Day 20 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November 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 Health.

Today's art challenge was to 'make your own stamp to use on your page today'.

There's a lot of photos in today's post!

Here are some examples of stamps I've made in the past.  The top four in this picture were made from a product no longer made but you could use foam or flat sponge to cut out shapes and stick on card as I have done.  The bottom stamp is made from chipboard letters stuck onto card.

The top stamp is made from string stuck into pva glue.  The stamp on the left is string and small bits of sponge and the small stamp is made from cutting into a thin piece of polystyrene.

This next stamp is made from plastic tile spacers.

These two stamps are made from Kling-On and stuck onto pieces of thick acetate from packaging.  The Kling-On was put through a die cutter using two Tim Holtz dies.  Tim Holtz suggests you use foam.  I printed the dress form with orange acrylic paint and black Archival ink.    

 

So, on to today's page.

This started as a piece of black cardstock.  I put a thin layer of gesso over the whole page and whilst it was wet added in some orange acrylic paint.

I used 3 colours of acrylic paint (Paint Dabbers) on my tile spacer stamp and stamped onto the page.  The effect is totally random due to how the spacers touch the paper!

I stamped the dress form with black Archival ink.  I stuck on the verse and highlighted the strips and some of the spacer shapes with a black pen.

I like the way that the texture of the cardstock shows through the black ink on the dress form.

And here is the finished page with the journaling.

I'm excited to see what stamp or stamps you make today.

Day 19 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November 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 Books.

Today's art challenge was to 'use book paper either under your background or as part of the embellishment of your page'.

This was a piece of black cardstock that I stuck bit of book paper and dictionary paper. using gel medium.

I trimmed off the edges and then used spray inks through a stencil.  I turned the wet stencil over on the page to get a negative image.

I stamped randomly with an alphabet stamp and black Archival Ink.  ANd then sprayed with orange ink which I dabbed off with the rag.

I also stamped around the edge and stuck the verse on. I drew white lines with Tipp-Ex correction tape and then wrote on it.

I'm not totally convinced it's a finished page but that's the joy of art journaling.  You can come back to it later and fiddle with it!

Day 18 My Attitude of Gratitude Journal

If you want to join in with making an Attitude of Gratitude Journal through the month of November 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 Memories.

Today's art challenge was to 'use packaging in a creative way on your page today'.

This page is the mop up of acrylic paint that I showed you on November 11th.

I used different colours of ink on bubble wrap and printed over the paint.

I also found some lovely packaging that I'd kept from something I bought - can't remember what now.  I had kept it as I thought it might be useful as a journal card.

Hiwever, I decided to punch out 3 different types of butterfly instead.  I stuck these on and the verse.

I used a glaze pen to outline the butterflies and to do my journaling.

I'm quite fond of this page.  But then I've always liked orange and turquoise together.

What colours will you use on your page today?