GPP Crusade 30 - Cat Got Your Tongue?

This month's challenge at Green Pepper Press is to journal - actually WRITE DOWN the things that are part of the story in your journal page.

I jumped into it when I was looking for a sun stamp for another project. I found I had quite a few. Well, that's a story to tell - where did they all come from? So that became a journal page.



I enjoyed tracing the origin of the stamps - after all, everything comes from somewhere! Then I added a little stamping, cos the page needed it.

Might need to add some swirls - or some other texture. But I don't want to lose the sun stamps, cos that's the while point!

GPP Crusade 28 - Portion Control

The latest "Crusade" at Green Pepper Press is to use "portion control". That means - umm - well, you should go to the GPP site to understand what that's all about. This is my response. I stamped a paisley stamp and cut it out to make a stencil. I sponged bright paint colours through the stencil, onto a background of dictionary page (what else?) that had been gessoed. Then I stamped the actual stamp on some tracing paper, coloured bits of it from the back in Sharpie pens, and assembled this.

I finished it in the usual style - flipped open my "cutting up" dictionary and let my eyes fall on a good word. Oooh, "Plashy", that's a nice one.

I got to use the Cropadile too - those silver 'eyelets' are some odd kind of thingy I got in an op shop - they are much shallower than a usual eyelet, and just make a decorative ring. One day I'll find out what they are for really.

I ended up with scraps on the table, and made this too: