Deep in the forest the monthly theme at Art journal Journey, somehow it stayed in my mind and as at Journal 52 the prompt is to experiment, I was beginning to play in my art journal.
As usual first I was arranging an scrap collage on my spread.
I continued to add some texture with texture paste that I coloured with metal paints to get a shadow-faded effect.
I tried to apply some mystery colours by using Lindy’s stamp gang sprays and Glimmer mist sprays.
I found a great forest image and some old shoes, I used 7 dots studio sticker for the text, and I added some ephemeras and some found objects to my main image. I was just experimenting.
I stamped with distress ink tiny bees from Stampotique originals as I love winged things.
Then I wanted more winged things so I decided to use tiny bird also from Stampotique. Finally I splattered some ecoline around my spread.
And that was my forest experiment for this week, hope you enjoyed it!
A wonderful Page. Thank you for showing us the origin bit by bit.
Thanks for stopping by Barbara!
How fascinating to watch your experiments, thanks for the progress shots abd description. I like your unusual find of old boots in the forest.
Thank you Sheila!
A great page Ruth.. the photograph is so special –love what you made here – thank you for sharing your progress and joining AJJ once more…fabulous!
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Susi
Thanks for jumping over Susi, xox ๐
Ruth, I really like this page! One of my favorite things to do is hiking and walking in the woods! You really gave it that “feel,” if you know what I mean and the forest image with the shoes was brilliant! Love it! Just the right color and texture as well! You do “experimenting” very well! LOL Blessings! ๐
Thanks Felicia! xoxo
More fantastic stencilling and I think I need that texture paste. You have created such a feel of depth to the forest. Of course the addition of the bees cements it for me but I’m loving the boots too!
I had to have that Stampotique bees stamp, I saw them every time on your blog, I couldn’t leave them out from my collection, beezzzzz here we go! ๐
We are bad Stampotique sisters ๐
Thank you for sharing…the journal is amazing. And appreciate the information on how you created it.
Thanks for visiting Diane!
I like seeing how you build up your pages through each layer! Very educational for me!
Thanks Zsuzsa! hugs!
This is so beautiful Ruth! so many layers, colors…all I love. Thank you for sharing your art
Thank you for visiting Silvia!
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Those boots were made to walk in your forest… Such an amazing page, good to see how you start your pages off and build up each layer.
A joy as always Ruth:-) xxx
Thanks xxx ๐
Fabulous page and a genial idea!
Thank you ๐
What a great spread Ruth- love those baby shoes and the background for them! xo
Thanks Jackie ๐