Only just past the first month of the year, and already I feel so overwhelmed! I'm sure I'm not the only one and sometimes having a lot to do is not always a bad thing. It lets you discover just how much you may be capable of! Though it's important not to go overboard either. Then you get to where you can't even think straight. When I get like that, I sometimes go a bit day-dreamy. Because of that, today's art journal entry was very dreamy! Haha! I wanted to keep it simple, so I didn't want to get into a giant doodlefest. I also did not want to do an elaborate stampathon either. I had been eyeing these feather stamps my mom has and wanted to work with them for awhile now. So to start, I first just laid out a light background with them. Next, I added in the color. The designs of these feathers allow for some pretty cool color combos. I liked that they only looked semi-realistic and more decorative. They felt kind of fanciful or whimsical to me and I really liked that. It still felt like it needed more though. Something like.....PIXIE DUST! So I used yet another tool in my mom's crafting arsenal. I'm not sure what it's called (as usual =P) and I don't think that Stampin' Up even sells it anymore. But it reminds me of a bellows. You attach a marker to it and then pump the air container to blow the ink onto the page. Depending on how you adjust the marker to it you can get a variety of effects. I really like how this one turned out. The feathers make me think of a dream catcher. I added some warm tones to the spritz effect so that they were comforting dreams. Kind of like that warm happy feeling of excitement or of discovering something new and beautiful.
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