Happy Monday everyone! And what a way to start your week
than with a new challenge at Aurora
Wings Challenge Blog. This 23rd Aurora Wings challenge is the
third round of Sprite Delight, or Sprite Delight III. I get the pleasure of
playing along with the other talented and artistic designers as an Aurora Wings
February Guest Designer. Mitzi’s delightful sprites have been a favorite of
mine for several years now. I don’t think that I will ever get tired of
creating fun journal pages and art cards. All of her sprites can be found in
her Aurora Wings Etsy shop.
Mitzi’s sprites are created as flowers, plants, or insects. I
do have several Aurora Wings sprites colored and waiting on me for projects.
For this project I decided on the Ranunculus
Sprite and can be found in her Etsy shop. My color scheme decision making
is helped along with an online search for that particular kind of sprite. Now it’s time for me to start the Copic
coloring process.
Copics
used for my coloring:
Skin: E000, 00, 04, 11, 21, and R20;
Flower: RV63, 69, and YR20, 23, 24;
Leaves and slippers: G40, 43, 46, 29.
I decided several months ago to start a 6” square “Sprite
Journal.” With that said the following pictures and products links are the
process of creating my second sprite journal page. (You can find my first
sprite journal page here.)
To begin, I trimmed a 6” square of 140lb mixed media paper.
After trimming I laid down a coat of DecoArt’s White
Gesso. No picture here because I don't think you need to see a "white" page! LOL
The photo above, and before I started adding colors, shows DecoArt’s
Doily stencil used with DecoArt’s Modeling
Paste. After that was dry, I added DecoArt’s Misters
in Orange and Primary Magenta. I added one
more mister in Yellow Green and wiped this green with a baby wipe.
I was trying
to tone down all the bright colors. At this point I covered the page with
DecoArt’s Soft
Touch Varnish. I have depleted my stock of DecoArt’s Matt Medium, but this
varnish was lovely to work with.
I added Crystal
Craft Twinkles (DecoArt of course) to the page. I think that you can tell
in the above photo the reflection of the twinkles.
I was still not satisfied, so decided to mix Americana
Acrylic Paint in Hauser Medium Green and Evergreen.
I started dabbing the
green on and added a few flower stems.
Almost finished…I cut a couple of die cuts with Spellbinder’s
Happy
Days dies from designer paper. Next step was using Orange Misters
to darken the bright paper. I felt my page still needed something. I have a
large stash of chipboard
patterns. I choose Make it Crafty’s corners and covered them with DecoArt’s
DecoArt
Lavish Green Metallic Lustre. (Love this medium! DecoArt has a new color, Rose
Gold, and they are getting ready to launch more new colors for 2016.)
The last bits to be glued down were paper flowers (which
received a coat of the Craft Twinkles), the sentiment, and the Ranunculus
Sprite. My sprite was fussy cut with a bit of the white left around the image and glued onto some black cardstock. That
black cardstock was then fussy cut like the first time. I like the main image, or subject
matter, to pop off the page. Now my journal page is complete!
This very last picture is a photo of the all the DecoArt products that I got messy with. Don't you love getting messy?
I hope you join us for this challenge. Mitzi has provided
you with the cutest pineapple sprite for you to use in this challenge. Hop on
over to the Aurora
Wings Challenge Blog and pick it up. Isn’t she the cutest?
Thanks for stopping by and a very big thank you to Aurora
Wings for this opportunity! If you have any questions, please contact me.
Aletha Jane
