Gail's work in Enchanted

Hi Lisa i just loved doing this page,

hope you like it,

Again i didn't know when to stop,

 I hope it is not too much.

Lisa J - Working in Lisa GG's Enchanted Journal

When I received Lisa's "Enchanted" journal from Joan, I discovered just how much Lisa loves Alice in Wonderland.  As I had been wondering what to do in this journal, I asked Lisa if it was okay if I did an Alice page too.  She said yes!

I had seen a fantastic journal page on The Mad Hatter years ago, and had always wanted to draw and paint him too, so this was the perfect opportunity.  My page is nowhere near the standard of the original (coincidentally, by another Lisa!) but I'm really happy with it.  I have to stress that I didn't copy Lisa's page; I used a Google pic.  Here's a link to Lisa Cheney's Flickr account, where you can find her Mad Hatter page.  If you haven't seen her work, please check it out - it's all gorgeous! 

I glued two pages together so that the watercolour wouldn't bleed through - this journal has heaps of pages, and the coil binding makes sticking pages together easy!

I thought that this quote went really well with the picture of the Hatter that I was doing.  These letter stamps were a bargain find from Target a while ago!

And here's the Hatter!  I drew him and then outlined him with a Pitt pen, then used watercolour.  I love how he's quite crazy looking but also quite cute (I mean Johnny Depp, yes please!).

When I'm sure that he's totally dry, I'll seal the pages using clear shoe polish.  I tried this on some ATC's last week and was pleased with the result - and also pleased that the smell dissipated after a few days!

Hope you like this entry Lisa, it was really enjoyable to do and I think I shall do some more Alice work in the future too!

Lisa's Enchanted Journal

Hiya! I've made my first ever round robin art journal page today, in Lisa's delightful Enchanted journal! Gee, I was nervous...still am, hoping so much that she likes it. I'm pretty new to art journaling so I'm a bit short on confidence about working in someone else's journal!! Shriek!

So, here it is. The paper is a bit on the thin side, so I chose to adhere a page to the back of the first one, behind Lisa's own gorgeous page at the beginning of the journal. I used a cut-out of a fairy and some printed paper, together with some fairy stamps which I coloured in.
On the opposite page I've used a wonderful Wizard image that I've been saving for something special (like Lisa's journal, of course!), onto a painted background, decorated with some 'bling' and paper bits. I had to glue two pages together though, to give it all some stability.

Sorry that the image is a little blurred, I think the blingie bits may have prevented it lying flat enough on the scanner!

Hope you like it, Lisa, and your daughter especially too :)
All the best
Rose

Lisa G's First blog .. theme Enchanted

Hi ladies ,
Well this is my first time ever blogging, but not journaling..
I run a 4 journal circles of my own ,on facebook and have worked with many of you doing ATCs etc.
So I am very excited to start this one with you all..
As I said I have never blogged before so it may take me a while to get the hang of it..
My theme is Enchanted , I choose this because I have an autistic daughter who is obesest with fairy's and unicorns etc.. So when this comes back she wants to look at everyone's way of interpretation of enchanted make believe land...
I didn't do the front cover of my journals I find it gets knocked around in post sometimes, but above is my first page done it . My journal is A5
Cheers
Lisa Griffin-Gledhill