W is for Words

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 Words.


Warning!
I made a big mistake with this so DON'T do exactly what I did!

I cut a piece of card from the back of a sketchpad and found some Thickers.  The green set was complete but the white ones had gaps where the letters had been used.  This is a great way to use up sets that have all the vowels missing!

However think before you start!  I covered the card with Matte Medium and then stuck the letters down.  I carried on sticking the letters down and left the glue to dry.

Have you spotted the mistake yet?

I sprayed the page with blue ink and water.

And did my closing the book trick again.

I sprayed pink and orange on and the colours mixed to produce other colours.  I sprayed water through a stencil to get the ghosting effect.

When the glue had dried I thought I would check to see if the Thickers would take the Archival Ink and stamped on a spare piece of paper.  It worked so I went ahead on my page.

Have you worked out what I did wrong yet?

I stamped with Archival ink on the page.

And then realised that lots of the letters were back to front.  So remember you have to stick the letters down the wrong way up so that they print the right way up!


It was too late so I just carried on.  I inked the verse and the quote and stuck them down over the stamped letters.  I stamped the word and coloured it in with a glaze pen.

I wrote my journaling on the page following the line of the ink blot.

I hope you do better with making your giant letter stamp than I did.

Thanks for popping by.

Bernice

H is for Humour

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 Humour which is my last catch up page.

I put an elastic band around the celery stalks and then cut either side.  I was hoping that there would be an obviously different print from the more open stalks inside the elastic band.

Instead of printing I thought I would try the ghosting technique as the celery was wet.  However it wasn't wet enough and I had to dip it in water and leave it on the page.

That wasn't terribly successful so I mixed some bright pink ink with modelling paste and stamped with it.  The pink mixed with the turquoise ink to make a purple colour.

Here it is in close-up.

I stamped the word.  Can you spot the deliberate mistake?  Well, okay then, it wasn't deliberate the first time.  I stamped the wrong side of the first U so then decided to do the second one the same.  I used white acrylic paint to stamp the letter properly!   I painted the rest of the letters with a brush and the ReInker.   I inked the edges of the quote and verse and stuck them down.  

I added my journaling.

I'm not thrilled with this page but it doesn't matter.

All caught up now.  Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice

V is for Vision

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 Vision.

Here are the two pages side by side with the acrylic paint on.

Working on the right hand page I put on strips of masking tape.  If you don't want straight lines, tear your piece of masking tape down the middle and straight edges together.

I put several strips on.

I did the yellow wash again.

Then I peeled off the masking tape.

I stamped the leaves again and the word.  Inked the edges of the verse and quote and stuck them on.

I painted the leaves in the same way as yesterday and coloured in the word with a glaze pen.

I wrote my journaling in the gaps left by the masking tape.

I look forward to seeing the ideas you come up with today.

Bernice