In my last post I mentioned that I have started following the Journal 52 challenge (http://journal52.com). I have now finally caught up with the weekly prompts and have decided to share a few pages that I have created with you. I didn’t manage to get photos along the way so will try to describe my processes to you. I have really enjoyed participating in this and sharing my creations with the group. They are very supportive and give great feedback.

This is first page was for the Week 3 prompt ‘Conversation starters’. I initially couldn’t think what I wanted to do for this and then I got the most wonderful phone call… To arrange delivery of my new car! I had ordered it back in Ovtober so had been waiting a long time and it seemed that everyone I spoke to asked if I was getting my car yet, and now I was. I wanted to wait for my car to actually arrive before completing the page as I wanted to incorporate the car in the page, so I started the background and patiently waited another whole week before finishing the page.

I began with laying down some colour, I used liquitex basics acrylics and just randomly painted red, white and blue around the page until I was happy with the result. I chose the colours as mini is a huge part of British cultural history. I also added some texture with some Pebeo studio acrylic modelling paste and a crafters workshop splatter stencil. Next I doodled around the edges with a white paint marker.  I then waited until the car arrived.  I then took photos and printed one out on ordinary cheap a4 photocopy paper. I fussy cut around the image and stuck it down with liquitex matte gel medium. I went over the top with more matte gel.  When this had dried I sketched around the edges of the image with a black Fabre castell Pitt pen.  I then created shadows around the car and edges of the page with Inktense blocks and water. Finally, I journal led around the car with a white Signo pen and added more journalling around the page with black Pitt pens.

I hope you like this page, it is one of my favourites! I will be posting more of the others that I have completed  soon.