Art journal week 25 Ambitions

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The prompt for week 25 on the ukstampers forum is Ambitions:

  • are you ambitious?  if you are have you achieved them?
  • have you got a bucket list? if so what is in it?
  • use some kind of glittery star embellishment on your page

As you can see I went all out with the neon colours for this one.  It didn’t turn out quite how I expected it to but I like it anyway.  The black memento ink that I used on the stamping is rather dull so I may have to experiment a bit with other makes on acrylic paint.

I am just not ambitious in the least, sad I know, but it could be that I am happy and content with life just the way it is so I don’t need to be ambitious.  Or maybe I am just lazy!  Perhaps it is only greedy people who are ambitious?  always wanting more!  I just kind of bumble along in life from one thing to another.
After painting the background with pink, blue and yellow I did a bit of splattering.
I stippled some white paint through a plastic reusable doily then sprayed over the top with ink sprays.  The journalling was written onto pink tissue paper then pasted onto the page using mod podge.  Next came the stamping, doodling and doting.  The star embellishments are the pale pinky/purple gems in the shape of a star and some tiny pale silvery blue stars.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black
Card:  white card, dark pink tissue paper
Stamps:  Elusive images Funky doodles Fresh
Other:  pale purple gems, mini silvery blue stars, neon pens, black and white pens, spray inks and paints: acrylic pink, blue, white, black and yellow, sprays: Dylusions Post box red and Cyan, Ecoline Chartreuse, and a neon yellow spray, blue, yellow and pink Sharpie poster paint pens