A kaleidoscope of color

This week's challenge over at Simon Says Stamp & Show is all about a kaleidoscope of color.  I love color, especially the warm family...reds, oranges, and yellows.  I had been playing around on 140 lb. watercolor paper, just slapping on color using a number of inks, sprays and mediums....with all colors of the rainbow.  And this journaling thing that people keep showing...not sure it's my thing but I figured I'd give it a whirl.  From my large sheet I cut off a 5x8 piece for my journal cover.  Now I can submit this entry for the eclecticPaperie blog hop.  After gesso, stencils, more inks, doodling and embellishments I can safely say I'm pleased with the outcome.

I free-handed some hills on the lower portion and wrote across them :never compare your journey with someone else's.  your journey is YOUR journey, not a competition."  I saw this on a friend's Facebook post and thought it very appropriate for my first art journal cover. 

If you've done this sort of thing before you know there's no way to really keep up with all the steps so I'll just list the items I used.

Ranger:  Fired Brick Distress Crackle Paint, Inkssentials white gel pen, Butterscotch & Terra Cotta pigment inks; Jet Black archival ink; clear & copper embossing powders; Faded Jeans Distress ink; Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist; mists I made from re-inkers and Perfect Pearls; distress inks (all colors); Claudine Hellmuth gesso, Studio Paint and Multi-medium

Crafters Workshop and All Night media stencils

Studio 490: Gentlemen's Art (let your heart lead the way)

Black, red, green Sharpies

Inkadinkado: my name stamp

Idea-ology:  ornate plate, long fasteners, corners, grungeboard heart

Sizzix:  pennants on-the-edge die (traced around and doodled inside them)


BTW, this was a Strathmore journal I found in the clearance aisle at Michaels for very little money.  So little money I bought 2...just in case I wanted to do another one.  vbg