Out With The Old In With The New – More Than Words January Challenge

Hello friends, Happy January and Happy New Year!

Since it is the very first day of the month, and the very first month of the year, I am excited to share my DT inspiration project for the very first challenge of the year at More Than Words with you.

The main challenge this month is as follows:

I started off my background using three different Fresco chalk paints with a brayer.  I kept going until I had the colours that I liked, and then took the clock stamp (HP1902)and stamped all over the background using a dark blue stazon ink.

Once that was dry, I used one of the free papers for this month’s challenge, cut them up and glued them down to my page.  I really like this vintage-y brown colour next to the blue background.  For some reason the camera is picking out a pinkish tinge on some of the stamping but I assure you there is no pink on the page, all the stamping is in dark blue, weird huh,

I’ve been thinking a lot about this time of year, as we all are prone to do, since it is a time of reflection, so the saying “out with the old and in with the new” popped into my head so I decided to hand write it onto my page with a white pen.

I was actually using these specimen cards on another project (Dephemerember) and had stamped out more than I needed so I thought I would stamp the two years 2022 an 2023 inside them and see what it would look like.  I used the W2EZ Words Plate 2 stamp from Paperartsy to stamp my numbers.  I like this alphabet stamp as it reminds me of a worn typewriter text and is a little grungy and also a handy size.

The specimen cards are from a Gwen Lafleur stamp set EGL26 which has lots of useful stamps on it.  If you are interested in the free printables I designed for this month’s challenge you can find them linked inside this month’s issue of Artful Pages!

As always, thanks for reading!Ingredients
my handmade journal,

Challenges

Country View Challenge– Time
More Than Words – January Challenge – Time~