I love happy accidents and that's what happened with todays journal pages.
The pages were gessoed over and left to dry. I took weathered wood, antique linen and gathered twigs sprays with Tim's new typo and brick stencils to create the background. I sprayed through with the chosen colours and flipped the stencils to create other textures.
I noticed colours mixing and changing and when I looked at the full double spread I knew I wanted some spaces filled (mind you I think I over did it lol). So out came a thin paint brish, I sprayed the colours onto my craft mat and I began filling in some of the bricks and extending them beyond the stencil outline. I loved the effects so much you can see from the finished pages that I kept extending it more and more until the pages were almost full.
I had gathered a few collage pieces together including one of the found relatives and started altering and changing pieces as I was designing.
The chit chat stickers were perfect for two reasons, one I was able to make up my own quote and secondly they reminded me of bricks, so they fitted in perfectly.
I noticed colours mixing and changing and when I looked at the full double spread I knew I wanted some spaces filled (mind you I think I over did it lol). So out came a thin paint brish, I sprayed the colours onto my craft mat and I began filling in some of the bricks and extending them beyond the stencil outline. I loved the effects so much you can see from the finished pages that I kept extending it more and more until the pages were almost full.
I had gathered a few collage pieces together including one of the found relatives and started altering and changing pieces as I was designing.
I had the film strip die-cut left over from another project and it seemed to fit in well here, so I added some of the small heritage photos cut from a TH paper stash.
The chit chat stickers were perfect for two reasons, one I was able to make up my own quote and secondly they reminded me of bricks, so they fitted in perfectly.
Wow I'm lovin' creating these pages and I've just worked out I have enough blank pages in the book to complete the whole year - yay.
Thanks for stopping by and a big thank you if you are leaving me comments. I know how time consuming it is and I really appreciate each and every one. Welcome also to new followers who have joined me recently, it's lovely to have you along on this creative and visual journey with me.
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Take care, enjoy Friday and have a great weekend.
hugs Brenda xxx
Fabulous pages Brenda, love the watercoloured background and the collage design. Sue C x
ReplyDeletegorgeous , love the colours on this x playing catch up xx
ReplyDeleteThose walls of brick look wonderful, I can understand why you kept adding LOL, somehow the bowler hatted chap made me think of John Wayne - not in looks though so maybe it was the strip of lace & the fact that his name was not really John!
ReplyDeleteSally
The added bricks look so ethereal and make the original ones pop and add so much depth so i can see why you just kept adding them, works brilliantly! A fantastic spread Brenda :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteAnother fantastic spread!!! I really look forward to seeing your pages, and, I am now doing my own journal, thanks for the inspiration xx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous page Brenda and I love your happy accident, the brickwork looks amazing! hugs :)
ReplyDeleteAmazing pages, Brenda!
ReplyDeleteFabulous pages, Brenda! I love your happy accident! The bricks are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteHugs :)
Branka xxx
This is just the best page. Love it
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda, love your pages , the layout is very eye catching and I love the background . Great image too. Tracy x
ReplyDeleteFantastic pair of pages, love the stencil backgrounds and super details.
ReplyDeleteYvonne
Oh Brenda your journal pages are fabulous. Just love the way you created the background. The bricks combined with the letters. And the embellishment you added match perfect to those backgrounds. Gosh you are so skilled and create lovely ART...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing.
Hugs from Monica... Spain
Love the pages, Brenda!
ReplyDeletewow beautiful pages!
ReplyDeleteGroetjes Karin
Happy Accidents and Happy Friday, Brenda! Your pages are utterly fabulous! I love that inky bricked background and wonderful layers! Have a lovely weekend! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteOK seriously...you are on fire! Rarely do I pin someone 3 times in a day! Again...another pin, and LOVE your happy accident!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy accidents are the best fun!!! I looove the weathered look of the bricks Brenda and how the colours change so naturally...beautiful pages!
ReplyDeleteDot x
Stunning pages Brenda and I love those bricks. Great layering and quote too.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely weekend
Hugs Annie x
oh i say, i hope i have a happy accident like this ! love it all, it all just works so well x
ReplyDeleteStunning, a beautiful heritage page with weathered effects, fabulous!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work as usual Brenda. Don't ya just love those happy accidents?
ReplyDeleteWonderful Brenda and I don't think you overdid a darn thing! Love your journal pages, they are so inspiring. I have more than a couple of blank journals that I have never had the courage to dive into, I hope to be able to join your linky party one day when I get some gumption :O)
ReplyDeleteAmazing pages Brenda - the background is brilliant - love the collage pieces you,ve added
ReplyDeleteHello Brenda,
ReplyDeleteLove the way you extended the design, and I do not think it is over done.
Another great double spread in your Journal.
Smiles:)
Sue
What wonderful colors on your brick background Brenda - love these pages ! hugs, Julia xx
ReplyDeleteWow, Brenda - love those bricks!! Great colors and love the water color effect!. Your layout of the ephemera is fabulous - what a great double spread! xxxx Lynn
ReplyDeleteThat's one amazing happy accident! Love the colours and can see why you extended those fab bricks and definitely haven't over done the filling in!! Love the way the ephemera sits so perfectly here! Chrisx
ReplyDeleteSimply love the delicate brickwork in those beautiful colours - another fabulous piece of evocative collage work.
ReplyDeleteAlison xx