One Word One Technique # 35

Hi everyone,

Time again to share with you all my take on this months 

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This months Technique-Punches

          word prompt - Laugh

Here is another entry into my little old book ...

I pulled together paints,paste,chipboard alphas,MTE stamps,glossy accents,Distress ink pads,Distress ink,stapler,old tags from bought clothing{i save everything}and my heart punch.

The quote "Live Well,Laugh often,Love much" is one that to me should sum up our lives...i switched the sequence up a little so that i could have laugh as the starting point.

I hope this inspires you to have a go and please let us know if you do so we can pop along to your blog and leave some love.

Till next time

Tracy

xoxox

One Word One Technique #31

Hi everyone,

time for another One Word One Technique

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The prompt for wk 31:

Technique - Sewing

Word - Cherish 

Which for me meant another entry into my very old little worn book that i picked up at a car boot sale recently.

I gathered together the Acrylic paints,Smooches,Sepia Glossy Accents,Distress ink pads,Prima Doodle Deux Papers,assortment of stcker alphabets and some thread.

I was going to use my wonky tonky sewing machine BUT the needles keep breaking..hmmmm so i used a needle and made little stitch lines without the thread pretty randomly to start with.

Taking a needle and thread i added a few little kisses and stitched the lines on the right hand flower PLUS if you look at the right page it was starting to tear away SO i stitched a rough little line through a few pages to hold it all together. 

I love how this entry in my little old book turned out and will cherish it for sure.

I hope this has inspired you to have a go yourself and if you do "Please" pop back and let us know so we can visit you and leave some love.

Till next time

Hugs

Tracy

XOXOX

One Word One Technique #30

Here's your next 'One Word, One Technique' prompt for July:

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The prompt for week 30 is:

June Technique - Sewing

This Week's Word - Live

For my inspiration this week I went searching for some quotes. I can across this one by Thomas Jefferson "I cannot live without books." This is very true for me so I went about making a page about my love of reading & favourite books.

For my technique I incorporated stitching into my title. Here's how:

Start by writing out in pencil the word(s) that you want to stitch. I did mine by freehand but you could also use a stencil if you would prefer. 

Next pierce the holes along your pencil marks where you want your stitches to go.

Sew you title following the holes that you pierced to form you word. 

Here's the finished title.

And my layout, I also added a few extra stitched on the page to embellish. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you found some inspiration here. As always, please lead a comment if you've done a project inspired by this month's technique. 

Alexa

One Word One Technique #28

Here's your next 'One Word, One Technique' prompt for July:

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The prompt for week 28 is:

June Technique - Sewing

This Week's Word - Hope

This is art journal page #7 for me, and I can't believe how different they all are! I've been having a think about how to bind them together, and I'm considering mounting them all on kraft card first to give a little bit of consistency. I'll let you know how that goes!

Here's my July page:

I created my background with spray inks and acrylic paint. 

Then I stamped a couple of swirls, then put my page onto a WRMK Sew Easy piercing mat and used a needle to pierce holes along the swirls. I threaded the needle with some coordinating green embroidery thread and used a combination of back stitch and french knots to sew over the stamped swirl.

Hope you like my take on this week's prompt. If you create something using the prompt make sure you link us up in the comments, as we'd love to come and have a look!

One Word One Technique #23

I hope everyone's enjoying the Jubilee weekend :D
Here's the first 'One Word, One Technique' prompt for June:

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The prompt for week 23 is:

June Technique - Tearing

This Week's Word - Nature

This is art journal page #6 for me, and I can't believe how different they all are - I've been creating them as individual pages and haven't really thought about how they'll look when they're all bound together!

Here's my June page:

I created my background with spray inks. I wet my page using a mini mister and then sprayed three colours over the top - yellow, orange and green. I mopped up some of the excess by laying another piece of paper over the top and then let them both dry.

I stamped the flower images and the quote straight onto the background, and coloured in the flowers using red spray ink and a paintbrush.

I then stamped the grass image and the last word of the quote onto the sheet of paper that I'd used to mop up the excess ink and tore round them. I also tore off a couple more pieces and layered them up at the bottom of my page. 

Hope you like my take on this week's prompt. If you create something using the prompt make sure you link us up in the comments, as we'd love to come and have a look!

One Word One Technique #19

I can't believe it's May already, how did that happen?! Here's the first 'One Word, One Technique' prompt for May:D

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The prompt for week 19 is:

May Technique - Misting

This Week's Word - Enjoy

I love misting, so this month's technique is right up my street! I'm still keeping up with the art journal pages, so this month I thought I'd show you how I create a background using mists. Here's the finished page:

I started off with a blank piece of paper from a sketchbook, and some mists. I've used Dylusions spray inks,  and chose four complimentary colours; two shades of blue and two shades of green.

I spritzed both blues and the lighter green onto my non-stick craft mat

I then added a quick spritz of water

I took my paper and smooshed it onto the ink. I wiggled it a little bit, but not too much (you want to end up with bright colours, and if you wiggle too much they run together and end up looking more like mud!). I tend to spray a lot of ink and use a couple of sheets of paper and a small 'mop up' journal to pick it all up with - waste not want not right?!

This is what the first sheet looked like:

I dried the sheets and journal with a heat gun, and then went back and picked up a bit more ink around the edges. Here's the end result::

The next job is to add some detail, so I grabbed a couple of stencils (Dylusions again), and spritzed through one with the light blue and the other with the light green to give a tone on tone effect.

 And to show that you can use anything as a stencil I spritzed through this chipboard sheet, which is the waste from some counters for a board game (Ankh Morpork dollars in case you're wondering!). I used the darker green mist for this to make the circles stand out more.

This is what my pages and mop up journal looked like after all that misting

I added some gesso by scraping some through a stencil, and stamping some on with giant bubble wrap

At this stage I decided that I preferred the one on the left, so I added some stamping and doodling, and that was it!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial, and have some fun with your mists!

Jules xx

One Word One Technique #17

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The prompt for week 17 is:

April Technique - Fabric

This Week's Word - Comfort

There are lots of pre-made embellishments on the market these days using fabric. I am particular fan of the fabric brads that Crate Paper & Basic Grey offer. For this challenge I decided to make my own fabric button to use on my page. Here's what you'll need to make your own:

A scrap of fabric and some button shells, front and back. I happen to have a button covering tool but you can do without it and there are lots of other button making tools on the market. 

Trace a circle onto your fabric and cut out. Place the circle face down in the rubber button covering tool and  trim any excess fabric if necessary. 

Tuck the fabric into the centre and place the button back over it. Use the plastic pusher to press the button back into the front. 

Now you can just pop the button out and you are done! Here's what the back looks like:

And the front:

I use foam tape to attach to my layouts.  Here's my layout for this week's prompt. 

I hope you like this weeks prompt and as always please share your link in the comments if you play along.

Alexa

One Word One Technique #15

Here's the second 'One Word, One Technique' prompt for April :D

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The prompt for week 15 is:

April Technique - Fabric

This Week's Word - Explore

How are you doing with the prompts? Keeping up so far? I hope everyone's enjoying a lovely crafty Easter weekend!

This is my fifth journal page so far, and I think it just might be my favourite! I built up the background using spray inks and masks, and then added some painted circles, stamping and doodling. Finally, I grabbed a bag of silk scraps that I picked up from a fabric shop ages ago, and pulled out this gorgeous piece to add texture and dimension to my page.

The quote around the edge reads: 'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain. and then me, April 2012' 

I hope you like my example this week - as always, if you join in with the prompts make sure to link us up in the comments below so we can come and have a look :D

Jules xx

One Word One Technique #14

I can't quite believe we are on week 14 already! And it's the start of a new month so that means a new technique.

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The Prompt for Week 14

April Technique - Fabric

Word Prompt - Dream

I love using fabric and find it's a great material to use on layouts as it gives such great texture.

For my layout I played around with the new Prima Almanac papers and flowers and some washi tape too! I used fabric in a few different ways.

Firstly I created my title using fabric and felt squares. I started by printing some large letters in a simple font from the computer. I cut them out then traced around them onto some fabric. I didn't worry about the cut out bits in the middle of the letters, just simply cut around the outline. Then I placed each letter onto a fabric square and then stitched, using backstitch, the middle parts of the letters and created some different stitches around the outside of the letters.




Then I created a fabric yo yo, you can see how to make one of these from Alexa's mini tutorial here. And finally I used a strip of fabric to tie into a bow instead of using ribbon.


I layered up the gorgeous Almanac papers, along with some book paper and the washi tape. I left the top part of the butterfly paper open so I could add my journaling tags. And I finished it all off by adding a sprinkle of buttons and sticking the flowers and fabric in the corners.

I hope that this has inspired you to try using some fabric on your layouts and create your own title. If you create any projects we would love you to link them up so we can see!

And don't forget to go back and check out the previous 3 months projects!
Happy Crafting,
Maxine xxx

One Word One Technique #12

Firstly, Happy  Mothers Day to all those mothers out there! We hope you have a lovely day and maybe get some crafting time in. Welcome to week 12 of One Work, One Technique.

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The prompt for week 12 is:

March Technique - Embossing

This Week's Word - Joy

This week I wanted to share with you a tip I use for making the most of my stash: using embossing powders to change the colours of my alphabets. This technique can also used on embellishments like chipboard. This trick is ideal for those times when you have a font you want to use but the alphabet isn't in a colour that will work for your project. 

First you'll need to ink your letters, it's worth doing these just a couple at a time so that the ink doesn't dry too quickly before you get to using your embossing powder. When embossing I always use the Versamark ink pad as I find this is the best for this technique.  I simply press the letter upside down a few times on the ink pad to get even coverage. Be prepared to get sticky fingers!

When embossing I always work on a scrap piece of paper which I've folded in half. Having the crease in the paper means it's easier to put any excess embossing powder back in the pot. When the letters are inked you can shake over the embossing powder. 

Once all the letters are covered, I always give the paper a few taps or flicks to remove any excess embossing powder, before putting back in the pot. I then use my heat gun to set the powder.

You'll be able to tell that it's setting because the powder looks like it's 'melting'.

Here's my finished page:

And a close up of the embossed letters:

I hope this has inspired to look at your embossing powders in a new way. As always, please leave a link in the comments if you join in with this month's prompts.

Alexa