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Over at The Altered Page, Seth put out a call for stacks.  He’d taken a photo of a stack of his journals which led to Heather Campbell from Blissful Things, to say ‘I love stacks of paper and handmade books…we should all take a picture of our own. Maybe Seth you have a place we could post them?’ His response, “Great idea Heather. Ask and ye shall receive.”

Here’s my stack, which turned out to be an engineering adventure to balance papers of all different sizes (yes, I should have pulled the smaller ones out, but I thought it wouldn’t cause too much of  a problem – wrong).  I was completely energized seeing all the colors and I even found a paper or two that screamed to be used on a journal page!


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I have made a mess, a giant, painty, mixed media mess!  When I am spray inking or painting pages I put a journal page below, a large piece of watercolor paper, or any thing else I can find to catch the “extras”. Here’s what my studio looks like right now…

The paper that is on the counter has a basic watercolor wash on the base, then paint scrapes, smears, and plenty of spray ink.  There is still plenty more that will happen to this paper before I am done with it, but for now it is a happy background waiting for the next layer…nothing like indoor lighting to make it look far more yellow than it really is…

 

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I really love this girl stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  I think it is the flowing hair that I’ve fallen in love with…and I love that she got me using so many odds and ends!

The background was made while coloring ribbons and die cuts with spray inks.  I hate to waste beautiful inks so when I spray I often do it over a blank journal page. The purple tags were used to soak up extra inks from my glass counter top.  The stars were die cut using papers I made from my daughter’s homework.  You can see that post here.  I used up the last bits of a pink translucent glitter glue, the ever fancy Crayola brand (thanks kids for letting me use your stuff), on her flowing hair.

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