Saturday, June 18, 2016

Journaling in Deborah's "Inspired by Pinterest" Journal


When I first started this journal, I had no  ideas in mind, so I just focused on getting something on the page. I had already put gesso on as that is how I normally start any journal pages.  I experimented with some new Dylusions dyes and got a background down in inside pages.  Then I painted and stenciled both front and back pages, again with Dylusions  this time with their paints.  As I am not much of a user of Pinterest, I though I better go there to gain some inspirations to create this piece, after all that was the theme.  I saw lots of ideas of course, but the one that stood out, was a page on mosaics. We had done a mosaic deconstructed journal page swap this year and I loved some of the results.  I found a pattern for this cat, which I downloaded and cut the pieces from some Creative Memories paper and a few scraps from Gelli plate printed papers.  By this time I had decided I would try to highlight the types of things that are used on pinterest pins. So I stenciled the flowers on front and{ using texture paste) the wall.  Stamps and chalk paint on the inside pages. That is where is sat for 3 weeks, till this week when I could get back to it.  Once I started it again, {3 weeks) down the track,  I decided to do a cluster sample on back page.  I didnt have many flowers left in my stash, and as they were all different, a monochromatic sample came to mind. I used whatever flowers I could find and whatever colour they were, plus some micro beads, some chipboard birds, a bit of muslin and sprayed with dylusion dyes to create the monochromatic look and mood, Finabar eat your heart out. I was really pleased how this turned out.  Then I found some small photos and some wonderful handmade circles made by  Lisa Jones, in my stash, so a Pinterest Board using chalkpaint was born.
On the other page I used some magazines to collage.  I hope Deborah likes the page, this was a great journal to do, as Deborah is keeping pages separate at moment, it is easier to work on piece on a flat background.

Front Page

 Back page
 Inside pages

This was posted off this week to Lisa Jones.


 

5 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh Joan I am in love! Thankyou so much for this gorgeous piece and for blogging about it too..I'm so excited to see art happening in my journal by all our lovely ladies.

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  2. What great pages Joan, I just love your cat so much

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  3. That is so wonderful and textural. Well done Joan.

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  4. I love this Joan, so much to look at! Great work :)

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