First, I made random doodles with some of my favorite shades
of blue and green. Next I added a little more color and more doodles, and then
added water with the koi brush to make the colors bleed together.
Pretty, and if it were a silk scarf, I would surely have worn it. But since it was paper, what was I to do with it?
My new motto, learned from Kelly Kilmer, is “when in doubt,
add a stencil or a stamp.” So I took a gorgeous Retro Café Art large flourish stencil and pushed white Crackle Paste through it. I was impatient,
so I used some small Artistcellar stencils with crackle paste to fill in the
empty spaces, being careful not to smear the flourish section—the mini virtue Tudor Rose hope pocket stencil worked with the flourish stencil perfectly.
When it
dried and the solid white paste turned to a nice crackled design, I loved it, but still…what was I going to do with it?
The idea lightbulb went off inside my brain…ATCs, of course!
So, using an Artiscellar pocket stencil as a template, I selected the areas I
liked best, traced around the template, and made six colorful, textural ATCs.
After I cut them out, I glued them to an ATC blank with rubber cement. The
final touch was edging them with some purple Ranger Archival Ink.
2 comments:
These are so pretty!! Great exploration of "what can I do next"!
Successful experiment! Good job!
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