Hello everyone,
It's been a little quiet around here lately due to all the preparation that Chritmas involves! But yesterday I had a little play in my small Dylusions journal that I got as part of my workshop with France Papillion - this is the first page I've managed to do in it since the class back in November!
When I saw Alison Bomber's blog post over on the Paperartsy blog earlier this month HERE I knew I was going to have to have a go myself
So here is my spread:
I gessoed my pages first and pressed the torn cheesecloth into the gesso. I then spead some Grunge Paste around the egdes of the cheesecloth and used my spreader to create some additonal texture. I then also spead some Grunge Paste through a stencil (TCW237) on each page for even more texture!
While that was all drying I took a piece of tissue paper and stamped the main postage stamps image and the pen from Lynne Perella LPC030 onto the tissue using black versafine. I coloured the back of the pen with old gold fresco paint and the back of the main image using cherry red, blush and vintage lace.
I then set about colouring my pages using fresco paints. I spent quite a long time adding various layers and colours until I was happy with the look of them. I think the colours I used were hint of mint, chalk, sage, lake wannaka, sky blue and moonlight.
I added the pen and the postage stamps image to my pages using gel medium then did a bit of stencilling using a TCW stencil (TCW384) and shaded lilac and walnut stain distress ink. I edged around the pages using walnut stain distress also.
I used the script stamp from Lynne Perella set LPC028 to randomly stamp around the pages using potting soil archival ink.I highlighted all the texture with White Fire treasue gold wax and finally stamped out my sentiment from Sara Naumann ESN11 and added it to the page also.
As a last finishing touch I added a little bit of glossy accents to the lips and eyes of the lady in the postage stamp.
Thanks to Alison for the inspiration to pick up this journal again - I really hope to do some more in it again soon.
Thanks for stopping by,
Love Claire x
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WOW this came out fabulous Claire, very Andy Skinneresq - love it xxx
ReplyDeleteI love it too, Claire - all that cheesecloth looks just great.
ReplyDeleteGreat tip with the cheesecloth, fantastic texture on your pages and wonderful stamping:-) xxx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page Claire. Lovely balance of images and textures! Xx
ReplyDeleteOh my, what a stunning page x
ReplyDeleteSo glad you were inspired to open up your journal.... I haven't got around to playing in that book since the France class either - though I do have several others on the go! Love what you've done here - the delicate painted colours on the images, the added stencilled texture - it's a beautiful page spread. Thanks so much for playing along this month at PaperArtsy.
ReplyDeleteAlison xx
Beautiful page Claire
ReplyDeleteOMG I LOVE how this turned out, so soft and subtle, the stamp peeking through...the perfect texture, its so delicate! Just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous page!
ReplyDeleteClaire,
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful full of texture, I must get some cheese cloth.