Diva Challenge #371 & Inktober

Diva Challenge #371

"Onion Drops"

&

Inktober Day 10: Flowing

Zendala Monday

Inktober Day 8: the prompt was "Star"

loosely based on a Jupiter Star Hellebore

Other Inktober drawings:

The prompt was "Exhausted"

I was a bit exhausted by the detailed studies

so I went for relaxing

The prompt was "Spell"

how do you spell...

The prompt was "Chicken"

 Inktober fun in my Trainwreck Journal

This was inspired by something I saw on CeeCee's channel

31 Days of Botanicals

The prompt was "Precious" 

this is anything but...

This is a signature I created for another swap for the Facebook Group, "Trashy and Flowish Junk Journals". The task was to make a 2 sheet signature (8 1/2"x 11" folded in half to make an 8 page booklet) using black, white, red, tan & brown.

I'm not a scrapbooker or cardmaker so I don't have the decorative papers or packaged embellishments I see a lot of people using. I art my own and use stuff from my stash of costume and fashion history images, art, travel and museum books, catalogs, postcards, brochures and stuff I just tear out of magazines. 

Last week I shared some pictures of a Flowish Junk Journal I sent for another swap. My partner posted a flip-thru of it on her YouTube channel if you want to see it and here's a video of the one she made for me.

I had a lot of fun with this.

The background is a red paper place mat I stenciled

The two sheets of paper I used were from a book of historical folk patterns

I covered this one with sewing pattern tissue

I've been into making stamps out of fun foam. 

I stamped a bunch out onto some tea/coffee dyed paper.

The corner pockets for this and the one above were from a museum catalog of kimonos

various tags and journaling cards

The backsides of the tags and journaling cards

 and a little booklet for journaling

I have to share a little haul I found at a Ross store the other day. These Faber Castell Gelato sets were
$1.99 each! Crazy. In addition to the 4 sticks they included a brush and a little floral cling stamp or a dauber. There was only 1 of each and I bought them all. 

I've never used these before so I watched a couple of videos and when I got home I made this mixed media piece:

for the Facebook group
Mission Inspiration

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