Ice, mist and journal play

Hi Everybody!

Another week has flown by, it's Thursday already,

I need to do some dreaded housew**k,

it's cold and grey outside,

and not much better inside!

I made a cover for the second journal I got as 

a present, so now it's all set up

and ready to go. I painted the A4 cover with some 

blue/green metallic paint, which changes colour with the light,

 and added some soft white in 

the middle before stamping into the wet paint

with the swirl and script stamps. I don't need any ink on the stamps,

The wet paint gets picked up and transferred. 

The floral part of the design 

was made with a paper napkin. When it was dry

I stenciled on the birds and added some

gilding flakes:

I was pleased that the underlying stamping is still visible

through the paper napkin:

This was before the napkin went on:

Then I decided to alter a paper bag to make a pocket inside the

journal. Here it is still on my messy table:

Then I used some new and old stencils to liven it up,

adding some white dots to highlight it:

The front page was quickly painted and then stenciled:

Now I have a journal to fill with dreams.

I am linking to Art Journal Journey, Erika's lovely theme

of 'Tell me a story' and to

Altered eclectics,

and to Stamps and stencils,  swirls, whirls and flourishes,

and to Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin.

And here are some icy and misty photos:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!