I am even doing my art journal pages a bit randomly at the moment.  This one is for week 22 of the ukstampers weekly challenge and the prompt is – Random and should include:

• 5 random facts about you
• 5 random stamps
• a random embellishment that was lying about your desk

My 5 random facts are: 1. I love my new bed 2. I am not on facebook  3. I love opening new jars and tubes of things and throwing the old ones away  4. I laughed when I ran over Harry’s toes  as he hopped about in pain (he had bare feat and was looking for an ice pack for his sore elbow and I was helping him but got too close to his toes with my wheelchair), and 5. I have hazel eyes.
My random stamps are: a mermaid (newest stamp still on my desk), silhouette plants, Eastern style patterned leaf, small maple leaf (not put away from my last card) and numbers (up the right-hand side in teal embossed in clear sparkle, but it didn’t stamp very well on the textured surface).  My embellishment is a punched tab with a piece of faux dichroic glass.  I have a small box next to my desk where I chuck things that I have got out to use on a project but weren’t quite right and they stay in the box  until I have a big tidy-up.  I didn’t wait for the paints to dry – I used my heat gun until they bubbled up then heated again until the bubbles burst into craters to give loads of texture.  Using tissue paper to stamp on, colour in then apply using mod podge also gives more texture.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Distress ink Worn lipstick, Stampin up Teal
Card:  watercolour paper which had been sprayed randomly from another project with Aqua lagoon Glimmer mist
Stamps:  Stampotique Smumauha by Daniel Torrente, Stampin up Just believe (silhouette plants), Tim Holtz Fairytale frenzy (numbers), Non Sequitur Samurai (small maple leaf), Eastern style leaf (unknown make)
Other:  Distress crackle paint Tarnished brass, Acrylic paint Ballet pink, Adirondack dauber Snowy cap, Distress stickles Worn lipstick and Broken china, Punched tab, small piece of faux dichroic glass, copics to colour, tissue paper, Mod podge, clear sparkle embossing powder, black and white pens.

P.S. don’t ask your partner to give you 5 random facts about you as it will only cause an argument!