Day 12 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 My Neighbourhood.

Today's art challenge was to 'include a map on your page today'.

I tore a piece from an old map of the area I live in which includes my road and stuck it onto the paper with gel medium.

I put a layer of gesso over the whole page with a lighter scraping across the map itself.

I sprayed the whole page with Lime spray ink and wiped it with a baby wipe.

I sprayed orange ink and some water at the top of the page and let it drip down.  I dabbed the ink with my cloth which meant it doesn't show up very much.  Then I did the same thing with turquoise.

I randomly printed onto the page with a map stamp and then added my verse and my journaling.

 

I really like how layered this looks despite the fact it really doesn't have that many layers.

I hope you are finding my interpretations of the challenges useful.

See you tomorrow.

Day 11 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 Things I've learned.

Today's art challenge was to 'use the Vaseline resist technique on your page today'.

I used a piece of watercolour paper for this but I'm sure it will work on other types of paper.  I spread the vaseline through the stencil.  Once you've put the first bit on the stencil stays anchored to the paper while you do the rest which is really useful.

I put some colours of acrylic paint on the glass plate - I used the paint from some paint dabbers and added some water to make it easier to brush onto the paper. And then left it to air dry.

I had put rather too much paint on the plate so I took another piece of paper and swished it in the paint.

I wiped away the vaseline with a paper towel.  In this photo I have wiped the leaves on the bottom right of the page.  I hope you can see how clean the image is in comparison with the vaseline on the left.

I added some stamped leaves using Archival Ink.

I stamped a couple of birdies. I'm not sure why I chose those ~ other than they fitted the space! And added a little bit of black pen to the outline of the leaves in the bottom right corner.  I did think about outlining all the leaves but decided not to.

I added my journaling around the edges.

I haven't decided whether this page is totally finished.  But that's the great thing about art journaling ~ you can always come back and play some more.

Day 10 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 Emotions.

Today's art challenge was to 'use stars or hearts on your page today'.

To make the hearts I put some distress stains onto my glass plate.  I used the 3 metallic ones and Fired Brick.

I pressed a piece of spare manila card onto the stains and swished the card.  Then I sprayed a red Glimmer Mist through a stencil.  The Glimmer MIst was still wet when I took this photo and when it dried it was much more subtle.

I cut out the heart shapes that I had sprayed and inked the edges with Distress Ink before sticking them to the page.   The background is the mop up page from Day 5.

I added my journaling with a white pen.

I think that the background needed a bit more work before I added the elements ~ perhaps some more stenciling but I am mostly happy with the finished page.


I hope you will be back tomorrow.