Finished Journal Pages

OK. I'm actually posting 3 times in one month! Watch out--the sky may fall! Ha!

I finished the journal pages that I prepped and showed you in the last post. Here they are in their finished form.

Yes, I like to write. Love to write. Write a lot.....all the time.... I also played with different things on the pages. You probably can't tell from the photos, but I used different techniques to color the background. I used Panpastels, watercolor, acrylic wash, Prismacolor Art Stix, Prismacolor Nupastels and some air brushing. I also added some of my newly purchased Japanese tape to the edges of some of the pages. LOVE LOVE LOVE that stuff!

Well, gotta run. Gotta get some more clothes in the wash and finish getting some supper ready for the DH. Can't play all the time, huh? :-)

Journal Prep

OK, I'm a few days late, but I'm back! I wanted to do some journaling on the way back from Seattle but didn't feel like writing. Instead, I took one of my Moleskin journals and created some "backgrounds" for journaling later. I cut up parts and pieces of my travel documents and glued them on the pages. Believe it or not, I did this for the better part of at least 4-5 hours on various planes! One of the stewards found it quite comical but interesting. Here are the pages. Hopefully I can follow up with some of them filled in and further embellished soon!

I'm Back!

A LONG time with no posting. Hopefully I'll do better this year! I just got back from play: the retreat in Port Townsend, WA. I had a GREAT time! I made a 5.5" x 5.5" journal with a polymer clay cover, wooden back and fully painted water color paper pages. I really like the journal. Here are some pictures of it:

The card on this page was made by Maurine Dyson-Berris. It was so cool and I loved the quote and the colors so I had to use it on my first page.

On the second spread, I used an ATC from Andrea Sanjani. I loved the quote on it, too and the colors just seemed to go well with it.

Then I did a spread from scratch when I got home. A friend of mine gave me some Bible verses that I really liked and I knew I had to put them in my journal. I purchased the "dancing girls" stencils from Tracy and Teesha. I sponged some ink through them and then outlined them in black. They are still not quite as dark as I would like them to be but they'll have to do, I guess.

I also visited the "local" art supply store while I was there. Here are some of the supplies that I purchased. I had been wanting to get these Copic MultiLiner pens in the colors the last trip I made there but decided I needed to wait until another trip. Well, this was "another trip"! I also purchased stuff from Tracy and Teesha during the retreat. Here are some of the things that I got from them...

I used the Ice Resin to make the shiny pool around the bird on the cover of my journal. It is really neat stuff. Dries clear and very, very hard. It is the same 2-part epoxy they have been coating gymnasium floors with for years. You gotta love it.

Well, I think I'll stop here. That way I'll have some other things I can post in the next few days! Imagine...another post in less than 4 months! Ha!