AAJS6: Jenny's Stuff and Nonsense

Hi Everyone!

 

Sharing my pages in Jenny's "Stuff and Nonsense" Journal for Round 6 - just loved this theme and had a lot of fun creating the pages!

 

The wording reads "Walking on the Moon" - I thought afterwards I should have put the wording as "Moon Walking" but LOL it's all stuff and nonsense either way!!!!!

 

 

Hope you like what I have done Jenny!!

 

I started by adding a layer of Gesso to each page and then adding strips of washi tape - varying lengths - to cover nearly all of both pages.

 

 

Then I added a thin layer of gesso over the top to tone down all the colour!

 

Then spritzed some ink spray over each page.

 

Getting all my collage elements printed and fussy cut and of course you will all know these are of course by my favourite collage lady "Sandy" from Art Tea Life @ Etsy - always something perfect for any occasion that I am creating for!!!!!

 

And then added all the elements to make the two walking moon ladies along with the letter stickers, collage stars and some scraps of muslin cloth.

 

 

Just LOVE how these turned out!!!!!

 

Hope you enjoyed the process and like the finished result for Jenny's "Stuff and Nonsense" Journal!

 

Have a great day!

 

Sharon

 

 



Round 6- Debs March entry in Janie's Exotic Journal

I have to be honest, I started out with this double layout envisioning Moroccan pottery madness in blues and yellows which I happen to think of as very exotic and magical but...ended up worlds away from it.

Anyway...Elephants to me are exotic and majestic creatures so they walked right into this entry. I sponged lots of acrylic paint for my background. I then stenciled a Moroccan pattern with Patina texture pastes in aqua and blue and sponged bronze over the top once it dried.

I then used some paint and elephant foam stamps I had from Natalie Kalbach and Stampendous to get my images down. I outlined in Dylusions paint pen and metallic Sharpies. I used Tim Holtz Ranger stickers to complete the layout to read "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it, stay curious".

Apologies for the blurry picture, I had camera issues.

Until next time, happy journalling everyone!

Received Colleens beautiful art journal Napkin Art 3-4-18 cant wait to work in it

My spread in Robyn's Journal

I was at a loss with this topic as I don't remember having any fantasies as a kid. So I looked through my collections of images to find some inspiration. I found a Digital spread that I had done in the last couple of years and decided to print it out and cut it up. I had already done the background.

This is the background done with tissue paper and inks. I tried spraying through a stencil with homemade spray ink and it didn't work so I just blotted it as best I could.

This is the digi that I cut up.




This is the final spread in Robyn's journal.I added a few extra butterflies and flowers, did some outlining and shading and also cut out an extra Fairy Ballerina and glued her on top of the other one for extra dimension. I also added some glitter glue and fibres.

Stuff n Nonsense

The theme says it all really ... Stuff & Nonsense - basically, create whatever you want that makes you smile. I'm inspired by so many crazy nutty things ... Alice in Wonderland (Mad Hatter, March Hare, Cheshire Cat), Terry Pratchett, Dr Seuss, AA Milne, CJ Dennis, Enid Blyton and so many more. There are so many amazing silly inspirational people in our world :)

I started months ago with the cover. I've used Stonehenge thick art paper (its feels like drawing paper but I'm sure it was labelled watercolour paper), taken off the spiral and threaded elastic through the holes. This way it should be able to be posted thinner enabling postage to be cheaper! Hopefully :)

I drew the lettering by hand and stuffed something up along the edge so gave it a solid black border. Looks ok after I added faux stitches :) The cover was sprayed a few days later with Dylusions ink sprays in Lemon Zest and Mushy Peas, splattered with London Blue and left to dry in the sun - 40C days have got to be useful for something!

I then used the Dylusions 'Its Raining Cats' stencil and splatted watered down white paint over the page.

After the cover I made the inside front page with the contract, order of artists and ideas. I used scrapbook paper and a Crazy Bird by Tim Holtz.

Back to the actual page, I scribbled out my tiny scribble bigger and started stamping.

Then I got colouring with Dylusions ink sprays...

Made such a mess of it, so got the paints and stencils to attempt to calm it down. Didn't work. To me, this page ended up being a total disaster so I left it, uncovered at first but had to hide it cos I really didn't like it!

Its what made this book late... so I continued stamping and colouring (then I got busy, as you do when working for yourself! lol). But then I had a brainwave (it happens sometimes)... and cut up the messy paper into tentacles, leaves, feathers (trees) and other bits and pieces. Yes, Mermaid Markers again <3

The snail is my own drawing and the houses on his shell are from Dylusions Dy-Cuts. They're the hair or hat of one of Dyan's girls. The fairy dog above is one of Tim Holtz's gorgeous nutty Crazy Dogs wearing a glittery collar, sparkly nose and handdrawn spotty wings.

Back to the background, I used Dylusions Ink Sprays in Postbox Red, Bubblegum Pink and White Linen... with a splash of Pomegranate Seed (cos it was looking so pink... didn't help though! lol).
I stencilled over it with Distress Oxide Ink (Fossilized Amber and Tattered Rose) with the blending tool using a "few" of my fave Tim Holtz stencils.

It started fading into the background so I sprayed the whole page with an aerosol fixative. Then I used White Linen Dylusions Paint with more stencils to liven up the page.

Talk about turnaround with liking things --- 40+ years of saying I don't like pink and this is what I create... and like! lol :)

Awwww.. Tim's dogs are just so totally adorable! The octopus flowers turned out pretty cool. I was almost going to put faces on the flowers :) Drew a few extra scribbly flowers and a dragonfly instead.

The snail is pretty happy :)

Its finished and has been tied into the book, already with Sharon for the first stop of its journey around Australia. Can't wait to see what you all create with this theme! Whatever you do... Have Fun!

Thanks for reading. Hope you like it too!

Have a happy creative week!
:)
Jenny

Lisa working in Roz's Art Nouveau Journal!

It's wonderful to start a new journal round!  All of the themes that our participants have chosen are really interesting, and for once, I'm thinking in advance about what I shall do in these journals...!

I had to do some research on Art Nouveau when I received Roz's journal; I was always getting confused between Art Deco and Art Nouveau.  Probably still will, but I think Art Nouveau is more classical in style, and less geometric.  

One thing I discovered - I have always loved the art 'posters' of the late 1800s by Toulouse-Lautrec, but did not know they were Art Nouveau!  Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha were also prolific in this period.  Mucha's posters are just gorgeous, so I decided to do one in his style!  

I actually took a few progress pics while I was doing this page, so shall share them here!  

I gessoed my page and then drew a rough sketch of my girl, using old photos and Mucha's posters for inspiration.

Next I inked in all of my lines with my trusty Pitt pen.  I have a variety of sizes of these, and also love Uni Pin and Micron pens - they're all waterproof so great to use with watercolour.

And lastly I watercoloured my poster, trying to keep the colour palette similar to that which Mucha used!

Hope you like this Roz; I enjoyed coming up with my own version of an Art Nouveau poster!

Cheers, Lisa x

Colleen's page in Sharon's journal.

Sharon's Vintage Circus journal is so pretty, with pages that can be removed for working on.They are folded in half, so you work on both sides. 

After gessoing I started with some paint & stencils & then started adding collage pieces.

inside

outside

I loved all these images & had fun arranging them on both pages.

I outlined all the images with black pen & then added some stamping .

Hope you like it Sharon.