Tuesday, May 20, 2008

My Family is Music to my Soul






Lately, I've been involved in a "Circle Journal" in my COF. This is the first two pages of a CJ for a friend of mine. The topic is to scrap about "What, Who or Where is the music to your soul." My first thought of this is my family. Therefore, I've used the title "My family is music to my soul".
Here are the steps to these two pages.
1) I've used the Masking with Cricut Cut-Outs technique all over these two pages. I've used some distress ink to do the masking. (vintage photo, brushed corduroy, black soot)
2) For page 1, I've layered a few pieces of pattern papers underneath the photograph. All pattern papers had been distressed using the scissors and inking technique.
3) I've drawn a part circle and stitched on it in page 1. I've also used the Dimensional Leaves with Folding technique to create the leaf. The sunflower had been coloured using distress ink (spiced marmalade).
4) To add some softness to it, I've added a ribbon on the page.
5) For page 2, I've actually printed a wash out photograph of my family on the card stock before I do the masking.
6) The journaling had been printed on vellum. The flourishes in browns is actually the one I've used to do the masking on both pages and I've hand-drawn the black colour flourishes.
7) The musical note have been hand drawn and cut out from an alcohol inked glossy paper.

These are my first two pages of CJ for my friends. There are more to come and you all will get a chance to learn more about me through these pages. Hope you all like it!
Sources: Card stock: Bazzill Basic Papers, Pattern Papers: DaisyD's, Paperpizazz, Ink: Ranger Alcohol Inks, Emboss It, Tim Holtz's Distress Ink, Staz On, Stamps: Heidi Swapp, Art Warehouse, Brads: MakingMemories, Others: Zig pens, uni-ball signo gel pen, vellum, embossing powder.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very very beautiful.
Je suis fan de votre travail.
Bisss, Chrys.

Anonymous said...

How can you manage to come up with fresh ideas so often and with this unique style of yours...? :-)Beautiful !!! Love your style.
Stephanie (France)

Anonymous said...

It is not possible to break off eyes.

Wonderful , beautiful , etc ...

Lengow

Carla said...

Yu always amaze me with your work. I look so close to call of it and just dont know how you find the time to do these pages. Beautiful!

Ying Pang, said...

amazed work! it's awesome, am just speechless to say anything...you are a born artist...promise me...after you back from France, you must have a class here:-)) OK ?

Mescrap said...

Really amazing piece of works. Thank you for the details.

Åshild said...

Wow - so many gorgeous pieces of art, Irene! Thanks for sharing :)

Just wanted you to know that out mag is ready for sale! Here are some sneakpeeks for you: http://etttrykk.blogspot.com/2008/05/smakebiter-teasers.html

We sent you the mag last Thursday, so you'll probably have it in your mail soon.

Hugs,
Åshild

Gra Sandel said...

Wow! I love all your works!! you know.
Kisses from Israel
Gra.

Nina said...

wow some more beautiful cj pages... love this... I love that sunflower stamp...need to find one, because I fell in love with yours way back!! this is just georgeous of course wish it was my cj!! :O)

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