No, I haven't been careless with my craft knife, just attempting to get with the program and splat some ink/paint onto a page in a random artful way. Like having banners everywhere, I just don't "get" it. Or at least not on every page! However, over at UKScrappers and on her blog, Shimelle is doing a monthly challenge to get us to try out lots of "different" techniques; this month they included splatting, small square photos, paint under titles, writing in more than one place, adding stitches & glitter ... all on one page! Too much for me in one go, and not all all-that-different to what I already do, so I picked the "scariest" one (the splatting) and a couple of the others that I am comfortable with (small square photos, writing in more than place) and produced this:
I'm pretty happy with the page, but part of me does think that my brown paint splats do look like dried blood! Maybe I should have chosen grey paint to splat with?
It's another page for our Barcelona 2011 holiday album: we topped off our wonderful cycling tour day with a cookery "course" in the evening. As the journalling says, it didn't quite live up to the hype, but it was a lot of fun (aided by the liberal quantities of strong sangria that we made during the evening). Three of us had never eaten paella before and despite not being a great seafood-eater I thought it was delicious.That's my January Counterfeit Kit almost used up ... I'm now down to scraps. Take a look at the back of this page to see how I was struggling to get a 12x12 out of it!
9 comments:
I think the splatters work perfectly with this page....and,of course,they could be Sangria splatters,rather than blood splatters!!!!!
I vote for Sangria as well; maybe at lunch, in fact! I have to try some splattering too - maybe I can control it more than misting, I hope so. Great page - thanks for the inspiration.
I like the overall effect of the page - I'm with you in not 'getting' paint splatters' Ther paella loos delicious anyway
I'm a fan of splatters and banners :) - go on, do a few banners next! I think the only thing to "get" is that they can be fun to do..
We discovered paella at a food festival here at home and now it's a bit of a favourite; but your journaling reminds me of the time we went on a walking tour of Naples with a "chance to make your own pizza" at the end. One person got to put one pizza in the oven!
i like you're splatters and there's nothing wrong with a bit of gutting to stretch your stash.
That sounds like an interesting challenge...I will have to check it out.
I love the layout and do not think of dried blood at all!
Thanks for the kind tip about heat embossing. I hardly ever emboss and part of my 2012 goals is to branch out more!t I will certainly use your idea. I thought they both sounded so logical!
LOL - I did a page about some bird ornaments and used white paint splatters - it was only afterwards that I realised that the paint looked a bit like the stuff that birds are so generous with! I wouldn't have thought blood 'til you said it :) and I love you stretching your stash!
Awesome, fun layout!!!
I'm always afraid of getting paint everywhere so that is a technique that I shy away from! LOL It looks really cool though! I am loving your holiday album! Looks like a lot of fun!!! xoxo
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