Twisted Sisters Lyrics

Another LO for the fabulous Twisted Sisters CJ on UKScrappers. This time the theme is lyrics - one of my favourite themes! I chose to use the song "Skin" by Sixx AM - a gorgeous song! And here's my page on top of the lovely Jules' background:

The lyrics are: 

"Cause they don't even know you

All they see is scars

They don't see the angel 

living in your heart

Let them find the real you

buried deep within

Let them know with all you've got

that you are not your skin"

I get goosebumps even typing the words. I can relate to it in all kinds of ways personally. I felt the Stampotique image, Angel Boy, went really well with the lyrics.

Finally we create a background for the next person to work on so I went for totally different colours:

Already got the next journal - Freak Art - another favourite :D

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Twisted Sisters

I'm enjoying being part of the Twisted Sisters CJ on UKScrappers, I nearly didn't join but I'm really glad I did as it's FAB! We started by creating a full page and then creating a background. Then we sent our CJs onwards and the next person creates on your prepared background then makes another background for the next person. Confused? LOL
I received Jules gorgeous gorgeous journal with a beautiful green, pink and white background ready for me to work on. I happened to have about 6 quirky house images ready stamped and coloured in various pinks and greens - they matched really well. I also happened to be listening to the Pretty Reckless song House on a Hill - ok it's not a chirpy song by any means but I love it - so I based my page on it! Here it is:

I used Luminarte silks in Sunburst to paint the cog sun and the haunted house was cut on my silhouette. I wrote some of the lyrics along the sun rays in yellow pen.

I created the hills using neocolor wax pastels and wrote more lyrics along the tops in green pen.

The houses are a mix of Lavinia and Polka Doodles

The pink and black border is Suzi Blu - the circles are from my new favourite Finnabair stamp set, Don't Forget to Fly which I stamped onto my own scanned and printed backgrounds. I've had the two labels for ages and they matched the page... ooo House on a Hill just came on my spotify - :oD

Now to create a background for the next person to work on... I used paperartsy paints in Moonlight,  Mermaid and Nougat. 

I pasted a page from a Chinese book that Jules had included with the CJ and painted over it, then added some Kate Crane, JOFY, Finnabair and Stampin' Up! stamps and I finished with some strips of my own scanned and backgrounds.

 

I forgot to take a piccy of Jules' page but I added a dragonfly and some diamantes to her angel page :)

I've already got the next CJ from Twisted Sisters - can't wait!

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Letter to my childhood self...

A really good subject, this was Gill's CJ for the Jolly Journallers on UKScrappers.  I have done a lot of personal development work and written several letters to my past selves for various reasons so it was nice to write another.  Here's my page:

I covered the entire page with gelli prints I'd made which was a FAB and easy way of getting a great background and it so happened that I'd made some using my new Stencil Girl stencil with past present and future on which I felt was fitting. I used my favourite washi tape around the edge then I wrote the letter on a piece of scrap paper on my desk. 

The letter says:

"Dear Siân, I want you to know you do NOT have to sit quietly and be bullied. SPEAK UP. 

You have a voice. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and you will find it. Then use it. 

You will NOT regret it. I love you. Siân xxx" 

There's a p.s under the image.... 

P.S. Magazines do not contain role models. Find real role models - not "beautiful" ones!

As a child I feel I was quiet and put up with a lot, too shy and afraid to say anything. If I could change anything I'd take that fear away and encourage myself to value my own voice much more.

Thanks Gill for a great CJ :o)

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More Jolly Journaling

Another gorgeous CJ in the Jolly Journallers group on UKScrapper this time from Alison who wanted quotes. I love quotes so was more than happy to oblige. Here's my entry:

The backgrounds are made up of distress paint dabbers, stamps, doodles, masks, sprays, 

paints, tissue papers and texture paste

I wrote the quote onto my own background paper that I'd printed out except for the word courage which I stamped with my Suzi Blu upper case alphabet. The images are all from Tumblefish Studios with the exception of the purple bird which is from Etsy :o)

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Journaling

I've just completed a couple of Circle Journal entries - both based on quotes - one funny, one serious. The first one I finished was a single page for the lovely Yolanda in the Secret Swappers, a lovely group I'm in at UKScrappers. We could choose a funny quote so I went with this one:

The alphabet on the words me, unicorn and slap are Suzi Blu. The border is from Julie Nutting's Mixed Media borders and the words are stamped and hand-written on to backgrounds I made myself, scanned and then printed out. Here's the background before the quote went on:

I used acrylic paints, washi tape and various stamps.

The second entry I completed was in the fab Cynthia's Quotes to Live By for the Jolly Journaler's CJ again on UKS (where else?!) I spent a while searching for a quote I really believed in and found this one:

Again I used acrylic paints, various stamps, I used the JOFY alphabet for the quote which I stamped onto one of my own handmade, scanned and printed backgrounds. The female image I had as a freebie from a purchase on Etsy and it so happened to have the word vulnerable right at the top in the middle. I printed it, outlined the word vulnerable (click on the picture and you can see a larger version) and painted the woman with purple archival ink. The heart images are Dina Wakely's Media stamps and the Fragile stamp is from a Paperartsy Eclectica set.

Thanks for looking

Vintage Fashion

My first entry into someone else's journal for the Jolly Journaller's CJ on UKScrappers.  The theme is vintage fashion:

I used lots of layers on the background, starting with some torn papers and paint, then adding tissue paper, glaze, stamping and more paint until I was finally happy with how it looked.

I wrote the quote onto Finnabair's Domestic Goddess paper with black and white gelly roll pens 

I made the 50's style dress from Stampin' Up! paper, I drew a basic shape for the top and the bottom then just cut it. I curved the skirt so it stands off the page at certain points. I used the same paper for the belt I just coloured it with a black promarker.

Here's some close-ups of the background. I used themed tissue paper with cotton reels and scissors and the same with torn paper. I used Domestic Goddess and some scrap paper I had which had patterns on it.

I used Prima Stitch stamps round the edge and as part of the background and some Dylusions and Tim Holtz background stamps.

I added a white gelly roll outline to the dress just to make it stand out a bit more from the dark background and then added some She Art inspired doodles at various points.

I used some tape measure ribbon and some red ribbon to underline the quote.

 I also used the same ribbon on the sign-in tag which has Prima stitch stamps round the edge, some Domestic Goddess paper and Festive Berries distress dabber rubbed over it.

Jolly Journaling

I've joined a new Circle Journal on UKScrappers - no great surprise that it's an art journal based CJ called Jolly Journallers. I decided I wanted to make a book for this one and I've called my theme, "Free Your Imagination". Here's the book:

I've covered greyboard with Finnabair's Sunrise Sunset papers and added stamped images from Visible Image, metal embellishments from Tim Holtz and Finnabair and painted grungepaper. The image on the back is a Sweet Pea Digital Stamp. As there are buckles on the front I thought it might be confusing as to where you open the journal hence the signs on the back.

Inside is the introduction and some instructions on how to remove a page then fasten the pages back together. I created these pages on Craft Artist Professional 2 and added paint round the edges once I'd stuck them down.

I added some doodling to the back of the intro page as it looked so blank and white and sad! The bird stamp is from a Fiskars set called "For the Birds".

For my entry I wanted to use this image which I love from Sweet Pea designs. It's a digital stamp version of the gorgeous image by Rebecca Sinz. The birds in the top right are Tim Holtz. The quote refers to endings often being a new beginning but I wanted to find one that included either the word broken or the words falling apart. It had a personal meaning to me.

I decorated the back for the same reason I did the back of the intro so it didn't look so sad and white :)

Finally a picture of how the book is held together. I punched three holes with a cropodile, threaded chain through the whole thing and then fastened the chain with Tim Holtz trinket pins. 

Looking forward to starting this CJ.

Give yourself a hug

World Mental Health Day (10th October) passed by fairly uneventful for me this year, though it didn't pass by unmarked. I made an art journal page for my Circle Journal "Word Play"  using the word HUG. The saying is particularly poignant to me and my husband at the moment and I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who need reminding to pull on their own inner resources - remember just how strong you are.

Stay well and always talk to someone when you're in pain.

TV Quotes

My second to last entry in the "You're Having A Laugh" circle journal on UKScrappers, the theme being quotes from the big or little screen. I chose the series of my twenties... Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For me at the time there was nothing more epic than the Buffy and Angel love story and so I chose one of many quotes which will be well-known to fans everywhere...

The Octopode characters reminded me of Buffy and Angel. In the episode, Fear Itself, the gang go to a Halloween party and Buffy dresses as Little Red Riding Hood and looks just like the vampire girl (whose fangs I removed using Craft Artist) and the dark haired vampire boy could be a whimsical Angel. 

The background is Dylusions inks, various stencils and stamps and a border added with Faber-Castell black and gold Pitt pens. The moon is from the Night Garden digikit made transparent with the Buffy logo over the top. The writing was done with black, blue and metallic black pens for Angel to represent darkness and white and pink gellyrolls for Buffy to represent the light.