... a wintery day in JUNE!! The heating has kicked in and I'm wearing a cardigan and socks! (and other clothes obviously but those noted are the NOT usual clothes for JUNE! in the UK!)... what is going on!!
Aaaanyhoo as a tonic to the dismal weather I sketched, stamped, painted and doodled this summery journal spread in my large Dylusions journal.
Stamps: in background, flower from JOFY77
Paints: Cerise, Butternut, Snowflake, Stone, Caribbean Sea, Hint of Mint.
Pencils: Faber Castell Polychromos
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Mixed-media paper crafter; stamper, freelance craft tutor, designer of PaperArtsy JOFY stamps
13 June 2019
27 February 2018
JoFY Bingo Wk.6
Welcome to Week 6 of Jofy Bingo - lots of great flower elements this week (which seems ironic as this week there aren't any christmas/snowy stamps but its the week we have snow here in the UK!)
and LOOK! I used YELLOW!!! (and I recently bought a yellow top and a yellow handbag!!!) I am FINALLY FULLY embracing yellow!! (it might be because I really want spring to arrive and bring warmer weather with it!)
aaanayhoo for this project I wanted to use paperpiecing - the flower head on JOFY35 really lends itself to that technique.
For the paper piecing I stamped the same images several times onto different scrapbook papers (I use 6x6 pads of paper for this as the designs are smaller/daintier..) and set about cutting them out.
I've laid the pieces out in the photos below so you can see how I put them together and get the most amount of flowers out of them. The green/teal flower has its centre cut out and is reattached on top of the other layers - noone can see the hole that's created and it doesn't affect its structure/stability... the centre of the yellow layer could also be removed (and used elsewhere) as it is covered by the white layer..
Here are the finished pieced flower heads.. they are all the same but different - complementing each other..
I added shading around the layers to add a bit of depth, a touch of white gel pen (everything looks better with a bit of that doesn't it!) and some glitter glue to contrast with the matte grey background.
I made a quick video showing you how I created the spread... enjoy!
Right, I'm off outside to build a snowman....
ha ha ha
who am I kidding - I'm staying indoors where its nice and toasty warm!
Stay safe and warm everyone.
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