Art Journal: Live Like Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

Yesterday I showed you the process of the poppies and now it's time to show you the journal spread I made with them.

This journal page is inspired by this month's Our Mixed Media Mood board created by Dee Dee Catron and Jenn Engle. Glad to be participating in the challenge this month.

 

This is the mood board. So many beautiful imagery to get inspired from, but what inspired me most is the red/orange color on the top left, the flowers and cascading rectangles. In the journal page I also added the element of wings by choosing the Dragonfly designed  by Jo Capper-Sandon for Stampotique. It's one of my absolute faves of Stampotique Originals, so I'm also entering this in the #SCD265 Your fave stamp challenge as well. On a holiday in Sweden I had two dragonfly friends that came by and they were just pure magic to watch. I tried to capture a bit of the magic in this journal spread.

To accentuate the poppies I used a muji brush pen and a water brush to create some shading. I spattered some Liquitex Inks! in black, white and gold over the overall image.

The Dragonfly was stamped on light weight tracing paper, Embossed with black and violet interference WOW embossing powder and adhered with Art Basics soft matte gel medium. I then accentuated it with wink of stella yellow. There is a bit of crackle due to the fold in the journal. Which kind of also works for the crackle image on the top right in the mood board :) 

The sentiment "live like tomorrow doesn't exist" is from visible image and stamped on black card stock and embossed with white WOW embossing powder. I thought it would be fitting to the page as I tried to convey a Mayfly, because for them, tomorrow doesn't exist. So enjoy life and smell the roses (poppies) when you can :)

I'm also entering this journal spread in The Craft Stamper's February "take it, make it" Challenge. 

Materials used: 

Basic Grey Scrap book paper 

Crafter's Workshop Gold Gesso; modeling paste 

Finnabair Soft matte Gel medium

Amsterdam heavy matte Gel Medium; red paint 

Crafter's workshop Oblong stencil 

Donna Doney Poppy Forest Stencil 

Distress stains: fired brick, worn lipstick, barn door, twisted citrus, mowed lawn 

Liquitex INKS! white, black, gold 

Aileen's Paper glaze

WOW embossing powder black, interference violet, white

Dragonfly stamp by Stampotique Originals

Wink of stella yellow 

Muji black brush pen 

Water brush 

Stamper Anonymous Tim Holtz numbers reflections stamps 

Visible image Live like tomorrow doesn't exist sentiment stamp

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!