FOR THE SAKE OF JOURNALING

I got inky and had a ball.
After watching a demo by Dyan Reaveley, the mistress of art journaling, I decided to have a go at a double spread.

I missed out using distress stains first (only because I had forgotten that bit from the demo!!) and started by water misting the pages. Adirondak colour wash sprays came next and when dry, I added gesso through the gorgeous butterfly stencil. That took a bit of drying but once it was, I sprayed some blue colour wash over it, allowing it to run down the page.

Next, I searched out some stamps and a coffee Archival pad which I used without a stamp block over bits of the pages.

Becoming more interesting now.

More searching for stamps and I found these leaves from the Artistic Stamper. I inked them up with black Archival this time and stamped them along the top of the pages.

The circles at the bottom are some Claudine Hellmuth stamps and the saying is one of Tim's. I used distress ink to colour in the leaves and some white paint dabber to fill in a few of the circles. Lastly, I cut out a bird from one of Dyan's downloadables and hey presto! job's a gud 'un.

This was such fun that I started another..................

Not sure where this one is going as yet, but I'll keep popping back to it through the day.

I'VE NEVER..........

bought anything from Art from the Heart before, nor have I been to the shop, but I am in awe with Dyan Reavely's work. Her flair for vibrancy and complete quirky art thrills me to bits.
I took the plunge and bought a couple of her downloads, just to get me going. Then, because I'm rather limited with stuff to make backgrounds - apart from alcohol inks - I decided to go one step further and this arrived yesterday:

What a beautiful way to package a parcel.
Look what was inside:

I guess my hate of getting messy is going to have to disappear.
Just looking forward to watching the lovely Lindsay demo with colour washes and I shall also be plodding around the web for videos etc..