To herald in the new year I have given my blog a lovely new background and to start my new craft projects what better way than to try something a bit different. ukstampers challenge this year is to make an art journal doing a page per week. Each page should measure 15 x 10cm (mine is slightly wider as I am leaving a 2cm edge for whatever binding I choose) and each week we will be given a prompt and a list of things to include.
Week 1 The prompt is Goals and has to include:
- handmade background paper
- 3 things you want to achieve this year
- a photograph
My background paper is hand made cotton rag paper (from eden project) painted with a mixture of acrylic paint and emulsion then stamped. The photograph is actually of the journal page itself but reduced in size (and also a tiny tucked into it).
Inks: Stampin up Soft suede, Memento Tuxedo black, Stazon black
Card: hand made cotton rag paper, acetate, photo paper, gold vellum
Stamps: Stampin up Sense of time, Elusive images Diamond art, Technique Tuesday Bijou borders, Oxford Impressions Steampunk, Invoke Art tickets,
Other: glossy accents, brad and washer, gold pen, sepia pen, watercolour pencils (to colour the tickets), acrylic paint Prussian blue, white and mauve, emulsion Almost sage