Earlier days

Hi Friends,

Thank you for stopping by to see my latest art journal page!

I'm so happy to of had some creative time this past week, keeping this page simple, I was able to get one done and published quickly.

I broke into my stash of my most favourite paper, the Farmhouse Paper Company's BTW collection, choosing the lined note pad paper for my background. I applied two coats of Liquitex clear gesso, drying with a heat tool in-between layers. Next, I applied modeling paste randomly through my Moroccan circles stencil, from Shnibblybits, I let it dry overnight.

Next came the colour, I haven't used Twinkling H2O's in quite some time and found that the exact colours I was wanting were in the sets that I have. I sprayed the page with water and used the already moistened H2O's, just by adding some to the page and getting it to run with extra water. Once I was happy with the colour I let it dry overnight.

This page sat for a few day's until I figured out what I wanted to do with it. The week before I purchased a Birds of Canada book published in 1939, this book was in terrible shape but fortunately I was only after the images of the birds. It contains 500 vintage images and as a huge bird lover it was a no-brainer to find one to go with this page. 

I had some Curved feather cutouts from Shnibblybits in white card stock already in my stash, I simply painted some with Dina Wakley Black gesso (Love this product!), some with the redder  Twinkling H2O, and stamped some with tiny circles in black archival ink and used a white correction pen in the centre of the dots. I took some off-white embroidery floss and wrapped it around the page and then simply adhered the feathers with all purpose glue. 

Next, I lay down a bunch of black thread and used a hot glue gun to set the wood frame to the page overtop of the thread which keeps it in place. Then I set the picture in the centre of the frame with two layers of cardboard.

Finally, I chose a bunch of Tim Holtz Clippings stickers, applied them with all purpose glue and once they were dry I just shaded the words and feathers with pencil and a blending stump.

Thank you again for viewing my latest page!

Lisa :)