Art Journal Journey - Women

 I found these two women in my Steampunk tin of rubber stamps - both by Deep Red- and so I decided to pair them up along with Janet Klein's "Gear Up".   They are "Lady Cyclist" and "Lady Captain".

     

I simply stamped them with Versafine Clair Nocturne on cardstock that had been edged with black ink and then covered the images with clear embossing powder.  I liked the look of them with the stamping all shiny and so I decided to leave them without any colour.  I was going to fussy cut them up but looking at all the small detail I decided against it.

those dangly bits 

and feathers on both ladies

The stencil I used was Replenish by Lavinia and I pounced Distress Oxides in Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet through with a stencil brush.  I felt it needed just the subtlest hint of colour,  It still needed something so I added a few gears in the bottom corner and finally I was happy with my page.

So here we have another page for my theme at Art Journal Journey - In Gear!  This is obviously a page with a lot of gears as both ladies have them somewhere on their person but there are ways you can produce a page without actual gears on.  Lots of machinery has 'gears' so including some would work, as would a mode of transport.  You just need to get your head 'in gear' as they say, and you will find lots of things you can do for this theme.  Hope to see you at AJJ soon.