Music can be seen as well as heard.
Flowers are the music...
Also inspired by this Pinterest pin https://pin.it/73QjtTc
To get some color speckles all over my page, I placed my journal inside my spray painting box and lightly spritzed Cracked Pistachio Distress Spray Stain holding the bottle about 18” above the page.
I then used some stencils to direct intense color through the designs.
After the stencils I sprayed very close to the page to get spots of intense color over the page with Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers Spray Stains.
I then embossed the grid stamp with white embossing powder. That made the ink blobs blend into the background.
(I’ve been using black archival ink to emboss over. I really should get a clear embossing pad.)
I don’t draw well or easily, so I traced a portion of a flower cutting die with pencil then went over the pencil lines with an 8B graphite pencil.
The flower petals were painted with a white heavy-bodied acrylic to give the petals some texture. It was here the top ink blob looked quite out of place. I worked at it for awhile using a variety of ways to get it blend into the background. It refused.
My final attempt before trashing the page was to just add more embossing. Although I now had more embossing than I wanted, it did save the page well enough.
I wet the graphite pencil with a water brush to outline the flower petals, but it just wasn’t bold enough. I am new to Distress Crayons. But they’ve done the job. And we all know how I love a bit of grunge.
I stamped the words on white cardstock, added hints of the colors and grunged the edges. I placed them as leaves for the flower. The original quote says “ Flowers are the music of the ground...”. But I liked the word earth better than ground.
I love these colors. I attempted to make a postcard in a similar fashion but I ended up with color all over. That worked out fine to white emboss, add modeling paste through a stencil and a white die cut to decorate all the color.
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When I see the beauty of flowers, I can’t help but feel happy.
When I see the beauty of flowers, I can’t help but feel happy.
