Hi Everyone

Welcome to my weekly DT post of Creativity.

This weeks project began its life as a journal page but along the way morphed into an Art Panel. 

 It features words and imagery from one of That's Crafty's stamp set: Lynne's Affirmations Set 7 designed by Lynne Moncrieff. 

This is a fabulous set that includes some thoughtful words and a beautiful image of a Tree stripped of its summer foliage which offered inspiration for my creativity.

I began by applying some torn strips of tissue tape to my journal page. 

The print on the tape was a little dark for the look I was after so I toned it down with some white paint and blended in some really light blue tones as well.

I wanted the background to have some touches of texture so applied some crackle paste here and there

and some texture paste stencilling.

I then stamped the trees in varying tones of black and grey ink to create a sense of depth and distance. 

Using a very thin paintbrush I painted in some grasses to ground the front tree and added some shadowing around the base of the trees in the distance. 

To finish off the back ground I add a little texture stamping, some black gem beads

and some suitable words. 

I also mat n layered the page onto a double mount of card and mount board.

DecoArt Matte Medium
That's Crafty! Texture Paste
DecoArt Crackle Paint
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints: Snowflake, Antarctica
Archival Inks: Watering Can, Shadow Grey (currently out of stock). Alternatives can be found here and here
Tsukineko Versafine Ink: Onyx Black
That's Crafty! Stampsets: Lynnes Affirmations Set 7, Lynnes Carved Leaves Set 1 

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Stripes THS004 (currently out of stock.)  Alternative striped/ line stencils can be found here, here and here  
PaperArtsy Stencil: Sara Naumann PS100 
Tim Holtz Tissue Tape
Stamping Platform

Black Gem Beads