Believe in the magic

Hello everyone, thanks for dropping in....
Here is another journal page, using the new Aqua Tints I have posted about on several occasions now. I love these gorgeous bottles of concentrated water colour.

This page was just all about playing with the tints and some stamps (plus a few die cuts).

Whereas the last page was more monochrome, this one is more colourful, - child like, as really I was playing with ideas for a birthday card for my grand daughter, whose second birthday was last week. The stamps used are from one of the Sheena Douglass A Littlebit Magical sets, and no, this is not a DT piece, I just love the stamps and was having fun with them.

The background was gessoed with a pallet knife, leaving some textures and patterns for the tints to pool around in. The pumpkin is a Tim Holtz die, the mushrooms are from the stamp set, stamped on card, fussy cut and coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils.

Here you can see the magic of the tints ontop of the Gesso, their colour is just so intense. Oh the sentiment was just computer generated by the way.

The magical door way, stamped on tissue and then blended into the background. This is actually two separate stamps. I masked the doorway and then stamped the brick wall, turning the stamp the other way for the second side. Once you remove the mask, it looks as if the brick wall is behind the doorway.

When I did the birthday card I actually cut a slit in the door so it can open and put a fairy behind it, but in my haste to get it to Australia in time, I totally forgot to photograph it, so can't show you, but apparently she loved it....

Anyway, not your usual journal page, but good fun to do.
I am linking this to Art Journal Journey "deep in the forest".

Hope you will have some creative time, thank you for visiting and have a great weekend when it comes!