When your throat is shot with laryngitis, and you’ve powered through 3 days of singing telegrams. And then the coughs and sneezes settle in. You are more than ready to just settle in for the weekend. And kick this before it kicks you.
It has to have made its impression, when I barely have the energy for even a Layer a Day. I didn’t feel horribly sick, but definitely wiped out and ready for rest. Still, I pushed out that layer. A big old blotch of Distress Picked Raspberry Paint. And I went back to bed.
Taking that full day of nothing but rest, I awoke ready to tackle more, and began working on my layers. Much mark making and splatters. Cheesecloth, a ribbon. Cranking out die cut after die cut, after colorizing the paper.
Let’s look at that journey. I started with adding a lighter wash on the opposite page with Spun Sugar Distress Paint. Then jumped into mark making. The various marks were made with Tim Holtz THMM116 (Stitches) and THMM114 (Media Marks) stamps, and the edge of a key card with Black Soot Archival Ink. I stenciled Tim Holtz Halftones with Kitchen Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Oxide Inks. And then Splattered with Picked Raspberry Distress Paint and a Black Matte acrylic paint. Now my spread had some character!
Then I pulled out a handful of my Tim Holtz dies and my Sidekick cutter, and I began cranking them out. I needed a focal point—Mini Detailed Butterflies. A font—Theory Alphanumeric. More texture in my background layers—Vault Picture Show (the film strip, which I painted with Spun Sugar Distress Paint.). And some filler accents—Small Tattered Florals. I’d colored my papers for the flowers and butterfly with Distress Oxide Inks in Picked Raspberry and Kitchen Flamingo, to get depth to the pinks, and used Squeezed Lemonade for the yellow flower centers. I heat embossed the top layer of the butterfly in black. Such a shiny pop. And edged the flowers in Black Soot Archival Ink.
Time to put it all together. A piece of cheesecloth, a strip of ribbon, and the film strip created layers of depth under my focal point. The flowers filled in as accents around the butterfly and words, as well as adding a more obvious cohesiveness, tying the two pages together.
The words are from 2 John 1:6. This is love: that we walk according to his commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: that you walk in love.
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