Dragonfly dreams journal spread

Hi there! I've been enjoying myself in my journal again. I thought I would show you how this page came about. 

I started off by tearing some strips of tissue from my soak up sheets that I put in place when I use sprays on things. These have been sprayed with distress oxide and gloss sprays.

I then stuck some of the strips into my Dylusions journal with matte medium and left to dry

Next I sprayed a little distress oxide ink in the white spaces and again left to dry

I added some stencilling using the circle dinkables and blending brushes. There was enough residual ink on my brushes without reinking them.

I stamped the ledger stamp in Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink randomly around the page.

I stamped the smaller coffee rings in frayed burlap distress oxide ink then left it to dry.

I used memento Espresso Truffle ink to stamp the Elder flowers and the numbers from the coffee stains set.  

Next I stamped the dragonfly onto a scrap of watercolour paper in versafine clair ink.

I coloured it using ecoline pens, the wings using pastel blue, rose, violet and yellow, then I coloured the body with a turquoise green. I cut out the dragonfly, cutting off legs and antennae.

I used the memento ink to stamp the dragonfly direct to the journal page where I wanted it to go and left it to dry.

Finally, I used matte medium to adhere the dragonfly and the sentiment (from the dina wakely collage papers) into place.

Here is another look at the finished page.

 

I used:

Mini Dylusions journal

Distress oxide sprays in Salvaged Patina, Wild honey and Salty Ocean

Dinkable circle lattice 

Dinkable Circles

Ledger inkwell stamps

Coffee stain stamps

Elder stamps

Dragonfly stamps

Distress oxide inks in Peacock Feathers and Frayed Burlap

Versafine Clair black ink

Memento Espresso Truffle ink

Ecoline pens

Dina Wakely collage papers - Backgrounds

Matte Medium

Tissue paper

Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting!