My First Journal Page!

Hi all!  My brand new Dyan Reaveley Journal was just begging to be arted up, and thanks to the very talented Marjie Kemper, I found Dyan's Art Journaling Group on Facebook!  These are my first attempts at the coloring techniques I'm using, so I'm experiencing a major learning curve.  All part of the fun, right?

 

Dyan's challenge this week is to create a page that incorporates her spider stamp, the color orange, and the words 'New Beginnings'.  Sounds fun, huh?  I took pics this time to show my progress (another first).

 
To start, I sprayed my pages with Dylusions Sprays in Vibrant Turquoise, Fresh Lime and Peeled Orange (I'm getting hungry). Then I used a couple of her stencils to spray water on, removing some of the color. I didn't mean to do the reverse circle stamping in the same direction, but it will disappear later. I also learned to pay attention to the edge of the stencil, if that's not what you're going for ;)

I then took one of her border stamps to stamp, um, the border. I did some random stamp rolls, which I wish I had done a little lighter or with another color, and a little doodling with my white pen. 

 



I stamped Dyan's stamp circles onto white cardstock, cut them out and adhered them with a glue stick.  I used Tim Holtz's Sizzix die, Typeset, to create my 'New Beginnings'. I went over the letters with my white pen, but will probably go back and outline them with a black pen to make the letters stand out more.

I knew I wanted to use wings to convey the exhilarating feeling of starting something new, and I thought it would be cute for the spider to go along for the ride to start his own new beginning :)
 
Here are some close-ups...

 

 

 



I had a lot of fun creating this!  I'd love to know what you think (creative criticism is always welcome).  Thanks for stopping by!