Free Your Dreams

I got messy today with some paint and, boy was it fun :)  Here's the art journal page I came up with:

I guess I was feeling pretty butterfly-y today as well.  So I found a great quote - 'Free your dreams and take flight - that I thought would go well with it.  The pages are covered with some 7Gypsies tissue paper and sealed with a matte medium.  Then I added some watered down acrylic paints.  Added some Tim Holtz butterfly stamps, some painted sencils.  The butterfly on the right page is a Martha Stewart stamp black embossed on watercolor paper then colored with Distress Markers.  I added some of the purple acrylic paint to an embossing past for the flight pattern.

For the quote, on the left page, I painted in two different butterfly stencils and wrote in the saying.  I started with a white gel pen, but couldn't get a good ink flow, so ended up tracing the letters with some white enamel accents.  

Any crafty plans for this weekend??

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

Delayed Mother's Day

I thought I'd work on a Father's Day card today and while I was doing that I realized I had never shared my Mother's Day tags.  So here there are, even if they are almost a month late!

I used some Ice Resin to create the butterfly on the puple tag and colored it with some alcohol inks.

Since the resin took over night to cure, I got impatient so for the 2nd tag, I found a stamp and used a blender pen and some inks to color it in.

For each tag, I covered a piece of white paper with ink then used the same ink to stamp the pattern.  It's pretty clear on the blue tag but not so bold on the purple one.  Then to finish them both off, I added a few gems to sparkle.

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Neenah Solar White
STAMPS: Market Street Punched Tin; The {Stamps} of Life's stamps4fancylabel; butterfly from Michael's dollar bin
INK: Memento Lulu Lavender, Bahama Blue, Summer Sky, New Sprout,  and Bamboo Leaves
DIES: Spellbinders Labels Five
OTHER: Blender Pen, Crop-a-dile, eyelets, rhinestones, Ice Resin, Martha Stewart silicone molds