Spread your wings

Hello everyone,

For the last few days I have been wanting to do 'something else'. So today I did do something else. I made an art journal in my Moleskine journal and didn't use a stamp as a main image. I hope you like this one too !! Please let me know what you think...

This journal was started with gesso, after which I used a stencil and some heavy gel medium to make the pattern. I thought the gel medium would resist the sprays.... not so. 

I used 4 Lindy's Stamp gang sprays: 

Café au lait

Clam Bake Beige

Blue Hawaiian Blue

Afternoon Delight Denim

I kept spraying, drying and dripping until I was happy with the result. I used some Finnabair stampsand  a bottle top to embellish the background and also a stencil from Tim Holtz. 

The main image is one of Tim Holtz' Photo Booth photos. I distressed it a little to make it look older. 

I used some stuff I had lying around to make a mat for this photo strip. I used some book paper, some fabric and a bit of lace. 

Next I stamped the butterflies (Finnabair) on some gessoed book paper and coloured it with the Blue Hawaiian Blue spray. I stapled them here and there. 

Lastly I stamped the sentiment (Finnabair) on the edge of some of the same book paper and glued it on the opposite page, finishing it off with some more butterflies and a date stamp. 

Some details...

Thank you so much for stopping by today !