AALL & Create Project #3

Hello Friends

I am here again for the second time today, with another project for AALL & Create, this time I created a journal spread in my much neglected journal!

I was watching a video recently by Aida Domisiewicz a few months back, when she used watercolours in a very fluid way.  Bipasha's beautiful stamp set seemed perfect for my two page spread - I wanted the chess set to take centre stage.                                                                              

I wet the page with water, left it for a moment or two and then dipped my watercolour laden brush into the wet area and just let the watercolour move around.  Not shown, I took another colour (purple) and let is spread around too.

Next, I stamped directly using Bipasha's stamp set #115 onto the page and again on a spare sheet of watercolour paper, added some shading here and there in grey and fussy cut the pieces out, ready to place over the stamped images.

To add some texture, I stencilled some texture paste through Stencil #39 to the top left and bottom right of the spread.

Although I loved the effect, I thought it needed a little more and so I drew a squiggly border around the whole of both pages and blocked it out in a checkerboard style, I love how it matches the chess board and helps to draw the eye in.

I stamped the word Check Mate from Bipasha's stamp set #122.

I hope you like my very simple page, I have never used watercolour in this way - I really enjoyed the freedom of it!

The stamps and stencil I used are available from a list of stockists HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you will check out my other post today too.

Hugs, Anne xx