Believe

 Hi everyone! Melissa here with an art journal page for you.  I love the detail and intense colors of Paper House products, so I made a stunning pink dahlia image the center of the page.

Supplies Used:

• Flamingo Mini Trim Cards 12" Colorways Scrapbook Paper
• Flamingo 12" Cardstock Stickers
• Mini Mixed Butterfly Puffy Sticker
• Primroses Puffy Sticker

I used a page of a  9 x 12 watercolor book to support all the media I wanted to use. I prepped the page with white gesso, followed by texture paste applied through some paper die cuts.  I used pink shimmery watercolor, and water soluble oil pastels. I didn't have a sprays in the colors I wanted to use, so I mixed what I had with water, and brushed a lot on the diamond texture. I tipped the page in different directions, let the color run all over,misted it with water to soften and blend it,and used a heat gun to dry it. I used the same process for the green. I glued the beautiful flower image onto a piece of paper and put it on the page. To add more texture I added glass glitter, micro beads, seed beads, and threads I pulled from a piece of gauze. I lightly brushed the pink crayon over the diamond texture along the outer edges of the page, and misted it. I added green watercolor randomly in between the diamonds.  If any of the  colors ran I blotted them off with a paper towel.

To add more visual interest I put on butterfly and rose stickers, rub ons, flowers,bling, stamps, a cut up black and white vintage photo, and die cuts.

The page looked too busy, so I brushed white gesso over some areas. Along the edges of the page I brushed it on lightly, as an accent.

I don't really like a mat white look, so I brushed pearl mica powder over all the areas I'd used gesso.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

Rich and I

Hi everyone, Melissa here with a page for Paper House. I love working with these beautifully made products, the colors and images are amazing! 

My husband and I had a house in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California. We were there for about two years, and this photo was taken during that time. It's hard to put into words how much I loved living there. We were on top of a hill, and could see the mountains of Tahoe, 40 miles away.

 Supplies used:

• Believe 12"Double Sided Scrapbook Paper
• Hummingbirds Puffy Sticker
• Mini Mixed Butterflies Puffy Sticker
• Wolf Pack 2" Stickers

To make this page I put a piece of Believe paper onto a sheet of black cardstock.  I put a wide piece of lace on, and taped it to the underside of the black paper.  I put the photo on black cardstock, and used foam core board to give it some dimension. Later on I attached ribbon around the photo with foam tape.  I also decided there was too much lace, and cut some off.

I applied gesso with a small cosmetic sponge, and put on my embellishments. I added some cute hummingbird puffy stickers because they're adorable. There were a lot of those little birds in real life there, and I would spend hours watching them.  I used watercolors,crackle paint,mica powders,stenciled texture paste on to frame the photo.  

I wiped glossy accents on the mini butterflies, then poured on glitter.

I colored  gauze with brown watercolor to make some nesting material that you see at the bottom right. I dry brushed all over the page with metallic aqua paint on the edges and surfaces of textured areas.

I outlined areas on the page with heavy lines using a watercolor pencil, and brushed water on over them to blend them.

 I've used some wolf stickers at the bottom of the page,and while wolves weren't in that area, there was a lot of wildlife. Every night I would listen to coyotes howling. 

Thanks for looking at my page, I hope you liked it!