LaurenPearl: Zinesquad

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Creepy Valley- My Zine!

Yes! I got zined and it's so beautiful! It's all creepy, dark and twisted and when I received it, it got me in the feelings. Ever since I got involved with helping to make zines for Torrie and Julia, I really wanted one as they're so amazing. The theme used for me was all things creepy....naturally! So obviously to take pictures of this creepily fantastic zine, I went to the graveyard because I'm weird like that.

My zine was made by the usual Zine masters, Katie, Vanessa and Julia, they also got Essie on board. All their artwork together is so great and compliments each other perfectly- Can you tell that I completely love it and I quote my text to Julia "I love it so much, I want to marry it."

I almost forgot about this little surprise!

I think you'll agree this zine is creeptastic and I just love all the quotes that were used.

I have linked the lovely ladies blogs above, go show them some love and see exactly which pages they did. Lots of love LaurenPearl xx

Friday, 22 January 2016

Zine Squad- GIRL POWER!!!!!!

Yes! I was part of another super zine project! This time the zine was for Torrie, with the theme 'Female Boss' which Torrie is definitely being starting her own art empire! I was in my element on this one! Myself and Lucia were recruited by the Zine hit squad, Julia, Katie and Vanessa. This Zine was so much fun to do and I was super excited to be asked- almost a bit too giddy when I offered to have a go at actually making the zine! Here are my pages:

The left is mine, only some strawberry stickers which work well with the opposite pages cupcake!

Mines on the right, obviously me and Julia can't beat a bit of rhyming.

I channeled my inner riot girl for this page and then completely smudged and thought it was ruined. So I smudged it even more to try and make it look like it was meant to be like that....

On the left my angry riot girl quote, deciding to take back all the cruel things women are called.

On the left, I got my typewriter out and I'm glad Lucia did as well.

If you want to go check out the rest of the zine which I highly encourage you to do! Visit these female bosses!

Lots of love,

LaurenPearl

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Woodland Zine

I can finally let the secret out- we zinned one the head ziners. I was so excited to be asked to be a part of making the lovely Julia (Jules +Tea) a woodland zine!! Myself along with Katie, Vanessa and Torrie got our superpowers together to collaborate on this lovely zine. I speak to Julia quite a lot and something like this was completely eating away at me- especially when she asked me to take part in another top secret project.

This little blog started life with Katie who build this lovely little Zine, I was the last in the pit stops. I must admit seeing this nearly complete zine I was a bit intimidated- what if I ruined it?

I highjacked the page to the left, Katie covered it in some nice paper and washi tape- as I recently acquired some bear like tape I had to add it and then thought this quote from 'Where the wild things are" was a perfect fit for the beginning.

This is mine on the right- random I know. I want my hat back is a children's book that has been recently made in to a show in London, where the bear is search through the forest for his missing hat. I have had this leaflet for a while and wasn't really sure what to do with it, until the woodland zine came along!

The left is mine, I used tissue paper from Tiger as a background and decided to use this quote from 'Fantastic Mr Fox' by Roald Dahl. At first I couldn't get my handwriting to show up on this paper, so I opted to sit and cut out letters from a ton of magazines. To complete a nice little wooden fox

This double spread is all about the woods- remember the cartoon 'The animals of Farthing Wood'? I kept thinking about this as I drew. A little bit of everything on this page marbled paper, some stamps, a few markers and some foam animals- because why not.

The hipster fox is by far my favourite page I created, I couldn't not include it to Julia who's spirit animal is clearly a fox. I used some branch paper background and use lyrics from Foals 'Out of the Woods' to complete.