The Journal Cover

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 cover of my journal.

The cover of the sketchbook I used is black.

I painted over the whole thing with white gesso and when it was dry I used black Archival Ink to stamp with.  However I forgot to take a photograph before I painted over the whole thing with acrylic paint.

I used a large stencil to wipe away some of the paint.

Then I stuck some letters on from my scrapbooking stash.

I may go back to it and put a border around it, not quite sure yet.

I hope you have enjoyed our 28 days together.   Thank you for following along.


Have you signed up for 12 Months In View which starts on March 4th?

Bernice

Z is for Zeal

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 Zeal.

The last letter of the alphabet.  Today's technique is 'drippage'.

I sometimes like to help the drips go where I want them to go so I paint lines with water before spraying the ink.

The lines are going across the page rather than down.  At this point I was planning on getting lines that I could journal between.

I added the pink and helped those lines along as well.

And then some yellow.

I inked the edges of the verse and quote and stuck them down.  I stamped the word for today, coloured it in and then stamped the butterfly stamp.

I then decided I liked the whiteness of the page too much to do the journaling in between the lines so put it between the verse.

Tomorrow I will be showing you the cover for my journal.

Congratulations if you've kept up.  See you tomorrow.

Bernice

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