Day 2 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November click through to the Challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt on Today.

Today's art challenge was to 'use circles or squares'.

I used the same colour scheme as yesterday as I rather liked how it turned out.  I sprayed through a plastic canvas circle at the top and turned it over and pressed it down at the bottom right.  I sprayed blobs of Bubblegum Pink and sprayed Squeezed Orange through a stencil I had made by punching out 3 circles in a piece of card.   I put some clear gesso over the orange circles when the ink had dried.  Then I sprayed over the whole page with Fresh Lime.   Because of the colour of the base page, the colours are not as true as on the whilt backing paper.

I sprayed Bubblegum Pink through another Dylusions stencil.  O also used a Crafters Workshop stencil to get the small circles at the top right.I drew round the large circles with a black pen and a white pen.  I spread some white gesso through a Crafter's WOrkshop chevron stencil and wiped the excess randomly on the page.

I cut out the Bible verse and stuck it on the page with gel medium.   I also sprayed a lot of the bubblegum pink and some water at the top of the page and encouraged it to drip down the page.

I added some black lines round the verse and journaled about the things I am thankful for today.

I hope you found today's post useful.  If you are joining in with this project please post a link to your work on the challenge blog.

Hope to see you over there.

Bernice

Day 1 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

Welcome to everyone who has recently decided to follow my blog.  I am overwhelmed by the interest shown in the Attitude of Gratitude Challenge Blog and delighted that so many people are going to follow along, and hopefully participate.
 
If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November click through to the Challenge blog.

Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt on Wholeheartedness.

Today's art challenge was to 'use a colour you don't like or don't use very often'.

I don't often use yellow in my art so that was my starting point.  Dylusions Lemon Zest.

Just so you know!  This is a bit of a Dylusions fest using spray inks, stamps and stencils from the range.

Putting the large sheets of cartridge paper I mentioned in last Friday's post on my table, I started by spraying through some Punchinella (sequin waste) onto the non-printed side of Kraft cardstock using Bubblegum Pink and sprayed Fresh Lime through an alphabet stencil.  Instead of wiping the punchinella and the stencil or pressing them into pages of another sketchbook, I pressed them onto the large sheet of paper.  I also used the piece of cotton rag to mop up with and to dry sections of the page.

I sprayed the page with water and then with the Lemon Zest. I mopped up the excess by pressing one of the pieces of cartridge paper onto it and then onto the A3 cartridge paper.

I used Melted Chocolate  to spray through a Diamond stencil.  And when this was dry, I randomly stamped with Dylusions Basic Backgrounds stamps and black Archival Ink.

 I stamped the birds from this Dylusions set and painted them with a small brush using Squeezed Orange.   I cut up the printed out Bible verse and backed it onto purple scrapbooking paper and stuck it to the page.  I highlighted some of the diamonds and circles with a white pen.

Finally I journaled my thoughts on positivity and negativity in my lifeand the need for mindfulness.

I hope you found today's post useful.  If you are joining in with this project please post a link to your work on the challenge blog.

Hope to see you over there.

Bernice

Cards and a giveaway

My lovely friend Anita van Hal is so excited about the month of journaling on the Attitude of Gratitude Journal Challenge blog that she designed some art journaling pages especially for it.

The pages come as PDFs or as jpegs. There is a link posted on tomorrow's post on An Attitude of Gratitude where you can download the PDFs for free.

I was given the jpegs to use and I put them into Publisher and made them into A6 size.  You can fit two cards to an A4 page.   Anita designed 6 floral designs with quotes on and 6 abstract designs.  With the abstract designs I put 'Thank you' or 'Thinking of you' over the top.

I printed them onto card, cut them in half and then folded each card.  And here are the cards I've made.

You could use the pages as the basis of your gratitude journal.  Or print the pages off and cut them up to use on your journal page.

I hope you will find our giveaway useful.  If you haven't tried using digital images now is your time to try.

Don't forget to come back on Thursday for the start of the Attitude of Gratitude Journal challenge.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what your journals look like.

Bernice