July 10.2020 blog post for 13@rts

- July 10, 2020

Hello everyone

and welcome to my blog post here on the blog from 13arts.

My name is Heike from Heike`s AugenBlick and I am your host for today.

For this layout I decided to work with a photo of myself. The photo was taken after my first hairdresser visit after the lockdown. I have the luck that I have been wearing my hair for about eight years now in a short grey haircut. I must say I am a big fan of short hair.

But anyway, I will tell you a little bit about my creative steps:

After I chose my paper sheet "This moment" from the paper collection "Travel the world",

I added clear gesso to my page. I always work with two layers of clear gesso.

The clear gesso ensures that no liquid is absorbed by the paper anymore.

A perfect layer between paper and mediums.

Then I decided to add another paper sheet to my background paper, but this time I torned it.

This paper became also two layers of clear gesso. I glued my torn paper with gel medium to my background paper.

After I found the perfect position for my photo (focal point) I have searched everything together which I used for my decoration (embellishments). The next step was creating texture

on my background. Therefore I used the stencil Horiscope and a mix from modeling paste and 3D powder. I sprinkeled some colored grit in the wet paste. I like to air dry my mix, I think the paste looks smoother.

For my flower chipboards I used the mini watercolorset "Travel the word" and clear ultra thick embossing powder.

For my seahorse chipboard I used multipurpose medium and brokant hologram blue.

For the shells and explore word chipboard I used black gesso

After my modeling was dry I stamped with black Archival Ink.

Now it was time for my paper layering behind my photo which I glued with multipurpose medium.

My next step was coloring with the mini watercolorset and the woodbine spray. After drying with the

Heat tool, I glued my focal point and embellishments.

The final touch gold glitter paint and sequin in turquoise, also white pen strips to some of the black splatters.

Done.

Happy day...