SDC98: Pink & Turquoise

So I've been bursting my buttons trying to hold in my exciting news. 

I'm the Guest Designer for May at Stampotique!

*SQUEAL*

The first challenge is creating with Pink and Turquoise and I thought it would be awesome to make an art journal page since my art journal is already filled to the brim with Stampotique stamps - like HERE, Here and HERE.

I began by making some Gelli Plate prints on thick art paper using hot pink and turquoise paints.

Next, I stamped Frida Grande on one of the prints with black Staz-On ink, fussy-cut the image and matted her on a mixed-media index card and then layered that on the hot pink polka-dot print. I pulled it all together with a few splatters from a neon pink Sharpie paint pen and a teensy bit of washi tape.

I just love how this color palette interacts with black so I made a Gelli printed background mixing the turquoise with white paint and black gesso. 

I worked some marks into the wet paint and then added some circles with neocolors once it was dry. For continuity there are some neon splatters in there too as a final layer.

The quote, 
"A certain darkness is needed to see the stars."
 seemed to fit what I know about Frida Kahlo and it's a quote that speaks to me too.

Can you tell I'm absolutely obsessed with making my own custom papers? And trust me, you'll be seeing this stamp again and again.

Poppies Art Journal Page

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone on the East Coast in the path of Hurricane Sandy. It's scary to even think about a storm this size and severity let alone having to live through it. May it downgrade before landfall.  

Here is an art journal page of mine. I've long admired Donna Downey's gorgeous work with poppies and decided it was high time to sit down and take a crack at the theme myself. Since drawing scares the heck out of me, I did these on gessoed index cards with a pen and acrylic paint. As you know, I LOVE index cards. No risk! You can see more of my index card posts HERE. 

I made five poppies and chose my four favorites to include in my art journal.

 Left Side

Right Side

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