~~~ Family Matters ~~~May 2022 Dusty Attic Design Team Project

Another Family photo done with Blue Fern Papers from the Deja Vu and Courtship Lane collections for my Dusty Attic Design Team project. Yellow and Purple are not my go-to colours, but I 'rescued' these papers from my de-stashing pile recently.

I used leftover pieces from the Arch Window set on the top and bottom of my layers and the cut apart Decorative Panel on the sides. Both these designs were embossed using Shabby Green Embossing Enamel from Stampendous.

I painted the Iron Accents with Iris Acrylic paint from Cadence.

I painted the Title, Mini Tab and Mini foliage with Leaf Green and Antique White paint from DecoArt. I also embossed with clear embossing powder.

As decoration I used some Prills and Chunky Glitter.

I used the following from the Dusty Attic On-line store...

Arch Window #2

DA 0570

Iron Accents #1

DA 1875

Mini Tabs #4 

DA 1801

Mini Captions #7

DA  1386

Mini Foliage #2

DA 2786

Decorative Panel #1

DA 3254

The ground we walk on,

 the plants and creatures, 

the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations 

each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, 

bound together by cosmic harmony.

~ Ruth Bernhard~

~It's Good to be Me~Art Journal Page

My Art Journal is not so much for journalling...I really struggle with words and expressing myself...For me it is to play with all my media and see how they react and just playing with colour and textures...My way of clearing my head at times...On this page I played with two new products...Glimmer Mists from K-Craft and Tim Holtz Distress Crayons.

This page started of after seeing a video by Marta Lapkowska - Breaking a Blank Page Part 5. Note...started of...lol...for after plastering on a thick and textured layer of Gesso, and creating a background with Spiced Marmalade and Squeezed Lemon Distress Ink refill inks, I had to let the page lie for a few days and when I got back to it again it moved in a completely different way than first intended!!!

I had bought me some Distress Crayons and the Glimmer Mist and had to play with them and try to learn how they behave and react. 

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"I was planning on firing Kiara the cat as my co-writer...

but as Ezme Hartman observed- 

'Clever kitty.... c= cat, x= kisses, 

she's sending you a ❤ note,'"

....lol...enough fooling around, back to business...

I found the K-Craft glimmer Mist to be very vibrant and highly pigmented. The colours are truly stunning with some sheen to them. I wet my paper before adding the mist and also afterwords as it is easier to move and manipulate the spread that way. On here I have used Bronze, Sunny Yellow and Violet.The Yellow was used on the Lace and the Bronze on the Art stones. One can see the awesome shimmer of the Bronze in the close-up shots. The Lace Doily was coloured with the Violet with some added Red Rust Paste. I also used the Violet on the page with some Dark Velvet Metallique Paint from Finnabair.

Also used the following Distress Crayons from Tim Holtz: Black Soot, Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge. I used the Peeled Paint with water on the background and the other two with stencils.

Thank you for your visit...Wishing you an awesome day...

I care not so much 
what I am to others 
as what I am to myself. 
 I will be rich by myself, 
and not by borrowing.
  ~Michel de Montaigne~