Hello Creative Friends

Today I'm reflecting on the beginning and the end 

pages of my That's Crafty! Mixed Media Journal Kit.

Here's a few words of how they came to be..

The first open page is MDF and is the inside cover. 

The words have been formed by pushing Gel Medium through a stencil.

Painting in a wash of white gesso and splashes of Flat Matte Spray. 

The words are sanded back to expose the bare MDF underneath.

The next page has been created using Kraft Card, watered down white gesso 

and sprayed with Flat Matte Spray. Texture Paste has been pushed through the

 Fleur de Lys stencil and sprayed with water when dry, it's fascinating watching 

those colours turn chalky upon the gesso.

Machine stitched around the edge and glued onto the greyboard 

page the compass and words are stamped on to papers supplied

within the kit and glued into place. 

Ink is blended through the foot prints stencil, filling 

up the blank space completing the first two pages.

For the last couple of pages I used Kraft and corrugated card on the first. 

Painted in watered down gesso with splashes of Flat Matte Spray 

adding a hint of colour along with a strip of dyed lace edging.

Machine stitch follows the lines of the corrugated card with lace 

and an embossed greyboard heart added to embellish.

The last page is created in the same way as the first inside MDF cover 

with ink blended through the butterflies stencil again to break up the space.

I can now close the book on this creation which I thoroughly enjoyed creating.

Thank you for sharing your time.

Wishing you a wonderful day.

Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

Crafty Supplies:

That's Crafty! Mixed Media Journal Kit

That's Crafty! White Gesso

That's Crafty! Gel Medium

That's Crafty! Texture Paste

That's Crafty! Flat Matte Sprays

That's Crafty! Stamps Lynne's Affirmations Set 8

That's Crafty! Stencil Lynne's Affirmations 3

That's Crafty! Stencil Fleur de Lys

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil Foot Prints

That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil Flight of the Butterflies

That's Crafty! Surfaces Bits and Pieces Greyboard Hearts

Hello Everyone

It's Official the Season of Summer has arrived and today is the Solstice.

Here's my That's Crafty Summer Solstice creation...

Using Stonehenge as my inspiration.

Onto an 8x8 MDF Chunkie I painted the horizon, layering 

one colour on top of the other allowing the colours to merge.

I drew sarsen stones onto a piece of white board and cut them out.

A thick layer of texture paste was scraped onto the stone shape and painted in black.