I made a journal page inspired by Simon's fall colors mood board challenge by stamping (Simon's Sunflower Garden) on a piece of Paper Stash (Tim Holtz) then filled-in the flowers with paint and inks. I added a kitty cut from a magazine and a few pieces of altered ephemera (Tim Holtz). The hand-drawn frame/border was made using markers and colored pencils.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
The pleasure I get from experimenting--deciding to color a stamp in an unconventional way, slapping a figure on top that seems to work with it, then digging-up suitable text--that's what I call a good day.
I can't imagine what my readers make of these concoctions but I will say that going a little outside the box can be quite fun.
I'm linking to Simon for this week's challenge which is to "stitch it."
Stamp credit: Simon Sunflower Garden
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
A tag to share made with some Tim Holtz stuff: a Found Relative, a butterfly and a stencil called Thatched.
The Simon September card kit came with some of his Sentiment label stickers that didn't really appeal to me so I used them to cover a manila tag. Then I applied another layer over them using texture paste and the stencil.
I tinted the dress, skin tone and accents using Pitt artist brushes which are made from India ink, are waterproof, permanent and easily applied to the slick surface (highly recommend).
There are some collage bits: the text is from an old book, there's the crown and the flower-like accents (which are actually from an astronomy diagram).
I used some Liquid Pearls along the bottom.
I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge--this week's theme is to have "fun with stencils."
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.