Journalling for fun

Took a break from making art for a purpose - I have been working on these couple of pages over the past couple of days,  just for fun.

Of course I used my favourite Paperartsy Fresco paints and stamps - well, you have to!!

Te first one is mainly Claret, Eggplant and some Snowflake wiped over the top, but all sorts of other colours smooshed around over the stencilled 'leafy vine' (applied Ferro paste) The image of Dina Wakely's Sillhouette Script girl is stamped with distress embossing ink onto Paperartsy Smoothy paper and coloured with pan pastels (magenta extra dark, turquoise shade, phthalo blue shade and violet extra dark) before highlighting the script with titanium white.  After cutting it out, I edged it with black soot distress ink to make it stand out a bit from the background. The background script is a Paperartsy stamp.

The second page is using the gorgeous flower stamps from Jo Firth-Young for Paperartsy. (Can't wait to see the new ones - we are hinted that we will see them later this week....) The background is Guacamole and I used all kinds of greens (hyde park, limelight, hey pesto) for the grasses.  The flowers are done with claret, eggplant, zesty zing and (I think) butternut. I should have stamped the script before I started the flowers, but didn't, so I used the 'rolling' technique to get just parts of the text across the background and then painted over any bits I didn't want!!
Sorry the photos are so crap, the light is awful - it is mid-day and raining but I refuse to put the light on!