WOYWW #414 Rough Cut Journal Goes Messy!

(Oh my goodness! Am I too late?) I love my Rough Cut and Wrinkled cereal box + duct tape journal so much that I call it my Playtime Journal.

It's a good one to use when I really want to relax, make messes, and silence the inner critic. Silencing that inner critic can really be a challenge at times, can't it? This journal seems to help with that a bit.

Here's that project. I'll explain further below, for those who have enough time for my messy musings.

For more WOYWW fun, visitors can head for Julia Dunnit's Stamping Ground where there is a Linky tool that allows her guests to join her weekly workdesk events. 

I'm back after a year long hiatus with WOYWW, but before I took that long break I posted about the making of my Rough Cut and Wrinkled journal. If you'd care to see more about its construction and innards, you may visit that post HERE.

The Mission Inspiration prompts I chose to follow this time I first heard about from one of my favorite vloggers, Shel C of Ocotillo Studio. They may be found at her recent nautical-themed video HERE. She got them from Mike Deakin, who also has a fun channel on YouTube.

I don't know whether you can see it, but there really is a torn section of some stamped deli paper I made for a previous post at this blog ( Visit my "No Gelli Deli" HERE) in the bridge between pages. While some of it smeared owing to a pigment issue, I still enjoyed the final outcome and so have chosen to leave it as is. Besides, I figured it would add some durability to this overworked pair of brown paper pages.

The project had already been underway since last year, so I had to alter it before it would fit the prompts list. Prompt colors this time include Teal, Lavendar and/or Grey. I made my own batch of Teal to use in this case. I tend to enjoy mixing my own colors in small batches and keeping them in tightly lidded small containers as I have less space than I used to have for my creative side.

The pages were already coated with some of my experimental homemade faux "gesso" along with some blended streaks of blues and greens. The paper underneath is from a used paper bag or else from brown packing paper.  That was last year's part. 

More recent additions were reconstituted (almost ruined out of neglect on my part!) modeling paste alphabet letters. The idea at the start was to have the letters, X, Y and Z be friends playing hooky outdoors and getting caught by a sudden spring shower. I later finger painted them in orange, red and yellow, respectively. 

The "household item" I used to make a mark may be seen in the photo at the top of this post. It's an upcycled little plastic cup from a sandwich place that delivers me yummy fresh salads now and again. It used to contain a serving of parmesan cheese. It was used to make the playful and childlike sun, upper left.

Another prompt is to use graph paper or composition paper collaged into the design. I couldn't figure out what had happened to my nice green graph paper, and so fudged this bit just a smidgeon by using a greenish ledger paper sheet instead for the grass at the foot of the page. I overlaid this with a thin glaze of Mod Podge + acrylic paint. 

I like sparkle when I am being playfully creative, so naturally there has to be glitter. I mean - c'mon! Ya gotta have glitter, right?  :) 
I've used 2 types of glitter here, one in a thinned Mod Podge runny formula into which I've added superfine iridescent clear glitter. The other one is applied glitter at the end, while things were still really sticky. The tiny shaker for it may be seen in my photo, too.

For the ribbon, yarn or string part, I chose to go with a remnant of textured yarn to use as a kite string. I painted over it using my teal, but it does not show up very well in the photo, unfortunately. The kite idea allows me to fit my XYZ picture into the Prompt theme ideas, which included the idea that we are to "Reach" and to achieve.

I opted to use torn strips of scrapbooking paper to one page to use under some words done using that Teal paint that I'd mixed. I had to use a fine tipped detail brush for those letters since my fine tipped squeeze bottles appear to have gone missing. That worked out OK for me, which was a surprise since I really am not very good at hand lettering. The other letters on the facing page I made using that same brush, but in vivid yellow this time in order to create balance for my Z.

The 3 focal points are, of course, the Modeling Paste alphabet letters that are "playing hooky" from school in a sudden rain shower. The best part of it is that we were enjoying a nice thunderstorm at the time! I love a good thunderstorm, despite any possible lightning, don't you? Everything smells and sounds delightful. I'll sometimes leave my windows wide open for a storm like that as long as the rain's not windblown in the wrong direction. 

I guess that's everything on the list now. Thanks for popping over despite my being tardy. Hope everyone's having a splendid Wednesday! See you all very soon!

~Rose

P.S. Here's the Final Reveal. Definitely wrinkly and messy fun for me!
:)