Hello Again. !
Spring is definitely here. Well it was last Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday, then Summer popped in to say "Hi there" followed a day later by Winter who said "I haven't quite gone away yet" ! Hey ho.
This week I have a journal page.
I gave my pages a coating of Matt 'glue and seal' but there are plenty of Matt mediums around that you can use for this job.
Using white gesso through a stencil first to lay down some texture and then, once dry, I started on the background. I didn't want to use strong colours for the background, but I did want some interest.
The layers are built up of PaperArtsy's Limelight, Lemon Zest and a touch of Pansy. Not a combination that I can say that I have frequently used before ! I built these up slowly using water thinned Snowflake to calm things down when needed which caused the Pansy to have more grey-er effect - which was okay.
A spot more ink stencilling to create some depth and Tim Holtz's long journal stamp along the left hand-side, then I was ready to start work on my feature faces.
Then the Faces. LOVE these stamps !!!
These are a mix from Clare Lloyd's ECL03 and ECL04 stamp sets.
I gave some dictionary pages a light wash over with Gesso before stamping the images.
The large pretty face I cut around taking her hair off too .... intentionally I hasten to add!
The other three small pretty faces I cut around, leaving their hair but removing everything else from the stamp print.
The rest was pretty straight forward. Positioning the faces, stamping the big hair with a tiny stamp from Emma Godfrey's EEG 014 Bloom stamp set, then colouring in with water pencils. I thought I made a bit mistake in giving the faces a light coating of glue and seal as this restricted my ability to colour but, with hindsight, that turned out not to be a bad thing. I probably would have gone overboard !
A bit more stamping on the background and a touch of Royal Amethyst treasure gold on the gesso texture to finish off.
All done.
Now to venture in to the great outside....................... mittens or suntan lotion ...?
Happy Crafting !
Luv Denise
This journal page has been entered into That's Crafty Challenge blog 'About Face' 29th April 2016.