Okay so officially it's almost Day 2 of the new Kickstart Your Art week long challenge, but you have 24 hours to get your art journal page in and I am down to the nitty gritty this morning.
Day 1 KYA challenge is Layers. I have got plenty on this page and was very happy with the way it has turned out.
Left of Center also has their Challenge #62 - Layer it Up which this page will be entered into.
Have both digital and rubber stamps on this page along with layers of papers and paints.
Full On Toxic Details
Ladies are from the Smeared Ink Digital set called Toxic Ballerinas. Image was printed out onto Very Vanilla card stock. Colored in with markers. Crystal Effects over eyes. They were fussy cut and then adhered to another piece of Very Vanilla card stock that I had already used acrylic paints on.
Layer below ballerinas was placed onto gelli plate, then gone over with reds and paint brush. Wanted to bring out the veins on each of the ballerinas.
Washi tape was also placed along center before ballerinas were adhered.
Tore along all edges and adhered this layer to my journal page.
Base layer of page is what I made for my Winter is Here project...found HERE.
Used a variety of blue acrylic inks, spray inks, stencils, sponges, and various nick-nacks to make patterns. Other colors of acrylic inks were added to enhance the pages I was working on.
Once each layer was adhered down, I used the back ground stamps Heads (Daniel Torrente) and French Filigree (retired SU!) with inks randomly on page.
This weeks Smeared Ink Weekly Design Team Project is inspired by the set called Toxic Ballerinas. I was messing around with those dollar store skellies and loved that I could rotate their arms and legs to any position. So it reminded me of a ballerina, and there you go.
Headed off to print my ballerina heads, when ding goes the laundry. For some reason I like to do whites last and then stuff all the extra dryer sheets in that load. So I have a lot in there. Well these would make the perfect "tutu" for my project!
This is a bit dark since my ballerina is a skeleton so thought this project would fit nicely in the A Step In The Dark challenge. This Challenge #10 is Anything Goes Dark.
This ballerina does have wire attached so that she does hang.
On Pointe Details
Heads
As said before I printed off one of the images from the Smeared Ink digital set Toxic Ballerinas onto Very Vanilla Card stock.
Colored in with Blendabilities.
Used a fine tip black Sharpie to hand draw spine.
Old bottle caps were filled with punched scrap paper first and Crystal Effects.
Finished heads were also punched with 1" circle punch and then placed in bottle caps with more Crystal Effects. Set aside until dry.
Body
Spine and arms of dollar store skellie.
Has sploches of ink from spritz and spray inks.
Tutu
9 or so layers of dryer sheets, torn and cut.
Poked a hole in center and then stuck spine through.
Used Dylusions and Smooch Spray Inks to color in. Hard to see but dress is Purple and a Pink/Red color.
Gold Spritz over also hard to see but wanted to give a bit of sparkle.
Dark Brown Spritz to give darker spots on dress.
Other
Red Sticky Strip to hold on bottle cap heads.
Thin wire to hold her up.
All materials used are current Stampin' Up! (SU!) unless otherwise noted.
