The page that got away... almost!!!

The page that got away has found its purpose 😊

So it was already painted green and totally dry seeing as it has sat under a pile of clutter on my desk since feb lol.

I had lots of chipboard shapes and left over bits from my art journal kit so I started by sticking all but the butterfly down and painted them the same colour.

I then glued on lots of little glass beads, microbeads and some gems i found in my stash and gave the whole thing a blitz with picket fence distress spray.

It was all sprinkled with 13arts rainbow colours and misted... be very sparing with these.... that pigment is super strong and comes through other layers lol...
To knock it back again i added more distress spray and heat dried it so it stopped wicking.

The butterfly was painted with pink acrylic paint and I dug out a really old tub of TH crackle paint... well it’s more like paste now its that old!!!

When it was dry I added a little bit more colour with my inktense pencils, added some shadows with a bit of black soot distress ink and my waterbrush, and highlighted some of the edges with my white posca.

The body of the butterfly isa pencil from that well known Swedish home decor place .
When everything was dry I added a touch of rock candy distress stickles (do they still make this??? Its my absolute fave and my bottle is nearly empty!!!)
And finished off with a splash of white posca pen.

Not bad for left overs eh lol 😊

Hugs’n’snogs,

J xx

Bloom - JJAMMA challenge

I decided to have a go at JJAMMA challenge tonight - Back to Basics

1 stamp

1 stencil,

1 medium

3 colours + black & whit

and an unexpected item

I picked a lime green and very pale lilac acrylic paint and lemon 13arts rainbow color pigment, 13arts stencil, Aall &create stamp, texture paste as my medium, and a 13arts chipboard  word as my unexpected item.

Lots of brayered, stamped and stencilled layers and I achieved this result...

I felt it was lacking something after I had posted it so added some glossy accents and glass bubbles.

I looked at it for a while and still didn’t feel happy so i added some pink rainbow colour and a splash more posca white... love it now 😊

i should have picked a stronger colour than the lilac to begin with ... but I love it now 😊

Hugs’n’snogs,

J x