17 October 2014

Courage my friends.

Oh I do love it when something comes together so effortlessly like the page below called "Courage",



Working in my big journal I had already used the Prima 12 x 12 flower stencil to add a base layer of texture paste. I painted over that totally with Claudine Hellmuth Studio paint in Classic Teal which is an absolutely gorgeous colour. Once this was dry I took a sanding block and gave the whole page a gentle sand to take off the top layer of paint and reveal the beautiful stenciled image below.


That all done I seriously didn't want to cover it up and would have been quite happy to leave it like that but that doesn't make much of a page really, so I clustered a few off cuts, a piece of glittery tape from My Minds Eye, a bit of journaling and I stamped and embossed the lace border by Prima and Finnabair taking a paintbrush to flick off some of the powder to give it a tattered look.


I think that's all it needed as I wanted to leave plenty of "white space" as they say.

See you soon

Jaine x

2 comments:

Caroline said...

I am amazed by your background. What a brilliant effect & idea with sanding paint back! Gorgeous colours. Great page : )

craftytrog said...

Stunning! x