Building Character at J52

Good morning my lovelies, after a busy few weeks a work and a poorly eye I'm playing catch up with Journal 52. This is my page for week 4 where Chelle's prompt was 'Building Character'

Now this was a very scary one for me as I don't draw but I set to and sketched the face and then left it for a few weeks. She kind of lurked in my craft room glaring at me with her pale face crying out for some colour but I didn't know where to start lol.

Anyway inspiration is never far away in blogland and I came across a fabulous video on the Paper Artsy Blog (check it out here, Clare Lloyd's tut is fab!!) I didn't want to use acrylics for my page so I used the same techniques from the tutorial but used my PanPastels (not as scary as paint ha ha) and Colorsoft pencisl to colour her in. Lastly I gave her a choker of lots of different problems and worries - they all build character lol. Around the edge I use a Graph'It shake pen in white to write 'This too will pass' here and there, its alright all this character building but we all need a break now and then lol.

I'm entering my journal page in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations: keep it simple
Little Red Wagon: papercraft project but not a card
Try it on Tuesday: Hand made

Well Monday morning is here again so I'd better go and earn some pennies, have a good day and thanks for popping by today
Claire xx

J52 up up and away

Hi there folks we've had a lovely sunny day here today, don't you feel better when you see some blue sky and sunshine. My project today is a journal page for a change, I've joined the Journal 52 group which is a year long free journalling class,  you can find all the details here, there are so many talented people playing along its a real inspiration!!

Our first weeks prompt was 'Up up and away' and I had loads of messy fun creating my page. The stamps used are from Indigo Blu, Polkadoodles and Chocolate Baroque. I masked the lady, her wings and the rose and created a background with my favourite mask and Maimeri Acrylics using a gelli plate. I added some more colour with distress inks and stamped the lace border with versafine ink. Once the masks were removed I coloured up the images with Graph'It markers and stamped in the smaller butterflies I added ' up up and away' and some trails with a white sharpie pen so they can help my lady fly lol! I have a bit of a block when it comes to writing on projects but at least I've made  a start

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

Crafty Hands: anything goes

Delicious Doodles: Flowers

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: blues

Sparkles: anything but a card

Word Art Wednesday: anything goes

I'm off to grab something to eat and book my place on the sofa as The Voice starts tonight and I can't wait!
Thanks for popping by today
Claire xx