What You Do…

Here’s a recent art journal page of mine –

As I sometimes do, I started out this page with a ghost print from a previous gel-printing session. A lot of my ghost prints do not turn out well, and this was one of them. But that’s no problem, since I usually just add other elements over it! 🙂

So I took out my gel plate again, and played some more–I used acrylics on it with stencils and stamps, and even used a corrugated cardboard for stamping. After I pulled a print, I smudged in some pastels over areas where the color was lacking.

I added more texture to the background by pouncing acrylics through a stencil, and then added some drips and splatters, some of my favorite elements these days! 😉 Since my art journal is small (A6-sized), drips sometimes look huge. I’m still looking for ways to make them consistently narrower.

Anyway, I then stamped the focal butterfly using dye ink, fussy cut it, adhered it, and outlined it with a fineliner. I don’t use a MISTI when I stamp, but sometimes I wish I would. I have conflicting thoughts about the stamping of the butterfly–it suits the page, but too much, I think! 🙂

Finally, to complete my page, I adhered a pre-printed quote and outlined it with a fineliner. Ta da!

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With this page, I’m joining these challenges –

• 613 Avenue Create Aug Challenge – Anything Goes
• Allsorts Challenge Week 741/2 – All Creatures Great and Small
• Creative Artiste Challenge #96 – Anything Mixed Media Goes
• The Outlawz Saturday Paper á la Mode Aug Challenge – Anything Goes
• A Place To Start Aug Challenge – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Use Your Favorite Technique (I used splatters)
• We Love 2 Create Challenge 7 – Anything Mixed Media Goes

Challenge wins –

• Top 3 at We Love 2 Create
• Rising Star at A Place To Start