Pay it forward: Blog Award

Valerie from Visual Blessings blog gave me this blog award that is about discovering new blogs.

Thank you to Valerie for thinking of me.

ABOUT THE AWARD 

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you've been nominated, you award it to five blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these blogs. 

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCE 

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award! 

PAY IT FORWARD
I follow quite a few blogs so it was quite difficult to narrow it down to five.  But here we go:

Carolyn at Mess, Muddle and Fun

BJ at ccraftcorner

Eleni at But First I

Nicky at Sunshine Reflections

Jacky at What a Scrappy Life

I do hope you will go and visit these blogs and leave some love.

Thanks again Valerie.

Bernice

Y is for YES

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 YES.

Sorry about the photo - the sun came out!

I stuck my book page down on a scrap piece of printer paper with a glue stick.

I put another piece of paper over the top and marked where the page was just so I could practise it with the printer.   I used Publisher but you could do this in whatever software you have.  I worked out where the photo should go and then did a practise run with the spare sheet.

Then I put the book page through the printer.  This is a photo of some art work that I did that I had printed as a postcard.

I sprayed the yellow and lime onto the page which as you can see buckled somewhat  because the page before wasn't totally dry!

I sprayed the yellow again over a Crafter's Workshop stencil of wire netting.   I stamped randomly with a crackle stamp.  I tore the edges of my book paper and inked the torn edges.  I inked the verse and the quote and stuck them all down.

I stamped the word and coloured it in with a Jellyroll pen.

I wrote my journaling.

Only one more letter to go and you will have a finished book.

See you tomorrow for Z.

Bernice

X is for X Marks the Spot

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 X marks the spot.

I frothed up the washing up liquid in a bowl and sprayed some Dylusions ink onto the bubbles.

I used some thin card that I use in my printer and it soaked up a lot of the water.

I tried also with some mixed media paper from a sketchbook.

I found the longer you leave the bubbles on the better the effect.

Here's the double page I started yesterday.

I added some more pink.  The nozzle had gunge up so I actually added drops rather than spray.

I dipped these papers twice using the pink and then lime.

When they were dry I turned them over and using a stencil drew stars on the back of the paper.  It's better to draw on the back because then you're not thinking about where is the best place to draw the star.

I cut out the stars and inked them with black Distress Ink and stuck them down randomly.

I inked the edges of the quote and verse and stuck them on.  I stamped X marks the spot around the edge of the page.

I used some sequin waste and a pink Distress Ink to add the little stars.   I coloured in the words with the glaze pen.  I usually do 2 or maybe 3 coats of the glaze pen allowing each layer to dry.  This makes a slightly enamelled looked.

I wrote my journaling around the edge of the page.

This was a fun page to do.  I hope you are still having fun.

Bernice