Stamperia Double page journal

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that you have all had a positive week,  it felt like it was dragging at the beginning of the week but after Tuesday the days just disappeared!  I felt really cold yesterday all day and the night before,  I am hoping 🤞🤞🤞🤞 that its not the start of a uti 🤞

Today is a reaffirmation that the small things we class as 'self care' are in no way us being selfish.  It might be a stretch but for me this includes crafting,  as it is one of my few pleasures (that I do for myself),  it is as much of a therapy as anything else which is self care! 

Today I am sharing the double journal page that I created last Friday. 

I started by taking rice paper sheets and cutting them up and rearranging them over the two pages

 Making sure to add plenty of rice paper glue both under and over the rice paper pieces.

These two photos are to show that adding a brayered coat of white or ivory paint over a busy background can really calm down the colours etc.  You can also see the background stamping. 

Next came some splatters to pick out the black stamping. 

Now the texture paste through a stencil,  now I was a little unsure at first,  I thought the two black areas looked too bold,  but both areas where going to be focal points and seeing the finished piece they almost frame the main focus of the pages.  The white stencilling adds some lovely texture.  

A close up of both focal points.  

The finished piece!    The final touches where the sentiment strips and some gold pearl drops and white splatters of course. 

I really enjoyed creating this one 🥰

I hope that you a have a good Friday, 

Love and hugs to all of you, 

Sandra xxx