Sally DT - Be Happy Journal pages

 

 Here is a journal page spread that I created in my Dylusions journal using Bee Crafty stamps. I took a few photos along the way, so hopefully you will see how it came together.

I used

Dylusions mini journal

Doodle Art XL Mushrooms

Beautanicals Maple leaf

Wordage Ticker tape 1 

Beautanicals Oak leaf

Leafy branch d'inkable

Chalk effect acrylic paint in marine blue, pale green and dark green

Ecoline brush pens

Distress oxide ink in black soot

Archival black ink

White pen

pale green gel pen 

Black soot distress crayon

First I painted across both pages with chalk effect paint in a marine blue, pale green and a darker green. I put a layer of scrap paper under the pages each side to protect those underneath from my messiness!

I set this aside to dry and stamped and coloured a selection of beautanical leaves and doodle art mushrooms. 

Once coloured with ecoline pens, I cut them out

Now here is the bit I forgot to take a photo for. I stencilled some leaves at the top of the dry pages using the leafy branch d'inkable and black soot distress oxide ink. I also added a few smudges of black distress crayon as ground, before stamping some foliage from the doodle art mushroom set in archival black ink along the lower edge.

After spending a while  moving the images around, I found where I wanted to put them and I stuck them down. Now I should have used a mat medium, but forgot and used PVA, which left a couple of little shiny marks.... To cover them up I used the sentiment and then added a few highlights in gel pen - a pale green for the foliage and white elsewhere on the page.  

 

Thanks for looking!