Fly Art Journal Page

Hi and welcome! A new week, which also means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and this week we are feeling lucky in our Just My Luck challenge. Don't miss checking out all the DT projects, every week I am amazed by the wide variety of projects.

 

I was in the mood for a bit of play in my art journal and decided to make a green page about flying and trusting your luck. I used stamps and stencils to give a botanical look to the page, in combination with different green inks.

 

First, Wendy Vecchi's translucent embossing paste was smeared through a leaf stencil and left to dry. Try to avoid getting paste at opposite places on a double spread because it might stick to itself. I forgot about that here, but if you do, you can place a piece of wax paper in between the pages to prevent them from sticking together. When the paste was dry, I inked the pages with Distress Inks using an ink-blending tool. The paste resists the ink.

 

After the first layer of ink, I placed a Kelly Purkey Potty People mask on the page and inked darker green around it. Love this as a focal point. The pages were splattered with water for some nice texture.

 

More Distress Inks were sponged through different stencils, such as this gorgeous one by Wendy Vecchi. I added further layers by stamping with the same inks, using Darkroom Door's pretty Wildflowers Vol. 1 set.

I repeatedly stamped some of the words from the Wildflowers set. I like using sentiment stamps in that way, to create a background element at the same time as you are saying something.

I hope you have time to join us this week in our fun challenge and as always one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. The team also enjoys looking through all the entries picking out our favourites to spotlight.

Thank you for the visit!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:
Surfaces: Ranger Dylusions Small Creative Journal
Stamps: Darkroom Door: Wildflowers Vol. 1
Ink: Distress Ink: Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Forest Moss
Stencils: Kelly Purkey: Potty People; Wendy Vecchi Stampers Anonymous: Fancy Flowers; Dyan Reaveley: Leaf Flourish 9 x 12, Leaf Flourish 8 x 5
Medium: Wendy Vecchi Stampers Anonymous: Translucent Embossing Paste