J is for Journey

If you want to join in with making an A to Z of Me Journal through the month of February 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 Journey.

Today's technique challenge was to use watercolour and clingfilm.   I used Dylusions inks instead of watercolour.

I sprayed water over the page and then sprayed the inks.  I moved the page round so that inks blended.

I put the clingfilm on so that it was creased.  The more creases the better the result!

I left it on to dry and then removed the clingfilm.

Here's a close-up.

I stamped the word journey on a piece of old map and stamped randomly on the page before sticking the verse and the quote on.

I used a Dylusions stamp for the journaling lines and wrote in between.

Yet another page with scope for further additions.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

I is for Interests

Thank you to everyone who has sent me kind and encouraging comments since my post on E for Emotions.   I have been able to find some time for my journal so I thought I would start at I and go back to E, F, G, H at a later time.

If you want to join in with making an A to Z of Me Journal through the month of February 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 Interests.

I sprayed two colours of Dylusions inks onto my page and wiped them across the page with a wet baby wipe.

I sprayed two other colours of inks through a stencil but forgot to photograph it.

Today's technique is to add metal.  You could use any sort of metal embellishment or make your own.  You can buy sheets of thin metal but I used a ginger beer tin.  If the outside of the tin has a pattern on it that you like then you could use that side of the tin.  My tin was silver on the inside.

I cut the top and bottom off and cut down the cylinder to make a flat piece of metal.

Avoiding the sharp edges I put the sheet through my cuttlebug in an embossing folder.

I cut the embossed metal with a butterfly die.

I used two colours of alcohol inks to colour one of the butterflies.  I might go back and colour the others.

I stuck them onto the page with modelling paste so that the paste filled up the embossed sections at the back.  I stamped the word and drew round the inside of each letter.  I stuck on the quote and the verse and drew round some of the diamonds with a white pen and a black pen.  I stamped some butterflies using archival ink.

I added my journaling.  There's still room on the page for more journaling so I may go back and add more.

I hope you enjoyed today's challenge.  Thanks for popping by.
Bernice

E is for Emotions

Hi.

I'm sorry there is no page today for my A to Z of Me Journal.  When I was planning the challenges it was my intention to be several pages ahead of you all so that each day my page was here ready.

However during the time I had set aside for the pages, my Dad was in hospital and we were living at his house and my art stuff was 200 miles away.   Then his health deteriorated and we have been spending many hours every day at his bedside.

He died very peacefully on Monday afternoon, 4th February.

The month of challenges will continue as the whole thing was written and scheduled to post before all this happened.  I will come back with my pages when I can.  In the meantime please enjoy the An A to Z of Me blog,

As for my emotions, they are mixed  as you might imagine.  Sad that his life has ended but glad that the suffering is over.

Here is a photo of him in better times.  The day he collected his MBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.