Saturday 30 January 2010

A work in progress

Here's my latest journal page, entitled 'a work in progress'. I have been pondering on this for a while.....the fact that when I left school / college etc I thought the learning was over. Oh how naive! Of course the learning never stops, in fact the learning curve just gets steeper :-)  In adult life you have to learn how to do your job and then keep learning how to do your job as more and more new things get passed your way. You learn how to be a mother and raise your family which is actually much harder than you ever thought it could be and way harder than it looks! And then there's all the things that you learn how to do just because you want to, like painting and journaling and mixed media art!

Anyway this is how the page came together. I added some old text to the page and thenI painted colours randomly to create the background. I painted a lighter stripe across the bottom to allow me to add some text. (yeeuuw, it looks really messy at this stage - this is usually when I want to throw it in the bin)


I added a few circles with bottle lids of various sizes and a Tim Holtz stamp:


I stamped my image (Invoke Arts) onto to old paper, cut it into two and added it either side of the page with a couple of angel wings and a mouth (Itkuppili) for good measure, and a touch of charcoal around the images. The text is a rub-on:


Today is the 30th January. That means that tomorrow I really MUST paint the background to my February calendar page....... And if you're taking part in the calendar challenge don't forget to blog your January page tomorrow so we can all take a peek :-)
Byeeeeeeee

16 comments:

  1. This is wondeerful!!! I'm glad you kept going at it! It is awesome!

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  2. I always love your journal pages!!
    And yes, let's hope we never stop learning! :)
    Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

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  3. coooool page. I am waaaaaay behind on January, no surprises uh.??? Class is on tomorrow if you want to come tell me off lol xx

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  4. Wow, I love how you showed your progress-Thank You!!

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  5. My February pages are on Flickr in Kate's 365 album

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  6. Really like to see how a journal page evolves...it's fab. xx

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  7. Kate this page is awesome! I read the page content too and I concur! (I am on a steep learning curve at the moment and it is TOUGH!)
    Gotta say I DO love that stamp and I love how you added those lips...genius touch.

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  8. Thank you so much for showing us how you make a page. I like to see the stages. I love your work.

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  9. Oooh been havin a baaad couple of days and not even thot about my February pages yet...xoxo

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  10. If only there were a few more hours in a day to study all of the knowledge I want to learn! Learning is a beautiful thing, and so are your journal pages, Kate! Hugs, Terri xoxo

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  11. Stunning page. Lovely to see how it came together. I'd love to try something like this but I'm not sure where to start! I'm up to date with my 365 2010 calendar journal & looking forward to blogging them tomorrow. :)

    Thanks for the inspsiration. Have a lovely Sunday. Gez.xx

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  12. great page and fantastic colours again! if it were 4 x 6 it would be perfect for today´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge :-)

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  13. Hi Kate. I'm sure you get these blog awards all the time but I wanted to say thank you for all the inspiration your blog provides. I have a blog award for you on my blog. Feel free to ignore it as I'm sure it has come you way at some point. Thanks Sonja

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  14. Thanks for sharing the progression :)
    xoxo

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  15. It is always great to follow someone's thought process.

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  16. I love your work, Kate, especially your painted backgrounds. The colors in this one are wonderful!

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