2020 Topic 6: Jungle Vibes
Claire
attests to the mood boosting power of creativity and has created a
'blooming' wonderful journal page. She's used lots of stencils to
cleverly create a real jungle vines background effect.
Hi everyone, it's Claire Snowdon with you today, and I'd like to share a 'jungle vibes' journal page I've made in my square Dylusions journal.
I
really love using the PaperArtsy Fresco Paints on the Dylusions paper -
they give a wonderfully smooth, matte finish - which is just the effect
I was looking for with this project.
I
used Fresco paints in Gumboots, Beanstalk and Pistachio for the
background. And added some stencilling using two JOFY stencils (PS010 and PS149).
I
then added some lighter elements using the Pistachio again and also
Eggshell. This time using the numbers PaperArtsy stencil (PS021) and an Emma Godfrey stencil (PS015). I
just kept on layering up the stencilling until I was happy with the
background - adding stencilling on top of stencilling is a great way to
create depth and interest to your pages.
Next for the focal elements - these big, beautiful flowers from JOFY91 were just the standout pieces I was looking for.
I used my Stamp Platform to stamp a rough image of each flower and then coloured them using Fresco Finish paints in: Blah Mange, Sorbet, Bougainvillea, Cerise, Plum, London Bus and Bubble Gum. Then stamped them again before fussy cutting them and adding the highlights with a white Posca paint pen.
I added some additional stamping - the stalks for each flower are from JOFY sets (JOFY23 and JOFY54) and the spiky grasses are from JOFY22 -
stamped in dark green to give extra contrast. Then a little touch of
script in Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide using the script stamp from ESN11 as I love to have some form of script in all my backgrounds!
I love the quote from Tracy Scott's stamp set (ETS29) and felt it really fitted this page perfectly! Finally I mounted the flower heads to the page with foam tape to give them a bit of dimension and coloured in the leaves with Pitt pens.
I really
enjoyed creating with these lovely bright colours - it cheered me up no
end. This was the first time I'd used the stamping platform with JOFY
flowers - it made the colouring process so easy and I will definitely be
using it more often in the future.
I hope you'll join in with the Jungle Vibes theme and find some time to be creative soon.
2 comments:
I love this Claire. Such wonderful colours too
Beautiful bold colours Claire!
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