Crash

On January 3^rd there was a massive car accident where a lorry drove into a queue of cars who were waiting for a red light, 3 people (a mother and her 2 teenage kids) died and the driver got arrested because he tested positive for the drug test (afterwards it became clear that he had smoked something on new year's eve and not on that fatal day). But the public opinion was already formed, also because of the media and their point of view. 
That was my starting point for this spread in my ARTicles book. 

I found this quote to be very appropriate:
Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. Before you hurt someone, feel. Before you speak, think.

Because it has 4 parts, I divided my page into 4 and made 4 little spreads.

On the first one I started by writing all kinds of fun facts, like did you know that it takes up to 2900 gallons of water to make just one pair of jeans?? 

Then I used some Inktense pencils to color the background and added some gel medium through a stencil as a resist.

Spray ink on top which I blotted with some kitchen towel, just love the dotted effect it gave.




On the second one I started by spray inking the background on top of which I used a stencil and some more spray ink. I added some doodling in the stenciled figures and added a picture of a scale, the logo of justice.

The third one started out as a collage from leftover pieces of scrap paper

on top of which I did some stenciling with acrylic paint, added some doodles and stamping and a broken felt heart for the feel and hurt in the quote.

Because I had so much paint left over on my palette from the stenciling I used it for the background of the fourth, I used a palette knife to apply the paint, loving that texture.

I added some more texture with texture paste through yet another stencil. And a text stamp for the speaking part of the quote.




So as you noticed I used stencils in 4 different ways:
With gel medium as a resist

Spray inking

With acrylic paint

and with texture paste

Stencils are just so versatile.
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For now, bye.
PS I will also be linking to  sunday sentiments #7

There's no place like home (junk journal page#21)

Wow, It's been ages since I did a page in my junk jornal, I believe from July.
But yesterday I finally grabbed my junk collection and got creating.
I have these recipe fiches I got in a grocery shop,they measure 8x12 cm and have 4 flaps so they fold open to this 32 x12cm. 

I glued 2 of these cards on a piece of cereal box. I glued the middle 2 pieces down so the outer flaps close the page.
I intended to gesso them, as they are glossy thought better to sand them first, but I liked the look a lot so decided to leave it like that for the time being.

I wanted to create a contrast with the outside and inside. The outside would become the dark night and the inside the bright, colorful day.

On the outside I did some stenciling with black acrylic paint to represent a dark wood:

I added some star stickers for the night, a washi tape border and some lovely night creatures: owls

The inside I colored using my gel sticks, because I wanted to use a resist tehnique I did gesso the inner pages. I clear embossed some butterflies and added the color which I smoothed out with my fingers and a babywipe. With a clean babywipe I also removed the color on the embossed images.

I have a stamp from the Krafty individuals with a fun magic tree.
I enlarged it on the computer and printed it on some tissuepaper (luckily it didn't get stuck in the printer). The tissuepaper is recycled from my work, it's used as divider between 2 panels, normally it is just thrown out.
In my drawer I had a sheet with butterflies from a previous project, cut them out and glued them down. Added some stenciling, circle stamps and splatters (I managed to get more splatters on me then on the page lol)

junk used:

cereal box, recipe files, tissue paper.

By change the tree has following sentiment: There's no place like home.

Which is so true, I love spending time home and not in the least in my studio :-)

So I will be linking this also to this weeks sunday sentiments.

better

Hello everyone,

Again only just in time for the 19th Q&L challenge, where the words were better and/or patience, to be used in a quote or lyric (for full details and everyone else's amazing entries click here)

The Gelli Arts blog also has an awesome give away (more details here) for which you need to post a halloween or fall themed artwork on there FB, so I combined the two in one.

I started by gluing 3 pieces of a gelli print on a page, these were made with leaves as mask.

I added some gold embossed leafs and some brown texture paste through a leaf stencil in which I sprinkled red glitters.
The sweet girl is a stamp from gorjuss which I colored using Derwent coloursoft pencils. The tag is from the same stamp set which I enlarged with the pc, colored with some DI in yellow and green and antiqued the edges and handwrote the quote: good things fall apart so better things can come togehter.
Which is such a wonderful filosophy to think about life.
As finishing touch I also added a dried leaf.

As of tomorrow Zsuzsa Karoly-Smith from over at inky dinky doodle is hosting a weekly link party called sunday sentiments, for more details around this click here. So when her link is up I will also be linking up this âge there.

Until next time, bye for now.