New Street Team Crusade!!

Time for another wonderful artistic experience with Michelle Ward and all of the wonderful crusader artists out in blogland!! No, this is not about FOOD!!!!! This Crusade is all about using partial images to add interest, texture and mystery to our artwork. the idea is to make the viewer wonder about what they are looking at. To get people involved and to ask questions like, "How did they do that?" " What am I REALY looking at?"
I have been taking baby steps towards getting a Visual Journal off the ground. I have been creating some background pages and collecting images and stuff to include in a potential journal, someday!

I have a pile and an envelope all ready to go, but other things always push this project ot the bottom of the list. When this crusade first got posted, I decided that i needed to find a way to fit it into what I was having to do to make it more of a TA DA than a TO DO!! ( Don't you just love that- CREDIT Michelle Ward of course!! Make it a Ta Da instead of a To DO!!!!)

I was creating labels in a mad rush to get some artwork down to a local gallery for some pre-Valentines sales (fingers crossed). I ahd some background pages already made. Iwanted to creat labels using gesso resist and spray Glimmer Mists and I thought that by using the already created background page as my "drop cloth" I could add more layers and texture to the journal page and create the tags at the same time. I am not sure that this will yeild the air of mystery but I do think that I will achieve partial images and texture and interest.

This was my starting"drop cloth"journal page.

Then using gesso and some of my favorite stamps, I stamped on the blank tags.

Now you can see the stamped cards and the bits of gesso overstamp on the "drop cloth" sheet.

Next I lined up the dried tags on the Background piece and sprayed away with several colors of Glimmer Mists. (I am begining to notice that I use these sprays quite often!)

Here is the final result. I think that I managed to achieve my goal of playing with the challenge, making it work wiithin my work time frame and achieving lots of interest and texture for my journal page. So now I am one step closer to getting this Journal page done, but at least now it is ready to add to my book so that when I have a moment for adding more, it will be all ready to go!!



Here are the tags that I needed for labeling my artwork. Now I can move these from my To Do list to the TA DA List!!!!

Here is one of the pairs of earrings (loaded sideways again-grrrrr) and ready to go off to be sold!
Yet another TA DA!!!
Thanks so much Michelle, for the inspiration, the energy and the From To Do to TA DA concept!!!
Now I am off to visit the blogs of other Crusaders to see what marvels they have wrought!!

Edited-2/23/09- Several folks have asked how I get the Gesso of of my rubber stamps. If I am using an unmounted rubber stamp I have a bucket of warm water at the ready and I throw the paint covered stamp into the bucket. As soon as I am done stamping, I use an old tooth brush to make sure that I get all of the paint out of the stamp. If I am using a wood mounted stamp, after stamping I take it immediately to the sink and scrub it gently with the toothbrush in a bucket of warm water. As long as you don't leave the wood mounted stamps soaking in water, theyw ill be fine. If for some reason they do come unglued then you have an unmounted stamp!