Just Keep Swimming Journal 52

Journal 52, Week 26: Under the Sea. This was really a fun piece to work on. I had different techniques that I was just itching to try and decided that this was the one I would do that on. First, I grabbed a piece of tagboard that already had some gesso and splotches of blue acrylic paint on it. Then I took a piece of deli paper, wrinkled it up, sprayed it with Dylusions in blues and yellow and added it to the cardstock with Yes paste. When it was dry, I went over the top lightly with a white ink pad. The fish were cut out from some coffee filters that I had squiggled some white glue on and than dropped some inks, followed by Dylusions in yellow. I added a black ink dot eye with white gel pen highlight. The words were written with a clear embossing pen on to the deli paper. I used a white embossing powder, embossed and applied with a matte gel medium. On of my favorite yarn/spinning podcasters is Dr. Gemma, a psychologist who's mantra is "just keep swimming." I added the waves with some old gelli printed paper, bubbles with a pencil eraser and white stamp pad, hook from jewelry supplies, and a yarn worm with gold Stickles.

I love The Frugal Crafter and some of my ideas come from her. I often find ideas on the Internet and can't remember who to credit, but Lindsay showed the deli paper techniques. She has a lot of great video tutorials.

WASTE NOT
I had a wreck with my Glossy Accents. I was trying to unclog it when it decided to explode onto my work space. So, I quickly grabbed some flowers that I had punched out of leftovers and dunked them into the puddle. They dried nice and shiny. I used the same deli paper techniques for this piece as well.