We are celebrating "friendship" in the F4A challenge this week. The details can be found here.
Thanks to the fabulous Watercolour Wednesday team, I have a huge stash of cardstock backgrounds and journal page backgrounds. None of them worked how they were meant to, so I haven't uploaded them to the WCW challenges, but I am having a lot of fun trying.
I take these "failed" attempts and use them as a base to add left over paint, ink, texture paste, clean stencils, etc, and at some point they find a home.
Gesso has become my new best friend. It makes such a big difference when using gellato crayons, distress inks and sprays. The background of the card came about because I was elbow deep in paint stained stencils and masks on another project. I chucked it on the first thing I saw (a gessoed sheet of A4 cardstock) and by the time I got back to the mask to clean it, it had stuck to the card.
After cleaning up from the other project, I took all the stained baby wipes and scrubbed them into the gessoed/masked sheet of carstock.
I then gave it a quick squirt of Distress Ink spray and a spritz of water, in an attempt to get the mask off....this is the end result and I couldn't be happier. Mind you, I couldn't have done this (or the journal background) if I had purposely tried to.
The little underwater friends are sweet digi images by Molly Harrison. They are coloured with Prismacolour pencils, Zest it pencil blend, colorless blending pencil, gently wiped with walnut stain distress ink before fussy cutting. Stickles and liquid pearls were finally added along with some sequins.
The sentiment reads....Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things.
Thanks for looking dear friends and I hope you get a chance to join in. Stay safe.
EDIT: The "flower" is a doily stencil - Prima Marketing Finnabair Elementals Stencil Doily (6" x 6")
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Mon, Aug 24, 2020 @ 11:09 AM
Sweet Susie! Only you could put such friendship to paper! Love your colors and precious images. Hugs to you.
------------------------------ Pat Smethers "The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden." Isaiah 58:11
Registered: December 30, 2017 Location: arizona Posts: 1412
Sun, Sep 06, 2020 @ 11:56 AM
HI, i can't believe i hadn't left a comment, but 'old brain fart', i guess! THIS is just as everyone says, A MASTERPIECE from the ashes, it sounds. what a journey this page has been through and the recipent (if you part with it) is getting a true gift!!! : ) i love fussy cutting, but the cutting of these lovely mermaids hair, is beyond shaking hands scary, for me. hahah everything about this is lovely and special and IRL, it must blow your mind. Thanks for sharing your artistry, to see beyond the fail and make it amazing. HUGS Teresa
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Sat, Sep 19, 2020 @ 10:02 AM
So wonderful and whimsical and sweet, Susie. I love every detail, every image, every word. The texture is amazing as are the colors. I have also come to love gesso but if my creations remotely looked like yours, I would love it even more. Soooo cool. I love that you did a card to match your journal pages! Wow. Hugz
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Registered: November 7, 2006 Location: Willamette Valley Oregon Posts: 34503
Sun, Dec 27, 2020 @ 7:48 PM
oh my!
I have that stencil, I have gelatos...can't image creating a bg with squirts, dabs, spritzes, and rubs...but ya know, one never accomplishes anything without the courage to try...
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