Practising Gratitude day 9: Smile

For 21 days in May I am running an art challenge blog called The Art of Practising Gratitude.  Today's post is here.  On my blog I am showing what I did in response to the blog post.

Today's art challenge was Kaz Hall's glue stick resist technique.  I have used this before quite successfully but today was another story.

First of all my pages had stuck together when I was preparing them and I hadn't noticed before, so when I pulled the pages apart there was some damage.  I chose to think of this as adding extra distress and texture to the page!

I use 2 Dylusions stamps and stamped the glue onto the page.   It is there, honest!

I dried the glue with the heat gun and then applied 2 colours of Distress Ink.

And then tried to wipe off the glue.  It wiped off the ink!  So I left it with the dried glue on the page.  I think the quality of the paper and the watercolour paint didn't make the right surface for the technique!

I added a bit more pattern with Distress Inks through a stencil and stamped the word smile.

I cut up the Bible verse, inked the edges and glued the pieces down.  I journaled across the top of the page.  I'm going to keep a piece of greaseproof paper between the pages until the glue has totally dried.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Practising Gratitude day 8: Make mistakes

For 21 days in May I am running an art challenge blog called The Art of Practising Gratitude.  Today's post is here.  On my blog I am showing what I did in response to the blog post.

Today's art challenge is to stamp with acrylic blocks.  I only have rectangular ones so I made my own.  You can find a previous post on making acrylic blocks here.  I couldn't find that one so I decided I would make a key one.  Big mistake as you will see.  My advice is to use a shape that isn't too complicated.

I cut out a key from 4 pieces of card and two from some acrylic with my Cuttlebug.

I glued the cardboard layers together.

Then I glued the acrylic key on each side of the stack.  I used Matte Medium.   I left it to dry.

I used the key I had made to stamp on my page.   It really didn't work very well.  In the past I would probably have covered it all up but I left it.  Especially as it's a page on making mistakes!

I decided I would have another search for the one I made before and thankfully found it and used it.

I stamped the make mistakes theme and glued the Bible verse on.

Then I wrote my journaling in the circles I had stamped.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Practising Gratitude day 7:Encourage

For 21 days in May I am running an art challenge blog called The Art of Practising Gratitude.  Today's post is here.  On my blog I am showing what I did in response to the blog post.

Today's art challenge was to use a Ranger Blending Tool as a stamp.  This is my page.

I kept to my 3 colours and stamped across the pages.

I stamped encourage and stuck in the Bible verse.

I wrote my journaling along the edge of the stamped rectangles.

 Remember the gratitude list I started on Day 1.  Here it is to date:

Thanks for stopping by
Bernice