i spent a most enjoyable afternoon painting pages for Caroles journal class...I've never stained with colored teas before and had some raspberry/peach on hand to color my pages...i let 3 tea bags really stew and it was a wonderful rich color....the bags were splitting by the end and let bits of leaves settle on the pages...they left lovely purply marks ,Lhs page below:) and it smelt so good too...
i did washes of twinklings, walnut ink and plain tea too.... 
lots of splatters....and dribbles...
and salt too.....
bubble wrap pushed onto wet watercolors..... 
i couldn't work out where the lines were coming from as i was finger painting.... 
turns out the big blister [from rubbing oil pastels into canvases]had scabbed over :) i liked the lines....
raspberry tea, twinklings and walnut ink...pretty colors ....and more purple tea spots... 
only two colors here used, walnut ink and raspberry tea...the pink is soo strong that i dyed little lace scraps and paper flowers with the left over tea.... 
now there is no cutting with scissors in a Carole's class and i have a confession to make...i ripped my pages a bit big....and cos i couldn't rip a small bit off...i ended up cutting them with the paper trimmer...smack !.... but i used my paper rougher upper to get rid of the cut edges, i think they look great and cant wait to get started in the next bit.... I'm making two journals, an Asian, oriental inspired one which the brighter pages are for and a softer one. I was really stumped about what to do with the second one but during the afternoon painting i had a phone call from young friend telling me that his brother had committed suicide......he was only 25.....its been a sad week and made me feel grateful for what we do have......
so my journal theme will be Grateful....
