O is for Openness

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 Openness.

There are a lot of photos today.  I had such a lovely time playing with the shaving foam.  I used an old baking tray that was bigger than my journal.  I squirted the foam and added the Distress Re-Inkers.

I swirled the paint round with a plastic knife.  You actually don't need as much foam as this.

Here's the tray with a piece of sketchbook paper pressed into the foam.

And here's what it looks like when you pull it out of the tray.

I used my glass plate (but you could use your craft mat) to put the paper on and then I used a metal ruler to take off the foam and got this result.

I cleaned up and started again with a new squirting of foam and added Dylusions inks.

This was the first print.

I added some colour to the foam and took a second print on the same card.

I added some more colour and dipped some photographic paper and it worked just as well.

I put my journal onto the foam and took a print.  If you want to be sure that you don't get the foam on other pages of your journal then I suggest you wrap up all the rest of the journal apart from the page you are using with clingfilm.

I used a stencil to draw the circle and stamped the word with Plum Archival Ink.  I inked the edges of the verse and the quote with Distress Ink and stuck them down.

Using a paintbrush I painted the O shaped with Dylusions ink.

Then I wrote my journal as a spiral inside the circle.

I hope you have as much fun with the shaving foam as I did.

See you tomorrow
Bernice

Drum roll: Announcement

12 Months In View

This is a new creative challenge blog starting on March 4^th 2013.  Each month there will be creative challenges which you can interpret in any way.  Some will more obviously fit art journaling or scrapbooking but the challenges will include photography, cooking, sewing and writing.

The theme across the year will be Seasons with sub-themes within the season and the month.

Most of the challenges will be posted in the first week of the month with added blog posts throughout each month.  This will give participants a month in which to complete the challenges.

There is a Facebook group where you will be able to chat about the challenges.

I do hope you will join me in this new venture.  If you would like to check out other challenge blogs I have run please go to An Attitude of Gratitude and An A to Z of Me.

N is for Nature

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 Nature.

You will remember that yesterday I had put gesso on the page and painted it with acrylic paint.  I was actually working on both pages at the same time.  If you are starting with a blank page today, then cover it with gesso and paint with acrylic paint.

I used the other technique in yesterday's technique video and sprayed water through a stencil and then dried it with paper towel.

I sandwiched some pink tissue paper between some music patterned brown paper and a piece of book paper and using Tattered Florals die cut out some flowers.

I discarded the very large ones and stuck the rest onto the corner of my page, adding some bought paper flowers.

I stamped the squiggle again at the top of the page.  I stamped the word and again coloured it in using a Glaze pen.  I inked the edges of the verse and the quote with Distress Ink and stuck them down.  I used the stencilled pattern to guide where the journaling went.

This is another simple technique where the finished result looks much more complicated than it really is.

Hope to see you tomorrow.

Bernice