Another Desert Island Disc Page

I can hardly believe that I've now completed 7 of the 10

pages for this circle journal - Desert Island Discs.

This page is for Nigel.

As I was the seventh person to get his journal

I only had the choice of 3 songs - gulp!

As you can see from the photo above I chose

'The Lark Ascending' by Vaughan Williams.

Beautiful music, but no lyrics to work with - yikes!

Luckily though, Nigel had supplied a little bit about

why he'd chosen his songs so with that in mind

I got to work.

For the cover (above), I kept it simple and tried to create

a stormy sky scene with - guess what -

a single lark ascending from the clouds!

I based the inside on Nigel's story.

This is meant to represent an abandoned airfield

with lots of wild flowers.

I used Pan Pastels and rubber stamps and although

it looks more like a cultivated field, I am pleased

with how it turned out in the end.

Seven down, three to go - even less song choices to come -

lucky I like a challenge!

Thanks for looking :)

Desert Island Discs - Circle Journal - another page

Following on from my previous post earlier today,

this is the latest page I've completed - for Karen.

Of her song list, I chose 'C'est La Vie' by

Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

It isn't a song I'd ever heard before, but I took inspiration

from the words of the first verse ...

"Have your leaves all turned to brown

Will you scatter them around you".

Karen's page was a square of mountboard,

and I started off by sticking on old book pages around the edge,

then one layer of paint.

 

I thought I'd have a play with the small Gelli Plate I got

for Christmas and watched the video tutorial 

'Printing with Gelli: Monoprinting in Layers'  

I wasn't too keen on the next layer

Even less keen on the next layer!

So I brayered on a lighter shade of green

I added a few lines of paint, but still wasn't satisfied with it -

I carried on thinking in future 'less is more'!

I wanted some leaves on the page and remembered a great tutorial on

Ink Stained Roni's blog.

It's basically using brown paper, distress ink, glossy accents

and a leaf punch.

I love these little leaves, they're so realistic.

I also added onto the page a little card which opens up.

 This covered up quite a bit of the background (yay!!).

I scattered and stuck on some leaves, added a macrame, beaded

thingy I'd had pinned on my noticeboard (made a few weeks

earlier), a button from Hobbycraft which had the perfect

colour match flowers on, and added the title of the song

with some wooden letters.

 

 Now it didn't look so bad, in fact I was even pleased with it!

I hope that Karen will like it too.

Desert Island Discs - Circle Journal catch up

Towards the end of last year I joined up to a

round robin / circle journal with the theme

of Deserts Island Discs.

My original blog post has all the details in it. 

I've just finished my latest page, but before I blog it

thought I'd post here the earlier pages I did.

As it was a while back I can't remember all the details,

so will just show the photos.

This is the page I did for Virginia

for one of her chosen songs

'Dude Looks Like A Lady'

 

Front

 Back

Next is the page I did for Pat

for her song 'Isn't She Lovely'

Finally, here's the page for Sian

for the song 'Cut'.

 

 I was really pleased with the 'stencilled' couple

which was an image I printed off from Google, 

cut out and stencilled ink through.

I'll blog the page I finished yesterday next

which I can remember what I did with - only because

I took a lot of step by step photos along the way!

Mother's Day Card

This is the card I made for my lovely Mum.

I followed the tutorial at 

The Funkie Junkie

to make the sunflower.

I used white crinoline (for the petals)

and canvas (for the leaves)

and coloured them with Distress Inks.

For her present, I gave my Mum some earrings

I made using Peridot and crystal.

Hope all you Mums out there had a lovely day too xx

Tattered Floral Die Challenge

I'm back!

The longer I stayed away the harder it was for me to return.

However, if anything was going to get me back it was Tim Holtz -

and the latest challenge on his blog.

The challenge is to create something, anything with the

Tattered Floral bigz die by Tim Holtz/Alterations/Sizzix.

I've used this die many times but wanted to try something

different - so opted for Shrink Plastic.

   

Once I'd shrunk the flowers with my heat gun,

I coloured them with alcohol ink and glitzed them up

a bit with sparkle mod podge.

Here's a close up of a flower showing the subtle sparkle.

As the colour was quite translucent on the shrunk plastic,

 I had to paint the back with white acrylic and edged them 

with a Distress Marker Pen in Victorian Velvet 

which is quite a good colour match

for the Pink Sherbert Alcohol Ink.

I decided to make a ring .....

 ....... and a matching elasticated charm bracelet.

I think the round Rose Quartz beads are a good

contrast for the bright flowers.

In the centre of the double flowers is a little

Amethyst chip. 

The challenge ends 22nd March.

Pink plastic jewellery, who'd have thought it!

"Come on Barbie, let's go party"