Sparkle | AJ's Art Journaling

Hello friends

I hope things are good with you. Here it’s rain, rain, rain and it’s getting to be a drag. I shouldn’t complain as we’ve had no flooding here but some people have had their homes flooded since before Christmas! It seems every day more and more people are struggling with this atrocious weather. I hope things calm down and dry out soon. We need some sunshine and warmth.

The page above is a page from my Teesha inspired board book. I’m really not sure what to make of this one. Overall it just doesn’t ‘do it’ for me, but there are some things about it I really love: the colours and especially the piece of collage that looks like it’s been wired (or stitched) to the page, I like the girl’s face which is one of the stamps I bought from Teesha a while ago and I liked taking the image of the girl and completely changing her with collage and pens, but as a piece of art it’s just not ‘floating my boat’. Ah well never mind, I’m sure the next page is going to be better 🙂

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely rest of the week.

Big love

AJ 🙂

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Hello friends!

Well this is a very strange spread in my 6×6 journal, it was an experiment and I’m not sure it was successful. I did a background on the pages that I LOVED, and then I did something that ruined it and I HATED it. I didn’t know what to do with it. Then I had this crazy idea to try using fusible film on top of the horrible background. I painted the pages with PVA glue, and cut some fusible film that was bigger than the pages. I scrunched it up one one side and folded it on the other and tried to stick it on the pages. Not an easy task! When it was loosely fixed I used the heat gun to shrink the film and meld it together. Then I die cut some borders and flourishes and added the quote. I don’t really like the end result, but it was an interesting process and something I shall try again at some point, probably.

I hope you are all keeping well and happy. I am feeling good, at last I seem to be getting on top of things at work and I am feeling a lot happier about the situation. I look at some of my colleagues who have really stressful jobs and are expected to work all hours of the day and night and I think that actually there are a lot of advantages to having a mundane and repetative role. So all is good 🙂

That’s all for now, see you soon

Big love

AJ 🙂

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