M is for Mindfulness

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 Mindfulness.

I covered the page and the next page with gesso and left it to dry.

Instead of putting the acrylic paint onto a mat or a mixing dish I applied it straight to the paper.  Sadly it turned out I had put far too much paint and when I spread it across the page with an old credit card it turned out to be enough for both pages in my journal. 

Plus it all merged into one mass of green.

I added some turquoise blue paint randomly and then put my 12x12" stencil on top.  I used a baby wipe to wipe away the paint.

I stamp the word and coloured it in with a Glaze pen.   I inked the edges of the verse and the quote with Distress Ink.  I stamped the squiggle down the right side of the page.  Then I wrote my journaling.

I put Present in one of the shapes as it is my word for 2013.

This is a really simple technique which works really well.  Hope you enjoy it.

Bernice

L is for Laughter

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 Laughter.

I used the clingfilm technique again with Dylusions inks.

Then I put the Rock Candy Crackle Paint through a stencil.  I don't think I put it on thickly enough plus I was impatient and really didn't let it have enough time to crackle.  If you can see a pinky tinge to it, that's because I don't clean my stencils properly and it obviously had been used with a pink spray ink previously!

I used Distress Ink over the edges of the page and on the crackled area.  However the pink didn't show up very well so then I used black.

The black and pink have eventually merged to an aubergine type colour. I tried putting white acrylic paint through the same stencil but it just made a mess and I went round the flowers with a black pen.  I added more of the pink distress ink to cover the white page.

I added the verse, the quote and stamped the word.

I coloured in the letters of the word and drew round the inside of the stamping with white pen.  I wrote down the things that I delight in.

I hope you enjoy playing with crackle paint today.

Bernice

K is for Kindness

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 Kindness.

I sprayed water onto the page and then sprayed three colours of inks and let them spread as they wished.

I stuck down the doilies I used for the G page.

I stamped the word using Distress Ink rather than the Archival I usually use.  I inked the edges of the quote and the verse with the same colour before adding them to the page.

I coloured in the letters with a Glaze pen, drew round the letters with a black pen and wrote my journaling.

Thanks for popping by today.  See you tomorrow.

Bernice