Week 35 card & a journal page….

I have been playing for alot of different techniques this week in my art journal….between some quilting projects.  I carried one over to this week’s card of the 52 Questions.  The question for Week 35 is: What kind of Goddess am I?

For this week’s card I sanded then added a layer of Gesso.  Then, I had some acrylic paint leftover from the project below (it was the bottom layer), so I painted it over the Gesso then quickly smooched some plastic food wrap onto it.  I was told that you can’t do it with acrylic paints, that it had to be watercolour….well I did it!!  It is coming into my favourite season of the year……so I painted some Lutradur with copper, gold & green Lumiere paints, even the back.  When it was dry, I cut the leaves freehand and then sewed them onto the card.  The tag was an oldie, I sprayed it with Olive green glimmer mist I made.  Once dry, I first printed in pencil, then used a black Zig Millenium over top.  I wasn’t sure if the zig marker would work straight onto the sprayed surface, so that is why I used pencil first.

This art journal page spread is before I wrote on it……I started with gesso, then painted acrylic paint before doing a rough image transfer method like Leslie Herger has in her video HERE. I used some old National Geographic magazines, then added Watercolor Wonder crayons( Stampin’ Up!), & Portfolio oil pastels, gessoed (one side not all over & the other side all over…..I like the left side better).  I then rubbed some more Watercolor Wonder crayons and the last touch was my homemade glimmer mists.  The final step once its all dry is to sand it so you can write on it.

YES, homemade glimmer mist…….I finally found some little misters at the dollar store this past week when we did the monthly shopping.

I filled the bottles with equal parts of water and rubbing alcohol, then I added some colour with SU dye re-inkers that I have on hand.  Before adding the pearl ex powders, spray the coloured solution, to see if its dark enough.  Then, I added about 1/8 teaspoon of Pearl Ex powders in each bottle. Shake lightly making sure to mix all the Pearl Ex powders in.

I tried to photograph the shimmer but it didn’t show up in any of the pictures .

Now you have something to make with all those pearl ex powders you have had in your stash for years.

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Tagged as: 52 Questions, Dale Anne Potter, Homemade glimmer mist, Leslie Herger