Precious Memories Journal Page/ Tag Tuesday

Hi you all, hope your week has started well. We had sunshine today - at last - and it was great to see a blue sky again. I went for a little walk, but the wind was very strong and cold and I came back home quickly. Tomorrow should be sunny too, what a treat!

The journal pages have been made for the challenge at Art Journal Journey, where the theme this time is 'precious moments'. I started off with a layer of gesso, and then some watered down metallic paint in green and blue. Then I had fun spraying with my home made inks, turning the page this way and that and letting it drip and run. I sprinkled some perfect pearls onto the wet pages, and then heat dried them. The perfect pearls bubbles and gives a nice texture. I have used a photo of my sister Cynthia with her youngest son Michael. She died some years back, far too young, which was very sad, but this photo is one of my precious moments in time. I printed it onto tissue, cut it out, and glued it to the page. I did a bit of drip-doodling, added some lace, and a rose, stamped with Archival black and coloured with sparkling H2Os. (Stamp is from LaBlanche) The rose has been fussy cut and glued to the page to give more depth. I also added some floral rub ons, which are hard to see here, as they are almost the same shade of blue as I have used for the background. The text has been added with a template in a dark greeny-blue and edged with gold.

I am also linking to the Challenge at Just add water silly.

At Tag Tuesday we have arrived at the letter 'I'. So I chose Ice-cream. The little girl is a paper dress up doll. She is holding a giant ice. I made the cone from cardboard, and cut four circles for the ice, which I coated with glitter flocking. I hope that we will sooner or later get some weather where it will be fun to eat ice!

Have a great day you all, take care, and thanks for visiting!