Colour Me Positive Week 20 - Wonder
This week we got a quote from Socrates: "Wisdom begins in wonder" and were given the option to use bubbles on our pages. I decided to try out my 8 x 8 Dylusions journal for this challenge spreading paint for the background with an old credit card. I then used the bubble stencil before doing a wash of crimson, and dabbing splotches of red, yellow & orange. To make the bubbles, I stamped using two different sized plastic containers.
For the bubbles, I searched on YouTube and found a suitable how-to using coloured pencils at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLJV9XPrpLk. I just changed the colours I used to match my background. A white Uniball pen provided the highlights - and I was really happy with it.
CMP Week 21 - Abundance
I enjoyed using the 8 x 8 journal so ended up using it again for this week's challenge. We are looking at how abundance comes into our lives with the quote: "Gratitude is the open door to abundance", and we are invited to use sheet music on the page. The only sheet music I have is on some Tim Holtz tissue paper, then I found another suitable quote to do with gratitude: "Be in love with your life, every minute of it!"
I used my Distress stains for the background, with a small doily to get some white space (idea from Tamara Laporte). I stencilled the girl's face and then painted her, used a bit of napkin for her dress and then tore the doily in half to make a head-dress. Markers made the ribbons, the music & quote were stuck down, and I used three key words inside the doily - abundance, gratitude, life.
Effy's challenge was to do a page about friendship and use flowers for bonus points. Sarah's challenge was to do a page about pets or "furfriends". As I don't have a pet, I thought I would do a garden and use the quote "Friends are the flowers in life's garden", inspired by Effy.
The background started well with colours swirled over the page and a floral stencil over the top. Then I used what flower stamps I have and then painted them. This did NOT work so well and colours ended up muddy. I put it all aside for several days before going over everything and adding some pen-work. This is not my best effort, and for some reason it just defeated me!
As you can see, I haven't even cropped the photo.
Journal 52 Week 20 - What feeds you?
Effy's challenge is to look at what feeds your soul and Sarah's was food with a face! Fairly obvious that I would choose feeding my soul, and strangely enough, gratitude comes into this challenge too.
I made a list of everything that feeds my soul and that I am grateful for, and then wrote out my thanks on one page. On the other page, I drew a face and used coloured pencils to flesh her out. Inpired by some YouTube videos by Nika Rouss, I then used a stencil for her hair. The most suitable stencil I have is the leaves and I used autumn colours. My brushmarkers outlined the leaves and filled in the letters on the opposite page.
Collages - R
I think my choice of "rendezvous" was fairly obvious as it was really easy to find pictures of couples and others meeting in all sorts of places. Most of these pictures came from my Royal Auto magazines.
Collages - S
There were lots of lovely S words, but I chose "scintillating" because I knew I had the tiara photo and I also have a jewellery catalogue with lots of lovely pictures. Scintillate is a term used to describe the way gems sparkle.
That's everything that I've completed since my last post. I've done the background for the next CMP, I have an idea for the next Journal 52, and I know which T word I will use, so that's a start. Heaven only knows when I will get them done or when I will post next because work is busy and I have to work extra hours for the next 2-3 weeks.
So goodbye for now and thanks for visiting.
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