The Bad With The Good.

I am not happy with my latest journaling efforts but I wanted to post them even though I'm not pleased with them.  Not everything turns out as I expected it to.

 This page started out with the ink from another page.  I believe I used a stencil and put the negative on this paper (The yellow).  Then I put distress ink on the background with a blending tool.  I used a border stamp in a blue just slightly different. The butterfly is the negative of the butterfly stencil below.  I then added stamping from a polka dot stamp.  I cut the two black fans using a Cricut Ornamental Iron II cartridge and glued them on.

This was an attempt at a method I saw on a video today.  Mine didn't turn out anything like what I saw.  That happens when you forget the process that you saw and leave steps out.  I also tried to mask the butterfly images the way I saw on the video and Do Not Like the results.  My lines are too straight and stark.  The video made it look so simple.

This is simply the butterfly stencil/mask that I recently bought and I couldn't wait to use it.  Not sure what else I will do with this but the stencil sure is nice.

I was playing around with my inktense water color pencils and drew this.  I really, really love these pencils.  I added some doodle details with a fine tip ball point pen.  The saying in the heart was from a stamp.  I cannot write that pretty.

 I like how this one turned out.  I sprayed the background using various Dylusions sprays through various stencil.  I also used the "ghosting technique" by spraying water through the stencil, letting it sit for a few second and patting it dry with a paper towel.  I stamped randomly over the background.  I used modeling paste through a bird stencil.  When it dried, I painted it using my watercolor pencils.  I brushed the pencil tip with the water brush and applied it to the bird. I outlined the  bird with a black micron pen.  I did the lettering in pencil first (it was very hard to see on the colorful background.  Sometimes I had to hold it at an angle to the light so I could see)  Then I went over it using a black sharpie.  I finished it using my white Signo pen to highlight.

 This is a background that was crated simply because I was playing with some stencils.  Not sure what I'll do with it.

I bought some stamps on the clearance isle and played with them.  I may add more to this some other time.  One thing I learned from this was that I should probably use blue ink for the clouds and maybe yellow for the sun and the one house that is solid....maybe pick a bright ink color for it.  I colored everything with my Copic markers.

I saw some zentangle dangles and thought I would give it a try.  The ink at the bottom is over spray from another page.  Ooops.

I can hear you now, "What the ....." Well....I bought a stamp of a crown and thought that I would stamp it in black and emboss it using silver embossing powder.  I thought it would look cool.  It didn't turn out as cool as  it looked in my head.  I have some ideas to add to this page so maybe all is not lost.