DLP...FALLING BEHIND...

Here are my Documented Life Project pages for weeks 13, 14, 15, and 18...I have fallen so far behind I played catch up and then decided to carry on from week 18 so will have to go back and do weeks 16 and 17...

 

I have loads of other things to blog as well but I'll start with these and hopefully get more done later in the week.

 

TFL...Kirsti xx

 

DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT...WEEK 9

Here we go...week 9 and I'm still going strong and loving every minute of this challenge...

 The February theme has been 'using layers you love' and the prompt for this week was to 'use at least 5 layers'.

I used 6 layers...one for each member of my family...I started with some printed tissue, then some washi tape, gesso, a painty layer, some stamping and finally the house and flowers, etc. I added our initials between each layer.

DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT...WEEK 8

Week 8...I stuck some vintage music sheet onto my page and then Gelli printed straight onto it. !

 

 

 

I doodled the top and bottom since it wasn't big enough to cover the whole page. I stamped out some skulls onto the card stock I'd used to clean my brayer and cut them out. I used washi tape and stuck them to the top.

 

Wasn't sure about doodling over the tape as I felt it needed something else but not sure I like it. The journalling round the top of the skulls reads 'eat, sleep, row, repeat' which is a play on the song Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat by Fat Boy Slim, Riva Starr and Beardyman.

 

 It's been very apt this week!

 

DOCUMENTED LIF PROJECT WEEK 7...

Still here...Week 7. Kept it simple as I was last minute due to our mid term break.

 

Covering up the good stuff..I used a gelli plate print which I cut into strips and stuck to the page. I then added some texture paste through a stencil which I'm still not sure about. I scraped yellow and green paint all over then added some stencilling and stamping.

 

 Going undercover became Going Underground because I was listening to The Jam at the time. I used letter stickers then painted over the whole page with blue and peeled the stickers off. I actually re-added The Jam ones tho cos I made a mess pulling them off. Finished off with Gelly roll pen outlining.

 

Thanks for looking and thanks to admin for this great free project. I'm loving it. Xx

DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT WEEK 6...

Can't believe I'm still here...Week 6 was actually finished by Wednesday last week but with the kids being on mid term break I never got a chance to upload it.

 

 

Lots of layers this week.

Paint,

 Stencilling, stamping,

 

book paper, washi tape

 

Thanks for looking...now to get on with week 7...half way there...

DOUCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT WEEK 5...

Not had a lot of time this week. I had a look at some videos and found one by Roben-Marie Smith. She makes it look so easy...mine is nowhere near as flowing as hers.

 

 

I use a wee gorjuss book for rolling my brayer in to clean it. I added some white spattered paint to to it so it would tie in with the background and I stamped some butterflies and cut them out.

I also added some punched out circles. Actually love how the page turned out. Now to get started on this week...no wait I have to go watch football first, make lasagne and brownies and have tea:-( x

DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT...WEEK 4...

   I am so loving this journaling project over at Art to the 5th Academy...the tutors are all great and it's a totally FREE project...If you haven't already you should really go and join in...

 

I used some printed tissue on the base with a thin coat of gesso on top.

 The big heart is cut from canvas and painted with Claudine Helmuth's dash of red and some text stamping over the top.

 

Since it was Robbie Burns' birthday this week I decided to write Auld Lang Syne all over the background. I then painted some wee hearts onto book paper and added initials of my closest friends  and stuck them down.

 

Once again thanks for looking, Kirsti xxx

DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT...WEEK 3...

Finished...I started off with distress inks and a blending tool but this wasn't bright enough for me so I changed to Dylusion spray inks. I then used a 12x12 circle stencil and ghosted with water.

Then I used a different circle stencil and sprayed ink through it. I was going to cut out the flowers from a piece of pretty tissue paper I found in my stash but I stuck one down and didn't like it, hence the reason there is only one.

Did the circles round the edge with paint and bottle tops and the rubber end of a pencil. I scraped texture paste through another stencil.

 I wanted to use the lyrics from Somewhere Over The Rainbow as it's one of my favourites. I used my vintage typewriter to type it onto tissue...it's not disappeared as much as I hoped it would. Lastly I stamped my favourite Banksy image at the bottom.

 X

EDIT...it was pointed out that I had used the wrong song title..it should be I Can Sing a Rainbow! Must have been having one of those senior moments that people talk about!

DOCUMENTED LIFE PROJECT...WEEK 2

Another week...another challenge...Week 2 of the Documented Life Project 2015..

 

The challenge was to use gesso...I coated the page with a layer to begin with then added some through a Tim Holtz number stencil... Now that there are a few layers on top it's not so noticeable. I stamped the Dina Wakley (did I say that Sonja and I are going to one of her classes in March...too excited!!!) birds and coloured them and the rest of the page with gelatos. I then added some stencilling with distress ink and more gesso. The quotation is a prompt from the challenge.

 

Thanks for looking.

Kirsti x

JOURNAL SOUP...

I've done another journal page using Journal Soup 1...

 

Loving this...even hand carved my own stamp!

A LITTLE BIT OF ART JOURNALING...JOURNAL SOUP STYLE...

So last week I decided that I really, really, really wanted a Dylusions Creative Journal so I went on eBay and I bought this one...

 

 

I also decided that I had best get on with the Journal Soup 1 class created by Kate Crane at The Kathryn Wheel before I purchased Journal Soup 2....

 

This is what I produced from part one...part two is currently underway...very pleased with what I've done so far and can't wait to finishe the second page and get on with the rest of the lessons...Kate is such a fabulous teacher and I have been lucky enough to do a class with her along with Sonja. We are also booked in to do another with her at the beginning of next year...can't wait!!

FINISHED PAGES...

As promised here are the art journal pages finished....

 

 

Love the dimension the Ferro paint gives through the stencil...

 

And for anyone interested I found the link again...

 

A Life on Hold

ART JOURNAL...

Well I thought it was time to have another go at art journalling...it's something I've dabbled in over the last few years but never really gotten into as I could never get the hang of the layering but I am determined to have another go so with that in mind I stumbled across a YouTube video...but for the life of me I can't find it again...do you have any idea how many there are on that site;0)

 Started of with a layer of gesso and then painted the page with some water and then added the colour which is wiped down to soften it....added some white to soften a bit more...have to say it is actually a little brighter IRL...winter not good for indoor photography I suspect unless you have all the proper gear(or know how to use your camera to the best of its capabilities..lol.)

 

 Some torn music sheet added and a touch of yellow paint along with a lovely harlequin stamp...I really would like a much bigger one that I have...

 

 Cut out some hearts and stuck them on...

 

I like this last bit that I have done so far...using a charcoal Inktense pencil to highlight them and make them really pop...

 



I'm not finished yet as I am waiting for a(nother) new stencil/template to arrive along with some dimensional paint but so far I am really pleased with it and feel a bit more confident...I think a lot of it is all in the drying process and making sure each layer is dry before adding the next to avoid the muddy colours!!!

 

Hope it's not too snowy where you are...I'm just off to pick the kids and a couple of their friends up from school early as it hasn't stopped all day.

 

Thanks for looking!

Kirsti xx