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Sunday 20 May 2012

Journal Journeys CH08

Over on Journal Journeys Dawn set us the challenge of 'Once Upon a Time'.  She had done the most fabulous page and it was a real challenge to follow it.

I first searched on line for 'Once Upon a Time'.  Of course the bulk of the results came back to the TV series being shown on Channel 5 at the moment.  Really unhelpful :(  But there were a couple of possibilities.  One was Once Upon a Time in the West - a 1968 spaghetti western, and also Once Upon a Time in America - a 1984 gangster movie.  Then I found some quotes and one was exacly what I was looking for.

I wanted the page to look like and old book and began by doing a collage of dictionary paper (from one I bought at a church sale for 50p) over the entire page using a glue stick.  I was going to trim the paper that stuck over the edge of the journal but I kinda like it the way it is.  My initial idea was to use lemon juice over the top of it and heat it to make it look even older.  However because the paper is so old its *very* porous and just soaked the juice right up.  Time for a rethink... aha - antique linen DI which I blended all over the page to age it.


I found the perfect image on Joanna Sheen's Dancing with Shadows CD.  I've had a look on her website and I can't find it so it may no longer be available.  I found some long forgotten paper in the back of drawer (come on we've all got stuff like that!!) and ripped it to make a backing for th image.  I used the same paper to print the quote onto from the PC.

The paper was actually a light aqua colour before I got my hands on it (!).  I crumpled all the paper and image and used Antique Linen DI to colour them.  Then I flicked lemon juice onto them and heated it to get age spots on the paper.  Now I've seen this done but never done myself.  So I started to heat it.  They said it smelled nice but didn't warn me about the smoke that eminates from the page.  I had to open the window and had visions of my neighbours calling the Fire Brigade!!!

Once the smoke had cleared (OK it probably wasn't as bad as that) I stuck everything together with good old double sided tape.  Think thats the first time I've used it in my journal.

And here is the completed page.  Because the dictionary paper came from an old book, the whole page smells like old paper and it adds to the way the page feels.



Thanks for organising this Dawn :)

6 comments:

InkyArtitude said...

That's a great page Jill, sounds like you really enjoyed creating it and it shows in the results.
x

Unknown said...

Oh I loved reading your thoughts and how you came to create this lovely page ;0) Thank you for joining in with Journal Journey's this month fab spread hun. Love Dawn xx

~*~Patty S said...

Hello
I am visiting from Dawn's blog.
Your pages are wonderful...the silhouette is a beautiful focal piece with very elegant results
oxo

Darlene K Campbell said...

Hey, I'm going to try the lemon bit to age paper. I've never heard of this before so I appreciate your tutorial. By the way I love your art, too.

Gina said...

This is a gorgeous journal page Jill! Hadn't heard of the lemon juice technique either :D XXX

erasercarver said...

Beautiful page, Jill - you had me laughing so much when you told me about the lemon juice ;) Love the end result.