13 November 2011

Journalling Aargh and Just for Fun Challenge

The challenge at JFF was to use your favourite colour, for those that pop in here regularly you'll know that for me it is green closely followed by purple. I choose green as it is a happier colour and I was trying to rid myself of the negative thoughts. I had been experimenting in my new journal with gesso and distress stains and created this checked background a few weeks ago. Yesterday feeling stressed to exploding point about work I decided to journal on the background and unusually for me I worked out and wrote the journalling first.
I drew round a cd three times and pencilled in my writing and then wrote it on the page using a pro marker. I feel like a headless chicken at the moment so using dylusions stamps (Lovestruck Lucy, Ruby Rainbow and Dependable Dotty)I stamped three heads and used the umbrella stamp to create spokes. 
I coloured the heads with a paintbrush and Distress inks and then stamped the Dylusions circle stamp to give more circular energy. As  you can see below Dependable Dotty has a strong influence over me at the moment.

I swiped more Distress Ink and some picket fence ink stain over the top. The distress inks are the Winter release (yes I gave in and bought them). Writing how I felt did make me feel better and helped get some of that screaming out my head. I then went to get my hair cut and I had a bit of a drastic change - influence I think, by my stamping and colouring of Dependable Dotty...

A major chop and lots of red, violet and aubergine. I think I like it but my son did comment that I was going a bit emo - you can always rely on family to say the right thing...
And here is another journal page on the theme of bitrhdays for UKStampers.





16 comments:

  1. Think its the calming that I love about green as well, looks like the page gave you a good opportunity to vent a bit always helps! Your link is not working properly from the Just for Fun site I'll try and fix it for you but if you are short of JFF visitors please forgive us. Thank you for sharing with us at Just for Fun XOXO Zoe

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  2. Great pages! It's good to get things off our chests like this! Love your new look, lovely colour, take no notice of your son, mine has said the same to me! Lol! x

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  3. Lol @ your son, your hair looks lovely.
    Great to turn stress into creativity, hope it has gone now though and your pages are superb.

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  4. your hair looks great :) and your pages look fab too :)

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  5. Hi Sally. You always make me laugh with your children's comments. The hair looks great. Love the colour. The pages look fabulous as always.
    Regards Florence x

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  6. There's something about the word distress and stains that seem to go hand in hand with journaling for you this week :)Kids er don't like to think of parents changing lol great colour choices all round I'd say .
    Thank you for sharing yours with us at Just for Fun
    Von xxx

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  7. Love the pages and your haircut. Hope it is bright and sunny where you are and that makes you feel better.

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  8. A fabulous way to vent your ffrustrations, and the green is very calming

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  9. Great page Sally. I love the colour combo - very rich. I once had 'red' hair - dyed with henna. It was soo glossy and healthy. Hmm...maybe...! *Ü* TFS. ~Glen~

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  10. Two fab journal pages and a great hairdo (sons, what do they know?). I love how you built up the one for JFF. Thanks for joining us - Hugs, Neet

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  11. I love your journal pages , very inventive and funny!

    And your haircut and colors are beautiful !

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  12. Great journal pages, good to hear it's helping you work stuff through your system! The hair looks fab (but not nearly black enough to be genuinely emo, I reckon - lol!)

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  13. Great journal pages Sally. Sorry you are becomin stressed about work but great that you can vent via your journal. Love the hair and colour; I keep threatening to dye my grey hair that colour - love the colour I think it is fun :)
    Lynn (rusticus)

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  14. Great journal pages there, love the new hair colour too, I must do my roots, I look like a reversed skunk ATM(white hair/black streak) not a good look.
    C xx

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  15. Fab journal pages , its ages since i did any of mine....you have inspired me to pick it up again , thank you

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  16. Love the journal page Sally. Bought a analog water colour pad to.dip my toe in the water but havent started yet! Loving the hair cant wait to see it on Saturday x

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