grunge medium  had dried off,I added the main image  and re stenciled the flower to go across the picture.   I painted it with water colours and did a bit more swiping over the top with the Bundled sage ink pad.
The leaves and butterflies, I think are Memory Box dies. water coloured then sprayed with Dylusions Gold Mica spray.

The challenge over at Country View Crafts for February is Painty Pleasures, I think that this may fit their theme as well.

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Best friends

Challenge 26 over at Tag Along is 'Lots of Layers'.  We were asked to say how many we used. So as I went along I jotted down what I did.

 So here goes.
 [1] A simple beginning with the base tag, a little script stamping.
 [2]Andy Skinner  mask for the children , stamping inside the shape first,
 [3]  then  using the cut out piece as a mask  and Spiced Marmalade distress  to get the silhouette of the kids.
. [4] Some book paper scraps,
 [5] Tissue tape.
 [6] A bit of grunge paste through a stencil.   Wait till it dries,
 [7] Add a couple of Stampotique images, I had to stamp these again on a scrap of paper and fussy cut bits to add to the tag, so they would show up
 [8] paint images with distress markers. Vintage photo and Spiced marmalade.
[9] Out with the same colours  in distress ink pads and build up the shades.
[10] Add a couple of words- Best friends.
Well I do hope this all counts as layers,  to me layering usually involves lots of papers and bits and pieces.

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Journal 52-week 7 When I grow up

Our prompt for  Week 7  at Journal 52 was -When I grow up..... This was a super prompt, all kinds of ideas sprung to mind  for this week. I went with the thought  that we all hold our own destiny,  in our hands. Would I have changed my chosen pathway? --No.  The balloons hold brief stages in my pattern of life, I think I could have written many books of what happened between. As for the future,  that is another stage of growing up  and enjoying the later years of life.

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Handwritten with Love

The new challenge over at Try it on Tuesdays has a bit of a twist this time.We are looking for something  Handmade, but we must see some Writing as well.  The DT decided to add handwriting  to our projects and we would love you to do this as well, but we have added some alternatives.
Hand writing  is something I realy avoid doing, but  we do like to get folk out of their comfort zones at TioT's.

I stamped up the quote I wanted to use[Art phrases stamp from Creative Expressions]. Had a practice copying the words  on scraps of card .  A  few went into the bin before I managed one that I would want to use.
The background of the tag  was random stamped, heat  embossed with  an un- named turquoise embossing powder There is a zig zag stencil across the bottom corner, rubbed over with turquoise glitter as it dried

All the colours and shading were distress inks, Victorian Velvet, Vintage Photo and a touch of Bundled sage.

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A feathered friend,

'Come Fly with Me', is the new theme that  Viv has set for us at Crafty Cardmakers and More.
Please pop over for all the details, we have two sponsors this time  Hobby Art Stamps and Di's Digi Stamps.

I used a piece of G45 card for the base layer and a couple of pieces of dark green and brown to layer the main images. This main piece of  the card was random stamped using stamps from Indigo Blu and Stampers Anonymous. The bird on the branch I had to fussy cut, so it would stand out from the background.
All the colouring and shading was distress inks, Antique linen, Vintage photo and Peeled paint.

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Play Days

Over at Sugar Creek Hollow we are, ' Dreaming of the Beach', for our new Challenge.
We  are also  welcoming a Guest Designer this week  Marie,  please pop over  for all the details and see what we all made.

 I live in the UK  and this scene is a bit of a trip down memory lane ,  as we are still  in our winter season.  But I'm sure some folk somewhere in the world will be having a a bit of warmth and sunshine.
This little guy is a stamp from Joanna Sheen.  Bucket and spade at the ready and he's off to  to splash about in the sea,. The trimmings all came from my stash  box,  things that I hoard and cannot throw away.
The image is water coloured .
 I edged this oval die cut  and play ticket  with Frantage embossing powder,  Aged aqua and Aged Marine. The base card is a Kraft card, and the layers, ribbon, lace and metal charm boat,  all came from the box that never seems to have any space for more.
Other challenges-
Inkspirational challenge 50- Designers challenge is a Tic, Tac, Toe.
my line is Embossing heat/dry ,  ribbon /lace,  metal charm.

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