Layout for December

By the time you're reading this, Trish and I will be at the NEC in Birmingham at the CHA UK trade show looking at all the good things coming out this spring.

Anyway, I felt it was time to do a December layout before spring comes and everyone is totally fed up with all things Christmas.

I didn't want to go down the usual Christmassy route so opted to use a kit called Freedom by Jenny Bowlin for Echo Park as I love that red and black look.

For the stars I used a Balzer Designs stencil called Punchinella  and tried out some black embossing paste by Dreamweaver for the first time and was totally blown away by it. I've usually added black gesso to my paste before but I thought I'd try out one which was black to start with and it's gorgeous. It's thick so no leaking under the stencil and glossy so you have this gorgeous shine when it dries.

The only other things I used on the page were some white gesso, Broken China Distress paint and a few bits of shiny turquoise washi tape by MME.

Have a good weekend what ever you're doing.

Jaine x

Courage my friends.

Oh I do love it when something comes together so effortlessly like the page below called "Courage",

Working in my big journal I had already used the Prima 12 x 12 flower stencil to add a base layer of texture paste. I painted over that totally with Claudine Hellmuth Studio paint in Classic Teal which is an absolutely gorgeous colour. Once this was dry I took a sanding block and gave the whole page a gentle sand to take off the top layer of paint and reveal the beautiful stenciled image below.

That all done I seriously didn't want to cover it up and would have been quite happy to leave it like that but that doesn't make much of a page really, so I clustered a few off cuts, a piece of glittery tape from My Minds Eye, a bit of journaling and I stamped and embossed the lace border by Prima and Finnabair taking a paintbrush to flick off some of the powder to give it a tattered look.

I think that's all it needed as I wanted to leave plenty of "white space" as they say.

See you soon

Jaine x

Project life week 29

I'm starting to catch up with my Project Life pages from the summer and here's week 29.

Once again I've used the Echo Park Capture Life collection to make my journaling cards.

I also used some gorgeous washi tape from My Minds Eye which is so sparkly and shiny it's beautiful.

I used some of the stickers from the same Echo Park collection cutting them up and changing them to how I wanted them to look.

Just look at the sparkle on that tape.

Have a good weekend.

Jaine x

Travel journal

 I'm off to Portugal in a couple of weeks time and I can't wait. Whenever I go away I like to take a small journal with me and this one was a pre-made one with simple plain pages and bare card covers.  To personalize it a bit more I covered the front and back with some Basic Grey Spice market paper and rubbed some gesso along the edges.

The striped tape running across the front is from My Minds Eye and is from the necessities range which is gorgeous. For the letters I dug out my old faithful Grungeboard which I haven't seen for years!!  If you own a die cutting machine there are plain Grungeboard sheets in the shop too.

Jaine x

Imagine

I found this striking image in a magazine and before anyone had the chance to read it, I'd torn out the page to use in a journal.

Actually I have to go back a step as it all started with the background which is a hand made stamp I'm a bit proud of. I cut it a while ago with a piece of Softcut lino cutting material but the chance to use it didn't come up until now.

I added a strip of gold metalic spotty tape from My Minds Eye which I didn't fully appreciate until I'd taken off the white backing paper and saw how cool it really is.

I painted the word imagine and cut it out to lift it up with foam pads over my background.

Have a good weekend

Jaine x