AutumnPage

I love Autumn with all its vibrant colours ... its fresh and clear air .... the leaves twirling through the air and silently tumbling down. I wanted to capture the spirit of the colours and time of change in my journal page

and started by crunching some old sewing pattern. I glued it to the gessoed journal page, added chalk and some gesso. The old bookpage I layered on top was swished through some orange and brown watercolour paints and stencilled with some distress inks. I printed/stamped some acorn leaves onto the page using acrylic paints  and real acorn leaves. I 'framed' the page by creating lines with a perforator and acrylic paint. Enjoy the lovely Autumn, Petra.

linked to: Dawn's Journal Journey
               Artful Times Challenge

Friendship

... for Dawn's Journal Journey challenge .... Friends are the flowers of life .....

Friends are the flowers of life - inks, gesso, paints, stencil, 

stamps: Prima Marketing, Artistic Outpost, Darkroom Door, washi tape, copics

Lots of ink and paint, even more flowers - stencilled and stamped, a hint of glitter - enjoy your Sunday, Petra.

The Halloween Gang

A 30minutes journal page for the Art Journal Cafe challenge. Ok, I had a think beforehand. Halloween seems to be creeping up on us and there are all these wonderful Halloween creations everywhere .... so the theme was fixed. I also thought that everything was well in reach to go ahead and do it .... my new little Snag'em stamps were still on the table awaiting to be inked up.
Well, somehow I used a double page in my journal and it took me AGES to do the background ... why on Earth did I do a double page? Then I thought it would be nice to colour some of the images because I had a couple of minutes spare ... BIG mistake as it didn't work and I had to repair! And then .... I enjoyed every single minute of it ... how did this happen? Petra.

  

Mr Repaired - isn't he cute?

The background is stencilled with various distress inks, the stamps used for 

the gang are from Snag'em, Craft Stamper, Betty Creations and Lavinia.

Give-Away Winner and Journal

Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday! It has been lovely here and very enjoyable with our Grandson being around this morning, having some very nice coffee with friends, making a colourful mess and now eventually drawing the winner for my little give-away.
Thank you SOOO much for all the lovely and kind comments, and the winner is: Shelly. Congratulations!

Now this morning I took the plunge and started a journal, thanks for the encouragement from Patty and Debby. I have never done it before and it seemed so scary! But using a little recipe from Dawn I opened the journal and started to make a mess. Dawn's recipe is: take a photograph of a person, stamps (Crafty Individuals, Woodware, Little Claire), DPs (Crate paper, gcd studios), Glossy Accents - oh, and I used lots of gesso and acrylic paint and a little bit of writing ... and I loved it! Petra.