Journal Cover

Hello Friends

here's a journal cover page I made for the Paperartsy-grunge paste challenge

Started with a heavy watercolor paper, I have used Camlin Photo Inks to create the background. After the inks dried, have sealed the colors with a coat of Camlin gel medium. Used home made fibre paste and texture paste and a Prima and Tim Holtz stencil to create texture. I was inspired by this excellent work by Linda Cain on the Paperartsy blog.

After the grunge paste dried, stamped the background with black archival inks and some texture rubber stamps. The bird is stamped on a piece of cardstock using Fiskers 'For the Birds' stamp set. The 'Desi art' banner is torn from a Newspaper headline and reminds me of a comment from a dear blogger pal Rupa. I hope Rupa remembers it !! 

Here is a closer view ......

All the flowers here are handmade, the black tim holtz flower with white ink splatters, the yellow spiral cut flower, the black cold porcelain flower, the red and blue roses out of punches, the cheery lynn sunflower etc . hope you can see the metal flowers and leaf which is embossed and die-cut metal colored with glass colors. used paper twine and some dangler beads in turquoise and pearl finish from an old piece of jewellery . 

The finished work now adorns as the cover of the Trasure ( new term coined by Rupa and Tanvi as in Trash +Treasure/ Debris Journal 2 )made in this post.........

Trasure/Debris Journal 2 here...............

I turned it around so that the earlier cover is now the back cover..........

 You can see the first art journal page in the Trasure/ Debris Journal one here.

linking to Simon Says Stamp - anything A inspired, my A is inspired by the April Flowers and Art Journal
April/spring Flowers

http://blog.kraftzone.in/2015/04/challenge-14-altered-art.html---altered a cardboard box to journal
http://catchychallenges.blogspot.in/2015/04/cscc-13-anything-goes.html
http://www.unrulypaperarts.com/p/raq-2.html
http://www.theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/aprils-creative-challenge-flora-fauna.html
http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.in/2015/03/they-who-have-wings-is-next-challenge.html
http://mixedmediamc.blogspot.in/2015/04/mixed-media-monthly-challenge-11-april.html
http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/color-your-world.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/aprils-challenge.html


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