I'm following Nathalie Kalbach and Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and their new project : Take the second floor.
It's all about challenge yourself and dare to go outside your comfort zone.
You can read more about it in
Nathalie's and
Julie's blogs.
The first challenge was: Golden acrylic paint.
Ahh... what a challenge and yes, not something I normally use in my projects. I've only used it on some boxes and an old book I believe.
Well, of to work - what to do????
And to be honest, I do not own golden acrylic paint in good quality. My paint is simple, cheap etc.
But anyhow, i DO own one and I knew I wanted to try this challenge.
So I paintet a couple of pages with this non-quality paint. Didn't look good at all.
OK - so what. Used some stencils together with black ink. Did look a bit better.
And then I came up with an idea. I recently downloaded a free picture of Marie Antoinette (from
Salige Lavendel Thanks!!) .
I edited the photo, mirrored it and printet two copies.
Painted with golden acrylic and black gesso. Made some pattern with a barbeque-stick.
Marie Antoinette is famous for the words: Let them eat cake.
Just had to use that as well.
I also have a cupcake-stamp, designed by
Vibeke Spigseth - Poppydesign. My only cake-stamp I believe and went a little wild stamping. Used some other acrylic paint on the cupcakes.
Found some grungeboard from Tim Holtz and she became queen LOL.
I can't say that I'm happy about my page, but it was quite fun to make. Sitting in my room laughing when writing the text.
What I learned during this process:
1. My golden acrylic paint is NO GOOD!
2. Golden acrylic and black gesso IS GORGEOUS!
3. I need a new and better black pen
4. Sephia phote on sketch paper goes green with my no good acrylic paint LOL
5. Using a barbeque-stick to make pattern in the mix of paint and gesso - I liked it!