Flower of the Month

This month's flower of the month on 12 Months in View is the Bluebell.

The challenge was to make a bluebell page.  Susan Ernst had previously given us a tutorial on how to 'draw' flowers and I used this same technique.

I downloaded the colouring page of bluebells and rubbed a pencil over the back.  I drew over the image transferring it to my sketchbook.

Using the Shaded Lilac Re-inker and some water I painted in the flowers.  I found I was better able to get the shading if I painted the shape with water and then added the colour.  When it was dry I put the highlights in with undiluted colour.

I coloured in the stem and leaves with a watercolour pencil and then washed over it with water.

I diluted some of the re-inker so that it was only just blue and washed it over the page.  The paper isn't for watercolour so it buckled.

When it was all totally dry I outlined it all with a black pen.

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Thanks for popping by.
Bernice

The month of May

I can't believe how quickly this year is going.  It's May already and the beginning of the third month of challenges on 12 Months in View.

Today's challenge was to produce a journal page based on any information or the quotes on the Introduction to May blog post.

I chose to use the quote: Spring is God's way of saying, One more time.

I sprayed blue ink through a stencil and without moving the stencil sprayed White Linen.  I sprayed a small amount of the blue and the white linen at the top of the page and then sprayed water.  I stood up the book so that the inks would move down the page.

I used a Dina Wakley stencil and some Distress Ink to stencil over the top.

I sprayed the whole page with yellow ink.

I stamped at the bottom of the page and stencilled with green distress ink.

I printed out the first part of the quote, cut it up and inked it before sticking it on the page.  I stamped the words one more time with black Archival and then went round the letters with a white or red pen. It probably needs some white highlights on the flowers and leaves at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Text in a shape

On Friday over on 12 Months in View, Valerie Sjodin shared a technique video with us.

And here is my version of creating text in a shape.