Hi Everyone

This week I have an art journal page for you using the fabulous stamps, some old, some new, from Carabelle Studio designed by Kate Crane, I just love these stamps. 

Here's What I Did:

This page has been created in my 8" x 8" Dylusions art journal and started from a clean off page, a page that I had just spread leftover paint from a previous project.

I liked this page but it was a bit bright so I wanted to know back the colour so I randomly brayered over it with some white gesso. Onto that I then stamped random stamps from Kate's collection and in a variety of ink colours. Well I'll be honest at this stage I didn't like it the stamping just looked too much so I went for a cup of tea! On my return I still didn't like it so I knocked it back again again with some gesso and 3 colours of Dina Wakley paint, it began to grow on me now. Some of the previous stamping was showing through the layers of paint which looked, well to me, much better. I then added some, what I call reverse stencilling, laying down the paint adding the stencil and removing the paint with a baby wipe, I then added some black stamping.

The circles with the letters in have been paper pieced on. then I was happy as I didn't want the background to be to distracting from the images I was to add.

I chose the characters that I wanted to stamp and decided to paper piece the clothing onto them so I grabbed a selection of my background paper packs, brought to you by That's Crafty!, and stamped the images directly onto them and cut out the clothing parts.

This gave them some colourful outfits without me having to colour them. I then stamped the images again, this time onto stamping card and pieced on their outfits.