AJC10 Week 21 Catch-up - It's going to be OK

This page is the "twin" to "New Heights" although I altered the folder tag which originally said "My secret place".

Credits:

Cream paper, Girl on Wall with Bird and folder tag - Crafthouse Press, Santoro's Gorjuss 3-D Die-cut Decoupage

Black flock paper (from 8" x 8" sheet) - GCD Studio, Nina Higgins's Paris Nights 48 Sheet Collection Pack
Pink paper - Papermania, Mini Journal papers
Black pen - Sakura

AJC10 Week 10 - To be free at Last - Scrap-inspired by Fran Horne

(Forgive the quality of the photo - the piece is red, white and black).

Last Saturday, I took the decision to go to Malvern, a place where I used to live when I was first married. My first marriage was short but was mentally abusive and whilst I love Malvern, there's still a small part of me that fears going there. Anyway, despite feeling nervous, I survived, and found that an art exhibition was on in one of the shops. The artist (Fran Horne) is a book artist and the exhibition was inspiring, as the artist's style could easily be adapted for art journalling. Her website shows some of the work that was on exhibition http://www.franhorne.co.uk/ and my page above is inspired by her work. The page is from "The Self-Esteem Companion" by McKay, Fanning, Honeychurch and Sutker, a book that I accidently ordered twice, but rather than send it back, I thought I would alter one copy and then I saw the Fran Horne Exhibition and it felt serendipendous to do that to a page. The page on "Freeing Your Body" appeared to be relevant for this week

Pens - Kuretake

AJC10 Week 7 and 8 - Snow Angel

At the weekend we had snow and my son and I had a snowball fight. He then did snow angels in the front garden. The Journalling says: " Even with his arms folded you can still see his wings :) (Shining through :) ) showing that despite what happens your true form is still visible shining through." I used a doodling template for the black ribbon line and the squares are inchies I was going to experiment with but adding them as a fringe added needed colour to the piece. I outlined the wing shapes and added dots with an ordinary pencil.

Credits:
Black alphabet - Making Memories
Inchies - made using a Dovecraft punch from paper scraps from my stash - details not known now
Cream paper - K & Co - from my stash

AJC10 Weeks 7 and 8 - What's new?

I had a week off as it was half-term so this week is my week 7 and 8 on the Art Journal Caravan. The itinerary was to explore a new art journal technique. I found spontaneity difficult so I thought I would try doodling. My first effort was to outline and highlight a cardboard flower I had made. The silver wording says "Just doodle it".

Credits:

Background paper - 7 gypsies, Morroco Journey Pack "Argan"

Paper with black diamonds on - 7 gypsies (a paper scrap from my stash)

Teal paper - K & Co (a paper scrap from my stash)

Flower elements from stash - details not known now

Black and silver alphabets - Making Memories

Pen - ZIG Dotta-riffic

AJC10 Week 4 - Playing with colour - Don't be Messy

This week's theme is: "Letting Loose with Color" with the instruction "LET GO! LET LOOSE! BE FREE!". So you're thinking what's the above to do with that? It's part of a multipage thought but also an exploration of being messy (including paint splats in the layout, which I've not really done before), although as I said in the journal the irony is that as a digital page, no physical mess is involved. The red tag caption says: Some rules were made to be broken.

Credits:

Background paper: Baer Garten Designs, Whites paper
Central paint panel: Tangie Baxter, Splattergraffiti Red Border
Red tag and black string elements: Studio mgl, Dreams in Colour 2.0 elements
Red and black splodges: Elizabeth Weaver @ DSP, Black, White & Red All Over kit
Black pen for journalling - Kuretake