'Stay Curious'

Hello, I'm back to share my latest art journal page for ArtStacks, using the gorgeous girl from Tamara Laporte Fabulous Faces pack. I totally loved these drawings when I saw them, but wasn't 100% sure what to do with them. Lisa Oxley has a magic way of embedding them into her page, but I'm no Lisa ;) so I simply did 'me'. It's probably hard to see in this photo but there is music paper & a pattern that looks very similar to washi tape that I have, so I added some music paper down first, added the torn square of the ArtStacks 'art piece', then added the washi tape over the lot, extending out the line in the image. Then I added random stenciling around the image. I journaled my thoughts at the time, again up the page following the line in the drawing. There was some left over piece of card from a number die on my desk, so I added that to break down the stenciling and simply add more layers....it was a little too perfect. I had also stamped a butterfly image, but it didn't stamp well, so I re-stamped it onto transperancy and added my title 'stay curious' to the butterfly. It was a perfect way to end the day...a little bit of creative bliss.

This is the final result...

Make sure you pop over to the ArtStack blog to see the amazing creations from the rest of the team, you can find it HERE.

Thank you for popping by, it's always appreciated.

Happy creating.

May Kraft+ Challenge!

Hello, I hope this finds you all well.

Today I'm sharing this months Kraft+ Challenge....Words to Live by! Who doesn't love some inspirational words, a super easy one for this month.

I actually started this one at retreat. I was super inspired by the previous months entry from Rachel Martin, she had created a very striking page stenciling a face in black paint onto some ledger paper. I luckily had the same paper, LOL well I assume it was the same. I hadn't really thought about it till now, but just realised I've just had a picture in my head of what it was ;) Anyway, I stenciled my face onto the ledger paper using a mix of pinks, probably because it was handy. I had also used my 'Flutterby' stencil on the background, which ultimately was perfect for this challenge. I was simply playing while at retreat, it was only when home that I realised it was made for this challenge, haha it clearly was on my mind.

I had underlined "Don't let the criticism go to your heart" by Rigel Dawson as it really spoke to me at the time. While it's not the most positive, uplifting quote, it's certainly words for me to live by.

I've actually journalled up the left hand side of the page after photographing. Also my cut-page obsesseion isn't over, so there is a cut page over the top.

Pop over to the Kraft+ blog to see the amazing creations from the rest of the team, including the Guest Designers...we were lucky enough to have 3 gorgeous ladies join us this month, check it out HERE.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting!