Autumn leaves journal page

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

I had another lovely craft day yesterday,  Paul was working from home which made my day 😄 

It was drizzly and over cast all day and my goodness by the evening I was freezing cold, it was too late to bother with heating or log burner by then.  So today we will get the log burner laid up ready to ignite.

I am going out to lunch with my girls today,  well 2 of them!  We are off to the pretty town of Cirencester,  Soph and I have had a couple of nice lunches there,  there are lots of lovely boutique shops to oh and the girls are mostly looking forward to going to the biggest charity shop we have ever seen,  it's in an old superstore, like a huge Home Bargains in size.  

Today I am sharing a journal page that I started last Friday, I added the Washi sheets and background painting last week and set to dry,  so I could just get on and finish it today,  I used so many different techniques,  I lost count,  using washi sheets and painting over them was something I haven't done before, I then dry brushed some orange paint here and there, next came stencilling using Black texture paste,  then I added some orange and black splatters.  

I set this aside to dry and grabbed my Distress inks and spray stains to colour some watercolour card so that I could die cut my Autumn leaves,  

After die cutting I edged with Vintage Photo and added a little bit of stamping and some brown splatters. 

I needed some old book pages or Ephemera to position my leaves on,  I had a couple of pieces that I could use but nothing that worked for the second piece,   so I took my old Diary, tore out some pages then went into the kitchen, there was some coffee in the pot that the girls didn't finish before work so I poured it into a plastic box and set my diary pages in to soak up the colour,  after a few minutes I put some kitchen roll on the Aga and laid the pages on to dry  ..

 I will ink them a bit more when I use them.

After creating my leaves and waiting for my background to dry I was ready to assemble ny page. 

I inked around the edges of the bits of Ephemera that I dug out of a box full that I found in a cupboard! Layered my two pieces together and left to dry.  

Before for I popped all pieces into place I added a piece of medical gauze that I coloured with Vintage photo ink and water...

I adhered the gauze with my glue press and Tonic glue,  then placed my Ephemera pieces so that the gauze poked out of each side, I held all the bits in place to allow the glue to grab for a couple minutes then placed the leaves.

The final touches were some splatters in white and the title/sentiment which I printed out and inked around the edges of before adding to my page.  

This is of course inspired by Vicky P, I followed her tutorial on YouTube.   Although I went 'off piste' and created my own Vintage looking pages etc, I didn't have a lot of the stuff Vicki used so I enjoyed improvising!  

It took me a good few hours but I totally enjoyed playing with all the techniques,  its a good job that we don't go out for posh dinners though as my hands are stained with paint and ink.  🤣😂

Maria, I'm sorry I missed your question, I had a few bits of Stamperia books, with background and Ephemera in but I definitely added to my collection,   I got a big haul from Craftelier (which I believe is in Spain)  their delivery is £5.99 so you have to make it worthwhile 🤫😉 But their prices are cheaper than most shops here, it takes about a week to arrive,  Loobi Crafts, have Stamperia collections too, so do That's Crafty' who also have decent prices.   The Autumn pages I did and yesterday's were made using the Stamperia Golden Harvest Collection. 

I hope that helps my lovely xxx

I hope that you all have a lovely day, 

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx