Who Are You?

Morning I'm up bright & early, but the weather isn't as good as yesterday.  I am really Enjoying playing in the Diary from last year. Another song this time it's 'Who are you?  'The Who' I do love this song but it's very much associated with this American TV program now isn't it, actually all the CSI's have a song by 'The Who' as their theme.

I wanted to make it a little different though. I painted the bkgrnd, then I put my fingerprints in ink and dipped them all over the the bkgrnd to. I was going to just draw a face and put a question mark over it but , they ended up so cute I couldn't bare to cover them up! So I drew lots of different types of question marks. Then printed off the CSI off google and added some neo2s.

Coloured my faces in and then doodled some more, round the boarders. I really enjoyed this page. I enjoy them all obviously but I like how this idea developed and became a reality. 

So who are these two beautiful young girls what ghastly end has befallen them and what on earth were they involved in? Or are these the murderers a beautiful pair of young girls on the serial killer list? Or were they seen by a witnesses at the scene of the crime. Or have they both mysteriously disappeared  Dr Gil Grissom is now in charge of this investigation and I am sure all questions will be answered with no stone left unturned (quite literally). 

Well that was fun :) and this was kinda of what was going through my mind whilst creating the page, isn't this one of the best parts of art journaling? you can go anywhere be anyone and you are the creator of it all.  I hope you like it. Thank you for all your comments and I will see you soon. Dxx

We can never break the chain.....

Cracking tune this, and the guitar solo from this very famous track is used as the theme tune for a sport every time it's on BBC it's a Motor Sport...... yep Formula 1.  This was so much fun I really enjoyed doing this. We (hubby & I) were out in the car listening to Radio 2 and this song came on. Michael and I love the album this is from. Can you guess? Yep 'Rumours' But the song is 'The Chain - Fleetwood Mac' So many good songs on this record (CD) although Michael still has the vinyl version ;)

I painted the back ground put some stamps on there to give depth, then I drew the chain. I was really quite pleased with how this page turned out. I am enjoying doing this. Using songs as journal inspiration. It's not always easy as some songs have a lot of personal meaning (we all have them or from a part in our lives, school 1st loves etc. lol) and I want to stay clear of anything too deep. Just keep it to things so you maybe able to guess the song title from the page.

I have already finished my next page so you will have to come back to see that and I am starting a couple of free courses both of which are on my side bar. Strathmore are doing another THREE FREE workshops various and the ChakrArt journal workshop both start in March, so if you want to learn something new and mix it with art why not have a look in my side bar. Love Dawn xx

Walk this way

I am amazed that we have entries for this months journal challenge already. (see previous post), I hope this is a good sign and there will be lots of entries this month ;0)  Anyway, back to my journal that was last years diary. I have been using songs as inspiration, this is a classic for me 'Walk this way- Aerosmith' 

If you know of Monty Python you will know all about this 'The ministry of silly walks'.  This was what came to me for the song title. I used some fresco paints for the bkgrnd. Printed off the walks & words from google I then added more paint to blend in the picture and started to doodle added some Neo2s and used posca pens blk & pink (they are really good) for writing on all surfaces. I have already had an idea for another page I have had a song in my head all day so will post another soon. Dxx

Journal challenge 17

February is gone YAY now it's March and the nights are getting lighter the days are longer and this is a good thing, because it means Spring and Summer will soon be here. (saying that we have had snow in March before now) Lets hope not, I have had enough with the cold.

You may have seen I kept a promise to my self to journal more (happy place) In fact I have been doing a lot more inky, painty stuff of late and it's such fun! I hope you're in the mood for this months challenge, because I thought long and hard about this..............

ANIMALS  

MINIMUM OF TWO DIFFERENT KINDS.

Whatcha think? I got five on my pages. Could even put more on as I still think I want to add to it a wee bit more. So here is my inspiration for you.

I started with sprays & stencils followed by lots of stamping and then some freebie and bought images. The bird is free from graphic fairy (in side bar) And the others I think (not sure) are from Artyfacts off esty. This is in my thankful journal which is A5 it's almost full now. What are you using as a journal? Have fun and don't forget as long as the animals are the focus of your page/pages there are no rules play to your hearts content and of course, please share your creations in the linky below. Love Dawn xx

I love a red door!

My front door is Bright red and so this was the first thing that came to mind when I came to play with this  challenge, I mentioned it before Here. I am still playing in my own time lol this is what I was inspired to do with the title song of  'Paint it Black' by the Rolling Stones, this is a tune I really like. Hope you like it to Dxx

Birds

I got carried away journaling so I thought I would save this for a post today. Lots of book pages (P&P again love this book) Stuck to the pages, gessoed, stamped then I drew some cute (well I think they're cute :) birds and added legs on the page got my Neo2s out to colour things in a bit of doodling and that's that.

Here are some close ups...........

Is family important?

This sentiment just came to me and I went with it, if you think of family History (family tree) this is really true. I think family is Really important. They make us who we are in some ways, What we teach our children now this is what we give to the future. So we best make it good lol It's alot of responsibility when you think about it.

I really liked the paint stamping of one word. I wanted in the back ground I do this alot but in this case it felt more important, both with the words and the clock because all make a difference to each element of family. Well this wasn't suppose to be a deep post but these journal pages really moved me and I felt my heart agree with the sentiment, so there you have it. Dxx

Can you stand it?

More Journal pages from me that is? lol I have been beavering away like a good un lol I have so many pages done and I have to say I am LOVING IT!  So with out further ado. I thought I would have a go at the theme over at Art Journal they do a monthly challenge just like me, (how cool) I was sad not to get round to the one last month 'Crowns' But I may have a play with this word soon. No, this month it's all about the word 'Peace' and what that inspires so here is my spread hope you like it Love. 

I used Pride & Prejudice book paper (have lots of copies of this book) as back ground paper, gessoed, painted & stamped, then drew some hearts & books on more P&P sheets and then got the neo2s out and coloured them in added water and that's about it really, oh a bit of doodling and hey presto, enjoy Love Dawn xx

I said I wanted to journal more so .....

Here is my new journal and this is the first page ;) I used some scrap paper & ink splashes from some post cards I'm making for the back ground and then doodled. Dawn (not me) had a challenge last Nov. I have only just found it. It was a song every day and you had to use this as your inspiration. This song is 'Take it easy - The Eagles' Now the first thing that sprang to mind was this....

So I drew a bunny admittedly not as sexy as this one but I love my colourful bunny spread.

Don't forget to pop back for the journal challenge on the 1st of every month Dawn xx

Journal Journey's Ch 16

Hello all, so you made it through January, well done. It's such a long month isn't it. I hope your drying off from all the horrid weather we've had in the UK & abroad  I hope you are all safe and feeling warmer. I would like to say thankyou for everyone making a special effort joining us here at our monthly Journal Journey's challenge in January :) I also want to do more art journaling this year as well as the many other crafty hobbies I have. 

So what do I have planned for this month? Well, blog land really inspires me and that's what has got me thinking about this month's challenge. Every year I see many people in blog land (some of my friends included) chose a word for the year, I have noticed this trend a lot in blog land and I'ts something I have long thought about doing, and this year I have decided it was the right time for me. Here's what I would like you to do....

Choose A Word

Now I don't want you to necessarily choose a word for the year (although you can if you so choose to). However, you can also have a favourite word? However you decide to interpret this I would like one word to be the focus of your page. so there is lots of leigh-way here and I know you won't let me down. So go to it. Here is my word for the year I hope it gets you started :0)

I started off with scraps of paper, then added some distress inks and some water to blend the papers together, followed by some stamping. I went on a free site for fonts Da Font and printed the word joy out on some card and then put the DI on a matt and sprayed water top of the ink and dipped the card in the various colours until all the letters were covered in ink, I allowed them to dry and then stamped some more over the ink, I also stamped some dragon fly's on some pretty scrap paper and cut them out to add to the spread, all very simple techniques but I think they look really effective, so have fun and share your work  in the linky below and we can stop by and see what you have been up to :0) Dxx