Ha! Good morning!
I hope you all had a lovely Easter, and are ready to roll again…
I AM!
The last days were all about “play time” and I started with this:
The prompt for “A Year in the
Life of an Art Journal” is “Soar.”
I thought about it for a while,
turning that word over and
over in my head, tasting it
in my mouth and suddenly
I came to think about that
golden wing I embroidered for
a school assignment back
in 1981.
I kept it all that time,
and now it was the time to use it!
I didn’t even had to look for it,
I knew where I put it (HA!
I’m organized after all!) and
when I saw the embroidery after
all these years I wasn’t
disappointed. It looked as
beautiful as I remembered.
I got the golden wing, I had an old photo of me sitting on a horse
and the idea went from there…
Journaling: “Soar on the breeze into the sun”
Let me tell you how I “build it up”: First, I looked for a quote or song lyric
with the word “soar” and found this sentence as a part of a song text from
Cosmic Fusion (is that a band? Never heard of them!)
I started with blue acrylic paint – and because I work on aquarelle paper
I used a lot of water with the paint and I created a bit of a transparant “sky”.
I glued a picture of “reaching hands” on it but that was too much if I wanted
to go along with the horse idea… so I smeared gesso over it (but you still
can see it shimmer through on the left side of the page)
I sprayed a little bit of yellow spray ink and golden glimmer mist on the
page to create “sunlight”. I cut out the silhouette of the horse (I used the inside
to spay the horse instead of using the shape to spray around.) and added
the photo. After that, I glued some torn pieces of paper and (sprayed) tissue
paper and I finished the page by adding the wing. With the white journaling
I created a second wing which I outlined with golden stickles.
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I save Sundays for “whatever I like to do”. I play for fun or find me a
challenge I’d like to work with. Now that Scrapping the Music changed
the challenge day from Sunday to Wednesday I have the opportunity to
play along more often. The way it has been, people who scrapped on
Sundays got left out because that was the one day each week that there
was no STM challenge to scrap.
Now that I have until Tuesday night to complete the challenge I might
get hooked on “Scrapping the music on Sunday”…
Anyway, here’s the page I made for challenge #128:
Fireflies – Owl City
Ever since I saw something like this over at Seths blog in October, I’ve been
wanting to make a similar page, using threads.
I put a layer of gesso onto
the page and added threads.
The effect was amazing!
I hardly dared to put
anything else to it and I
screw it up the first time
adding to much paper
over the threads.
I had to gesso the whole
page again and place
more threads…
which left me with even
more layers and texture!
Ooooh, happy mistakes!!!
The journaling is a sentence
from the songtext and I used
some distress ink on the
edges. A bit of yellow acrylic
paint finished it off.
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Last year, I won
the December
challenge at
Scrapbooking
Supplies R Us
It was the first
challenge from
“The Sampler”
and I was curious
to see the prize:
Their first Sampler
Kit Club! It took
Holly forever to
send it: something
went wrong with the
mail; but FINALLY
I got my prize last
week!
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And I totally forgot
to show you these
beauties… oops!
I already unpacked
it! I got these clear
stamps from my
friend Lena. Just
because she had
so much fun in my
workshop “Let it
Loose.”
Just because she
thought I’d like
them. Just because
I’m her best friend.
Aaaah, she sure is the best friend I ever had! Thanks so much sweetie!!!
And thanks to you too, all my blog readers, for faithfully visiting me.
For reading my ramblings, looking at my work and giving nice comments,
I sure appreciate it!!! LOVE YOU ALL and I wish you days filled with
sunshine and laughter!
Je t’embrasse!