Scrap it with Attitude April challenge

Reuse/Recycle your scraps

This month over at Scrap it With Attitude we're asking our members to use their scraps to create a project and enter our April challenge.

This is my DT inspiration.

I decided to have a go at some Art journalling. I've been checking out some techniques and testing them on my layout's but I hadn't actually attempted a journal page. Until now. I decided to title it "Take Risks" because that's exactly what this was. A risk. My journalling says "If you win, you'll be Happy. If you loose, You will be wise". I love this quote. I reckon it's right on the money and I've always been a bit of a risk taker!

Here's how I put it all together.

I gathered some of my scraps together and shredded them into strips.

 I used Distress Ink and rubbed several bright colours over my circle stencil then applied modelling paste with my dots stencil over the top.

 Then I gave it a couple of sprays of Dylusions Ink for good measure and to get some drips!

 Then I began gluing down the strips. It was at this point that I decided that the strips looked like hair and remembered I'd purchased some face stencils a while back but hadn't used them yet.

 So I got one out (of the packet. Hadn't even opened them!) and positioned it next to my strips. I used black Gesso to paint the face in.

 When I pulled the stencil away, I was gob smacked. It looked so much better than what I could have ever imagined.

I added some more colour, some stamping, stencilling and a few embellishments and then I had to sit on my hands!!!

I think I'm going to really get into this. I've always struggled at being a minimalist scrapper. Always putting heaps on a page. Art journalling will cure that disease! I'll be able to vent my over doingness into my Art Journalling.

YAY!

Thanks for popping by and checking out my risk taking LOL I hope you enjoyed it.

Cheers

Fiona xx