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Here on this blog I am going to share how I made the page for today's prompt on Celebration
Today's art challenge was to 'use wrapping paper on your page today'.
I sprayed the inks onto my paper and then to get rid of the excess paint I put it ink side down on my backing paper and interesting things happened.
It picked up the turquoise stamping I had done when I was cleaning the stamp from the faux stitching. And picked up some of the other colours!
I stamped some balloons at the top of the page.
This is a tip from Dyan Reaveley. I stamped two of the images on plain paper and cut them out and covered two of the sets of balloons. I stamped over the top.
I did this several times and all the ones I stamped after the initial four sets look as thought they are behind the first ones. Clever or what!?! Thank you Dyan.
I painted different colours in the balloons with acrylic paint and some of the inks,
I added my verse and my journaling.
Where the rectangular highlights are on the balloons I coloured in with a yellow glaze pen. I did this three times. You have to wait for it to dry between each application.
Then I realised I'd forgotten the wrapping paper. I could only find birthday paper even though I'd written about Christmas. But never mind!
I punched out some circles and stuck them on.
I think I will need to come back and find some way to integrate the circles a little more. They look like I forgot the challenge and just stuck something on randomly. Which of course is what I did!!!!
What are you celebrating today?
What a colourful page it is super. I came across my balloon stamp yesterday. It is a single solid one which I bought after a workshop which included the masking stamp technique you show. Think I need to make a bunting stamp for today now - LOL. BJ
ReplyDeleteYour forest of balloons in the sky looks so exciting! That's a clever technique for getting depth - and what patience to recolour those little squares three times! Love your wavy writing too.
ReplyDeleteThis turned out great!! Very colorful and I love the balloons. I recently used a striped wrapping paper on my Dec. calendar page and I loved how it turned out.
ReplyDeleteOh I love ALL THESE BALLOONS! Looks like they mean celebration to you, too! Great page!
ReplyDeleteI love the balloons! :) I used them in my journal as well.
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