I have trouble pulling apart books. I know millions are thrown away each day but for me, books have always been a treasure. I certainly cannot pull apart one that is on my bookshelf! So I went to plan B. I went to the library and picked up magazines off their "help yourself" table. Then I went through them and picked out words, and blocks of text etc that I liked and tore it all out and pasted it on the page. I hated it. Even though I knew I would be covering it in paint, I hated it. So now we are onto plan C.
I went through some old boxes in the basement and found an old paperback that belonged to my FIL. I started ripping out pages and laying them down. I didn't like the sharp edges so I ripped around all 4 sides of the page. Then I put them down with medium. I laid them out in all different directions too. I knew that the center piece of my page was going to be round so I didn't want the text going in one direction.
My "lady" was cut out of a magazine and covered with packing tape to make a mask. I put her down on the gessoed page and drew around her lightly and then used a gold metallic paint to lightly fill in the outline. I wasn't too worried about staying in the lines because I put the mask back down and lightly gessoed the entire page. When I lifted the mask back up, there she was!
Then I got to play with my gelatos. Oh I love them! So much fun and so easy. I put the background down and then lifted up some color to make clouds. I put that lovely sun/moon stamp in the middle and then torn strips of paper to make sun rays. Again, they were colored with Gelatos, just lightly. I them stamped the moon/sun again and embossed it, cut it out nicely and put it back in the center of the rays. After everything dried overnight I put a coat of matte medium over everything and then let it sit again until the next day when I did my "journaling". There are more rays there if I want to add more affirmations later.
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