Getting my Mojo Back

I decided last year that I would start a journal and I follow Journal 52.  Well, at the end of last year I got caught on a prompt and hated what I did.  It stared at me for months.  I was prepping a canvas and had some left over gesso so I covered up the ugly and started fresh.  

This is what I came up with.  I wasn't following a theme just trying to get back to journaling.  

Layer 1: Hand written tea related words

Layer 2: Tea stained (yep I brewed and stained)

Layer 3: Splattered white paint

Layer 4: Decorative paper to form tea cups

Layer 5: Lace and tea boarder

Layer 6: Swirl stencil with molding paste painted with sparkling H2O's

Layer 7: Distress Stickles Rock Candy  (on the teacups)

I've done two other pages since finishing this one.  I'd say I have my journaling mojo back.

Journal ~ In the City

 I am on a roll with this journal thing LOL.  Last week at Journal 52 the theme was In the City.

The idea of using flowers for clouds popped into my head before anything else and the page evolved from there. 

When I was done adding the paper bits I thought it was missing some things so I added a few bricks, wrote all the places I've lived and washed the entire page with an off white paint which is what really helped in my opinion.

I also added some shimmer to a few of the windows and flowers.  

Journal ~ Favorite Foods

I'm working a little, well more like a lot, out of order on the Journal 52 prompts.  This one is from Week 32: Favorite Foods. Cupcakes aren't my favorite food, I don't really have one, but they are my favorite to make.

 I had some trouble with this page and had to start it all over.  Can you see the image of the woman above?  Well, that is my grandmother who taught me a lot about baking.  I wanted to include her image and decided to try a new to me technique, gel medium image transfer.  It didn't work as well as I wanted it to but in the end I like how the page turned out.

 I cut along the edge of the page in the shape of the cupcakes.  You can see the next page peeking through.  

Journaling ~ Rhyme

 I would by no means call myself a journaler but I have found myself a bit lost now that many of my swapping groups have shut down.  I discovered Journal52 and have been playing with their prompts.  

This weeks prompt was Rhyme Time.

I started with an acrylic background, covered it with gesso, then Twinkling H2O's next came some hand writien facts about the rhyme and randomly placed stamps.  I created the cow and moon from various decorative papers.  To finish it off I added some texture paste in a star pattern.

Soar

 This piece started as a journal entry, but the paper curled from all the paint.  So off to the store I went to find a canvas and reproduce it. 

 After watching some video's on how to produce the background I tried my hand at it and I'm pretty pleased with how smoothly the colors blend into one another.

To add texture and depth the birds are modeling paste painted with shimmery paint.  Then I added some washi tape and the chipboard letters.  This one was a lot of fun to make and I love the phrase I came up with.

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