Quick journal page - with new stamps!

Last week at Ally Pally, Leandra had some new stamps designed by Ellen Vargo which although we were allowed to buy, we had to promise not to show until they'd been officially launched.  Well, when I was out at Kew today (see pics here!) I saw a tweet that said they were launched.. so I had a play tonight, in my A5 journal.

I did take a close up but even though it's rotated the right way round in my folder, when I upload it, it turns round...
I used Guacamole on the page first, then added some stencilled little circles in Hint of Mint, but they didn't show up well, so painted a thin layer of Sage over the whole page, then added some more stencilled circles, before stamping the flowers from the new stamp set (there is a third one, a tulip, too) and coloured them with translucent Frescos - Zesty Zing, Yellow Submarine,Tango and Cherry Red. I stamped the coneflower on tissue and coloured it with the same paints, then cut it out - just the petals - and glued the top only, over the image on the journal page.  The grasses at the foot are from JoFY25 and at the top, from ELB10 .  The sentiment is from the new Ellen Vargo set.

So pleased to have been able to share these flowers with you!

Craft Barn Q&L 19 - Patience/Better

Just before I left for my (second) day at Ally Pally on Sunday I saw the prompts for the latest Craft Barn Q&L challenge - Patience and/or Better.  I didn't have time to start looking for my quotes until a couple of days later, and of course my last entry used better quite by chance as well as that prompt of Easier, and there were lots using Patience that I liked;  but rather than just re-enter the previous page again (grin!) I went with "Positive anything is better than negative nothing" attributed to Elbert Hubbard.

I took a piece of 12x12 tissue bought from Paperartsy and brayered on some Frescos (no step by steps , oops) I used Vanilla, Pumpkin Soup, Zesty Zing, Chalk, Haystack, Autumn Fire, Cheesecake and Caramel... not necessarily in that order...
before stamping using Pumpkin Soup and Snowflake, using Sara Naumann and Ellen Vargo stamps for Paperartsy

the petal by Ellen Vargo,  in Potting Shed archival
- and then I cut it all up into strips...

 Gluing it to my journal as shown... I used matte medium, under and over the strips to seal it well.


Typed my quote on a piece of thin card and cut it into individual words and glued them to the left page.

 I did wonder about putting a focal image on the right page, but can't decide what, so for now, it's blank!

entering the Craft Barn challenge here 

Artful Blooms journal page

After a very lazy evening and a discussion on twitter with some fellow #patwits about how little we'd all done this evening, I got my second wind and decided to finish a journal page I'd started sploshing some paint on a few days ago.

 I'd been using the new Lin Brown Limited Edition and Chalk  Frescos...

 and took out some of the Ellen Vargo scratchy stamps and more of the Plum and Chalk paints stamped randomly to start with, only it kind of ended up a border!

 and some lighter stamping in the middle

 I decided for my focal point I'd stamp the Lin Brown flower on tissue - I used Library Green and Plum archival inks...

 and painted the back, trying to keep to the painted bits only

before gluing it to the page with matte medium, and then stamped the artful blooms on tissue in black archival .

What was quite a quick page has turned into a late night so I'm off to bed now!!

Journal page - inspired by Ellen Vargo for Paperartsy

Wow, what a week we've enjoyed again at Paperartsy - loads of beautiful projects from the designers.
I only had time for one though, and took my inspiration from Ellen's ledger page, here .

I don't have a ledger journal, so used my mini ledger stencil and sponged some sepia ink randomly over the page.

 Lots of layers of scraped paint, following Ellen's methods, I used Limelight and Chartreuse on my first layer then Honey Dew, Hey Pesto and more Chartreuse Love how the sepia stencilling still shows under the translucent paints.

stencilled circles and stamped the circle Ellen stamps using Honey Dew and Chartreuse (kind of mixed together) before stencilling the seed pod - didn't want to completely copy Ellen's.

 Used the mini parquet stencil for my border, and a brown Inktense pencil blended with a water brush round the dictionary page.

and a different Lin Brown quote

off for an afternoon sport fest now, entering this to the Paperartsy challenge here and Country View Crafts - Stencil it - here