Another Travel Journal Page - Friends with Flair

And Friday it is... Yessiree!  It's the first full Friday after a Summer hour program.  Glad to be normal again though.  And there's a lot of work, so thank God.  Unemployment and weak economy are being the topics in my Puerto Rico lately.  Not to mention the drought.  We've been praising for rainfall for a while.  So, with lots of things happening, one hast to focus on the little things and the love, the "live life fully" thing you know.

This is another page of the travel journal I pretend to use soon on my upcoming vacations.  I've shown you some pages already.  This one was also completed with simple steps and using scrap material.

This flower was stamped, colored and cut a while ago.  I remember I was going to use it in a card I had in mind, but then I didn't like the coloring because I started adding some pink to the already applied blue, and I didn't like the result.  So I had it in my pile of scrap papers and little things to trash.

But...  this page already had this "Yessiree" expression with similar colors to the flower.  I just stamped with distress inks the background stamp and with black memento the sentiment, attached the already cut flower and then I have another journal page.  I like it.  Do you?

I am sharing 3 posts in Friday Friends with Flair at Unity Stamp Co today, so make sure to leave comments in all of them for a chance to win with them.  Unity chooses two winners, one is an entry project, and another one is a commenter on the participants' blogs.  I've had the honor to provide about 2 or 3 winners commenters from my blog during the last couple of years and it feels awesome.  

Have a great weekend.

Journey - Travel Journal Page

Happy middle of the week my friends.

I have lots of little scrap of papers, stamped images, die cuts or pieces of paper with textures and more...  Those are leftovers from other projects that I think they will be usable at some point and I save them for a while.  After being in a table corner for some time, I trash them, but sometimes I use them in my random projects.

For example, I used these nice balloons I cut a while ago.  I cut them in these random colors with no particular project in mind because I was testing the die I was going to use for a local class.  The die wasn't mine and I didn't want to use in the papers of the class that the local store manager provided me because I wanted to make sure I used them well.   So I had these in my table with no purpose in life... LOL!

Remember I am making some pages for a travel journal?  So, I am using a SMAK book that already has some pretty pages just the way they are, and ready to receive my photos, journaling and memorabilia, but I have chosen some pages to just make some art from my own.

In this page, I first stamped the journaling circle stamp from Unity Stamp Co.  Then I painted circles with distress inks (similar to what I did with my merci tag but with different media... did you see it HERE?).  I applied the beautiful test balloons that otherwise were going to be trash, and also found this "journey" word I cut at some point in my life and did not use it either...

Here's the full page:

Don't throw away your scraps... they will serve you well.

I'm sharing this with our friends on Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge blog.  Challenge #157 is "Make your mark". You can see details HERE.

Also... leave a comment for a chance to win with Unity, because I plan to link this entry to the next Friday Friends with Flair, and you can get nice stamps such as this one in my page, which I earned in a past Friends with Flair linky.  :)

Travel Journal Page

 Hello my friends.  This is almost the end of a great Friday... very productive!  I have worked and done a lot of things at the office, but still managed to enjoy Summer hours and did a lot of pending tasks.

I thought I was not going to be able to share something with my Unity Friends with Flair today, but then I checked and there was still some time, so even though this project might get some more love in the next few days (not to say it is incomplete; but admitting there's still some modeling paste and ink that need to dry... LOL!), I want to share it with you.

I plan to enjoy a vacation sometime before the year ends so I decided I was going to use a SMAK book I've had for the last 2 or 3 years and have not used.  So... I finally admitted I will not used it quite as a journal for the everyday life, but I will have it as a travel journal.   And this is the first page...

I used stamps, washi tapes, modeling paste, ink, paint, markers, stencils and sprays. 

What do you think?

I will link up to Friday Friends with Flair at Unity Stamp Co... so if you leave a comment you have a chance to win goodies from Unity.  Have a great weekend.

Mi libreta de viaje!!! Y conociéndonos mejor!

Hola. Me estoy entusiasmando con la idea de viajar.  La economía en mi país no ha estado en sus mejores momentos estos años, pero también en mi hogar hemos hecho muchísimos ajustes y han pasado muchas cosas que nos confirman necesitamos un descanso. 

Por lo pronto decoré esta libretita para animarme.  Jajaja

Era una libretita con un logo de promoción.  La cubrí con cardstock de los colores de la bandera de Francia.  Estampé la famosa torre icono de París. Luego pasé la libreta por un embossing folder de un candelabro para dar textura. También usé modeling paste. Pinté con distressing inks y apliqué piedras.  También usè varias pinturas en spray. 

Luego estampé algunas frases y apliqué glossy accents.  Una vez todo seco ya tengo mi libretita de notas de viaje!!!

Al bolígrafo le pegué varias líneas de Washi tapes. 

Les gusta????

Aprovecho para contestar unas preguntas que hizo LC para conocernos mejor. 

Técnica favorita:  en general me gusta todo lo que conlleve estampar, crear texturas y pintar (no necesariamente pintar así como imágenes tipo detalle, sino deliberadamente -pinturas, spray, lápices, etc. )

Color combo favorito:  casi todos.  Más fácil es decir que no me gustan mucho los colores vintage ni opacos. Aunque hay proyectos que lo ameritan!

Producto de LC favorito:  los sellos y los stencils, y los dies!!!!

Algo gracioso sobre mí:  Siempre tuve miedo a los animales hasta hace 8 años que decidí superarlo. Desde entonces tengo un perrijo... Nada más y nada menos que un Rottweiler.