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I have been struggling with a big decision with the pro and con lists feeling equal. So, I turned to my most trusted advisers, paint and stencils to see what answers emerged.
This started as a page used to clean off Sue Pelletier’s Loose Woman stencil when it was drenched in spray inks.
Oil pastels gave her some color.
Layer after layer of scribble writing in colored pencils as I tried to sort out my big decision all out in my head.
A layer of paint covers up my writing and her personality is really starting to show.
Some found book text- I trusted what popped out to me as I skimmed the book- and it gave me my answer…and a clue that I need a new camera since the old one has been malfunctioning…
She has spoken and now I know what path to take. In the next few months I’ll be able to share the details…
This started as a way to loosen up and get the gremlins out of my head. It wasn’t until I was sewing on the quote that realized how true it was…I just wanted that cranky gremlin in my head to shut up. I started doing something, anything, to get that gremlin to go away. By the time I finished this art journal page the gremlin had vacated my mind!
I had extra paint on my palette so I used it up randomly on an art journal page.
Writing my “morning pages” with pencil and colored pencils in my art journal to get some crazy thoughts out of my head. Once I wrote them down I had released them and they began to lose their power over me!
Cityscape by Julie Balzer was just what I wanted for this background. I covered it in Dylusions black spray ink and plopped the stencil down, using it almost like a rubber stamp. I love the uneven-ness of the ink coverage.
I try to keep on hand a stash of solid colored papers printed on my Gelli Plate. Even though it’s a solid color it has a different look than if I had painted it with a brush. Subtle and imperfect, which was perfect for this page!
Don’t you love my handwriting! Okay, it’s not my handwriting. I ran my Gelli printed paper through my ink jet printer. Just had to heat set the ink to prevent smudging…
It’s spring and this is the garden of my dreams! Playing around in my art journal had me “planting” Julie Balzer’s Corn Flowers while Sally Carly by Dina Wakely marveled a the amazing colors of Dylusions inks! Of course every good garden needs a touch of glitter…
This is nice but I need really need more color in my garden…
My dream garden!
A bonus for me as I was “gardening”. Spray ink builds up on the stencil so I clean it off on journal pages. These are some very happy starts to art journal pages!
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