Not been crafting over the holiday period due to a bad back which is still troubling me but sometimes one has to just go for it. I decided it was about time I documented my back pain in readiness for the GP appointment in two weeks time (I will have waited a month for this appointment) and so it gave me the perfect opportunity to make a calendar.
I have always wanted to do one of those "page a month" arty ones that you see and when Chris (Pearshaped) did one for the Art Journal Journey it spurred me on. So thank you Chris.
I set about using Spray Inks, most of them either would not spray or 'blobbed' a lot but I found the Prima ones the best and so I used two of them (Glistening Waves and Deep Teal) to give me my background colour. I cut out some rectangles, circles and triangles and put them on the card, weighted them down with coins and sprayed before carefully removing both coins and shapes with tweezers. I then stamped some ferns and a grass type image randomly across both pages.
The removed shapes with the circles from the coins
Adding some one and a half inch squares and the letters forming "January" I had my pages finished. I did play about a bit with the placement of the squares and decided I wanted the circle to show on the second page to fit in with the theme at Art Journal Journey. If you look very closely you might see the triangle and one of the rectangles as well.
So there you have it, my calendar ready for documenting on and my entry for Alison's Geometric Shapes theme with Art Journal Journey.
(Thanks must go to my other half who helped out with the die-cutting as that was a bit too much to chance for me.)
