Attitude of Gratitude - Day 11

Ideas

For the texture on this background I brushed on a very heavy layers of gesso.  I immediately laid a crocheted doily on top of the gesso and pressed gently in several different areas of the page.  I let this dry.  I then sprayed the pages with several colors of Dylusions ink sprays in Bubblegum, Funky Fuchsia, and Dirty Martini.  Once this was dry I dry brushed a metallic acrylic paint randomly over the pages.  I stamped the header on a piece of white card stock, inked the edges, cut it out and glued it down to the page.  I cut hearts out of white card stock and two different patterns of paper and inked the edges and glued them down.  I had some random punched out hearts left over from the baby shower and decided to glue them on also.  I wrote the quote in one white heart and the verse in the other.  It is really hard to see but there is a lot of texture to the page.  I also "bubbled" the metallic paint in a couple of places by mistake but liked the effect.

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~Pam

An Attitude of Gratitude Day 10

HOME

Today's page brought out the inner child in me.  I brushed on a thick layer of gesso and drew into it with the end of my paintbrush.  Then I brushed on paint and inks. This was a fun page to work on.

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~Pam 

Attitude of Gratitude Days 8 & 9

FUN

For this page I chose to use gesso through a stencil.  For the background I used Distress stains with one spritz Dylusions ink on each page.  Then I used the gesso though a flower stencil.  When I dried the page some of the gesso bubbled up around the edges.  I liked the effect so next page will be with the gesso bubble technique.

Generosity 

On to the gesso bubble technique.  I applied my gesso fairly heavily to the page.  Then "bubbled" it with my heat tool.  Cool effect!  Then I used pastels since I don't own any pan pastels.  I sprayed the pastels with some hairspray to set it.  I went over the high places with some bronze distress ink.  I brushed thinned gesso over all to tone down the colors.  I like the muted colors.  

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~ Pam 

An Attitude of Gratitude-Day 7

Experience

I love finding ways to use things on my pages that I find like the cardboard packaging I found at work today.  I'm not sure what it was used for but someone was throwing it away and I saved it from the trash.

After using distress inks to ink up the background I cut the heart out of the cardboard.  I sprayed the heart with distress ink and dry brushed it with bronze acrylic paint.

I cut 1" circles with my punch out of newspaper and scrunched them up and made a couple of flowers to add to the ribbon and attached a butterfly.  I am pleased with the overall effect.

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~Pam

An Attitude of Gratitude - Day 6

Declaration

I am really loving using all my distress inks and paints.  I have used new techniques that I didn't know about and the effects they create are so wonderful.  Now I'm wondering do I even need paints?

Today's page came together fairly quickly.  I didn't use any one specific technique.  On my drive home from work, I was enjoying the fall leaves that are left on the trees.  The sun was shinning in just such a way that they seemed to shine on the trees.  I wanted to try to recreate that look and feel on my page.  Not sure I am satisfied with the effects but it looks pretty.

For the background I inked using red, pink and black distress inks.  Then I stamped the leaves and using water I tried to take the color out of them.  Then I recolored them with distress markers.  I stamped over a few of them with clear embossing ink and clear embossing powder to produce some "shine".  This didn't produce the effect I was really going for but it worked somewhat.  I stamped and cut out the tittle and printed out and cut out the quote and verse.  I inked the edges and glued to the page.  

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~Pam

An Attitude of Gratitude-Day 5

Community

Today's page background is made using Ranger Distress Stains swiped randomly over the page and then sprayed with water and wiped with a baby wipe.  The idea for the tag was taken from a tutorial by Tammy Tutterow.  She makes the loveliest tags and posts a tutorial each Tuesday. 

I really love how this page turned out.  I am loving these pages using Ranger inks and stains.  I have never explored all the techniques you can use them with.  The effects are fantastic.

ThAnks for stopping by.

~Pam

Attitude of Gratitude - Day 4

Bucket List

Today's page background was done with random spraying of Ranger Dylusions inks.  I don't have a bucket stamp but I do have the cute jar stamp that I stamped on watercolor paper and cut out.  I stamped the tag and cut it out and used twine to "tie" it to the top of the jar with the words "Bucket List" printed and cut out then glued to it.  I stamped a random swirly stamp on the background then cut out and inked the verse and quote.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Pam