Collage with Anita's papers

Again this month, Anita van Hal has provided 12 Months in View with digital papers for free.

As you know I love to make books with her designs but this month I thought I would try something different.   Collage!

I printed off three of her designs.

I tore around the design on the page on the left.

I glued the doily page into my journal and then glued the star shape on top, having first inked the edges.

The gel medium was quite a runny one and the paper was ordinary printer paper so there was a lot of bubbling up.

I added a semi circle of a white doily on the left of the page, although you can't really see it in this photo.  I tore round the bluebell image and glued that on top.

I added some modelling paste through a Dina Wakley mosaic stencil and when it was dry added some distress ink.

Then I added some black distress ink through the same stencil.

And finally I added the quote.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Monthly Photo

On 12 Months in View today is the reminder to take the monthly photo.

I take a photograph from my bedroom window of the back garden.

Here's how it looked last month. It still had a distinctly wintery look despite being the middle of Spring.

But look what a couple of weeks of warm weather has done.

And here are a couple of areas where you can see lots of colour coming.

I love that we get to enjoy the neighbour's Magnolia tree.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Playing Catch Up

Today I have been playing catchup with the April challenges I posted on 12 Months in View.

At the beginning of April there was a giveaway from Anita of some Primrose and Primula related papers.  I made a book with her second set of papers. 

I gessoed the page in my journal (left) and printed off this paper from the set.

I swiped 3 different colours of Distress Ink over the gessoed page and wiped on the colour with a baby wipe.

I inked over the flowers on the printed page.

I tore the flowers out and stuck them onto the journal page with gel medium.  I printed out the quote, cut it up and inked the edges before sticking it down on the page.  I found the butterfly card topper and stuck that on as well.

The page seemed to be a bit disjointed and the eye had nowhere to rest.  So I inked butterflies through a stencil using black distress ink.

Then I moved on to the April 23rd challenge.  Although I had already done a Shakespeare-related blog post I decided to do a journal page as well.

I started by collaging scraps of music paper, map, pattern paper, doilies and paper napkins onto my page.

Then I sprayed yellow ink over the whole page.

I printed out the quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream, cut it up and inked the edges.

I haven't totally caught up yet but I do feel I made some headway today.


Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice