Tuesday 19 April 2016

April Showers

Sunday morning chilling out on the sofa, I was watching a PaperArtsy YouTube video by Sara Naumann entitled Journal Cover Collage. The technique used stamping on tissue which has been a recent discovery for me with the alpha/dictionary project so I thought I would give this a try for the Craft Barn Two Weekly Challenge. The theme for the challenge is April Showers.

Here's a link to the YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpP83rgoDTM

My entry for the challenge is a small journal book cover.


I used an Instagram photo image for the background, the stamps used on the tissue are from Inkylicious and the background dotty paper from Kaisercraft. I really like that ghostly effect the tissue over the picture makes. Do watch the Sara Naumann video to see how to do it.
PaperArtsy Frseco finish paint used was snowflake.
I added a few ribbons and threads from my stash plus a couple of tiny shrink plastic tags. Can you see them? They are tiny.

Now I have my empty journal book, what shall I put in it? Maybe some experiments.

7 comments:

  1. Beautiful. Tissue paper does give a great effect. Softens everything.
    Flo x

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  2. The ghostly effect is cool, funny we had April showers yesterday, you must have been channeling

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  3. This is stunning, the tissue paper gives a lovely ghostly effect.

    Great minds were obviously thinking alike when we used the same stamped image and sentiment for The Craft Barn challenge. :-) xx

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  4. I'm glad you are having fun with tissue paper and also it's delightful to see you being on here more often....don't you just hate when work gets in the way!

    Sally x

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  5. This is so cool! Looks awesome! xxx

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  6. This is so beautiful! Thank you for joining in The Craft Barn Challenge.
    Jane x

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  7. What a fabulous effect and a beautiful cover for your journal.

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