Weekly Round-Up for Week One ~ Including JumpStart 2014

Hi Everyone,

This week starts with my One Little Word (OLW) page. This page was inspired by Wilma's In the Mood to Scrap at TwoPeas. 

This is hanging in my craft space to remind me this is my goal for 2014, to finish everything that I start and hopefully to finish some of my older unfinished work as well.

 

The rest of the week is from my adventures with Creative JumpStart 2014 (CJS2014). There is a delay for CJS2014, they post at about midday in America, which is about 2.30 am the 'following' morning here. So I have a something waiting for me when I get up in the morning. 

Jan 2nd (1st for others) ~ was a meet and greet from Nathalie and a show and tell area for all jumpers. I got my first comment on my blog, thanks Cath Sheard. I had a great time looking at a lot of the amazing Jumpers blogs, and have already had some ideas for pages off their work. Sigh, loving CJS2014 already.

Jan 3rd ~ this was the first video of CJS2014 and I woke up to the amazingly talented Julie Fie Fan Balzer. Julie  was amazing, and very inspiring. Julie used thing she found around her house, including bubble wrap, plastic cutlery and many other things on her gelli plate to create many wonderful, crazy and beautiful prints. I was so inspired that I went and created a whole heap of prints, some of which I will use on some upcoming challenges I am doing.

I pretty much love every print. There are a couple I don't like that much I will probably print over them next time I have the gelli plate out.

Jan 4th ~ I woke up this morning to a very interesting video from Nathalie. Nathalie used a squeegee, with a few tweeks, to create some amazing textures. I haven't been able to find a squeegee like her's, but I keep an eye out for a substitute next time I'm out and about.

Jan 5th ~ this morning I woke up to Suze Weinburg. Suze created an interesting home decor piece. I must say that this kind of thing really isn't me but I thought the concept was interesting, I'm still thinking about this one and if I do make something from this I will come back and update a picture here.

I also started a class at Big Picture Classes, called Inspired Scrapbooking. It started on the 3rd (for me) and I am looking forward to sharing the pages I create from this class. For now I am thinking over what I have read and watched and 'cultivating' my ideas. I'll get back to you later in the month with, hopefully, something to show you.

See you all again soon.

Love
Michelle

Creativity Day Three

Today's creativeness once again comes from Creative Jump Start 2013. Today's Jump Starter was Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. I have been following Julie for a while now, and I love love love what she does, but have never got the courage up to try.

Well today was the day, I played first with some small tags, before creating on a larger tag. I am so super happy with the result and will be doing this again tomorrow :-).

I used Julie's Punchinella 12 x 12 Stencil from The Crafter Workshop, staring with the hexagon section and spraying with Dylusions Melted Chocolate (mixed 50/50 with water), then I used Jo Sonja's Matte Fluid Acrylic in Titanium White and Brilliant Magenta through the circle section of the stencil. Next I used Distress Ink Walnut Stain through the star section of the stencil down the left hand side.

I then used the Radiant Lettering Guide Stencil 3/4", a stencil brush and Reeves Acrylic Paint in Gold to stencil 2013 on the bottom right and random letters in the top right. I then used the stencil brush to go around the outside edge.

I then decided it needed something more, something darker that would stand out so I used Kaiser Craft's Tree Stencil and Distress Ink Soot Black and stenciled half a tree in the middle on the right.

After that I spattered watered down left over white and magenta paint, then sprayed water to soften it all slightly, and then dried with my heat gun.

Finally I hand wrote "To the journey ahead and drew around 2013.

I forgot to photograph a couple of steps, and at the moment some of the pictures are upside down, when I next get access through my computer to the Internet I'll fix all that up.

I hope you have enjoyed ...