Paperartsy - Topic 11 - Our House

The Paperartsy topic announced on Sunday, is "our house" - Darcy found some fantastic samples of houses incorporated into art... I was taken by Kate Crane's journal page, and Karla's page full of houses on Sunday, and also Lucy Edmondson's inspiration from Madness "Our House" (in the middle of our street)

 This is a page in my A4 Seawhite journal.  I used heavy gesso as a base on the page, then scribbled the Crayola Twistables - yellow, orange, pale blue and red, mixing and blending before the gesso was fully dry to ease the blending.  Forgot to take a photo of this stage...

I stamped and masked the houses (Paperbag Studio) multiple times over the page, nearly filling it.

I stamped the plain house on a book page painted with diluted Fresco paints, and glued them over the background.

To allow the houses to pop more from the journal page I smudged the black Twistable with a damp brush, to create a background

Borrowing from last fortnight's challenge, I took a black micron pen and scribbled round the outline of the houses, and underneath with a soft pencil, smudging the lines, and then scribbled again with the micron pen, and finally a white sharpie.

stamped the words from ELB13 (Paperartsy) on white and mounted on black card, before adding to the journal page.


Entering the Paperartsy challenge here 

WOYWW? 295 - sale shopping..

Can you believe it's nearly February already??  Thanks for all your comments last week - good to see you back for some more desk snooping. As ever, Julia is hosting the best way to spend a Wednesday - here

So, the title of my post may be a bit of a give away...

The Stamp Attic has a  sale ongoing in readiness for the new CHA goodies that will (hopefully) start arriving before too long... and I kind of had to take a look!  Paper Bag Studio stamps on offer caught my eye... two large (A4) sheets reduced from £30 to £18 and a wooden stamp also reduced... not to be sniffed at.  They arrived just after last week's desk sharing...

The magazines arrived yesterday, these are on subscription also from the Stamp Attic and will keep me quiet for a while!

I forgot to take a picture of one of the other boxes of "stuff" so that will have to keep for next time... I'll let you off back to Julia's for the link up.  Have a good week.

Friends...

I got a couple of A4 sheets of Paper Bag Studio stamps from a sale at the StampAttic recently and needed to play!

However, the journal page started with some Fresco Paint I was using for a birthday card that I applied with a credit card - Evergreen, and Mint.

 I took the Prima circles stencil (one of Finn's) and originally used Lake Wanaka Fresco... but it merged too much into the background, so I put the stencil back and went over it with more Evergreen.  I wasn't particularly trying to either "bump" or line up exactly, and like how this layer has come out.

Then I took the Crafters Workshop mini Coffee Splatch stencil and some of Finn's Light Paste for Prima (love this stuff!)

I added some black gesso circles using a Stickles lid, and as I was looking at the page, thought that all the circles looked a bit like balloons; which inspired my next step, the balloons from another Paper Bag Studio plate I have had years.
The version you see here is in fact, number 2, to start with I stamped on tissue in yellow ink, but after gluing it to the page, it merged too much into the journal.  So, back to paper and a bit of fussy cutting.  The ink is Saffron archival.

 the other images are from one of the new PBS plates and stamped with Cornflower archival onto copy paper (as I didn't want it to be too thick on the page)

The text at the top, is cut off a full image (the stamped bit is cut, not the rubber stamp!) as I wanted some more words to go with it.

 I think I should have stopped then.. but I took a turquoise shimmer Deco Art media spray and dripped the ends of the spray tube onto the journal and created some drips....okaaaayyy not quite what I wanted...can't undo it though!   Stamped another one of the background images from the PBS plate randomly using Cornflower ink, over the journal.

 Finally as I'd messed it up enough, and because I was wondering whether the spray counted as "shiny stuff" for the latest Paperartsy challenge, I added some Treasure Gold in Sapphire and White Fire, round the edges of the pages and also the texture circles... but I think it's a bit too contrived as shiny stuff, so have dithered for an age about whether to link it or not...Trish's gorgeous project here champions Treasure Gold (or silver!)

I will do another "proper shiny stuff" entry soon!