Junk Journal 3

The lovely Rebecca has set up another Junk Journal swap so here's my third attempt at creating one:
The cover was made with gelli prints, paints, texture paste, stencils etc...

Altered tag...

Scrap...

Scan of a vintage ledger:

Painted page with gold texture paste and an image that I had that seemed to match it!

Scrap... 

Dina Wakely inspired painting over scrap paper

Scanner didn't want to scan entire pages but I collaged book pages and painted randomly on watercolour paper here:

random doodling on watercolour paper...

 

it didn't want to scan this one!

piece of my favourite paperartsy paper that sadly they don't make any more :(

More paint, stamping and texture paste

more Dina Wakely inspired pages, painted over some black and white paper I had...

Scraps...

Large piece cut down into four. Created with paints, stamps, inks, sprays, stencils..

and finally - the back cover...

Can't wait to see what I get back

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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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She Art Style Canvas

I recently took the fabulous She Art online course with Christy Tomlinson and so decided to host a swap on UKScrappers for a She Art style canvas swap to try out what I'd learnt. My swappee had no colour preferences so I used a little banner embellishment I had with the word "dream" on to decide the colour pallette. Here's what I made:

I used a 10" by 8" canvas, covered in paint, then stamped with She Art stamps, Bo Bunny and Stampin' Up!

 I created my own She Art girl using 7 Dots Studio papers. I used Tim Holtz stickers for the words and stamped a border with Bo Bunny stamps and purple archival ink

The banner came in a scrapbook kit from The Works. The sunshine stencil is from Clarity and I used gorgeous gold pearl texture paste from Cosmic Shimmer through it.

The hair is painted with magenta paint and then drawn over with a black gelly roll pen. The wings are Julie Nutting/Prima stamped onto Gorjuss paper. I also used Cosmic Shimmer Vivid Violet glitter texture paste. I created the top, arms and head from Messy Head papers

The skirt is Finnabair 9th Wave paper with Tim Holtz rub-ons (in white) and Kelly Panacci stickers.

I added paintable canvas in the corner

and finally doodled with black and white gelly roll pens.

I am posting today so I won't reveal who I've made it for. Just hope she likes it :)

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Handmade Project Life Cards

A great idea for a swap m UKScrapper, handmade project life cards.  We had to make ten 3x4 cards and 5 4x6 cards. I made two sets and here they are:
I stuck to the same colour palette for each set. The first set I used red, orange and yellow.
This card is distress paint dabbers and an Indigo Blu stamp

The background on this card is created with pan pastels and an Inkylicious stamp, stamped in versamark

This card is Dylusions sprays, Dylusions stamp and Stampington washi tape

For my second set I chose pinks and purples. I used some Messy Head card for the first 5 on which I stamped a Lavinia fairy in black archival and the word wish in momento angel pink.

This card is plain white painted with lilac and jasmine pink Luminarte Silks, in real life you can see the lovely sheen and shimmer on it.

Finally this white card was sprayed with Dylusions ink then stamped with Lavinia's Believe, a fairy and stars

Looking forward to receiving some different ones back.

Home Sweet Home

The theme for the May Card Swap on UKS on houses! I love houses! We could also optionally colour in our images, something else I love to do. Here's my cards:

I used purple base card then added a mat using mixed media backgrounds I'd previously created, scanned then printed out. The sentiments are all spellbinders dies. The top 3 houses are from Polka Doodles and the bottom two houses are both Dylusions.

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Postage Stamp Head ATCs

A fabulously creative idea from Rebecca on UKS. I used Dylusions ink sprays for the backgrounds, sprayed onto a craft mat then dipped the card in. Added a variety of background stamps and stencils. The borders are mainly Christy Tomlinson "She Art Doodles". The final ATC border is my own handmade stamp in black then the gaps coloured in with pink gelly roll. The quotes are from Lisa's Altered Art and ArtChixStudio (which unfortunately doesn't seem to be available any more). 
Here's my 5 ATCs:

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