Last Days of Summer

Hallo all, nice to have you here today!

For my second project for the September challenge "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" at Country View Challenges I made another art journal page. This page was inspired from several Mixed Media artists, among others fom Nuneka and Asia Marquet aka Lemoncreation.

 I stayed with the mist theme this time again.

I used a Mixed Media paper and prepared it with a layer of clear Gesso, because I knew I wanted to use a lot of water and different mediums.

After it was dry I started with some stamping at the background. I used a lot of very old stamps from Hampton Art "Artsy Edges", Bo Bunny "Stitches" and a postage stamp, I guess it´s from Prima.

Next I added a generous amount of DecoArt media Crackle Glace clear with a palette knife and some heavy white Gesso from finnabair (you can find a lot of finnabair products in the shop), I let it dry naturally over night.

Next I glued down some diecut word circles (Alexandra Renke), they are thin canvas - I would not recommend to use canvas, the words are not clearly visible, but in this case I didn´t mind at all.

Time for colour now!

First I spritzed some water on top of the background, thenI used some magicals from Lindy´s Stamp Gang (tainted love teal and Dark Chocolate Brown) and added more water. 

I love, how the colours run into the crackle lines, it´s fascinating again and again!

To finish the background I added black splashes with calligraphy ink from Rohrer & Klinger and when they were dry some white circles with a white Gelli Roll pen and distressed the edges with black Archival Ink.

I matted the page on black cardstock before I glued down the big moth and the words.

The moth is a stamp from the visible image stamp set "Glimmer of Light" (you will find tons of amazing visible image products in the shop!). The words are made with my Dymo Lable maker.

Here are some close up photos:

That´s it for today, we will meet next month again I hope!

If you want, you can join in with our challenge, there are a few days left. As always there is the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop. Hope to see your make!

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful time!

Serenity

Hello and welcome to September!

For the new challenge at Country View Challenges, called Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, hosted by Debs, I made a page in my art journal.

The theme for the challenge wants us to make something about the late summer days, late fruits and the look at the soon coming autumn.

So I made a scene with pale sun and morning mist.

I prepared my pages with some scraps of old book pages and glued them down with matte medium.

To tone it down, I used white Gesso. Then did some background stamping with a clock face and painted the sun with acrylic paint.

The plants in the foreground are a stamp from Lavinia (you can find a lot of lovely Lavinia stamps in the shop!). I stamped with Archival ink watering can and yet black.

I added more plants and a silhouette of a city to the pages, also a little butterfly. These stamps are from different stamp sets from Creative Expressions, you can find a lot of them in the shop to!

When I was ready with stamping, I took my Faber Castell Polychromos colour pencils and added some color. Not to much, only a hint for interest.

Now lastly the mist came in in form of white acrylic paint, rolled down with a brayer.

Then I stamped the word Serenity to the right bottom side and that´s it.

The page is very airy and subtile, different I guess, but I like it.

Now it´s your turn, I hope to see something beautiful from you when you join in with our challenge!

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful September!