Art Journal Sharing Thursday - Art Journal Selfies

So back to a finished journal page for my Art Journal Sharing Thursday this week, but before I show and tell I just wanted to say how much I loved all your comments last week about your Art Journal resources, thank you! Sharing is the best therapy and I'm so glad to know that I am not the only one with a Journal/Notebook habit! 

So journalators of all types, my share this week is a self portrait. Back in July 2012 I started a scrapbooking project that was all about me, well the idea behind it was to curate pictures of myself taken over the years. I'm usually the one behind the camera so I thought I would collect together the photos I could find that were just of me. Mmm, I haven't really progressed very far with the project if I'm honest, but I thought I might add to it today with this art journal page. 

I have fiddled with the photo in Adobe Photoshop to get a stylised black and white photo and I've slotted it in next to a page I did at the beginning of the year in my A5 repurposed flier journal.

I've textured a layer of Gesso by pressing a piece of kitchen towel into it and then got nice and messy with some acrylic paint splatters. Can you see the lime green hand print? Yep, I got nice and messy!

The date records the date the photo was taken, the weird thing is I can't remember why I took this selfie, I'm sure it was for some project but I found it again as I was going through my photo library and thought it would be interesting to turn it into a journal page.

Her (my) eyes just follow you everywhere you go don't they? Oh yeah, I'm watching you! Ok, now I'm freaking myself out.

Thanks for popping in today and feel free to share any links in the comments to your journaling this week, specially if it is a self portrait, I would love to see them.

Catch you later Journalators.

Kim

A New Project - Scrapbooking Me

Project number 6 trillion and 22 - Scrapbooking Me.

So I've started a new project, this one is a retrospective. I'm hunting out old pictures of myself to scrapbook, journal or memory file, kind of watching how I've changed over the years. So here is my first make in the project, an 8"x8" scrapbook page with a picture from way back in 2007.

Oh so much younger, a full 5 years ago! Ok so probably not that much younger, luckily it wasn't taken with a hi def camera! The photo was taken in March with a mobile phone camera coming back from a lovely day trip to Winchester. I've done some Photoshop jiggery pokery to the photo and added a vintage frame.

And one of my Washi Tape suns, the ZIG Photo signature pens are totally perfect for writing on the slightly non-absorbent Washi Tape by the way. Have I mentioned how much I love these pens? They are definitely in my top five, they are so useful. Anyway I digress The Zig Zag pattern is a Hero Arts stamp. 

I've used Heidi Swapp No Limit papers 'coz they perfectly matched the photo and their style kind of matches me as well. I love the blue prints and technical drawings - very me. The number stickers are the Heidi Swapp Color Magic Letterbox Resist Alphabet Stickers and I've treated them to an acrylic paint make-over. 

So have you started any new projects recently? I would love to see them! Feel free to do a Scrapbooking Me project just remember to drop back and leave me a link to your project if you do.

Enjoy your Olympic Friday!

Kim