A Colourful Life by Fliss Goodwin

Hi there, I have a colourful journal page to share this week with lots of layering with inks, paints and stamps.  The text stamp I used is one that resonates with me at the moment as I’m about to change my life completely to follow my creative spirit and see where it leads.

Ingredients:

That’s Crafty! Clear Stamp Sets – Textures Sets 1 and 2, Lynne’s Affirmations Set 2

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks – Broken China, Twisted Citron, Faded Jeans

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints – Haystack, Amethyst, Orchid

White Gesso

Archival Jet Black Ink

Sharpie Black Fine Point Marker Pen

Sizzix Frameworks Chevron Border Die (I used the leftover bits – waste no, want not lol)

Black and White Cardstock

Scrap of toning paper (mine was a Gelli print scrap)

Water Mister

Recipe:

The first step is to colour the background, which I did by adding Distress Oxides to my craft mat, misting with water and picking up the colour on my page. I repeated this until I was happy with the colour.

I then added splashes of paint, mostly around the edges using the paints and gesso. I added some more dots of paint using a brush.

I stamped the text roughly in the centre and followed up with various circle images from the texture stamp sets using the black Archival ink. I added a little doodled stitching using a fine black marker pen. I stamped the number image in a couple of places also with black ink.

I found a strip of toning paper in my Gelli print scraps folder and added this to my page. I stamped my chosen text on the page with black ink.

The finishing touch to my page was to add the leftover pieces from die cutting the chevron border out of black and white card, they come in very useful as you can see.

Have a great weekend and see you next week.

Fliss x