Synchronicity

I was trying to create a lo for a challenge on UKS using spring colours, ribbons and sewing and food. The photo I had in mind was a halloween one... I created a background stamping the skeleton and crow from TH and decided to stamp the waste in my journal. I sprayed the lo and then the journal page and so on... Although as you can see I did end up with quite different pages. At this point there was some similarity.

But after more ink, paint and stencil layers the journal page became very different.

I wrote my journalling and then wanted a title to sum up how I felt. I used a stencil and modelling paste to create the letters - be warned it is messy and if you are impatient like me you make a mess.

Meanwhile back at the scrapping lo I created coffin style two tone tags for my journalling.

and once the modelling paste was dry on the journal page I coloured the letters with aqua pro markers but left some of the white showing. 

I do like the linkage between the two and the fact that using similar materials and supplies you can create something quite different.

I am not sure if there is such a word as synchronisity (and blogger spell check thinks not correctly because it is synchronicity - doh) but I think this is exactly what happens when two mediums collide and its my blog so I decide to correct the error (thanks to Angelnorth even though blogger does not recognise this either)

Journal pages

I had a burst of creativity on Sunday in response to the stress of the inspection and managed 3 journal pages. The first one was about  the first film I remember seeing and how it was my Dad's favourite film. After stamping a background with various stamps I doodled the vines and roughly coloured them with pro markers. My next page was about coincidence and after applying TH inks and distress stains in Worn Lipstick and Wild Honey I used Dylusions pomegranate ink to spray through a stencil and reverse print the stencil.

 I then stamped TH butterflies and bird ready for my journalling. I had a lot to say this time and needed to leave enough space for the journalling.

 The journalling is about a man we met in Canada who had previously bought a picture from Lens Guy to take to a relative in Vancouver. We met him in a gift shop as we were wasting time as our ferry to Vancouver Island was delayed.

Last page is all about inspiration which I get from Dyan Reaveley, Tim Holtz, Wendy Vechii, nature and all the wonderful blogs and forums that I follow, visit and drop by.

I stamped TH swirl with worn lipstick and then embossed with Ultra thick powder, swiped with worn lipstick and milled lavender. I used the fab stamps from Dependable Dotty and Lovestruck Lucy and journalled around the images. 

Journal Pages

I spoilt myself this week by treating myself to some of the beautiful felt, charms and twine at the ribbon girl, bought Kate Crane's DVD which I have really enjoyed and somehow bought a set of cosmic shimmer chalk mists (I honestly don't remember pressing buy on that one). I rationalised the expense as a treat to myself for not smoking for three weeks. These two pages are influenced by the Kate Crane DVD and my desire to play with the chalk mists. They have a beautiful finish but try as I might the photo does not do them justice. I could ask Lens Guy to explain how to do it but then I might have to confess to the purchases...

I used an alphabet stencil and pink and orange glimmer mists to build up this background.

Yellow and blue and lots of drippage

I used stamps from Dylusions Ruby Rainbow and Love Stuck Lucy which I stamped, cut out and painted with glimmer mists. I then tried to create shadows around the image to "ground" it but as I didn't have charcoal I used pro markers with mixed results. 

The things that made me smile this week included :my new purchases, winning stamps on Shady Tree Studio's blog hop, Lens Guy's face as I dragged him round the garden centre, catching up with old friends and last night deciding to experiment with my daughter's bright green nail varnish before I went out to a party and then discovering we had no nail varnish remover in the house...

The other page was all about Truth and for some reason I liked the combination of Tim Holtz skeleton with a dylusion hat.

In case any of you were worried that my craft space was too messy it is quickly reverting to normal

My next purchase is going to be a moleskin journal so I can journal properly. My UKS journal is a journal but as it is not yet bound I feel it is kind of cheating.

Journal pages in the garden

It is such a beautiful day I just had to craft in the garden. Looking at the 5 prompts I still have to catch up on the prompt smell seemed very appropriate. The background from this page is very muted is what leaked through from the page on the other side.

I like the idea that when all the pages are bound together the journal will smell of lavender from my garden picked when I created this page.

 I decided just to stamp blossoms around the  edge, add some lavender and twigs and some of the Tim Holtz bird. I then added a layer of oil pastels to the background and created a floralish shape to journal about my favourite smells.