AAJS6: Sharon's Pages in Janie's "Exotic" Journal

Hi Everyone

 

 

Today I am sharing my pages and process to complete the pages in Janie's "Exotic" journal!

 

 

I started with my normal process of adding Gesso to each page as the base to work from with sticking bits and pieces on and getting messy spraying ink LOL!

 

I used gel medium to add strips of gesso painted Asian newspaper and Asian washi paper randomly over each page.

 

 

 I wanted a bit more texture so I added some scrunched up white Asian napkins on each page as well and I also added a little bit more gesso to dull down the newspaper and patterned paper.

 

Once the gel medium and gesso was dry I used texture paste and a stencil to add the lacey pattern to one corner of each of the pages.

 

 

And once the texture paste was dry I used black and red ink sprays and a water spritzer to add colour to both pages.

 

 

The "Geisha" style gals are from a collage sheet by Gecko Galz and were a recent purchase I made and were perfect for the look I wanted on these pages - I liked the red and black colour theme. I added a thin layer of gesso to a page of the Asian newspaper and then put the page through my inkjet printer - I like the newspaper look still showing through the printed images. I tore the excess paper from around the images - they are too detailed to have fussy cut so I decided tearing them out would look the best.

 

Then I added the images to the pages with some muslin cloth and red cotton. I also used some tiny flower and leaf rubber stamps from Blank Page Muse in red and grey ink to add a little bit more interest to the background as well. I also tore out "Exotic" from a thesaurus and added it to the bottom of one of the pages - it's very small but gives a bit of a description of "exotic".

 

 

And the pages are finished! Hope Janie likes them!

 

 

Sharon