Journal Page - Memories of 2020

The prompt over on Try It On Tuesday is Add some Text.  As you can see, as well as the stamped text on this journal page, I also used book paper to create the flames.

I added transparent gesso to a double page of handmade paper in a journal and allowed to dry. I then added Fossilized Amber Distress Paint roughly to the pages and dried thoroughly.

Next, I added some Terracotta Adirondack paint through the Clarity Wild Privet stencil in places.

Black card was trimmed 4” x 4.5” and the 3.25” nested square picot die used to cut an Aperture from one end.

I stamped the Phoenix stamp onto stencil card in Terracotta Adirondack ink.

It was coloured with Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolour pencils blended out with a watercolour brush pen.

Fussy cut and attached behind the die cut.

The image and die cut were attached to the left-hand page, sealed with matte medium and dried thoroughly.

I added shading around the image with a Faber-Castell Big Brush marker and blended it out with a Pergamano blending pen and nib.

Doodles were then added to the edge of the frame round the phoenix in white gel pen.

Pieces of book text were torn into the shape of flames and added to the right-hand page. They were sealed with matte medium and dried thoroughly.

I went over the flames with the Cobalt Green, Dark Naples Ochre and Terracotta Faber-Castell Big brush markers blended out with a Pergamano blending pen and nib to echo the image.

Further doodling was added to the flames using a white gel pen.

I stamped 2020 in Versamark ink below the Phoenix using the Word Chain Numbers,then heat embossed with white embossing powder.

To finish, I added ‘Still I Rise’ to the right-hand page using the Word Chain Alphabet stamps in Nocturne Versafine Clair. Heat emboss with clear powder.

Memories of the pandemic in 2020 and how we overcame it.