Alison CT - When you fall in love with the background!

Good morning,  today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page, which initially started out being a background and quickly became a finished piece, as I fell in love with it as it was.

To begin, I cut one of the circles pieces of the A5 Butterflies and Circles Catalyst Collage paper to fit my art journal page.  I then used matte medium to glue it down. 

I inked the edges of the page by blending Twisted Citron distress ink over it. Then, I cut out some of the butterflies from another sheet in the pack. I glued these to the page with matte medium. 

Next, I blended Picked Raspberry distress ink through the circles dinkable from set 3.

Then, I blended Broken China distress ink through the dots dinkable from set 2.

I used Versafine Clair nocturne ink to stamp areas of the small circles stamp from Journaling Essentials 9.

I, then, added a faux stitched border and some black splats using a black posca pen. 

Next, I used a white posca pen to colour the centre of some of the stamped circles.

Finally, I stamped the word 'hope', from the Mixed Messages 2 stamp set, using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. 

I could not decide whether it needed a main image and if so what. So I decided to stop here, as I really love it as it is. I may come back to it another day and add something. I'm not sure.

Products used:

A5 Catalyst Collage Butterflies and Circles 

Dinkables set 2 and 3

Journaling Essentials 9 stamp set 

Mixed Messages 2 stamp set 

White and Black Posca Pens

Distress Ink - Twisted Citron,  Picked Raspberry,  Broken China 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison