New Passion continued....:)

Hello Everyone:)

Hope you all had a great

Holiday Weekend and

extra time off for some fun

and Family Time:)

As you saw in my previous post,

I have a new passion for making

journal pages, and have continued over

the past Holiday Week making pages

from scratch.

The wonderful big sheets of 

watercolour paper that my Art-Pal

Leslie had passed onto me, were

only 1/2 used up from the first

batch of pages I showed you in

my previous post. So since it's been

quiet time for the Holidays at my house,

I decided to continue making more 

pages while I still had some of this

great paper left:)

So here's a bit more eye candy:)

I had great fun painting and inking

both sides of the paper...

My entire floor of my art room was covered

in watercolour paper that was drying, then...

as each page would dry, I would flip it over

and start the other side...

Again, I was using Claudine Hellmuth's Paints,

which I am nuts over now, as they're so rich and

vibrant in their colours, and the texture of the paint

feels rich while using it:)

And also using the Tattered Angels Stencils,

and other assorted inks, and stamps...

I found that one of the parts of the process 

I had created to accomplish these, 

and it became

a part that I looked forward to...

Was taking the very large sheets of

paper, all painted and inked, and 

while they were still slightly moist,

I folded in half, then with a large

ruler to use as a guide, I tore the

sheets into halves, then again into

quarters to create the approximate

size of each page. I then inked all

the torn edges, which I think gives

each page a great look:)

So between the batch that I made

for the previous blog post, and

this large batch, (as there are

even more sheets made up, by the

time I start putting it all together

into book form, and start actually

journaling on them, it's going

to be quite the project!

As I mentioned before, I found that

some of the pages, at close up

photographs, would also make great

backgrounds for ATC's or other

projects. Well...

I've also been motivated by one

of the pages..

I just kept going back to it and

looking at it, and remembering 

how I had accomplished it...and then...

It somehow jumped onto a canvas:)

I had a great 12 x 12 inch

Cotton Duck Canvas 

that I had recently purchased,

and decided since I was working

away on all these journal pages

I might as well jump off the deep

end and transfer the techniques 

to a canvas.

Now I have this to study for awhile

to see how I'm going to embellish it

later one:)

Another blog post another time:)

Enjoy!