Dylusions Card

Hi everyone and welcome to 2 new followers. Ryn and Charlene.  I would invite you to visit both these fantastic blogs when you have a moment, for some serious art inspiration!

I have another of the Dylusions experiments that I finally made into a card - not sure what occasion it will be used for. This one has quite a few different techniques I was just experimenting with, and I had to look at it, think about it for several weeks. Last night, I decided to make a card with it.

-Background was made just using Dylusions sprays (I think it was Fuschia and Bubblegum pink, but I didn't write down what I used). I had been wanting to ink up my Ryn Patio Stone stamp, so you'll see it. (stamped great!). The circles were created by spraying water over a stencil; when it didn't remove as much ink as I wanted, I replaced the stencil & sprayed very lightly with the white Dylusions spray...holding the spray back much further. There was a negative diecut of the Memory Box Lorelei leaf - not yet thrown in the trash - used that as a stencil and sponged some DI blue to create the leaf. Moved it around to get the extra branches.* Then I stamped the Patio Stone several times with Archival Black. Went back a few days later and added the white outlining in the leaves with a white gel pen. Next time I'll probably just use a white pencil.
* this negative was from water color weight paper, and it made a good stencil. Something I have to remember when I'm trying to do watercolor will be save any diecut pieces.

I had been using the packing tissue from purchasing breakables at a store, as a liner on the airbrush table. I also save the old large desk calendar sheets as we tear off the months & add those to the table, or any papers that are large enough to protect the desk surface. I had read about using sprayed papers at several blogs, so I've started looking at the 'trash' with different eyes. I thought about the orange-y tones of the sprayed tissue complementing the purple-y tones of this piece, so tore off a scrap to see how it looked. This piece evolved over time...one night I'd just look & puzzle. Next night, I'd try something - either the stamping, stenciling, etc. This time I adhered the tissue and just left it alone for a couple of weeks. After looking at other blogs & some youtubes, etc., last night I used the Memory Box San Marzano border & Elizabeth Craft sentiment die in black and decided this was finished!

I hope you like this one...expect to see more of my experiments as I try to broaden the scope of my cardmaking. I think my first love will still be the images colored with copics, but this is a fun process.  Like I've said before, some may be warts, but some I sort of like!

Have a good day, thanks for joining me, and hugs.