Leigh SB's Stay Crafty at Home Blog Hop (Aug 7 through Sept 25) #17

Stay Crafty @ Home Blog Hop 2020
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Join our 2 month "Anything Goes" hop & stay inspired, creative & safe while crafting to your hearts content @ home!
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If you have been following my blog you will have seen that recently I have been doing lots of mixed media.

This week I joined the Art Journal Challenge on Facebook - Create your First Art Journal in only 5 days. Well it's not my first Art Journal but it is certainly the first one that I have made like this in 5 days.

I have spent a lot of time in my craft room!

This was the state of play at the end of Day 4 - I got as far as this with these two pages:

These were pages of upcycled brown paper bag, that had had a thick layer of gesso added to them and then a stencil placed in this to give some texture. After drying small blobs of paint were added here and there and them 'dabbed about' with a baby wipe. Again the pages were left to dry and then the drippy edges were die cut.

Black Soot Distress was added around the edges - then the piece were added to black card and left for the next day.

Two pages that I completed were these - these started as pages with texture paste through stencils. I then added layers of Distress Ink and random stampings. 

The old photos were distressed around the edges both to look torn and with distress ink.

Finally I added the sentiments - the one on the right is Dylusions, not sure about the one on the left.

I will add these to Leigh's Linky.

Happy Crafting!