Summer Journalling

Hi everyone. I am slowly getting into doing a bit more for my journal. Today I am sharing a page created with PaperArtsy Fresco acrylics with Lin Brown and Emma Godfrey stamps,

I started by creating a background of various colours using a credit card to scrape paint across the page.

Once I was happy I added some stencilling with archival inks. I used one of Lin Browns stencils (link below).

Next to the stamping - again Lin Brown designs...

I then went back to my paints and added additional colour to the flowers, using translucent colours so some of the background contrasts remained. .

Once dry I took my white and black pens and added some highlights and stamped words.

Nikki

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Rain

Ok. So best laid plans and all that...! We quite often work in advance and this piece is a good example of that because when I made it, it was a rainy day here in England, however since then it's been a blisteringly hot July! I wanted to share it with you anyway because of the cool effect you can get from PaperArtsy's Infusions.
I love these Infusions. You can create some really wonderful effects and this one is one of my favourites! Firstly I sprinkled some Infusions on the page and then spritzed the powder with water. You can then see the ink start to spread (which is pretty cool) and the walnut ink in each pot start to work its magic. When you've seen it work, be brave and take some kitchen roll and wipe it off. Yes! Wipe it off. You'll spread the ink across the page but don't panic! Let it dry.

Add a brayered layer (that rhymes!) of white paint over the top and instantly the background becomes muted - like a cloud. How cool is that?!

I added the stamping and then wanted to make more of the background so added a few stencilled dots.

I hope you like this layout - I loved the Dolly Parton quote!

Thank you, as always for popping by - let me know if you have a go with this technique!

Gabrielle x

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Workshop Photos

Morning everyone, Brenda here to share some of the moments of the day from our 'Journalling for Success' workshop last Saturday.  It started with me getting up extra early and setting out to beat the traffic up the M3, round the M25 and then the M1 but lucky me everything was moving very smoothly without my journey went without any hiccups.

We had a fabulous group of ladies who took part enthusiastically getting to grips with the recipes I had provided them but 'going off piste' at times making the pages totally their own, they were great company and we had moments of real laughter and fun and moments of quiet concentration, so much so you couldn't hear a pin drop.

Susan had ordered some Country View Crafts aprons and had to take a photo of me wearing mine, it was quite spooky how the top and cut-offs I had chosen to wear matched the colours in the apron perfectly.

Let me now take you through a visual diary of the day with everyone creating and making their own designs and enjoying each others company. If you would like to see my original pages then please pop over to Bumblebees and Butterflies.

Helen was new to our workshops and hopefully enjoyed the experience.

Susan brought loads from her shop to sell which was spread out over three long tables. 

The pages we made used the fabulous DecoArt media acrylic paints plus gesso, texture paste and matte medium. Several people also made their own sprays using misters, the paint and water and these produced fabulous results. (see photo above)

Deborah (in pink) was also new to our workshops and was admirable looked after by Hazel.

My thanks to Lyn, Jackie, Bernadette, Hazel, Deborah, Anne, Kate, Linda, Helen, Jane and Yvonne for a great day and I'm now planning the next one for July 23rd where we will be altering this fabulous beach hut set. (sorry about the tiny photo but it's a very small size taken from the shop website)

Have a great week and don't forget the May challenge 'Use A Stencil' and our amazing Blog Hop where you might find yourself the lucky winner of a brand new Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine and a bundle of dies. Just follow the rules - You will need to be a follower of Country View Challenges and to hop all the way through and visit and leave comments on each Designer's blog in order to be in with a chance to win. You never know it might be you.

hugs Brenda and the CVC team xxx

Background layer for a journal

Hi it's Brenda here with you today. 

I am sooo into journalling again at the moment I thought I would share a recipe to create a background with you that also fits with the new CVC challenge.

For the base layers I began with some of Tim's papers glued to my paper, stamped over it with red geranium archival ink and scraped a layer of gesso randomly over the page from top to bottom. I added some tissue tapes and then gave the page a light wash of colour using a babywipe and hansa yellow light with phthalo blue DecoArt media acrylic paints.

 

At this point I thought I would choose a travel theme to work with so for the next level of layers I stamped some clocks, postmarks and stamps using black archival. Next came another layer of gesso this time scraping across the page. Gesso seals, tones down colour and can add texture so is a very versatile medium to use. Then taking some cut 'n dry foam and a little raw umber paint on it I dabbed gently through the chevron stencil to create more interest.

 

 Now comes the top layers - stamp using some old collected plastic lids using gesso, just randomly and off the page and dry it. I stamped over the brown chevrons as I wanted to tone them down more (which comes in the next layer).

  

Then to finish with the top layers finger paint titan buff and titanium white into the circles to create more colour. This is where I stopped but when I come to use this page (and I might even chop it up to make ATCs) I have a base to work on where I could add stamped lines, doodling,some second generation text stamping.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope this inspires you to join the challenge over at Country View Challenges.

hug Brenda xxx

Stampers Anonymous Tiny Things set	Stampers Anonymous Paris to London set	Tim Holtz Stamp Set - Purely Random	DecoArt Mixed Media - White Gesso
Ranger archival ink - Red geranium	Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Chevron	Ranger Inkssentials Cut-N-Dry Foam
DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic - Raw Umber	DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Hansa Yellow Light - See more at: http://www.countryviewcra	DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Phthalo Turquoise	DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Cadmium Orange - See more at: http://www.countryviewcrafts.c
DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Titanium White - See more at: http://www.countryviewcrafts.c	DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Titan Buff

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