May's Heart Page

Well, I have been slack!! I made this 2 days after our prompt, but didn't really like it and wanted to work on it some more... but you know what- I've had a really negative month, not inspired, not focused and certainly not producing, so adding to it went right out the window. Oh well... it doesn't happen very often, I'm usually full on creative so perhaps I needed this lull.

So here it is... it didn't go so well- I redid the foil several times, and in the end I put modelling paste under it too. It'll do, but not my favourite one so far...

Looking forward to June's prompt, hoping that will turn out better.

Challenge- another prompt completed...

I've decided it's better for me, as I don't keep up with Book of Days prompts on a weekly basis, if I just complete prompts as my muse dictates... and thinking on from Acceptance comes the Challenge to face things that are holding me back... so here are my top 3 challenges- for the moment at least... probably the same as many others, but no less difficult for knowing that, sadly.

I played with gesso, gel medium, acrylic paints, colour cards, doileys, embossing, pastels, gel and technical pens.

Totem Animals spread

I've had Louise's scrummy journal a while now, trying to gather the courage to get going in it... finally I did. I knew how I wanted it to look, and it's always a challenge so I tend to do anything but... and now I've done all my swaps for the month...

here it is...

Journey with my animal totem

I used acrylic paints, gesso,photos of mine, white gel pens and black technical pens. The cat doodle is embossed from a linocut and over-inked to highlight, gold/silver and bronze on black. Hope Louise likes it....

Flip section with cat doodle

Embossed and inked print/ linocut