The missing bits - part 1

Wow, I only did one other Journal 52 between August & November, but managed four Mission Inspirations and nine Colour Me Positives! That means that I'm going to split my catch-up posts in two - one for J52 & MI, the other for CMP.

How on earth am I going to keep up next year when I have additional (paid for) tutorials to watch and then make art for - I may have to drop something. Anyway, here goes.....

Journal 52 Week 44 - Heritage

So the challenges this week were for a spread inspired by Halloween, or one for Day of the Dead honouring your ancestry. I went down the ancestry path because we don't really celebrate Halloween in Australia. I made a background using stencils with fleur-de-lis and shamrocks to indicate my French and Irish lineage. I drew the girl with acrylic paints and used some black and white paint pens for detail. I wrote surnames of my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents in the girls hair,and added a couple of arrows to indicate the convict in my family's background.

Mission Inspiration - June

The hardest part of this month's challenge was finding some food can labels. I didn't want to use anything in my pantry, but I didn't really have any that I could "rescue" from the recycling. Luckily I had a small can of soup for lunch one day and then used a tea bag wrapper.

I wanted to make a page about the Murray Goulburn crisis where MG had not only lowered their prices for milk but had back dated it and forced many dairy farmers into debt. It was essentially a heartless decision by heartless men for heartless investors with no thought for the dairy farmers who started the co-op in the first place.

As one farmer said - management and executives of MG were either complicit in putting this particular strategy in place or were ignorant of it. Neither made them look like competent business people!!

I don't often get political - but this made my blood boil, especially since the man in charge then left with millions in his pocket - definitely COMPLICIT.


Mission Inspiration - August

Obviously using map fragments pointed towards a travel page or quote of some sort. I ripped up a map of Victoria for the first layer and used a butterfly from a colouring book with thread trailing out behind it. I think I missed step 8 - but who can tell?

Mission Inspiration - September

I think I did all the steps for this one, but did everything in the wrong order and my paint layer was way too thin and my girl does not stand out as well as she could. I used watercolour pencils for her face, acrylics for the feather stencils and StazOn ink pads for the stamps. It's all a bit of a mess!!

Mission Inspiration - October / Colour Me Positive Week 43 - Dreams

This month I completely missed the bit about using a baby wipe for the black gesso - so mine is painted on thickly. This was one month where I found it hard to fit everything into the design, so it all looks a bit messy - again! But, big bonus, I was able to use this for week 43 of the Colour Me Positive challenge.

Well that wasn't too bad - just the rest of the colour Me Positive pages to do now. I hope you enjoyed this post.

Cheers, Jenny.