Sweet Dreams

I'm once again joining Eileen aka The Artful Crafter our host this month at Art Journal Journey where her theme is Dreams and/or Wishes.

These are two of my favorite colors.  Combined, they go together beautifully.  I have always been fond of this combination and the recent purchase of Teal fluid acrylic made it possible.  Note the first thing I did was sew the sentiment in place.

Needless to say, I call it Sweet Dreams.

Watered down fluid acrylics make great splats.

Using my handmade stamp

that I painted using red fluid acrylic,

made it

through three stampings.

For this page, I began by sewing the sentiment to the 110 lb card stock using variegated thread.  I then colored the background in spots with teal fluid acrylic.  Some I colored using the paint full strength, and some I watered down.  I watered it further when I created the teal splats.  I used a glue stick to adhere the vintage page to the substrate.  The page had aged naturally.  I didn't alter the color in any way.  Next, I painted the handmade (by me) chevron stamp using red fluid acrylic.  I stamped it three times without reloading paint.   I then watered down the red paint and created a few more splats.  I hope all your dreams are sweet, too.

I feel so honored by your visit.  Thank you beyond belief for doing so today.  I am very grateful and hope to see you at Art Journal Journey with your own dreams or wishes.