Scrap Matrix Blog: Tam's blooming rainbow!

Sunday, 3 November 2019

Tam's blooming rainbow!

Hi everyone

Popped in to share my first creation for the 'Powerful Blooms' Challenge.

A double page in my large Dylusions Journal.

This drippy rainbow colour is a technique I use often and it never fails to look fabbo.

Let's take a look at it....

Firstly..... oh look there's my Maisy....she's always in my happy place with me.

I paint her often.....she seems to like it.

Sorry, always distracted by kitties. Right back to business...

I added a coat of white gesso to my pages. As I add lots of water, this helps protect the work on the other sides and I love the white background, rather than the creamy colour.

To be honest, it I was adding colour to the entire background I wouldn't worry about gesso, but I much prefer to see white in my white space.

After all, it's not called cream space. lol

Once dry I add blobs of colours along the top of the page.

They can be pretty messy.

I used the following Paper Artsy Colours -

Red Lipstick, Banana, Cerulean, Bubblegum, Lavender.

I then worked with just one colour at a time, beginning with red.

I added more paint to the blobs, then stood up the journal and sprayed the red paint with lots of water.

I love watching it drip down and decide where its little trickles of colour will go.

It's quite mesmerising. (So much so, I forgot to take a photo).

Let dry completely before moving onto the next colour.

If you don't allow it to dry, the trickles of colour will find each other and turn to mud!!!!

Repeat until all colours are done.

Then cover all up with paper towels except one colour, and add lots of flicks.

Allow each to dry again, before moving to the next colour and continue to flick.

Such a fun process...really makes me lose all sense of everything.

Those colour trickles really get me.

Hence, no photos of the stages AGAIN. Whoops.

I also painted blocks of each colour onto the NEW smooth Paper Artsy Cardstock, ready for stamping.

I then gathered up all my favourite flower stamps.......yep mostly Tracy Scott but a Dina Wakley thrown in there for good measure.

Go crazy stamping.....you might notice that I overlapped some of my stamping so that some of the flowers are half and half of each colour.

Time to pop yourself in front of the television and cut out all your stamped images.

I decided to stamp out some leaves too, just to break up some of the florals.

I used a Carabelle by Birgit Koopsen

So now it's time to cluster the florals on top of the co-ordinating patches of colour.

I also added lots of scribbles/doodling with white pen.

Something I learnt from the Tracy weekend.....

I let some of the flowers cascade down the page.

This is where I added the stamped leaves.

I also added a quote from one of the Tracy Scott stamps.

I love this quote, but it was specifically about sunflowers, so I kinda cut and pasted until it suited my page.

Such a glorious rainbow of powerful blooms.

I hope you enter our challenge this month.
So much you can create for Powerful Blooms.
Just add your entry, whether it be a journal page, scrapbook layout, a couple of cards or even an off the page project to our Shares Page on Facebook. Don't forget to let us know what Scrap Matrix products you used.