My favourite designer at the moment, when I want to make a card, is Jo Rice who is Head of the Design Team at Lavinia Stamps. Jo is a lovely lady and when I asked if I could use her ideas as a basis for some of my journal pages she was quite happy for me to do so. So with Jo's permission I give you my rendition of the little mice playing in the Steampunk Library:
My background was a second run from the Ornate stencil I had used elsewhere. I love to do this technique for backgrounds and it means you get two for the price of one in a way. I had used my stencil with some Distress Oxides and rather than wash it up I spritzed it with water and placed it ink side down on my cardstock. Left it for a minute or so and then pressed a piece of kitchen roll on top. Lifting it up you get a lovely muted impression of the stencil.
Next, using the Hill Mask and Graphite Elements ink I made some ground for the mice to stand on. Then I used the various stamps, (Moo and Tilly, Wizardry, Topper, Goggles, Cog Set 1-3, Words of Steam, and Rose Set), stamping with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and coloured the images with Inktense watercolour pencils.
This started life on a piece of 8 x 8 cardstock and is is now in my Lavinia Journal. I sometimes like to work this way so that I don't spoil my actual journal pages with any mistakes I might make and not be able to cover up. Much easier to work on a piece of card and then stick it in my journal.
I hope this has shown you something a little different than the first page for my "In Gear" challenge at Art Journal Journey and I hope you will join in with us. Just make sure you read the dreaded rules first of all which you can find at the top of the AJJ page.
I love Eva's entry (8) for this theme but cannot find how to comment, Can someone please let me know how to leave a comment on her blog.
