My nurse (Carmel) thinks that the pain in my legs and the tiredness is all down to my new pills, so I’m off tweaking the dosage. I seem to spend my entire life doing this kind of thing LOL!!!
My friend Lou, who I met through Graphicus, is a teacher and has asked us on to help her show the kids what a talented bunch we are on the Guild. She's asked us each to do at least one 8" x 8" journal page with the theme TIME. Here are my first two:
This 'page' is made from the back of a breakfast cereal packet from Aldi. The girl was already on the pack, so I sanded the whole surface and gessoed it and used 3 colours of Lumiere paint for the background. She looked quiet dreamy so I pasted a picture of a pool and an advert for orange juice into the top corner and stamped 'O's' to make it look like she was thinking about the pool. I sponged through sequin waste and used a baby wipe with white acrylic to bring the page together.I wanted to make the girl stand out a little more, so I drew round her with a black PITT pen, but made a mess of her mouth, so I stuck a pair of lips from a different picture on to her face and coloured the lips with a Promarker in poppy. A happy accident but it works!!
The second 'page' is made from corrugated packing cardboard. I gessoed the surface and while it was damp I tore some of the top off it reveal the ribs. I used Claudine Hellmuth paint in a Dash of Red and a Dab of Yellow, and a tongue depressor to spread it. It really accentuated the texture of the cardboard. I've had the image from a magazine for ages.
Jo bought me a quote book a couple of Christmas's ago and she found this one which fit the picture perfectly. I hand wrote it onto a piece of backing paper I got free ages ago, but I can't remember where from so I can't credit them, but thanks anyway.
I was amazed that my writing was so good yesterday. Couldn't do it today as I'm absolutely exhausted after mine and Jo's crafting session yesterday.
3 comments:
These pages are brilliant Jill, happy accidents or otherwise! I love that big grin, it makes me smile:))) The words on the second one are really clever, and I love the black and white image against the bright colours. Judith xx
Hi Jill,
I am sorry everything is such hard work for you right now, so well done for getting your journal pages done so fast. I am very interested as I have never done any journal pages before, but I am going to give it a go for Lou. I wasn't going to look at anyone else's until I had done mine, in case we had the same ideas, but I can't resist a quick peek. I'd better get on with mine so I can look properly! Kate x
Love how you've finished off the second page since I saw it, looks fantastic!
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