Proud

Hello,

I’m BACK after spending a magnificent holiday in Turkey: sun, sea, beach, good food and quality time with husband and son.

Batteries are fully recharged again.

Time to get the creative juices flowing again and what better way then the Q&L challenge where this forthnight the words are vintage and/or proud.

I was immediately  drawn to vintage and was convinced I was going to make a page in a vintage style, but this was before I searched for a suitable quote which unfortunately  I couldn’t find, in fact I didn’t find any at all.

So proud it would be.

Normally I experience kind of a creative block after a period of inactivity, but not this time.

When we returned home last week we could not miss the national crazziness for our football team. Everything turned red (our team are the Red Devils) and the Belgian flag is everywhere.

Everybody suddenly is proud to be Belgian and proud of our football players, so this was my inspiration for this page.

The colourscheme for this page is black/yellow/red as these are the colours of our flag.

I started out by making some gelli prints in these colours and cutting them up in a football shape.

Glued them to a background which I coloured using my gell sticks and a wet babywipe.

I tuned everything a bit down with a light gesso wash.

Added some texture through a stencil I found in my stash which apparentely had never been used before. The pattern kinda reminds me of the net of a goal.

The texture paste is homemade using babypowder, details will follow soon in the gelliclopedia series.

I added the quote on some masking tape which I turned into some washitape by spraying some blue sprayink on it (also homemade) and stamped some yellow, black and red dots with bubblewrap.

Added a fairy image from the package of a stamp set and some collage elements and voila.