Had a nice play today with some paint and crayons for this art journal page for ukstampers weekly challenge.  The prompt for week 17 is celebration, to include:

• one special event that you have celebrated
• the letters R.S.V.P on your page
• use some sparkle somewhere on your page

I didn’t include one special event, I mean how does one choose from so many?
Celebrations are so much better when they are shared and my doodles around the border read; sharing, music, friends, good food, family and drink.  For the sparkle I added glitter glue and there is mica in the spray mist.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black
Card:  watercolour paper
Stamps:  Stampin up Cheer & wishes and the word celebrate, Inkadinkado Hello hummingbird, Delish Lush treats
Other:  Stickles lime and yellow, bleach to remove some colour, white wax crayon, watercolour crayons, copic pens, black pen, Cosmic shimmer mist Aqua lagoon.

First of all I stamped the word celebrate and then doodled the other words around the border.  I then stamped the central words and hand wrote some too.  Then I scribbled the white crayon over the black writing and doodles (to act as a resist).  Using the watercolour crayons I coloured the border and used an aqua brush to blend the colours together.  I then stamped the humming bird and other elements in.  I sprayed it lightly with water first then with the mica mist while masking the border roughly.  Using a piece of parchment I ironed the page so the wax would melt and the pale paper would show up.  Well that didn’t work out quite as well as it could have so I used a yellow copic pen to brighten a few of these parts up.  I then lifted some of the colur from the stamped images (which would have been much easier if I hadn’t ironed it first).  Once lightened I could then colour them in and I used copic pens for this.  I highlighted some areas with the stickles.  In real life the colour of the blue area is more aqua and the yellows are brighter.