DONNA'S DID CJ - THE FINAL INSTALLMENT - WARNING HERE BE SPOILERS

Well I spent a lovely morning yesterday working on Donna's journal - it really is utterly gorgeous - in fact it was gorgeous before it set off on it's travels and now it's passed through so many collaborartists hands it's looking fabulous.  Donna picked the tracks for each of us and I had a Webb Sisters track which I hadn't heard before, it's a beautiful song but ever so sad.  This is how the journal arrived with me - isn't it gorgeous!

And from the top

And this is my entry to the journal 

and the back, done with gelli plate and stamps and what you can't see is bits of metallic paint 

 The inside I coloured some of the stars purple and hand stitched around two edges

 And some clocks which I colour blue and purple in line with the track

 Initially the inside was quite plain

 But then I added some lyrics

Then time to add to other entries in the collaborative way, stamped vintage photo and black on the back

And gesso on the front to tone down the vibrant paper and make the lettering pop, I also add a little bit of oil pastels

 A added metallic paint to the waves on this

 And gold metallic paint around this title

 I loved adding to the stamped harlequin in silver and then re-edged the diamonds with black liner

 on both sides

the lettering on this one felt a bit lost on the background, so I toned the background down with gesso, removed the gesso from the lettering and then used some oil pastels to make it stand out

 Toned the back down with the gesso too and then stamped

 Add a little bit of vintage photo around the edge and some oil pastels around the title

 A little metallic to the title

 Gesso and metallic around the heart and the edges and the title

 Bit of purple paint on the edges of this one to tone things

 And then some oil pastels around this

 Purple oil pastels around the insides

 A little metallic on this (that you can hardly see but is there honest)

And there you go, I won't be sending this until I get the go-ahead from Donna but it's all parcelled up and ready to go!