Hearts and ...

No, not flowers but shamrocks.

Today is St Patrick's Day and today's challenge is to use heart shapes to make shamrocks and then make an interesting layout or art journal page.  Or just use heart shapes.

I found all my green Distress Inks.  Although I think some of them are more blue than green.

Anyway, it didn't matter because I didn't use them all!

I had already put gesso on my journal page so I randomly spread colours on from the pad, one after the other, wiped it round with a baby wipe and drying in between each colour.

I built up layers with a heart stencil and some sequin waste.

 

I added some pink and although I had dried the layers each time, the next layer wiped out the previous layer!

I printed out the quotes and inked the paper with turquoise, pink and yellow distress inks.

I cut up the quotes and inked the edges before sticking them down.  I drew dashed lines around the hearts with a black pen and added other details with the pen.  I used a stamp that looks like ric-rac with Archival ink.  I dripped water on to bleach out some of the colour and also used water on a heart stamp to do the same.

As ever there's scope for more doodling and some journaling if I wish.

Looking forward to seeing what you do today.

Thanks for popping by.

Bernice

Stencilled Newspaper

Today's technique on 12 Months in View was to make your own patterned paper from a piece of newspaper.

I tore 2 pieces of newspaper about the size of my journal with the intention of being able to stick the paper in later.   I covered the back of both pieces with white acrylic paint rather than gesso.  Then on one of the pieces I covered the other side with white acrylic and on the other one I used clear gesso.

 

Then I used a variety of stencils and 5 different colours of acrylic paint.  I tipped the paint out of my Dabbers and used a wet baby wipe but found that it worked better with a dry baby wipe.

I dried the acrylic paint between each colour and then sprayed 2 colours of Colorwash over it. I spread the Colorwash with a wet baby wipe.

When the Colorwash was dry I stencilled again with colour and then finally with some black and some white.

I did exactly the same with the clear gesso page.

The acrylic paint version has much more of a shine to it than the clear gesso version but I like the fact you can see the print through the stencilling.

I haven't decided what to do with this yet.  I'll let you know when I know!!

Thanks for popping by.
Bernice

Bookmark

Carolyn's post today on 12 Months in View was about a children's book and she invited us to make a bookmark.

Continuing with my green theme and recycling I started with a large tag that already had some colour on it.  I wasn't sure what I had used but it looked as though it might be ink.

And I was right.  Because when I spread gesso over it, the gesso sucked up the colour.

So instead of white the gesso became a pale shade of green.  I put some Distress Ink on it and it didn't take at all so I sprayed ink on instead.  Most of which either faded into the gesso or got wiped off by the paper towel I rolled over it.

 

To be honest I had a lot on my mind so I wasn't really concentrating and picked up whatever was to hand on the table!!   I sprayed some orange ink and wiped most of it off by rolling the paper towel over it.   There was a stencil so I put that on top and spread modelling paste through it. . . . . .

. . . . which also sucked up the original green!!!!

When the modelling paste was dry I stamped randomly over the top.  Then I cut the tag down to a bookmark size.

I stuck some letters on and drew round them with a black pen.   I stamped a quote and inked the edges with turquoise distress ink.

I don't usually make bookmarks so this was an interesting challenge made more difficult by having no idea what I was doing.  I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice