Thursday 23 February 2023

Artful August Challenge - in January! Week Four to end

Here is the final week (and a bit) from the daily challenge I did in January.  'Person' was a gel plate printed background, then masked shapes and Payne's Grey acrylic paint with white dots. This is a technique I have done before, but it's a good one.
For 'Shape', I knew I wanted to cut a shape into the page, so with a bit of advice from Chris, I did this.   I die cut shapes from painty papers and  made this colourful page.  You can glimpse a future page through the rectangle window.
'Type' was made using some interesting font stamps from my stash and a typewriter stamp from Visible image.  
I used some of my own stamped 'Tissue' paper as the background and added shapes in translucent paint.
'Botanical' was inspired by a page from a flower book which I made into the pocket.  
Inside the pocket I added a card.
I used stamps and embossing powder to demonstrate 'Resist'.  
I went with a vintage feel for 'Travel', just using stamps and ink. 
I enjoy creating 'Drip' and it's something that I use in my art journaling too.  This one used sparkle watercolour inks.
Two of my favourite books made up the background for 'Book' - 'Persuasion' and 'The Secret Garden'.
'Vintage' meant I could look through my many digikits and find some suitable images.  I added an embossed frame and a snippet of material with a button.
The back of the journal was covered with an alcohol ink gel print.
The front was stamped and had a die cut title added.
Finally, the inside cover was stamped and the prompts list was added.
This was such an enjoyable project to do during January and I may well look out for it again this August, for January 2024!
 

6 comments:

  1. What a wonderful journal you have created Ellie, it is beautiful in every which way.

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    1. Thanks, sustainablemum. It was such an enjoyable project to do, especially during January!
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  2. January looks to have been some month, Ellie, so many beautiful pages. Looking forward to seeing what you did in February.
    Amalia
    xo

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    1. Thanks, Amalia. It was a fun challenge for January. I will be posting about the first eight weeks of my yearly mixed media course (Jan/Feb 2023) soon.
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  3. Sparkle watercolour inks!!! I want some! Lovely work Ellie :) xXX

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    1. Thanks, Lulu. Mine are actually sparkle pen refill inks, but they work well. Cosmic Shimmer also do a lovely selection of sparkly inks too. Doing this challenge helped January along nicely!
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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