Dare like No Other by Moira Suton

A clean up page from my Journal

Pebeo Dyna Paints – Red Blue, Violet Blue and Orange Yellow

Black Texture Paste

That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencil Flowers TC093

That’s Crafty! Word Series Stencil Time WS006

That’s Crafty! Stamp Set Lynne’s Affirmations Set 2

PaperArtsy Stamp Set ETS07 by Tracy Scott

Black Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink

Glue

Archival Jet Black Ink

I do love to use my clean up pages to start a new journal page. This one had various colours of paint brush strokes where I had been cleaning brushes. Then I had quite a bit of various Dyna Paints left over from another project so the pages then got a full coat.  Later when I had extra black texture paste to use up an old jar I added the stencilling.

Finally when it came to make a journal page I knocked back the black texture with some more Dyna Paint. I knew I wanted a hit of teal to work against the background so I heat embossed Tracy Scott’s flowers and began colouring with the Lindys Sprays, but as all the colours were out my hand went to other colours and suddenly I had a very colourful garden. I cut them out, and adhered to the page.  

I stamped one of Lynne’s fabulous affirmations, but by leaving out a couple of the words created a new phrase which fitted my mood. A reminder perhaps to not chicken out of life’s challenges even when sometimes all you really want to do is curl up under the duvet! 

Moira