This week I had a lot of catching up to do at the house and several things planned away from home.  It’s been tough getting any time to be “arty” the last several days!  This week’s My Journal Monday was mostly playing with some new art supplies and a little letter tracing–a very cathartic activity indeed! 🙂

I ordered some of Lindy’s Stamp Gang spray inks.  They come as a spray bottle with some magic powder inside.  You follow the directions of adding some warm water, stirring, waiting and shaking to complete the makeup process.  Here are the three colors I used this week:

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From left to right, they are Treasure Island Aqua, Bells of Ireland Green and Royal Peacock Fire.  I used the Stencil Girl Products’ StencilClub (StencilGirl StencilClub) stencil set from November that was designed by Seth Apter to create the pages that you see below:

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Unfortunately you cannot see the Royal Peacock Fire in this spread.  It is an iridescent that shimmers pastel blue’ish aqua and gold in the right light.  I’m sure it would show up most splendidly on black–which gives me an idea…  I was wanting to add a face to this in the upper middle but didn’t have time before having to make this post.  Maybe I will add the face and try the other idea that just hit me…hmmmmmmm…..  This was created in my Canson 7″x10″ Mixed Media spiral ring journal.  I scanned both pages and then combined them in another program so you could see the how the whole spread looked together.

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OH–and just in case you were wondering (my close friends say that I use to many “big” words–this is for them…)–

CATHARTIC (adjective)
The adjective CATHARTIC has 3 senses:

1. emotionally purging
2. emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
3. strongly laxative

  Familiarity information: CATHARTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.  [<==And why does this fact not surprise me?  LOL]