Art Journal - page 2

Back today with another page in the art journal. The pages have been primed with my favorite white Gesso.  Once dry I started with Mustard Seed Distress Paint.  I like yellow today!

 A wet wipe to spread it out and also thin it so some of the white will show through.

 Tumbled Glass Distress Paint added.

 

There is a blending of the colors - and of course blue and yellow make green so I get a third color band between the two, which I quite like.

 I added some Tissue Tape with a little bit of paint over the top.

And then this.
Wendy Vecchi's Crackle Embossing Paste over the Latticework Layering stencil.  Once dry, I inked it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to bring up the cracks.  Oh my, how I love how this came out with just bits of the paste here and there.  I could stare at this picture all day long.

I also went back and laid the stencil over the Crackle Paste texture to continue the pattern with Distress Ink.

 I fussy cut some pieces from a piece of the Wallflower Paper Stash to add detail.

I don't really like how those two pieces of Tissue tape stick out over the rose...gotta fix that since my eye goes right to it.

 I do like the details and how the Walnut Stain Distress Marker gives more depth to the project.

So this saying, quote, affirmation...whatever you want to call it, was the catalyst for today.  I saw it on Pinterest and thought, I need that!
I cut the letters from Wallflower paper using the Bock Talk Dies.  I am lucky enough to own both Block Talk Capital and Block Talk Lowercase, so I combined the two to give the words a more whimsical feel.  I laid out the words to get the spacing right and then added them to the page with Multi Medium.

This is what they looked like after adding the Walnut Stain Distress Marker around the edges.  Yummy.

 Almost there...

I added the Parcel Post ephemera along with some words I cut from a book of poems.  The tiny number comes from a Remnant Rub sheet.
Always, always need some numbers...

I added the butterfly Remnant Rub above the flower to fill in the sapce that was bugging me.  It still bugs me, but just a little less now.

And here is the final.
I decided to let the words be the star of the page since they have so much meaning.  Simple but I like it and I feel like I am learning every step of the way.

Now carry on,

paula

PS) remember, let whatever you do today, be enough.

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