Geli plate background

Oh here we are day 3 and I am blogging again.  I spent quite a bit of time doing some work on May's calendar journal page so it didn't leave me much time for anything else.  So I decided to finish off this page which has been hanging around for a while.  Its been visited about 4 times already so I'm glad I finally got it finished.  

I went to a class last year to have a go with the Geli plate and had fun with it but didn't find I liked many of the backgrounds I had made but I think I just need more practise.  This is one of the ones that I did like but it was a blot off page on a scrap torn piece of paper.  So I tore the edges some more and stuck it into my journal.  The next time I worked on it I added the leaf stamps made by designs by Ryn.  (I'm looking forward to receiving some of her new water droplets what she has just released).  Third visit had me add the stampotique figure to the bottom.

Then finally today I added the quote did some colouring in and some doodling and it was finished!!!

Its a bit different from what I normally do but I'm pleased the way its turned out.

Happy creating folks!!

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Suzi Blue 2!

I decide last night after putting the post on that I would try and do one a day for 7 days!!!  Not sure if i will manage it but will give it a go.  Dont hold it against me if I dont manage it!!  lol.

Here is the second page I did with the Suzi Blue stamps we coloured in class last week.

I did the background last year planning on using it as a calendar journal page however I never could come up with anything further to do with it.  But when I flicked through my journal I though this stamped girl would work on there well.

So the background was done using dylusions sprays and some paint and some stenciled gesso along the bottom.  

Some stamping with Dylusions & Stampotique stamps.

I added the girl and quote and did some doodling and highlighted with stickles.

I used distress stamp pads to paint with on the girl and used aquatone crayons for extra shading and dylusions in the water brushes to add extra colour and detail.

Hope you like her!!!

Hopefully I will catch you again tomorrow.

Have a great evening.

xxxxx hugz xxxx

Suzi Blue page

Hi folks - finally got some time to do some more creating!!!  Went to a workshop at AFTH on Friday with the wonderful Kate Crane to do a journal page using Suzi Blue stamps.

We spent the morning stamping and painting a couple of images - learning different ways of shading to create depth to our figures.  What a lovely way to spend a morning!!! Must do more of that!!!

Then in the afternoon we gessoed and painted a background doing loads of different layers.

Then to finish off the page, some washi tape and a stamped and painted border.  

A great quote and some hand drawn dangly hearts and doodling and I was done.

Really love it.  

Have started another page with the second figure we did so will hopefully get that finished tomorrow.

Hope you all have a great week!!

xxxx hugsz xxxx

April Calendar Journal Page

Hi folks hope you have all survived one of the coldest Marches I can remember!! 

Wow hope April is better!!

Managed to get my calendar journal page ready to start filling in tonight - but only got it finished yesterday evening!! Last minute as always. 

I had loads of ideas during the month of what I was going to do but needless to say when I got down to doing it I did none of them and just make it up as I went along!!!

So I tore some strips of paper to use to mask of the page then sprayed with Dylusions ink sprays.  

The three pages I have done so far this year all seem to have this rainbow array of colours on so I wanted to do something different this month!!!  I thought a nice range of blues would be nice!!! however when it came down to it the hand still landed on the rainbow colour bottles.  Guess its going to be a bright coloured year at this rate!! LOL

I then lifted off the mask paper and sprayed some blobs of colour at the top of the page and let them run.  Then sprayed some mica spray over the top of the first blobs and let them run too!!

I stamped round the edge with this lovely large foam stamp and added the month and year using Tim Holtz new alphabet stamps.

I scribbled the circles in with black pen then went over them with a waterbrush with Dylusions ink in  and added a bit of portfolio oil pastel along the bottom.  A bit of doodling and adding the dates and they were finished.

I added a couple of rub ons for some extra details to finish it all off!!

Ok have to get on with the week now - so wishing you all a happy creative hopefully sunny April!!!

xxx hugs xxx

Do it with Style

Wow second post of the day - must be a record!! Just a quick one.  I have made a tag to put into a challenge on one of the facebook groups I belong to.  

I know its a shock - I normally only do journal pages but I can do other stuff - honest!!

 I stamped on a manilla tag with the water droplets stamp made by Ryn - a super talented lady who designs and makes these stamps!  I stamped using a clear embossing pad and used clear embossing powder on the top.  This acted as a resist for the distressed ink pads I blended over the top to give the tag its colour.

I stamped one of the Dylusions mini couture stamps, which I doodled stripes and spots on and coloured with Dylusion inks. 

The quote and some ribbon and the job was done.

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Another Month Ends!!

Today has been a great day for two reasons - 1. the sun was shining and there was some heat to it!! yeah!!! 2. I actually got some crafting done!

I went to a class at the beginning of the month with Kate Crane - 'drawing in your journal' and as always I enjoyed the day, Kate is a great teacher.  I didn't get my page finished on the day but it is finished now! 

I used a background that I had done in one of my old ledgers a year or more ago where I had wanted to have a play around with texture.  However the paste I had was so old it was solid, but we did have some decorators caulking in the shed so I thought I would give that a try.  I spread it through the bunting stencil with a palette knife and it dried nice and matte.  Once it was dry I sprayed over the ink sprays.  It took the ink very nicely and gave me not only the raised texture but the lovely variation in colour.  I sprayed through some more stencils to give the extra  detail.

So after we had drawn out figures in class I was going to make a background for her to go on, but when I saw her on this one I didn't bother doing a new one.

I think I'm quite pleased with her and really should find the time to do more drawing but like everything else it will get added onto the never ending list of things I want to do more off!!

Wishing all of you a very creative spring - If it ever gets here!!! hee hee.

xxxx Hugs xxxx

Mad dash blog page!!

Ok I have about 10 minutes to do this page so here goes.  

This page was made from a mop up background which I had ended up with after doing 2 other pages. 

whilest at Journaling class at the beginning of the month. We were playing with Dyan Reaveleys new Couture Collection stencils.  Having done the majority of the two other pages I  had cleaned off the 'Bert' stencil onto this mop up page.  Once I finished cleaning off the stencil, several times, I realised this page just begged to be finished.  So I did!

So background was Dylusions ink sprays and some random stamping, (I did add a bit more after I had put Bert on) some doodling round the edge, a quote and some stickles and perfect pearls paint and he was finished.

Hope you all get lots of time this week to be creative.

Have fun.

xxxHugs xxx

PS managed it within the 10 mins - yeah!!!