27 February 2011

Stampotique SDC25: Faux Barnwood Technique

My Double page  Week 8 Art Journal for UK Stampers is also my entry into the Stampotique Faux Barnwood Challenge. The Faux Barnwood Technique is from Pat at Technique Junkies and is great to do. I linked to the pdf yesterday so here is the website today and the technique for Faux Barnwood is here. I used Olivia and Oh My Dear stamped onto a dictionary page that was already washed with Dylusions Teal and White and then I used watercoloured pencils to give them a hint of colour.
 The purple background is all Faux Barnwood and the Teal page has a Teal barnwood piece and scraps of purple. I made the title and journaling with sharpies and sakura gelly roll and the the old pieces of book are from my collection of old and vandalised dictionaries that school was throwing out. The prompt for the UK Stampers challenge was BOOKS
1 List your top 5 books... what & why
2 Use a quote from one of them on your page.
3 Use an old book page as your background.

As I am such a bookworm I could not possibly narrow it down as I am a very eclectic reader and not a book snob - hate that. Read what you what and what makes you happy.

17 comments:

  1. your pages are fab and that is a nice tutorial for faux barnwood - must try it sometime. thanks for sharing.

    Jackie

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  2. FABULOUS pages :) The technique has worked really well! Love your choice of stamps & paint!
    Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  3. Fab pages, love the barnboard background and I'm with you on eclectic reading - definitely the way to go!

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  4. great journalling. thanks for taking part in the stampotique challenge

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  5. Fabulous journal pages! I love the girl stamp too!

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  6. what a fabulous pages. Love the colours you chose and the way you incorporated the technique. Thank you for joining the Stampotique designer's challenge!

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  7. Great pages - I used to read under the covers too. Thanks for joining us at Stampotique.

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  8. These are brilliant journal pages, I love the use of the old book pages x

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  9. Great journal creation-looks fantastic and how the faux barnwood looks-thanks for playing with us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  10. Fabulous pages in a great colourcombination! Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  11. I really like the colours of your project! Thanks for playing with SDC!

    Vicki

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  12. Wow, just awesome! Love how you have the words poking through here and there! Very creative! Thank you for joining us at Stampotique!
    Val :)

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  13. awsome.i like it.it.Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  14. Your pages look great! I used to read under the covers, i need glasses too lol!Thanks for joining SDC!

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  15. Grand artwork, thanks for joining us at the Stampotique challenge

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  16. Did you do this in your journal? Great idea! Your pages look fab. Thanks for joining the challenge.

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