For this spread I used the Wild Plum and Cranberry sprays and the Papermania Birdsong cut paper as a stencil. I really made a horrible mess on the page, just a big purple splodge, nothing pretty about it at all. So to try and retrieve it I cut some of the paper I had used as the stencil and collaged it on top. The purple colour made me think of Purple Haze and Jimi Hendrix so I found a picture of Jimi and collaged it onto the page and I tore some pink tissue paper to collage over the top of that. I used a really cheap, in fact it may have been free, foam craft stamp of a star, and then I wrote one of the verses from the song in white to finish it off.
To be honest in the whole journal I think visually, it’s my least favourite spread, but nevertheless it does say something important to and possibly about me…
… when I was 15 years old I saw Jimi Hendrix play live at the Isle of Wight Festival just a few weeks before his tragic death at the age of 27. I was at that massive festival (about 65,000 people) on my own! I think my brother, who was 17, and I lied to my parents and said we were going together, but of course he really didn’t want his baby sister hanging around and cramping his style. So there I was wide eyed and innocent and all on my own. My mum would have had a fit if she had known! Anyway I came to no harm and I was close to the stage when Jimi was playing. Always when I hear the opening riff of Purple Haze it takes me back to my youth. Around about that time I met and fell in love with a boy, my soul mate – I still love him today.
Love this one! It’s funny how a song can bring back certain memories.
I don’t have the cranberry colorwash, but I do have the wild plum. I have always found it hard to work with. It is so dark and it will ghost through layer after layer.
Hugs, Mary
Thank you Mary, I got a bit dispondent with this page, but kept working at it and I think the end result was OK, but the good thing was the memories it brought back of my mis-spent youth 🙂
Big love
AJ
How awesome that you saw him play! There is such meaning to this page for you and it’s a great use of the shades of purple!
Your least favorite, huh? I think it’s fabulous! It’s so….shall I say “Hendrix”? I love the colors, love the words, and love the picture. I’m jealous that you saw him in person, you lucky girl, but OMG how scarey was that!!
xxo
Thanks Eileen, yes seeing Hendrix was awesome, in fact the whole festival was pretty amazing and eye-opening for a 15 year old. It was the start of many years of anguish for my poor parents. I did lots of things that they would never have approved of, but I was never a bad girl, I just had lots of fun and lots of amazing experiences 😉
I left my parents home when I was 17 and when I was just 18 I went off with my boyfriend on an overland trip to India. Good times 🙂
Big love
AJ