My shining star

My shining star

Saturday 9 January 2016

wanderlust 2016

Hello all! How are you today? I hope you are well! If not sending hugs and best wishes. Things here are okay - my dad is still in hospital - he seems pretty normal but the hospital staff are concerned about him on a number of levels. Hopefully he'll be home soon - but with some help in place for my mum.

This year is the start of a wonderful arty adventure called wanderlust. I signed up for this course and have my first journal page to share with you today. The idea is to create a journal page based on a word that describes you today - well since I was feeling pretty frazzled the day I did it thats the word I used.


I had lots of fun making the background for the word to sit on - I played with red and yellow acrylic paints applying it with my fingers and then, once dry, applied inks via a stencil around the edge and also on the painted areas. 


Next i did some stamping - in archival inks using stamps from Indigo Blu - texture stamps.
The word was added with just a spectrum noir alcohol ink pen.

A quick page for the start of my wanderlust journey - but by the time it was done I was no longer frazzled - amazing eh??

Big hugs

Rachel xx

19 comments:

  1. Lovely vibrant colours Rachel.

    Have a good weekend and hope your Dad is home soon.

    B x

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  2. Love the vibrant colours Rachel.xxx

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  3. Hi Rachel Great word! love the colours, and a lovely mix of stamping and stencilling. Mo x

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  4. I love your word and the amazing page you've created for it. It's a huge splash of wonderful colour. Hope your Dad is home soon.

    Hugs Sue xx

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  5. Fabulous page love the bright colour and great word frazzled
    Carol x

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  6. Fabulous colours used Rachel, brilliant idea

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  7. Fabulous page Rachel and great way to defrazzle! I wanted to do this course but refrained from joining due to my trip :( Look forward to seeing your makes though. Carol x

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  8. What a lovely page Rachel. Those colours shouted "Joy" to me. Hope you're feeling less frazzled today. I'm sure you'll have lots of fun joining in with "wanderlust". Look forward to seeing what you produce.

    I do hope things go well with your Dad and he's soon home again and hopeing your Mum gets the help she'll probably need for a while. Barbxx

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  9. This is brilliant Rachel, your page certainly reflects your word.
    I hope your Dad is soon well enough to go home - it's good that your Mum is going to get some help.
    Pauline
    x

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  10. Great page Rachel. I hope your dad is soon well enough to go home and your mum gets the help she needs. xx

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  11. This looks wonderful Rachel, loving the colours and nice to know you are no longer frazzled.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  12. Love you journal page Rachel, sorry about you feeling frazzled though. Hope and pray that your Dads ok and Mum gets some help too. Hugs Rita xxxx

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  13. Hello Rachel, sorry I've missed where you said your dad was unwell and in hospital, I hope he gets better soon and gets home. Thankfully it seems your mum has some care in place to help her when he does come home.

    Fab make love the vibrant colours, and Frazzled seems a good word, one I certainly resonate with, Kate x

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  14. A great page, it really depicts the frazzled feeling very well, or at least I can relate to it, lol.
    Hope you dad comes home really soon and all goes well.
    Lorraine

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  15. You've really captured the essence of your chosen word with the energy of these pages - and how wonderful that you ended up slightly less frazzled by the end of it. Hope life will become less frazzling soon... keeping fingers crossed that things will settle down with your dad. Great that your mum will have some support (besides you!) too.
    Alison xx

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  16. Love the gorgeous colours Rachel! Glad you found it therapeutic to do! Hope they get your dad sorted out soon & he can be at home with your mum!
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  17. Hope things with your Dad improve soon Rachel. As for Frazzled - love it! You've captured that word perfectly with the zingy orange and patterning around the edges. Jenny x

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  18. A big smile on my face - I too am doing Wonderlust! And I am still lusting!
    Sandy xx

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  19. Lovely journal page Rachel. Love the vibrant colours. Hope things improve for your Dad.
    Mags
    x

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