Purple Power

Hello friends, I hope you are having a lovely Tuesday!

The Play Date Cafe has once again given us a lovely set if colors to challenge us with this week. 

http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/

I decided to do some Art Journaling.  Still trying to loosen up a bit more so I have not shown you guys some of my prior journaling...so here goes:

I used a combination of sprays....Dylusions in Crushed Grape, Glimmer Mist in Night B4 Christmas, and Glimmer Glam paint in Royal Velvet, the paint is both painted on and splattered lightly.  I sprayed water onto mt page first, sprayed the colors and then laid down the adjacent page to blend...now I have another Purple page for a different work.  I used a Tim Holtz stamp for the crackle look in the background and a Kaiser Craft stamp for the bubble wrap background.  I stamped those with Archival Ink in Plum and Deep Purple.  I then stamped the dress form from THoltz in black Archival as well as the "always" stamp, I don't remember who makes that one.  

Using the following photo as inspiration;

 I chose to create a heart using stamped images of spool tops.  These came from Maya Road and Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous.  I used Archival inks again in Plum, Deep Purple, Blue Violet and Magenta Hue. I love using the Archival inks with clear stamps as they seem to give the clearest stamped images.

Finally I did some embellishing with Momenta Metal Stickers and some pen work.  I replicated stitching as a boarder, around the heart too, right next to the heart I used a TH SA stamp which replicates a zig zag stitch.  I wanted some "pop" so I used a Marvy Deco Color Liquid Gold paint pen.

I'm loving the art journaling, I highly recommend everyone give it a try, you probably have most of the supplies laying around your craft space for a fun page!

I will be entering this into the following challenges, besides TPDC :

http://thecreativepapertrade.blogspot.com/2012/10/color-my-week-4-fall-sweeties.html - Challenge #4

http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/ - stitching - real or faux

http://365cards.blogspot.com/ - Day 258 - Inkalicious (don't ya just love the name of that challenge?!!!