art journalling – closed doors

the August take the challenge with Mou over at Design Memory Craft is about your favorite words to live by. here are the words i have decided to focus on for this challenge.

‘behind every closed door there is an untold story’

do you sometimes forget that. i know i do. and it doesn’t have to be a bad story but just a story. we don’t know what is going on in peoples lives out side of what they wish to share with us. and even when folks ‘share’ doesn’t always mean you are getting the ‘whole’ story does it.

so for this page i chose to use my little sticks of heaven..yup that is right… my gelatos!!!

i started by outlining a door in the centre of my page. i knew that was going to be the focal point and wanted it to be big and bright. i then covered the rest of my background with the red gelato and using a wet brush spread the yumminess out over the whole page.i loved the red so decided that i needed a huge heart on my front door.
so while my red sections were drying i applied a couple or three colours and painted my door. i used a teal and a couple of greens. once the red background was dry i grabbed my prima brick stencil and my chocolate gelato and started rubbing through the stencils.
honestly it wasn’t until the very last section that i realized i literally had worn the skin off my finger!! it was a crazy moment and if i wasn’t totally embarrassed by the fact that i was so totally lost in the moment and didn’t realize this i would have taken a picture!

next step was to mix some embossing paste with my gelato (did you know you could do that!! just scrap some gelato onto your craft mat and mix with paste.. awesome stuff) and create a few raised bricks through out the page. once dry i rubbed a bit of gold archival ink on them and added a few words and i was finished.pretty heavy saying i know but sometimes i think we need to remind ourselves that we don’t always ‘know’ and shouldn’t assume we do.

thanks for stopping by

diana