For a long time I have wanted to do a kind of art journal.
My lovely friend
Chrissy had produced an amazing mixed media piece
recently and it spurred me on!!
On Easter Saturday I had spent a lot of time out painting garden furniture
(we had lovely high temperatures over Easter)
so the cool of my craft room was calling and I finally started
with a nice cover for my journal.
This won't be like a bullet journal but more of a journal where
I can use stamp sets for the pages and leaving room for writing how I
am feeling or maybe nice or things that happen to me or my family.
Or it might just be where I can try different stamping techniques etc.
I hope to come back each Thursday with a new page!!
I hope you will enjoy them.
How I made my cover
1. I'm using a watercolour book with a black cover.
2. Using a piece of all my love dsp I ripped instead of cutting the size required.
I glued this to my cover.
3. Using lovely lipstick and gesso I mixed up the colour I wanted
and splodged onto my dsp, trying to leave the ripped edges white.
4. I punched myself lots of butterflies in plain whisper white card,
sticking each layer one on top of over until I was happy with depth.
5. These were stuck in place and coloured with the gesso mix.
When dry I stamped the butterflies, bodies and antennas.
6. Using the butterfly gala stamp set I stamped some wording here and there
in lovely lipstick.
7. I used the pretty label punch, again punching a few, layering them up
and covering in gesso mix.
8. When dry, I stamped the sentiment from same stamp set and added
some dots round the edge to highlight it using the lovely lipstick marker.
9. I cut the large butterfly from the Springtime Impressions dies
and covered it in a mix of all purpose ink - frost white and lovely lipstick ink.
This gave it a lovely shimmer. I then added some of the deeper coloured gesso
and stuck it to my book cover.
10. I finished by brushing ink round the black part of my cover
and adding some enamel dots here and there. The butterflies where given
a light cover of wink of stella for some sparkle.
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