May 16, 06:36 am
Week Three: Karma
This week’s prompt totally spoke to me. I have been wanting to work with a cool butterfly image that is in the current issue of Real Simple magazine. I scanned it in, removed the text, changed it to black and white, used the charcoal filter, upped the contrast, and then changed it to a duotone using a dark green before printing.
One thing I love about working on this journal is the evolution it takes from my initial starting point. I am definitely working on the fly for most of these pages…adding until it feels done enough.
At first I imagined this page to be about the circle of life – using the butterflies as representation of that theme. But as I played I kept thinking of the saying, “what goes around comes around.” And that is pretty much where I ended up.
Lots of layering. Matte medium for adhesive and over top of the images. After that was dry I stamped and wrote around the edges. I am using a Pen-Touch white fine tip paint pen from Sakura for my white writing. The large white writing in around the butterfly is a font I created for Two Peas called “enjoy life” (actually comes in the circle format with an initial in the middle).
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