Silence

Whoa, I just found out that I won a £20 gift voucher from The Craft Barn with my up page. Thx guys.

Here’s my next entry with the word silence.

I found this quote 

Silence is the way to avoid many problems,

smile is the way to solve many problems.

I liked the fact that is does not only have silence in it but also smile, I found that just perfect as it forms a bridge with the previous page.

The background is stamped with music notes and colored with distress stain broken china over which I glued some gelli printed tissue paper. There was an oops during the gluing, I was a bit  overzealous and the tissue paper got thorn, but I left it that way and now it’s part of the design.

Now I’m going to start on a dazzle page in my dictionary.

Birthday calendar for February

It's the first of a new month, so you know what that means, the reveal of this months birthday calendar

As it is February and a lot of people celebrate Saint Valentine I went a bit romantic.
I love the fabric flowers, they are so supereasy to make, the only issue they are bulky and quite heavy, I am going to figure out a way of reinforcing the ringhole because it will tear in time otherwhise.

The doodled hearts are a free downloadable from Consie over at Atop serenity Hill. Many Thanks, they were just the perfect finishing touch.

Always keep your head up (junk journal page #3)

I found this cool image in a car magazine which I knew would be just perfect for a junk journal page:

I cut and glued him on the back of a cereal box which coincidentally was also blue. Over the blue lettering I added a piece of tissuepaper (I still wanted to see the lettering underneath) on which I stamped a background stamp from Kaiserkraft using Distress ink broken china. I covered the picture of a cereal bowl on the cover with some gesso, added some texture in it with my foam brush and colored it in distress stain broken china. I noticed the figure had gears as joints so out came the gear mask. I also added a tag in a pocket with a quote from Marilyn Monroe:

"keep your head high,keep your chin upand most importantlykeep smilingbecause life's a beautiful thingand there's so much to smile about."

alpha/dictionary letter E

I think I finally found what deli paper is, I found something that is used to wrap sandwiches in and I think this fits the description. I am even more convinced after hearing Mary Beth Shaw yesterday on the webinar "an afternoon with stencilGirl Mary Beth Shaw".

I gave it a try on the gelli plate and I like the translucency, I used it with pearlescent paint which brings out the translucency even more.

To create texture I used 2 anti-slip mats (one for the bath and the other was for a doormat) which I recently picked up in a store similar to a dollar store I guess.

I’ve also tried the technique that Carolyne Dube demonstrated in this months video over at the colorful gelli print party, this entailed squirting some blots of paint on the plate and roughly going over it with a brayer, not to mix the colors all together but to create something  abstract. 

I teared some random pieces of these prints and glued them in the dictionary, added some stamped fairy images on tissuepaper which I colored using ordinary coloring pencils.

I will be linking this post to the colorful gelli print party and Stampotique Designers Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

stars

The background was created by first sponging on blue and black acrylic paint and then adding splatters of yellow, red and gold paint. This was so much fun to do and the result is a stunning universe.

 For the stars I used a homemade stencil and some fluor yellow paint. I painted the earth with my fingers, I love the texture on that. And then last but not least added a Lavinia fairy couple stamp.

Don't let yesterday use UP too much of today

I am currently still in the process of finishing of my dictionary from the last challenge (I only joined in in September) and the letter U was still on my to do list so Up it became. I've seen already a lot of hot air ballons, so ok it's not that original but I used it with a somewhat different quote:"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today".

another catch up letter: T = task

The background is a gelli printed tissuepaper on which I added some stamps and a tag.

9 more letters to go...

junky butterflies (junk journal page #2)

I've just finished my second junk journal page and it turned out great as I do say so myself.
I started with a piece of cardboard from a pastabox and covered this with circles which I punched out from bookpages that I use to clean of my brayer during gelli printing. 

I liked the background a lot, so much I let it sit for a couple of days on my desk, I didn't wanted to cover it up. But today I decided it was time to finish it. First I wanted to stamp or stencil over it but thought it would block up too much of the background and then it hit me, use a mask. I used a butterfly mask and added a bunch of colorful butterflies, which I die cut out of a big sheet of paper I always have on my desk to clean of stamps, stencils, brushes...so not to waste any ink, paint,...

Don't you think the colors and circles even pop up more now because of the black.

Thanks for having a look and come back soon because the ideas about using junk are running through my head and can't wait to start another page.