Day 6 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 Technology.

Today's art challenge was to 'use Dyan's Ghosting Technique'.

I started with the piece I had blotted on yesterday with the manila card. Then I sprayed it all over with the Squeezed Orange.

I followed Dyan's instructions spraying water through stencils.

I used Archival Ink and stamped all around the outside edges of the page so that not all of the stamp was on the page.  I also used the diamonds stamps from the Basic Backgrounds set very lightly. I cleaned the ink of the stamps by stamping onto the large sheet of paper behind my page.

I added some highlight using white and black acrylic paint.  I did the circles with the top from a glue stick and the lines with an old credit card. Then I stuck on the Bible Verse.

I added my journaling around the circles and into a spiral. (sorry you can't see it very well).  I added white dots to show where the journaling was.

I hope you are enjoying the challenges so far.  Don't worry if you're not keeping up every day as the challenges will be available for quite a while.

It's amazing to think we are already a fifth of the way through the month.

Day 5 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 Social Media.

Today's art challenge was to 'use  Dyan Reaveley's bleachout technique'.

Using a piece of cartridge paper, I followed Dyan's instructions on the video using Squeezed Orange instead of the pink.  I blotted it with a piece of manila card (on the right).

I blotted the manila card again onto the piece of cartridge paper I had already blotted on to previously.

Then I stamped with the Dylusions stamp.  However if you don't own one of those use any stamp you own or you could draw it yourself using a waterproof pen.  I used a waterbrush to remove the black and added the orange ink again but using a paintbrush. I also stamped the toadstools/mushrooms and used the same technique.

I drew round the leaves with a white pen, stuck on the Bible Verse and wrote my journaling with a white pen.

This is a great technique from Dyan.  Hope you enjoy it.

See you tomorrow.

Day 4 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 Time.

Today's art challenge was to 'stamp with an embossing folder'.

I decided that I would use the page that I had already used as a mop up from a previous day.  As the theme for today is Time I thought I would use my Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades.  This didn't work as well as the Patchwork one I have used in the past.

I inked the raised side of the embossing folder with Archival Ink and pressed it down onto the page.

If you don't want the line of the embossing folder to show on the page then mask off the rest of the page with some spare paper.

Then I stamped with various stamps and black Archival Ink.

I added the Bible Verse and my journaling. I added one or two highlights with black pen.



I haven't listed the stamps I used as I want to encourage you to use whatever you have and interpret the theme and the challenge in your own way.

I hope this has been helpful and look forward to seeing your interpretation.