The final pages in my journal

Over the last few weeks I've been faffing on the last couple of pages in my journal (really looking forward to opening a new one!) and I think they're just about finished now.

This first is the penultimate page, the journal has got very bulky now so it's more or less impossible to stamp direct on the page so I went down a different route

I had the starting point - mop up paint, some shiny washi tape - already in there...

and there is sat for a few weeks.



As luck (!) would have it, a piece of dried baby wipe fell out of the scraps box, and it was all blues and greens...

the green is actually darker in real life, I can't get it to photograph accurately




I have as you may have seen (!) been splurging on new Paperartsy stamps over the last couple of weeks

so it was time to put ink to some of them - these are two of Sara Naumann's latest release, and they seemed to fit the colours of the baby wipe.

I was surprised (given that the baby wipe was quite hard and crumpled with paint) how well the stamped image worked on the surface.

I cut them loosely and stuck to the page (although as you can see, the glue hasn't grabbed everywhere)


I then found a scrap of paper and stamped one of the sentiments  and inked it with Distress Oxide (cracked pistachio) and edged it with Leaf Green archival ink.

so that's page one.

the final page (back inside cover of the journal) was painted a bluey green as well

when I saw the Tracy Scott stamps for Paperartsy, I thought these big stars looked reminiscent of comic book illustrations... so went with it (a great alphabet set sitting next to my craft mat had just the right sort of type face- I have no idea who it's by though)

I coloured the stars and flowers with my new Ecoline brush markers, keeping to a fairly limited colour palette -  and stamped some of the little shapes from the Tracy set, in the background.

So, that's another journal actually full - not all of the pages are "finished" and I may come back and do something on the cover one day...




Thanks for looking - happy Sunday!  I'm not doing much today after my mammoth day out yesterday.

#20 - Triptychs for Paperartsy

We are closing in on the end of the Paperartsy Triptych challenge - another couple of hours - and I have decided to enter this journal page I did yesterday, even though it's not a traditional triptych in the sort of icon style you normally associate with them; I do like the use of trios in art.  There were some fabulous posts over the fortnight starting here

I started with torn book page under a coat of Beach Hut Fresco, and some blue Bistre which I spritzed so much several of my pages fell out of my journal... some sticky tape and glue later the journal was back intact and I could carry on.. I stencilled grunge paste through part of a Crafters Workshop stencil and stamped the Dina Wakley hearts on white card, before deciding on the direction they should take over the pages.. "follow your heart" is from an Invoke Art words set.. I then dripped some Ecoline ink along the top edge of the journal and spritzed it again as it dripped down my pages.