Design Challenge Aussie Scrap Source - Balance - Symmetry

Today I am participating in a design challenge from Aussie Scrap Source based on Balance - Symmetry.

This page is part of a series of scrapbooking pages that I have been working on.  The title is part of a verse from the Bible (Corinthians) which was read at my son and daughter-in-law's wedding.  I will post all of the pages once I have finished the series.

Have a lovely day

Lynn

2nd Floor Challenge - Circles

Hi There

The next Second Floor Challenge laid down by Julie Fei Fan-Balzer and Nathalie Kalbach is circles.

I started off with a background I already had.  I had just swiped a couple of different coloured ink pads down and across the page.
To start the challenge I used a toilet roll and painted one end with black Gesso and stamped all over the pages.

At this point I had no idea what to do next.   After a break and a bit of a think about it, I decided to use a few different acrylic paints colours and a paint dabber to dab circles inside the circles.

I then broke out one of my favorite supplies, oil pastels..... and coloured in the negative spaces between the circles with a light blue colour.  That didn't really turn out the way I thought it would.  I probably should have used a darker colour I think.  Then I coloured in around the inside edge of some of the circles with different oil pastel colours.   I am liking where this page is at right now.

I wasn't quite sure what to do next, so I had a poke around in my craft room and came upon some Zentangle squares that I had done previously.

I coloured them and cut them into circles and stuck them to the page.  I then used the oil pastels to draw in stem and leaves.

To finish the page off I used a Dylusion's circle stencil with black Gesso and bubble wrap with white gesso to carry on the circle theme.  I adhered two felt butterfly's and a white crocheted one that I inked around the edges.  Added some chipboard letters to spell the word "Bloom".  To finish the page off I edged the pages with a black oil pastel.

What I learnt from this.

• I really like circles. 
• It's ok not to have clue where things are going. Walk away and come back to it later, something will come to mind.
• I love oil pastels ... ok I already knew that!!
• I love bright colours, in particular bright blue is calling to me lately.... and of course red, my all time favorite colour.
• I have a lot of "stuff" in my craft room and unless I go digging, I forget what I have. 

Have a lovely day.
Lynn

Art Journal Pages

I discovered Art Journaling in December.... I had never heard of it before then. 

I wasn't sure whether or not to post my journal pages as my journals are my private space.   I use my them to record my days, work through things as well as try out new techniques and ideas.  

But what the heck...... here are some that I have done in the past. 

The ones below were done while I was completing my first online course.... Julie Fei Fan-Balzer's 10 minute journaling a day.  I really enjoyed this course.  It introduced me to art journaling and  it allowed me to create pages over a few days without any pressure on what it would turn out like. I pretty much just did what Julie did, while I got the hang of things. She is a fantastic teacher.

Here are some that I did myself, working along the same principle of 10 minutes or so a day and letting things develop over a few days..

and a few more.....

On the one below, I worked with journaling first, then gesso, then tissue paper background, with tissue paper balloons and washi tape on the top of the page.  I find jounaling first a fantastic way to get all the stuff out of my head and onto the page, empty myself and then create something over the top.

I love houses....

and then I was drawn to faces and hair and colour.... obviously :-)

 then eyes....

then flowers.....

 And hearts and stars.

Then I got my Dylusion stamps and inks..... I am in love....

More to follow in a future post.

Have a lovely day.
Lynn.