Sarntangled Art Journalling!

I finally managed to find a few minutes to have a play with my new Sarntangle stamps which arrived yesterday. Sarn has produced a limited run of stamps of her super tangles - if you're interested pop over and see if she has any left! i think you need sunglasses for this though!

I liberally sprinkled scarlet, lemon and yellow brushos on my page then sprinkled with water - quite a lot actually, mopped some of it up with kitchen towel then dried with a heat gun - I didn't have time to wait for it to dry naturally, and added a touch of Worn Lipstick distress ink to the edges.  Then set to with the stamps and some additions of SU's Gorgeous Grunge stamps. I coloured some of the dangles in with alcohol pens to give a bit of depth.
 

My 1st Art Journal Page

After commenting on Sarn's lovely page here she sent me an email which shamed  encouraged me
to make a start!

 

 Creating it was not without some hiccups! After creating a background I got some stamps out and inked them up with black archival, the pad slipped out of my hand and stupidly I tried to catch it and ended up with a perfect ink pad mark on my top (which was pale blue) - fortunately a very old one which has now been relegated to the  "decorating clothes" cupboard. So the background now had badly stamped images so went back to the gesso and paints. This time more succesful but would have been better if I'd had a bit more patience and let it dry properly, before stamping. Then I got the gilding flakes out. I really want to do a canvas similar to this so it was a way of seeing whether the end result was vaguely like I envisaged.  I'd forgotten how messy gilding flakes and flitterglu were! But they did look like i'd imagined so a good result. But as I craft upstairs the nearest supply of water for the fliterglu'd stamps etc is the bathroom - so then that had to be cleaned as well!

Anyway Sarn - the book is no longer pristine - and despite the hiccups along the way I enjoyed playing! Stamps used are Clarity, Stampin' Up! and Kanban. The background, acrylic paint, distress stains and Cosmic Shimmer sprays.