background 22/100

I just LOVE background #22,

not sure whether this is a background rather then a finished page, 

just some words are missing I think

Here is a progress pictures

It all started with a scrapbooking template and a piece of pretty scrapbookpaper.
But as you can see I didn't follow the pattern.






Next I added some gesso to blend everything together and colored with oil pastels and my fingers, this was so much fun to do. I also added some text with a stamp in the larger rectangles.






The pink and flowers of the paper inspired me to stamp the roses and color them with a pink and purple posca pen.




I changed my mind about the color and changed it to blue,
and I had this napking design that works just perfect.

background 21/100

Background # 21 started out with a mop-up page from 

background #18, 

recognize the fluo pink and yellow from the stripes and dots?

Next I added some stencilling

And after a lot of oopses I eventually came to something I am pleased with.

background 20/100

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I grabbed a box and put some art supplies in there and went outside to create background #20,
yes I can not believe it either that I am already one fifth of the way.

booktext, clear gesso, glue, dylusions inksprays, stazon inkjet black, stamps,
a stencil and some babywipes.

I collaged booktext, applied a coat of clear gesso and sprayed with the 3 colors dylusions inks.

I grabbed the stencil and a babywipe to create a ghost effect, but this didn't work out like I intended?? 
The leftover paint on the stencil however did create a nice effect.(Huray for not cleaning my stencils)
I also added some stamping.

I found the page a bit dark so I grabbed my white posca pen and outlined the stamp and also added some white gesso (okay, I ran back in to my studio to grab these as I didn't bring them initially out in the box)

Some additional stamping 

and I am very pleased with how it turned out.

background 19/100

Today I saw a video from Maremi SmallArt about breaking the blank page, 
just noticed that it was published exactly a year ago, 
coincidence?
Don't think so!

It is very strange but I actually don't have that fear, 
I have more fear of adding on to an already existing page.
But I got inspired by her page using clothes labels,
I too have a collection of them,
so I grabbed them and started glueing them down

Next I added some white gesso and used some oil pastels.

I love the colorpalette , totally inspired by Maremi.

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One of the guidelines of the 100 day project was to let it go ( okay, now I'm stuck with the Frozen themesong in my head for the rest of the evening) where it takes you, that is exactly what this background did with me.
The evolution of background #18:

 swirly lines with glossy accents;
sprinkled some brushos and wet it;
lovely (note to self: should have stopped here)

golden wax on top of the glossy accents swirly lines.

thought the gold was too shiny, so set out to age it a bit with antiquing cream.

when I wiped away the cream, it smudged (and there was no more cream on top of the lines), arghh.

maybe adding some more brushos would do the trick, 
okay, 
promising,
But...

...when dry, not so anymore.

so time for some drastic measures
out came the gesso 

after repeating the steps as in step 1:
not quite the same result ,
guessing the gesso reacts with the brushos, making them more dull.
This time I colored the lines black for more contrast.

I had some tissuepaper laying on my desk from the other day when I made the stamped tissuepaper, this was used to clean my stamps, so I tore it and glued it on, better.



After some drips, bubble wrap and credit card stamping I believe I am satisfied and call it done for now.

WOYWW 413 - background 17/100

Hello and welcome on this drousey Wednesday,
but on the up side it IS Wednesday, 
so this means time to share our workdesk over at Julia's place ( click HERE for all details)
Here is an aerial view from my desk

yes, you guessed it correct, there is another background on my desk, #16 to be correct.

I must say this was a case of sticking to it and keep on adding until I slightly like the outcome, which I eventually did.


Craftsmarket update:

Thanks for all the positive vibes and thoughts last week, they definitely worked.

The cards arrived on time!

I had some sales on Friday and everybody that visited my stand was very interested, they had never heard about mixed media and LOVED my work. What a boost.

Here are some pics of my stand

I actually won first price for most original/beautiful stand.

The price was a nice bouquet of flowers and a voucher for 50 euros for a local craft store.

So it was a success.

On to the next step in my businessplan.

background 16/100

I had so much fun today creating my own stamped tissuepaper.
I started by selecting stamps and laying them out in an order that was pleasing

Next came the stamping, and of course I didn't follow quite the plan J

I glued this tissuepaper on a background of booktext (these pages have awesome color on them because I use them for excess paint from my brayer when gelli printing)

Look at that result!!