A Grand Day Out

Most of you have seen my stash haul from the Artstamps Newbury show last weekend and when I tweeted a photo of a (large!) pile of credit card receipts, someone said it would make a good base for a journal page... which is what I've done.

I also used my entrance ticket, and part of the London Underground map with my starting points marked (the less said about the return journey the better - it's here if you missed it)

I used a glue stick to glue the receipts and other pieces to the journal, then gesso'd over the page. Time to decorate the page with some of my new stash.

Using the leaf swirl stencil and Bamboo pigment ink I added some leaves..

I used Beach Hut Fresco paint  through the butterfly stencil, and then some of the Majestix flowers using some of the other pigment inks I bought...

I heat set that, and added the 'sparkles' stamp (Hobby Art) in black archival ink round the border of the page.

it was looking a bit busy, so I decided to knock it back a bit with some watered down Snowflake Fresco paint.

 of course the pigment inks started to smudge, so I had to just paint round them!!


The large butterfly isn't actually from Newbury, but one I bought from the Happy Daze closing sale (it's by Jo Capper Sandon for Stampotique) and came the week of Newbury, so figure it counts as Newbury stash - well, it's new anyway!

I stamped the butterfly on white card and coloured it in watercolour pencils before cutting it out and sticking it to the journal.


Using an alphabet set, I stamped out the title and added it to the other page.