I added some color to the background with all sorts of stencils, paints and sprays and some washi tape. Decided I would mute it al down by adding the blue, while keeping some elements of the background.
I did very much want to keep the picture of the little match girl that was on the bookpage (they were all Anderson fairy tales).
I added extra texture with texture paste and some stencils.
Didn’t know where to take the page from here, so I added some color.
Then muted it all down again by adding a white wash.
Had no clue by this time what I was doing, so I started to see if I could fit a face in there.
I lined the face out with water color pencil en then added some white acrylic paint to outline it even further. In the layer beneauth the eyes I saw tears, so I left tose untouched.
I also left the little match girl fairly untouched. Added some more color, trying to decide how the face was going to integrate with the background.
And wound up in a completely different place as I set out to go to. Hardly any pastel colors in sight now.
But with all said and done I like what it looks like now. It may need some more finishing touches, but I’m not sure about that. I added some text stamp and wrote my quote all around the circles. I realy like how that looks and it was fun to do.
So now that I have posted this, I can go back to my struggle with the Tim Holtz tags for may, or do something completely different alltogether. Mmmm, I still have that white canvas in the attick, maybe I should get that down and see if I’m ready to work on a canvas again…What do you think?
It would be nice to work on something without having to work around a fold in the middle…
I hope you enjoyed watching my overload on proces pictures and I wish you all a wonderful wednesday.
Linking this to:
- Our creative corner: Anything goes
- Challenges 4 everybody: challenge # 20 Anything goes
- Fashionable stamping challenges: challenge # 47 – anything goes (as I did do some stamping, text stamp and the blue swirls)
- Creative Every Day Check-In May 13-19
Falcon Travelers 
Super Monique.
Groetjes Janny
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Beautiful Moniqce,wonderful colors in this painting, i like it.
Greetings Jeannette
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Hi Monique. I loved seeing the journey of this journalling. There are never too many pics lol…I think my fav bit was the splash of colour – everything just popped! And I loved seeing the little match girl at the final stage…gorgeous!
Thankyou for joining in the fun at Fashionable Stamping Challenges this fortnight.
Dot x
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This is a very beautyful journal page. It's nice to see how it was build up. I found you on creative every day.
Liefs, Melanie
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Thanks for becoming my latest follower, I have reciprocated and signed up to follow your blog and have been looking back at some of your amazing work! I especially love your little books and your lovely art work, Chrisx
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Ha Ha! I just love that quote! It kinda sums up me 🙂 What a gorgeous page, you are very talented. Thanks so much for your sweet comments at my page BTW, much appreciated.
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A big fat WOW from me for what you have made out of the page! Just beautiful!
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HI Monique, love how these pages have evolved. Great textured background.
Thanks for sharing with us at FSC
Avril
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Thank you all for your sweet comments.
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Amazing to see where your arty journey took you Monique. Thanks so much for sharing it with us at Our Creative Corner. Margie x
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Amazing creation! this is just …WOW! Thanks for sharing with us at Our Creative Corner – Love from Laura xxx
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