My Lockdown Motto! by Amanda Southern
11:00Hi Everyone
For this weeks make I have been playing in my Art by Marlene small art journal, whose pages are just short of 6" x 8" which is a great size to work with.
I've also come out of my colour comfort zone as I do like to use a lot of brights but I've used a colour I don't really go for as i'm playing with green, I have no idea why I don't use green it just doesn't call me but as you can see in this piece I have used a fair bit of green.
Here's What I Did:
The background, I have to confess, was made several months ago when I was playing with the Gel Press and Carabelle Studio Art Printing Unmounted Plates, the one I used is from Kate Crane called 'Flowers & Leaves'. I created 2 prints by stamping the plate into the paint I had laid onto the Gel Press to leave an impression and then pulling the print and the 2nd print is by stamping with the plate onto a clean sheet of card using the paint on the stamp to create another background.
Here you can see the 2 prints this technique gives you. I combined the 2 to create the start of the background.
Next I started adding to the background, I added some circles, punching out circles from scrap painted tissue paper and doodling around them, a selection of washi tape pieces, there is also a little bit of script stamping in green but it looks a bit subtle.
I also added some pieces of 13arts designer paper that I had cut to size and stitched around with a sewing machine. no photo but you can see in the final piece. I stuck washi tape to card and cut into strips to make the washi tape more rigid.I stamped the fabulous image designed by Kate Crane onto stamping card and coloured with coloured pencils before cutting out leaving a small white border around the image.
The final addition was the addition of a Tim Holtz Snarky sticker that really sums up my lockdown existence!
Here's What I Used:
Acrylic Paints lots to choose from HERE
Archival Peeled Paint Ink Pad
13arts Papers 'Young & Free' Collection (I used some scraps left from a previous project)
Additional Washi Tapes from my stash
Coloured Pencils
Sewing Machine
Have a great week and I'll see you all next Tuesday
Love
Amanda X
2 comments
Great page and motto!
ReplyDeleteWords to live by, I love it! xx
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