Two Heart Journals - July and August

The challenge for July was to use two heart shaped sheets of transparency and to encapsulate some item that have some dimension to them.  I chose to punch three little dragons paint them red and triple emboss them with UTEE to give them dimension, in fact they curled a bit which gave them more.  I gave them each some yellow and gold threads at their mouths to represent fire and attached them to one sheet of the transparency.   I then very carefully gold embossed the edge of the heart, slow heat so that the film did not warp.  The other heart I edged with gold alcohol ink and then joined the two together with gold eyelets.   A Chinese cube with a bell inside and a tassel was added to the bottom and a red and gold braided toggle at the top.

Sorry I was late with this one.

The challenge for August is to use only blue, green, brown and white acrylic paint with a palette knife to create a landscape and to add some decoupage pictures and to varnish it.


I wanted to create a seaside picture with the colours and the images of the seagulls fitted in perfectly.  I heated some white acrylic paint at the bottom until it bubbled and then scraped the brown paint over the texture to give the look of rocks in the water.  Sorry for the shine on the left hand side, I'm not a very good photographer.