Rainbow Art Journal Page

I've been working on an art journal page and (as always) seemed to take longer than I had anticipated!  I saw this quote that I liked on Goodreads awhile back and had an idea this week of turning it into a journal page.  And said it was rainbow/gold related it was perfect to usher in the spring AND St. Patrick's day.

I started by covering my pages in torn phone book pieces and covering them with a thin coat of gesso.

Next I added some a thin coat of blue paint.

While that was drying, I pulled out my gelli plate and made some rainbow sheets on deli paper.  I kept it really simple by just mixing the color with some gold paint.

I added a little stamping to my blue pages (not much since I knew a lot of it would be getting covered up anyway), colored my image, and prepared my rainbow.

Once I got everything painted, stamped, colored, and cut, I started putting it all together and here is my final page:

It's a little hard to see in the photo, but the quote says, 'Dare to love yourself like a rainbow with gold at both ends.'  Very fitting for spring and St. Patty's!

Here's a close up of my coloring.  I took a Halloween/witch stamp and turned it into a little leprechaun dress for her.

I'm linking up with the following challenges this week:

Some Odd Girl March Pot O'Gold

Thanks for stopping by!

~Angie

SUPPLIES:

COPICS - Skin - E000, E00, E01, E11, E13; Hair - E97, E99, E29; Shoes - C5, C7, 100; Eyes - G46, G43, G21; Dress - G20, G21, G24, G28

PAINT - Liquitex Basic Acrylics in Light Blue, Primary Blue, Brilliant Yellow Green, Phthalocyanine, Cadmium Red Deep Hue, Cadmium Orange deep hue, Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, Hooker's Green Hue Permanent, Cerulean Blue Hue, Deep Violet, and Gold

MISC - Ahni and Zoe gold marker, deli paper, phone book, paintbrushes

*Claudine Hellmuth MULTI MEDIUM MATTE Paint Glue Ranger	*Claudine Hellmuth GESSO Studio Primer Paint Ranger	Kaylee's Closet Wardrobe	Kaylee's Closet: Witchy Wears
quinn's ABCs	harold's ABCs	*Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK	*Fiskars FINGERTIP CONTROL CRAFT KNIFE 06305
*Colorbox FROST WHITE INK PAD Pigment Stamp 150801	*Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2012 MIXED MEDIA cms125	*Versamark WATERMARK Rubber Stamp Emboss Chalk Resist INK PAD	*Precision Heat Embossing Emboss Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200
*EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator EKT001	*American Crafts Zing! BLACK Opaque Embossing Powder	*EK Success HONEY BEE Non-Stick Scissors EKCB06	KLD Happy Trails
KLD Sunnybrook Lane	KLD Abbie Road

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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

Life is a Song

Just popping in to share another art journal page I came up with using one of my favorite Some Odd Girl Digi Stamps, Dancing Mae...

So Mae is colored with Copics and then fussy cut.  I painted the pages with some red and silver glitter acrylic paint, added some music themed tissue tape, spritzed a little red dylusions spray over everything, then added some stamping and white gel pen.  I printed the saying out on my computer then added that to finish it all off.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie