Positive Thoughts

 

Our Visible Image DT theme this week is “Gratitude & Reflection” and it’s been a tough one for me to do.  Our little girly cat went missing almost 3 weeks ago and despite all our efforts, there has been no news.   She was a real home body so this behaviour is most out of character.  My husband and I are very worried and it’s been a distressing time.  So, my inspiration for my art journal page was to try and get myself into a more positive mindset with a calm, misty mountain scene.

A muted colour scheme seemed appropriate so I selected Distress Inks in Stormy Sky and Weathered Wood and blended them onto the sky area before spritzing with Lost Shadow Distress Spray Stain and Iced Spruce Distress Oxide Spray.

Using a torn paper mask and the smallest fir tree from Christmas Eve, I spritzed the page with water and then stamped the trees in Bundled Sage and Iced Spruce Distress Inks, using second generation stamping for some more distant trees.

For the next layer of trees, I used another torn mask and a combination of the smallest and mid-sized trees, to indicate that the trees were a little larger and therefore closer.

The final layer was another mask and I only used the mid-sized tree.  My paper soaked up the water really quickly so the trees weren’t quite as fuzzy as I’d hoped.

After blending some ink under each row and around the page, I stamped several of the sentiments from Affirmations in Versamark Clair Morning Mist.

Lastly, some splatter using Dr Ph Martin’s Bleed Proof White and a few of the colour changing metallic paints for some sparkle.

Here’s my finished page but the shimmer from the metallics doesn’t show up very well.

A close up shows those little sparkly accents.