Colleen's Journal THINGS WITH WINGS

This was my first ever experience of a Journal swap & I enjoyed it very much. It is also the very first journal I had ever made & I was a bit unsure what to do.

I made a cover out of cardboard & covered it with a piece of fabric that I adored. The inside had a loose page for my bits, & 2 signatures tied in with ribbon.

The inside cover had a small pocket to hold some tags that I had made for everyone & I used a gelli print to create the frog with wings & lots of other winged creatures.

The other side of the Gelli print has the contract & list of participants. The 1st page of signature1 I used a print of some butterflies over a painted background.

Then I did a very colourful spread

of an angel & a mouse who was learning to fly. Then I posted it all off to Joanna.

Joanna did a lovely spread with lots of texture paste over her background  & some beautiful butterflies.

On to Joan who did a gorgeous spread of a delightful little girl flying a kite, plus more kites on a pastel background.

Lisa's had a large flap to contend with. She did an amazing drawing of Peter Pan & on the top of the flap beautiful leaves. When the flap opened there was a fairy in all the leaves.

Lesley did an amazing 3 page spread in Dyan Reavely style. She added the wavy pages into the middle of her spread. Such a lot of work & absolutely stunning.

 Jan Mullane did  a gorgeous spread of birds on wires, just like they do everywhere.

Pam's spread was adorable & she included a chook which delighted me ever so much.

The next 2 pages were mine in the back of the book.

Jan, Joan, Pam & Lisa did the above tags, which I will treasure. I will also treasure this journal. I am so lucky to have had this opportunity & I thank you all ( Joanna, Joan, Lisa, Lesley, Jan & Pam ) for your contributions to it

AAJS 4 'Jan's Favourites Journal' Wrap Up

This lovely journal wended its way home in December 2017. Everything went so smoothly and I can't thank all who worked in my journal enough. You all did a superb job and I will treasure this journal.
Here is the cover. It is a small journal made out of an old envelope for the cover and A4 pages of card stock folded in half.

I did a couple of pages to get things started.

And then posted it off to Pam and she did a wonderfully colourful page -'100 weeds-100 wishes'

Then it went to Colleen who did her quirky birds- how cheerful are they! And another lovely butterfly page.

Next I am assuming was Joanna's page as it isn't signed but is next. A beautiful delicate page of fairies - I know this is a favourite of hers.

Joan did a lovely Winnie the Poo page that is pretty and whimsical.

Than Lisa worked her magic with a U2 song and page and also did another really colourful page with a riot of flowers.

Last but not least was Lesley's really beaut page of characters and flowers. Love the colour!

Thank you all to the wonderful artists who worked in my journal.

My spread in Colleen's Things with Wings. AJ r4

Usually I try to take progress photos, but unfortunately this time I didn't.
My background is Dylusions paint blended with a wipe. Then I did a bit of stamping to add some texture.

Since Colleen and I have been having a running chook joke happening, I knew there had to be a chook, but in fact he is a mighty fine looking rooster.  This and the other main image were taken from paper napkins which I glued to cartridge paper for more impact and fussy cut.

The other smaller images were die cut from painted papers I have made. The peacock was also treated the same way as the main images.

The journalling says.  Our things with wings come in all shapes and sizes.  They whistle and sing, they buzz and they hum and keep us entertained.

Colleen's Page in Joanna's Fairy Tale Journal

CINDERELLA

Joanna's journal is very wide when opened, so I thought I would do a story across the page.

I  love this theme of fairytales Joanna.

I started with a pastel background made using dylusions paint rubbed on with a babywipe. I added some collage pieces of painted napkin & glued on my images which were originally colouring in pages from Pinterest.

I coloured in the characters with a mixture of copics & other markers. This was not easy as the gel medium I used to glue them on with was resisting the colour. I apologies Joanna for some of the colouring which is patchy in places. With black ink I stamped some text & stars in the background & a larger star stamp was stamped with white paint. I then went around each area with a black pen & then with distress crayons around each one as well. I loved the distress crayons, they went on like smooth butter, but also resisted the writing. Life wasn't meant to be easy they say.

And they lived happily ever after.

Hope you like this Joanna, it will soon be home.

Lesley's page in Joanna's Journal.

Fairytales.

When I received Joanna's Journal it wasn't really a hard decision to work out which fairy tale I was going to do.

" Alice In Wonderland"

I started my pages by doing a small amount of zentangle patterns in the middle of each page.

I then added some color to the background using Distress oxide inks.

and then adding some acrylic inks for an extra splash of color.

I then made a mask of Alice and cheshire cat . I put down the masks and

brayered over the top with some dylusions paint

I then used a stencil to add the heart layer and added the quotes. I also collaged some 

book paper around the edges that I took from an actual vintage copy of

Alice in Wonderland.

"Not all who wander are lost"

"I'm not crazy, my reality is just different to yours."

I hope you like your pages Joannaxx

Lesley's page in Colleen's Journal. Things with wings.

So this month it is my turn in Colleens gorgeous journal and her theme is "Things with wings".

Last month I was lucky enough to attend an art journalling class with the very talented and funny Dyan Reavley.

So Of course this month my page was going to be inspired by what I did in her classes.

I started off with a basic background using Dylusions paints and stencils.

I then used some collaged images "flying fishy ladies"

I think by now most have realized my style is a bit grungy and definitely I love things that are a bit quirky.

I also added some doodling using a black marker and some stamping.

I then decided I would add an extra "WINGED" flap to my pages.

adding some of Dyans stamped bird images and a quirky quote

"The early bird can keep the worm because worms are gross and mornings are stupid"

I then added the flap pages onto my double page.

The extra pages added in.

the left side.

"Refuse to be average, let your heart soar as high as it will."

The right side.

"Untill you spread your wings you have no idea how far you'll fly."

I hope you like my pages colleen I definitely had fun making them xx