Hi and thank you again for your visit :0). I finally finished another art journal page from my Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. I played with a small 4"x6" stamp set full of cute little (too little for me) robots and here is the final page with my Time keepers :0)
I have a bunch of these small stamp sets, the stamps are mostly very cute characters, but also very small, great for card making, but unfortunately not so great for art journaling or scrapbooking. Therefore I had a bit hard time to find out how to create a scene with this robotic set, although I like it a lot. Maybe it could help to stamp them, scan them into a computer, re-size them and print again....hmm, that could be an option...
In any case I'm trying to find my way to use all my small stamps, not just to have them in my stash and admire them :0)
But for sure I wanted to use this background I made with my DIY resist spray. I saw the Creativation demos with Tim Holtz new Resist spray a month ago and I really love this idea, but I was a bit impatient to try it, although the spray was not in the stores yet. So I started to think about a DIY version. Do you remember Ranger's Glue n'seal - multipurpose glue and sealer which Wendy Vecchi love so much? I still had a two in my stash - matt and glossy. But they were a few years old and a partially dried out and were not useful as a brushable glue anymore. But I did not throw them away yet. So now I used one of them and mixed it with enough water (I used distilled one, but I think is not actually necessary) to create a liquid usable in a Ranger bigger mister bottle. It really looks similar to the Tim's spray, milky white, creating a super tiny and fine mist as you can see on the letters of my background. And it works as a great colour resist, although the sprayed layer can also keep a lighter version of the colour which you will apply on the top, if you will not wipe away throughly with a damp cloth. Here I used it in a combination with blue Distress ink pads.
This background is actually multi-layered. First I created a background with light blue Distress inks, blending tool and TH Argyle stencil. Than I took a Claritystamp alphabet stencil and sprayed the DIY resist spray through it and dried it with my heat tool. After that I applied another layer of Distress inks - a bit darker than the first one, so the sprayed letters appeared.
Next I took another Claritystamp stencil with gears and sprayed through it again with the DIY resist spray and dried it again and used a much much darker blue Distress inks over it. I revealed the final pattern - the combination of the two sprayed stencils and and also the first layer with he Argyle stencil is still a bit visible in the alphabet letters.
And - of course - I immediately washed my stencils after I sprayed through them, so there is no glue residue on them.
My DIY spray is probably a bit too thin - I mixed more water in it than I should (1 part of the glue and 3 parts of water should be good enough to prevent the clogging of the spray bottle), but it still sprays beautifully fine mist, although it does not leave the raised texture on the paper as Tim's one does. But I should probably leave my bottle opened over night, so the part of the water could evaporate and it should make the consistency of the spray a bit thicker.
BTW now I also received the Tim's original Resist spray, so I will have a comparison soon :0).
OK, that was a background. My robots and signs I coloured with alcohol markers and silver paint pen and some highlights with a white gel pen. The "paths" are made from white Prima wire coloured with silver paint pen too. Few shadows with a black marker and that's all :0)
Thank you for stopping by - I apologize for such a looong article, have many nice creative days and see you next time :0)
12.3.2018 Time keepers
