AAA Colourful colour themed challenges - Colourboard #15

Hello Crafty Friends,

The AAA colourful colour themed challenges have a new colourboard for you to be inspired by, a beautiful combination of blues, turquoise, lilac/purple and green

I love the colours of this board, but I have to admit I found them very difficult to work with. At first I couldn't come up with a single thing to create, maybe because I have lost my mojo or maybe because the board is almost monochromatic, something I always struggle with. In the end I just sat down at my craft desk and started playing with the colours using different mediums; acrylic paints, inks, sprays, markers, crackle paste, volume paste, stamps, dies ....... after a while my desk was covered in blue, bluegreen and lilac/purple paint and creations. All of a sudden I had multiple options to chose from😅but "which one to share with you as an inspiration?" that was the question. I asked my family and everyone had a different favourite, and opinion, so in the end I decided to pick a creation that is wayout of my comfort zone....... art journaling/ mixed media.

This project was inspired by a quote I found on the internet and made me think - As I already find the (almost) monochromatic board challenging why not try to create one of the most challenging  (to me) projects using the most challenging (to me) techniques?
So here is my attempt at art journaling using mixed media

I started by applying a layer of gesso to my pages, then I painted them with a beautiful turquois acrylic paint. When the paint had dried I added a layer of crackle paste, to see what would happen/ how it would turn out. I added a little white acrylic paint over the crackle paste as it had dried, just to get some variation. I kept on playing and added more mediums to the mix, next up was sprays. I sprayed the pages using different blues and spritzed it with water to make the paint move. To get even more texture I used a stencil and added volume paste through it. I stamped some little sentences and a bunch of leaves in blue, green and purple around the pages. I also stamped the quote and cut out the individual words before adding them to my pages. To make the quote stand out I draw a black border around each word.

I had so much fun creating these pages, and I am so happy I stepped out of my comfort zone. They may not be the most beautiful I have created but  playing with all the different mediums was so inspiring and I might just be getting my mojo back. And isn't having fun the most important thing when it comes to creating?!

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge, as I can't wait to see what you will create using the colours of the colourboard! You have until May 14th to create, upload and link your project to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. Remember we love all kinds of paper crafting, and in any style.

Fore more inspiration, and information, please visit the AAA Colourful challenge blog, it is filled with beautiful, fun and creative projects by the talented design team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Nance Selkeld.

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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