Wreck This Journal: Draw Lines While In Motion.

... On The Bus, On Train, While Walking.

Well, what should I say?
Did what I've been told and added some color and a handful silhouettes! And done! :-)

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Wreck This Journal: Chew On This.

Ladies, who doesn't want to chew an a sexy guy served on a silver plate!?! Yummy!

This page is dedicated to Carol! Her series 'Hump Day Hunk' on her blog Random Thoughts was my inspiration for that page. Thanks also for the yummy picture(s)!

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Wreck This Journal: Place For Your Grocery Lists.

Honestly, I would be completely lost without my grocery lists, I wouldn't bring home half of the goods I need!

But WTJ is a whole different area: For myself and my taste I couldn't find a way to make this page at least a little interesting by only using my grocery lists, there's always quite the same written down on them ... so, I used my right for interpretations: Instead of placing a dozen similar looking, boring grocery lists, I made a collage of wrapping papers of goods and groceries I've bought. As for the fact, that most of the wrappings are quite huge, I bet, this page would look so much better on a larger scale ... but I'm quite satisfied with this result, too! What do you think?

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Wreck This Journal: Scrub This Page.

'Scrub here!' Right! Sure, as if a plain eraser would do the job!!!
I guess, like everybody else who's done that that page I had to bring the big guns in, in that case I used sandpaper to scrub all the parts away I wanted ... add some lines and draw the left page and voila: sun and moon!

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Wreck This Journal: Cover This Page. Using Only Office Supplies.

The background is a collage of different office papers, like address sheets and post-its. I guess, I overdid it a bit with the ink, the ink pad was a little too well filled. And then on top a various collection of office supplies ... just like the instruction demanded.

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Wreck This Journal: Tongue Painting.

With heart and soul, or maybe I should better say, with tongue and stomach, I'm a chocoholic! So, my first try following these instructions was quite a little failure ... what the hell do I know about other sweets?!? Well, I'd thought, lollipops would do the job, but those 'Chupa Chups' simply were colorless!!!

I had a plan C (using fruits like blueberries), instead I returned to plan A then and back to sweets I know, which brought me to 'M&Ms'! And as you can see, they finally made the trick!

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Wreck This Journal: Fill In This Page When You Are Really Angry.

Well, I used quite a few techniques, that WTJ had already taught me:
- Crumple.
- Scribble wildly.
- Drip water and smear the lines.
- Burn.
- Poke holes.
- Tear stripes.
- Drip some ink.
- Cut through.
- Write one word.

P.S. I had to give that special treatment to a separate piece of paper, because the WTJ pages before and after were already well used! And, well ... it was a very controlled anger! My first attemps in destroying a sheet of paper that way were a total disaster - nothing left but a handful shredded confetti! *lol*
P.P.S. 'Rhage' is NOT misspelled, it's absolutely correct and by purpose! *g*

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Wreck This Journal: This Page Is For Handprints Or Fingerprints.

For a very long time I had the idea of making something with gypsies, palmistry and fortune telling, but somehow I couldn't make up anything ... and then suddenly without any sign, I came up with that simple design.

I used both of my hands. First the left one, where I obviously had a little too less color, washed it and the the same procedure with my right hand. Oh, and the heart is made with fingerprints.

Hope you love it as much as I do?!

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Wreck This Journal: Pick Up The Journal Without Using Your Hands.

Do I really have to say something to THIS! ;-)

...maybe, copper wire is stubborn to work with on paper!

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Wreck This Journal: Draw Lines Using Abnormal Writing Utensils Dipped In Ink Or Paint.

 

From left to right:

• A roll of TP
• A fork
• A clothespin
• A bunch of toothpicks
• A bolt and a nut
• A bottle cap
• A crumpled handkerchief

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Wreck This Journal: Create A Drawing Using Pieces Of Your Hair.

This page is dediCATed to my two meowing room mates Sheila and Amira.
It's a locket with their pictures and hairs ... Real hair! Cut of some of their bushy curls! =^..^=

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Wreck This Journal: Document Your Dinner.

Actually, it wasn't dinner but lunch in an Asian restaurant.
I grapped everything available: the thing, where the chopsticks are in, the napkin, that papery thing under your plates, a take-away-menu ... and some pictures from the buffet!
The only thing from me is the page's background!

Enjoy your meal! :-)


Additional notes:

• Again: Necessity begets ingenuity. I simply didn't want to smear food on the pages! Yuck!
• BUT I Loved the preparations for that page ... that lunch buffet was really delicious! Yum!

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Wreck This Journal: Document A Boring Event In Detail.

No, I didn't reinvent the wheel ... it's just a detailed report about the most boring speech I've ever been forced to attend to!

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Wreck This Journal: Use This As A Test Page.

From various other pages of my WTJ I've picked up here a background, there a material, then some elements, added some glitter, stickers and gemstones ... and here it is: My Test Page Mandala.

I've just added layer after layer and now I think, it's finished!

*hmm* Somehow I wished to re-do that page ... the initial idea sounded better than the result now is! I'd say, this is my least favorite WTP-page.

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Wreck This Journal: This Space Is Dedicated To Internal Monologue.

"To Wreck Or Not To Wreck, That Is The Question!"

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Wreck This Journal: Trace Your Hand.

I knew very early, how I want to design that page ... then finally I felt inspired to finally make it. For the background I used yellow and red 'Strohseide', on a seperate piece of paper I traced my hand and draw the Mehndi with a brown Stabilo pen. Add some shadows and ribbons ... and that's it!

Originally I also wanted to add some gemstones, but for my taste it would have been to much! Hope you like it?!?

P.S. I tried to find out, what's the correct English term for 'Strohseide', word by word translation would be 'straw silk'. It's silky, transparent and fibrous, like pieces of straw were woven in silky paper.

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Wreck This Journal: Scribble Wildly Violently With Reckless Abandon.

Well, I thought 'Opposites attract!'
Wild and violent doodles VS. Love and peace!

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Wreck This Journal: Color Outside The Lines.

Sometimes I'm quite surprised, what weird/funny/different things my brain produces! In any case, WTJ is very inspiring!

Almost instantly I've seen the moon in that circle and for quite some time I intended to make a city skyline ... but after using that idea for WTJ: Cut Through Several Layers. I had to change that. I finally came up with some romantic beach scene! Aloha!

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Wreck This Journal: Draw Lines With Your Pen. Smear The Lines.

Like so many times before I found my own way to follow the instructions: I moistened the page with water (my own spit wouldn't have been enough *g*). Then on the wet page I simply draw lines with ink.

And voila: Groovy 70th-Hippies-look! PEACE! :-)

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Wreck This Journal: Collect The Stamps Off Of All Your Mail.

After the shocking weekend disaster with my missing blog, I'm getting back to business as usual! *sigh*

Took me a while to finish that page ... but *sing* with a little help form my friends *end-sing* I could finally complete it! Yeah!
Thanks a lot to all those wonderful people!

The stamps are from 4 countries: US, UK, Malaysia and (most of them) Germany! ... and my most favorite then? *thinking* I guess it's The Poor Poet Stamp.

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