Journal Fever

Soooo where did all the rain come from..?? That's what I want to know.. I had to nip to town for a new T-square and came back drowned, lol. Needed a new one because I dropped the last one on the floor and smashed the end off. A T square is what I use to do all my cutting out of chipboard and so is vital, especially as tomorrows class has 19 pieces each ( and I wonder why my fingers are always blistered..). here are all the kits ready and waiting.

And here's some pics of the book

I was shattered when I finished class yesterday but I am really having trouble sleeping at the moment, so I thought I would do a little work in my bed. Now I have a massive bed, but you should have seen it... It was covered from one end to the other with art supplies. I don't know why I didn't just walk next door to the studio and work in there.!!

I finished off the canvas that I started in yesterdays class.I covered the canvas in Mustard Seed Distress ink and then I applied one of Tim's masks ( the clock). I sprayed the canvas with colourwash, wild plum and lettuce, I then splodged it around a bit ( technical term there girls, lol) with a baby wipe, adding and rubbing off as I felt like it.

The grunge board crown and wings were painted with Claudine's paints and accented with Glossy accents and Stickles. When dry I shaped them and heated them with a heat gun. The heat enables them to keep their shape.

I wrote the words on lined paper , inked them and stuck them on. I love the sprocket gears and game spinners from Tim's Idea-ology and put them on everything..

The image itself was cut from a fashion magazine and I added dye ink around the skirt and bodice. couldn't resist making 2 holes and tying some organza ribbon through to emulate the sash. I love it...

So that set me off on a mammoth art journal spree which continued all this morning.

There are the sprockets and spinners again.

Altogether I did 22 pages. Wow..!! How many, must have been on a roll. I really enjoyed myself event though a lot of what I journal about is very painful and personal to me. Just getting it down onto the paper really helps.

Here are 2 different sizes. I am working in 4 journals all at once at the moment and I just skip around between them, depending on my mood.

They are all handmade, with pages recycled from old newspapers. I prefer to hand make all my journals, it gives me a great sense of satisfaction working in a book created by me. I can do whatever size pages I like, as you can see I mix the sizes up all the time. I always use book rings as a closure so that pages can be moved around as and when I see fit.

I have 17 more pages to show you and I will feed some in throughout the week.

Enjoy xx