TMD: Shaped by Gratitude week 2

I explained last week how I made the backgrounds for this month's theme.

Here's the page ready.

There was a lot of white near the spine on the right hand page so I used a patterned roller to add the turquoise paint.

I printed out some clipart arrows from the computer, cut them out and drew round them on compressed cellulose sponge.

I dipped the arrows in water so they became thick sponge.

I really liked the quote that Mary used:
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward

I put the key words on the page with the arrows to show the turning.

I drew round the words with coloured pens.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Take Me Deeper: Shaped by Gratitude week 1

This month's theme for Take Me Deeper, written by Mary Brack, is Shaped By Gratitude.

I like to prepare the backgrounds for all my pages for the month and I decided that I would shape the pages in my journal and use stencils with an obvious shape.

I used my Dylusions Journal block to draw the shape on the page just past half way across.

I cut along the line.

I held the cut page down and drew another line on the next page about an inch away and cut along the line.

And the same on the the next page

At this point I could have added the pieces I had cut away into my book but chose not ot.

I chose a map stencil and a hexagon stencil and sprayed ink through both of them together.

It wasn't as effective as I had hoped.

I printed the wet map stencil on this page and then sprayed through the hexagon stencil.

And this one.

I only used the map stencil on the last pages.

So on to week 1.   The prompt was about being thankful in all things.   But the thing that stood out to me was about our perspective on things.  I drew round a wooden grass shape and coloured it in with black pen.  I put the shape different ways up on the pages.

I printed verses and cut them out in hexagons.  I inked the edges with Distress ink.

Then using several differents sets of letters I put 'it's all about perspective' running down the page.

What's your perspective on life?  Do you look at things from a negative point of view or a positive perspective?

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Owl Hunting

You have my permission to move on to another blog now if you like.  There are 56 photos of owls in this blog post, so I quite understand if you haven't the time to look.

The owls all around Birmingham are called The Big Hoot.  All the owls started off life looking like this:

without the plastic bag, of course!

These were the ones that Sandie & I found over two days in the centre of Birmingham.   They are in the order they are listed on the Trail Map rather than in the order we found them.

1. Big Brown Inky Owl

2. Jewllery Owl

3. Bejewelled Owl

4.  Nature's Growth

5. Priceless

6. One Giant Hoot for Owlkind

7. Wise Owl

8. Skyclad 

9. Delivered by Owl

10. Owl by Night

11. Under the Glow of Moonlight

12. Clash

13. Bluey

14. Dr Whoot

15. The Graduate

16. Tessallated Triangles

17. Leo

18. The Birmingham Children's Hospital Owl

19. Florence Nightin'owl

20. Dotty

21- 24 are further away from the centre so we didn't see them.

25.  Yellow - on the roof of the Custard Factory - as seen from the train

26. Beorma

27. Selfie

28. Skyline 2015

29. The Owl and the Pussycat

30. FreeRadiOwl

31. Re-Tail

32. Starlight

33.  I see a Darkness

34 Nightingale

35. Ozzy's Owl

36. Swirly Whirly Birmingham Owl-land

37. Owl Aboard!

38. Stop - rewind and come again!

39. Peacock

40. Mr. Architect

41. Owl-livia

42. You can call me Owl

43. The Oozells Owl

44. Midnight Moths

45. Percy Pertemps

46. Owlfred

47. Welcome to Birmingham

48. Owlbert

49. Wise Old Owl

50. Jack

51. TropicOwl

52. The Ship

53. Our Happy Hospit-owl

54. New Street Flyer

55. Tick-Tock

56 Unity within Diversity

57. Active Owl

58. Alf the Penguin Owl

59. Bob the Bat

60. Tea T-owl

There's a further 29 large owls to find across the city so maybe I'll go hunting again later in the month.

Which of the owl designs do you like best?

Well done if you've got this far.   Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice