Destination Inspiration -All aboard for May Terminal 1

Hello, hello and happy May!! This is Astrid with a little project to hopefully inspire you....

 It's time to jump aboard for yet another leg of our Destination Inspiration journey. We have a lovely collection of things in our travel bag this month, - let's have a peep inside:

Product: Sprays or Brushos

Technique: Gesso Resist

Colour: Blue

Substrate: Card

What a fun collection to start playing with, so come along on the journey and I'll show you what I made:

As you can see, it's a little triptych with three different card panels. 

Below you can see how I put this together:

I cut a piece of blue card to 6" by 12" and scored it at 4" and 8" along the 12" side.

I then cut  three separate pieces of white card just slightly smaller, so 5.75 by 3.75 ", and decided to use the gesso resist technique by scraping gesso through 2 different but similar stencils and also by using a background stamp.

For those of you who are new to this technique, - gesso will act as a resist to any water based ink or spray as it resists the water/ translucent elements in these products. So when you add colour, the gessoed areas remain much lighter. You can use stencils, stamps or even just scrape on the gesso over your substrate. These are the stencils and stamps I used: from left to right: Tim Holtz Shattered, Memorybox Lathenai and a stamp from Local King Rubber Stamp.

Here is the first one, after I added colour. I used Tim Holtz Distress Spray Tumbled Glass and Cobalt Blue Brusho. I sprinkled on a bit too much of that, so it got quite dark in the centre.

Here you can see the next stage, - I lifted some of the Brusho off again using a baby wipe and then added more blue using Distress Inks in Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire around the edges and also did some background stamping using various Tim Holtz stamps.

The next two panels were done in a very similar way:

The one on the left used the Rubber King stamp, the one on the right the Memorybox stencil. As I used a little too much gesso on there, some of the detail of the stencilling got lost.

Time to finish the different panels.

For the fhe first one, that became the middle panel, I just adhered a large Petaloo flower from my stash to the centre and also a little Tim Holtz word band.

For the next one I used one of Tim's Thinlet dies with matching stamp, - it was coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils and I also did some further stamping in Black Archival.

Finally for the last one I used the Dragonfly from the Classics 1 set by Stampers Anonymous and stamped it first straight onto the card, and then stamped the wing separately again.

And below the finished card after adhering the wings to the dragon fly, - again coloured with Inktense pencils and a little gold Aqua Tint for a bit of shimmer.

Now, it was at this point that I decided to make the triptych into a little booklet, so I made a cover for it, putting some ribbon in a matching colour underneath, so it could be tied shut.

The paper I used for the cover are papers I designed myself, - you can find them as freebies on my blog here if you are interested. The words Artist Journal are again from the Classics 1 set. As I had printed the papers on rather glossy paper I sanded the surface a little so the stamping would adhere better, I also added a little gesso behind the stamping to give it more tooth.

And here is the finished booklet, ready to give to someone as a special card.

I hope you have enjoyed this first leg of the journey, like I said, if you like printed papers, just head over to my blog (there are several others there as well), and don't forget to come back next Monday, when it is time for the second leg of our journey. Do check out our current challenge also (link in the side bar) and of course there will be several Inspiration Journeys too during the rest of the month.

Thank you so much for visiting today and have a lovely month of May!!

xxx

Astrid