This months "emotional" challenge at Mixed Media Place is "Sadness". A difficult emotion to express and perhaps one we like to keep private. For some people, expressing emotions like sadness or anger through a creative outlet is very therapeutic. Art, dance and music have been the platform for the most amazing creative works expressing sadness and of course every other emotion as well.
I have chosen the easier path and have gone with a light hearted approach. I found this quote "Depresso" on Pinterest and created a mixed media journal page.
Started with a piece of patterned paper, Domestic Goddess "Kitchen Wallpaper" added some paper strips and tape, gessoed over it all, used the Sunrise Sunset stencil with some mist, stamped with a Finnabair Clear Stamp Doily and embossed it with black.
I played with some more stamping and added pattern and texture with another stencil and texture paste and high lighted this with colour using beautiful Silks Acrylic glaze. I know I always say "beautiful" Silks Acrylic Glaze, but these are amazing. If you love to add colour to your pages and haven't tried these yet I can promise you that you won't be disappointed....the colour is deep, vibrant and rich and it applies so smoothly, they are one of my favourite mediums to use.
I do love my coffee, and yes, I'm sorry when my cup is empty but I know this hardly rates on the "sadness" scale.
these are so lovely, Hope you are well
ReplyDeleteFantastic pages, love the quote, and happy scrapping!
ReplyDeleteFantastic texture and depth to the page. Love the embossed doily with empty cup, and your colouring is divine as always!
ReplyDeleteHa! Love the words! The texture and depth are amazing as well.
ReplyDeletePerfect! What a great page for such a subject! Love the way you scrapped this subject in an upbeat way!
ReplyDeleteLove it! It is so beautiful and so well done, love the quote :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous page. I know I feel the same way about coffee..
ReplyDeleteHugs~
Happened to see your print on Caterina's blog and I love coffee and what you've done here about how you feel mixed in with coffee is exactly mys tate of my mind, needless to say I LOVE THIS, I may not know you but wow that art is priceless
ReplyDeletegreat page, i love how the patterns from the saucer matches those from the background! and of course i do understand what 'depresso' means... running out of coffee is such a terrible thing
ReplyDeleteLove everything about this including the humour! Brilliant!:)
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