R is for Responsibilities

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 Responsibilities.

This page too had remnants of the shaving foam!

I taped down the stencil with masking tape and used 3 colours of Distress Inks to colour through the stencil.  I then stamped randomly with a dot stamp and a script stamp.

I used a lemon Distress Ink to colour the whole page as the white was too stark against the turquoise of the previous page which lies next to it.   I stamped the word and used a Glaze pen to inline it.   I inked the edges of the verse and the quote and stuck them down.  Then I journaled along some of the lines from the stencilled shape.

I love using Distress Inks.  I can't wait to get my hands on the Distress Paints.

I hope your A to Z Journal is going well.

Bernice

Q is for Qualities

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 Qualities.

As you can see the shaving foam had crept onto this page too but that's what happens when you work directly into a journal so I ignored it and wrote with a white wax crayon on the page.  I couldn't decide whether to do a random pattern but in the end decided to echo the words in the quote.

I put a wash of turquoise Dylusions ink over the page.

 I sprayed through the stencil with two other colours of ink.

I inked the edges of the verse and the quote and stuck them down.  I stamped the word and coloured in the letters with a Glaze pen.  I went over the whole page with a lemon Distress Ink to try to tone down the turquoise.

I wrote my journaling around the words.

What qualities do you look for?

See you tomorrow.
Bernice

P is for Possibilities

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 Possibilities.

I had so loved the shaving foam background for Openness that I printed the next page as well.  Here's the foam before I scraped it off the page.

I scraped off the foam and stamped the word.  I inked the edges of the verse and the quote and stuck them down.

This is an old 6x4" photo of a beach in Spain.

I sanded the photo leaving the trees intact.   I did a wash of watercolour paint over the sky and the land and then scratched into it with my pokey tool.

I rubbed some black Distress Ink into the words and then added some more water.

I didn't like the straight edges of the photo with the swirly background so I tore and inked the edges.

I added my journaling in a wavy line.

I love the shaving foam background but I don't think it's a good match to today's technique challenge.

Have a great day.  See you tomorrow.

Bernice