Day 8 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 Self.

Today's art challenge was to 'draw a picture of yourself or find a photograph of yourself to stick in the journal. Cut out words from magazines that describe you in positive terms and stick them on your page'.

I sprayed Butterscotch Colorwash through a stencil into the watercolour page on the right.  I wiped the stencil off on a piece of manila card (on the left).

I sprayed some inks randomly on the page and let them run across before dabbing it dry with my cloth.

I printed a photo of me onto an ordinary piece of copy paper and tore round it.  I used gel medium to stick it to the page.

I didn't have any magazines so I typed some words using different fonts.  Last year I did the Christy Tomlinson class 'She had 3 hearts' and one of the exercises was to ask your firends to describe you in three words so I used some of those words for this page.

I added the odd black line to the stencilled arrows and wrote my journaling around the outside of the stuck on words.

 

I hope you enjoy today's prompt.   See you tomorrow.

Day 7 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 Encouragement.

Today's art challenge was to 'make a stencil to use on your page today'.

I used the Sizzix Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die to cut out a stencil.  I used a piece of thick card and cut out the whole die.

I shall keep the leaves to use for something else.  If you want to make your stencil more permanent either gel medium over the card to make it more waterproof or use a sheet of acetate.

I took 3 colours of reinkers and dribbled them onto my glass plate.  It's actually a kitchen cutting plate and I use this instead of the non-stick mats most people use.

I added a squirt of water.

And then put the watercolour paper down onto the inks and moved the paper about.  I dabbed it off onto the backing paper to reduce the wetness.

I used spray inks through the stencil.  I took the photo while the ink was still wet so you can easily see the leaves but as the inks dried they were absorbed into the paper and became shadows.

I used the stencil and a white pen to go round the edges of the leaves.  I did it again with a black pen.  I did it really quickly and didn't worry about the accuracy of the outlining.

I wrote my journaling around the edges of the leaves and the names of the peole who encourage me on the leaves.

 

I like the fact that the inks didn't reach all of the paper and that there is some white showing.

I am looking forward to see how you make your stencil today.

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.