Art Journal Journey - Butterflies

 For my next journal page with the theme "It Must have Wings" at Art Journal Journey we have a copy of one side of what was originally a double spread in one of my square journals.  This time I only did the one page.  The original was a workshop I did with Tracy Evans a while ago which was in shades of pink and purple.  The stamps are from her collection when she did them for All & Create.

The background was made with smooching Distress Oxides (Salvaged Patina and Wilted Violet) on a piece of acetate, spritzing with water and then lying it down, leaving it for a while and then picking it up.  This was then dried with my heat gun before the next one was done.  For another one I used Twisted Citron and Tumbled Glass.

Using squares of cardstock I repeated as above on those and let them dry before sticking down and stamping the ready reckoner (Digit stamp) on them.  Then I used some white paint and a stencil to put squares on some of the squares on my page.  Using a Quickie Glue pen I drew some squares on the top right of my page and some lines on the squares.  When dry these had silver leaf on them.  

I added some numbers from the Seasons stamp and stamped two hearts and two butterflies which I then embossed with clear ep.  I painted the butterflies with the same colours of Distress Oxides  and cut them out.  These and the word Meadows were then cut out and adhered to the page.  Finally I scribbled some words around the stuck on squares and added a little torn washi tape.

I preferred this page to the one I did with Tracy - maybe just because I tend to go for teal type colours when choosing myself.  I hope you like this page as much as I do.

I've missed this kind of journaling and I think I might go back to it for a change from my Lavinia pages just now and again.