Love Yourself First

 

I had so much fun creating this page...it's a perfect example of starting a project and at various stages you decide that its not worth saving...but you keep at it until you make it work. And I am so glad I did! I love the page. The background took on many iterations before ending up like this and I am happy with the results. It was a lesson on staying the course, because so many times I wanted  to chuck it and discard the development along the way...but I hung in there and began to see in my minds eye what I wanted to see there. I knew I wanted the young girl to be fashionable, and I wanted to give her a message to to love herself, so then the flowers began to bloom in my minds eye, and the quote was perfect.

Materials used:

• Julie Nutting Cling Stamp: "Taylor"
• Dylusions Paint: White linen
• Tim Holtz Distressed ink: Carved Pumpkin
• Martha Stewart Punch: Hearts
• Liquidtex Light Modeling Paste Gel Medium
• Liquidtex Matte Gel Medium
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Uni-ball Signo Broad Gel Pen White
• Pigma Micron 03 Archival Ink Pen
• Wink of Stella Glitter Pen
• Faber-Castel Pitt Pen Big Brush: Deep Scarlet Red #219
• Faber-Castel Pitt Artist en Big Brush: Black #199
• ColourArte Silks Acrylic Glaze Lemondrop
• Things from my stash: flower stamps, stencils, lettering, and scrap-booking papers, silver micro beads.

Here are some close ups of the two page spread.