Sunday, August 27, 2017

Favourites - Colleen's pages in Jan Mullane's Journal

My favourite things are Gelli printing, Stamping & Quirky Birds by Tim Holtz. As Jan has loads of pages in her book I decided, with her blessing, to do 2 spreads. First layout I covered the pages with gelli prints, using mainly deli paper pieces to get lots of texture, gessoed lightly & added violet distress ink.

Then I used a leaf stencil & texture paste coloured with green paint to add the branches in the top corners, plus some stamping all over.



Then out came the quirky birds & dies. I stamped them onto Gelli prints & die cut them. Placed them on the page & drew a branch in under them, then added some outlining & more word stamps & it was done.


The 2nd layout was gelli printed directly into the book.
I built up the layers with masking & stencilling


I then added butterfly masks & put a light coat of white over the pages. Then outlined the butterflys with pens & doodled with paint pens, & added some stamping.


I hope you like them Jan. I enjoyed doing them so much.

16 comments:

  1. Really love this page. Love the butterflies.

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  2. Really love this page. Love the butterflies.

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  3. Wow, I love these pages. So creative and they have such a happy feel to them. I will treasure them! Thank you.

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    1. Thank you, I enjoyed doing them Jan, Your theme made it easy for me to decide what to do.

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  4. Oh Colleen your pages are so pretty, just gorgeous I m sure Jan will love them.

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  5. gorgeous Colleen; love the colours :)

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  6. Great pages Colleen, and the butterfly masks look wonderful - fab idea!

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    1. Thanks Lisa, I cut the butterflies out of plastic with my cricut.

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  7. Your pages are wonderful Colleen. Very pretty and whimsical. Love them.

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  8. Gorgeous pages Colleen, love gelli printing :)

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  9. I am loving the pretty pastel shades of your pages Colleen and who doesn't love Quirky Birds and Butterflies. Beautiful work! xx

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  10. Just gorgeous - love those birds they make me laugh and the gorgeous soft colours of the butterfly pages!

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