Yaaayyy… I’m here again – how are y’all doing?
I’m fine overhere in the Netherlands and I worked on some art journal spreads last weekend, and something completely different too… you’ll see.
I share it all in this blogpost, starting with a photo of my desk
Here’s the two art journal spreads which I created last week.
Week 30
… and yep, that’s the boys of “The Who” on the spread. Remember my former spread? I used a photo on that page of a band that I presumed was The Who… silly me, I should have checked. Lynne pointed out it was the band the Small Faces! So I looked for a new photo of the Who to use in Week 32 and I found a nice one. And yes, I checked & double checked… this is the band who’s song I hear when my phone rings!
Week 31
Pimped my phone-cover
I got my phone over a year ago from my friend Lena, who bought a new one and let me have her oldie. It came in an old, left-over phone-cover and I didn’t like the ‘camouflage-look’ at all. I decided to buy a new cover but then came Corona and the stores were closed. I didn’t want to order online so I decided to wait and I got used to that cover – so didn’t run to the store when they opened again, but when I saw someone in a Facebook group posting a photo of her pimped phone cover (why didn’t I thought of that before?) I got on to it. After all, it couldn’t get any worse than it was…
.. and I’m waaaaayyyy happy with the way it looks now!
I started with sanding the cover (it was some kind of fake-leather fabric) then gessoed it and used Amsterdam acrylic paint and a bit of thin (tissue) paper. The words were drawn with a permanent marker and coloured with paint. I also stamped with a home-made stamp and Stazon black stamp-ink. I used mod podge as a varnish.
I told you already that my ring-tone is the intro of “Baba O’Riley”, a song by the Who, but when I get a text message, my phone calls Hey! Listen! (Gamers might recognize this, at this is what Navi yells to Link in the game “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” so I put that yell on the cover.
And that’s it for now, I gotta run to get to my job but I hope to see you later this week.
Great work in the phone cover,that’s awesome! So much better and W real one off. I didn’t even notice your last pic of The Who was wrong, shows how observant I am!
Hugs LLJ 1 xx
Love the upgradede phone cover Marit – very cool idea and execution. The latest journal pages are great too. Hope work goes well. Stay safe and happy WOYWW. Sarah #14
I love that you have different songs on your phone. That cover is amazing, well done!
Have a good week
Christine #19
Love the phone cover revamp.
BJ#18
I love your phone cover , I often think about doing mine .Good to see your desk again Helen #3
Love all the different fonts you use in your journal. Very inventive of you to paint your phone cover. One of a kind art! Happy WOYWW and have a great week Angela #10
What a great idea to alter your phone cover – it looks great! And Lynne obviously knows her 60’s rockers to recognise the difference – I’ve never even heard of the Small Faces, let alone recognise them LOL – but I’ve looked them up and they’re pretty good! You’ve created some super pages there! I love that you journal in Dutch! Have a lovely week, Marit! xx
Like the idea of your ‘new’ phone cover, think mine is beyond redemption stuck some stickers on it but now is held together with elastic! Ani
Great pages as always, Marit, and your reinvented phone case is an absolute triumph! Very well done.
Happy WOYWW,
Shoshi x #17
That’s a great idea with the phone cover, much better than throwing it away. That was interesting about the Small Faces. I do remember them as they were around when I was a teenager but my biggest memory of them was when they split and some of them took up with Rod Stewart for a while. Wishing you a lovely and creative woyww, Angela x6x
Great pages – I love the image of the Who, I used to have a thing about Roger Daltry! The phone case is fabulous, you did an amazing job on it.
Happy WOYWW,
Diana xx #8
LOL! Love the phone, love the song, know of, but never played, Zelda. I think if I had the time to sort it out I would totally have the slittle snippet of speech from The Neverhood where Willie Trombone says “Klaymen! Up here…” right before he drops a flowerpot on Klaymen’s head! Man I wish that game was re-released. Ah well….
Thanks for the detail of making your cover.
Happy WOYWW
Mary Anne (15)
Love your phone cover. I also pimped mine a couple of years ago using some Tim Holtz stamps and some acrylic paint. Your journal pages are fab also. Happy WOYWW! Elle #11, EOTC
Great upcycle of your phone cover.
Happy WOYWW!
Stay safe and keep well!
Susan #7
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Love that Hey Listen! I’m not a gamer but I love the inspiration! Your week 33 page really speaks to me, I’m afraid for every woman and girl in Afghanistan. I think your mistake over The Who is natural to be honest, they really are unrecognisably young!!
Thank you for your return visit, Marit. So glad you enjoyed my mosaic! It’s been improved now with some black acrylic (pics this coming week). I’m now working on the recycled DVDs. I’m glad you had fun doing mosaics at school. Garden table tops are very popular but I can imagine the wine (and the drinkers lol!) might become a little unstable!
Shoshi x