Jens Arty Life

Last night I had a go at using ink and a brayer (ink roller) straight on to a page. I remember doing this back in the days I was stamping, but I used glossy paper for effects. I added a tree stencil done in white ink, silver pen for the lettering and some stick on embellishments. I'm fairly happy with the way it turned out, though I need to watch the bleed through stencils when using ink straight from the bottle as I did here. I also added two more pages to my ETSY shop for sale. (Click on the christmas tree above to go there). It's not even new year and I've done 3 pages in my new A5 journal ... but I'm considering doing an A4 journal as well, for bigger pages. Does anyone else have several journal's going at once? Leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you. Jennidee

I've been experimenting with watercolour backgrounds. This morning I got up after doing a background last night so it could dry and finished off my Christmas tree page. What do you think? My husband also showed me what I was doing wrong with my photos. It wasn't the photo itself ... it was how I was saving and uploading it. So i will go back and fix that first one. This page is A4 in landscape (a normal printing page size for those who don't use those terms). It's a bit too small for my 12 x 12 scrapbook, but I have some photos of this years tree and trees in years past to put in a row along the top to fill the scrapbook page. I used watercolour p[antis, watercolour paper, ink, a home made foam block to print, stencils, inks, bubble wrap and gold paint in the background. Once it was dry I journalled in black. I will be creating some backgrounds for sale if anyone is interested (A5 at about $3.50 a page, same quality as this one) Thanks for taking a look...