Two Art Journal Pages

I wanted to create a page in my journal

made up of recycled materials.

Here is a photo of a few of those items.

Tea bag paper, fruit tea from inside

100% Kraft napkin & balsa wood.

 

 

Here's what I came up with.

I used even more recycled bits such as;

eggshells, labels, cut off pieces of hessian

and grass heads from outdoors.

 

The eggshells were adhered on top of

the tea bag papers and then while the gel medium was

still wet, I added the dried fruit tea from inside the bags.

The hessian was offcuts from some Wedding Invitations

I adhered them to make a square to place my grasses.

The whole page was coloured with LSG Starbursts;

Cape Cod Coral/ Clam Bake Beige

Gelatos; Cinnamon / Ice Chai & Coffee

The Moth images were stamped onto the Kraft napkin

I used Paper Artsy word stamps

The tag was from a set of recycled bags.

Title was die cut with Memory Box Urban alpha

cut from the balsa wood.

I was inspired to use eggshells by

French Mixed Media Artist;

Frédérique Curtil

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For my next page I wanted to

incorporate lots of layers.

I also wanted to use image transfer.

My transfer was made from this photo

I took in Feb 2008 at Howden Minster.

I changed it to B&W.

However, the transfer came out blue

& I was thrilled because it matched

my chosen background colours!

 



 

Here is what I created.

My layers consist of Masking Tape,

Washi Tape,

Gel Medium resist with stencil

Dried Flowers

Die Cuts; Tim Holtz / Memory Box

Stamping - Nathalie Kalbach

Coloured using LSG Starbursts;

Whale Watch Blue / Sea Grass Green

Silks & Primary Elements

My focal Image of the Howden Angel

Crafty Individuals Butterfly Girl

Stamped on tissue & adhered to page.

My wording at top Indigoblu

Angel Definition at bottom.