Art Journal Page: You are special

Hi Folks!

In the morning, while I was reading the newspaper a picture in an advertisement caught my eye. I thought it was beautiful and I had to make an art journal page around it :) The lady in the picture looks like she is contemplating, unsure, perhaps even feeling low about something and I wanted to make something that gave a positive message when we all feel like that.

Here are some pictures of the project (Please click on the images and view the pictures in big/full screen mode, these tiny pictures here really do not show all the details. Thanks a bunch :) !! )

Supplies Used:

1. Camlin White Gesso

2. Mont Marte Texture Paste

3. Palette knives

4. Heidi swapp color shine sprays- peacock and butter

5. Little Birdie Color Splash Sprays - gold rush and mocha

6. Distress Ink stain- Forest moss

7.  Spray Pens 

8.  Brustro thin tip black pen

9.  Cheery Lynn Die Flourish #14

10. Die Cuts and More Rain Splatter Stencil

11. Dusty Attic Chipboard- Bubbles (DA1509W) and Mini Birds #3 (DA0727Z) 

12. Mudra Stamps- Humming birds, Brushed, Washi Tapes and Special Day 

13. Papericious- Pattern Papers from Vintage Attire Pack (Snippets from an earlier project)

14. Water spray bottle

15. Brushes

16. Ranger Heat tool

17. Homemade anti-static pouch

18. Versamark Inkpad

19. Ranger Embossing powder

20. Acrylic Block 

21. Twigs from outside

22. Round bling embellishments

23. Silicone glue

24. Tombow liquid glue (green) 

25. Distress inkpad- Vintage photo and round blending tool/foam

26. Scissors 

27. Stapler

28. Gauze

29. Ranger's archival black inkpad

30. Snippets of brown CS for embossing the birds

Thanks a lot for your time! Stay Blessed :) 

I am linking to the following challenges:

November Challenge with DCAM - I have used all the colors from the mood board and the DCAM rain splatter stencil to create texture in the background 

Mudra Challenge # 3: "Create background with stamps" - I have created the distressed look background by stamping. Stamps used include the Humming birds, Brushed and Special Day.

Dusty Attic November Challenge- I was inspired by the colors of the mood board and also the bird. I have included dusty attic chipboards (bubbles and birds) in the art journal pages

More Than Words November Main Challenge - The word "special" is included in the "you are special" and I have used all the elements of the quote- I have included tiny hints of blue using heidi swapp sprays, something borrowed and old is my mom's diary which I am using as an art journal and the stencil and little round blings I used are new.

Stamplorations November Mixed Media Challenge - I have used a stencil in this mixed media journal page to create texture in the background. 

Papericious November Challenge - Falling In Love With Fall - I have gone with the theme of fall and used colors and elements of fall (leaves/twigs). I have used papers from the vintage attire paper pack. 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 257

Artplorations Stencil Blog Hop and Linky Party