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by Penny Bearcroft
Some of you may know that I’ve been ill recently and I’ve spent a lot of time waiting in hospitals. I decided to make use of this time by starting a journal. I’ve never done one before so it seemed like a good time to start. I looked at lots of other peoples and came to the conclusion that, although it looks complicated, it needn’t be.
I made the decision early on that this would be for me and therefore I wasn’t really bothered about what other people thought of it. In fact I didn’t even plan on showing it to anybody at first, although I was persuaded otherwise later. The point about this is that it frees you to do anything you like with it AND you don’t have to think about it too much – there is no wrong way to do it, as it’s personal to you.
I did have to practice ‘not thinking about it much’ at first, but it soon became easy and fun. Just let yourself go and do the first thing that comes into your head. If you really don’t like it later you can always cover it up, but you should leave it for a while, just to see if it’s ‘you’.
A lot of my inspiration came from Teesha Moore and details of her website are at the end of the project.
So, throw convention out of the window and let’s gets started.
These are the things that I particularly used, but feel free to use any others!
Stamps used:
You will also need:
- Watercolour Paper - pages cut to size, mine are 13cm x18cm
- Off Cuts of Scrapbooking/Patterned Papers
- Fashion Magazines to cut out
- Embossing Ink Pad and Gold Embossing Powder
- Black VersaFine Ink Pad
- Acrylic or Lumiere Paint - call The Stamp Bug 0n 01285 750308
- Paintbrush
- Watercolours and Aquabrush
- Colorwash Sprays
- Medici Glimmer Sprays - Cognac Diamonds, Topaz and Lapiz Lazuli - call 01285 750308
- Gold and Silver Pens
- Fine and Medium Black Pens
- Stencil or Mask
- Cuttlebug and Embossing Border Strips - ‘Flowers’
- Glue
- Heat Gun
Page Backgrounds
The first thing you need to do is paint your pages. You can be really gung-ho with this, as most of it will be covered up in the end. There are several ways to do this so experiment to find which suits you best.
- Apply acrylic or Lumiere paint directly to the paper surface and spread around with a brush and some water. Leave some gaps to add a second colour. Dry with a heat gun, then flip the page over and repeat on the reverse side. I put the blue page through a Cuttlebug border strip at this point for extra texture and interest. or
- Fix a stencil on to your page. Spray the surface with two or three different Colorwash sprays, overlapping them slightly. Dry with heat gun and repeat on the reverse. or
- Apply acrylic paint as before and dry. Spray with Medici sprays and dry, repeating for the reverse side.
Borders
This makes use of all the bits of paper you have lying on your desk!
- Cut strips of paper or cardstock. They DO NOT have to be all the same size/width etc. In fact the more random they are the better. And don’t worry about cutting straight either!
- Stick around the edges of your painted pages. Be random – pick up the next piece with your eyes closed if it helps! If your piece is too long, simply fold over and leave a tab.
- Cut random words from magazines or use paper flowers too.
Watercolours
- I use the watercolours to ‘link’ the borders and pages together. Add random watery colours around the inside of the border edge.
- Add colour over the borders too – remember to be RANDOM!
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