I made this a little while ago and just haven't got round to sharing. It's a return to some of my favourite things, paint, layers, distress and image transfer all in a monochrome palette with just a hint of pink pulled out from the image transfer.
Lots of layers of paint and washes, candle resit work, scratching, sanding more layers of paint washes, stencilling and stamping. to get a really subtle background of layers and contrast, nothing too jarring on the eye.
The tulip image transfer was on top of some book text which you cant see but I wanted there just in case the image didn't take and I wanted the contrast of the text peeping through the image. Once the backing was removed, some sanding to distress and then stencilled the circles, these has pencil on them s well in green and grey just to give some shadow and contrast. White pencil round the edge (still loving this shabby rough framing) and a lot of layers of Gloss glaze to seal and brighten the image.
I didn't want the image transfer to sit too proud of the work and be the final top layer, so hence the stencilling over it and the text stamp in grey embossing powder. Just to bring the colour from the tulip out I ran over the text embossing in a pink water colour pencil and just "washed it" to spread the colour gently.
Sometimes its nice to just work in your comfort zone of techniques and colour and create in "your style".
Hugs
Jo
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Sometime it takes a good work colleague to sit you down and tell you some home truths, namely you are being "a pain, a right pain"
I didn't appreciate the home truths at the time but then this afternoon
whilst relaxing (something else I find hard to do) I had the light bulb
moment and realised that yes perhaps I had been "a right pain"
I'd lurched into old my habits of control freak stress management, when my workload seems unbearably out of control and there is too much to do, I try and manage EVERYONE ELSE whether they report into me or not, to try and feel I've achieved something.
Ummm, perhaps that good work colleague had a point and perhaps I should have listened a bit better.
It takes guts to to point out to me that I'm a pain, I can be a bit scary at times I know that. So I really do appreciate that good, kind work colleague for taking the time out from their overworked day to give me a slap so to speak.
It reminded me to stop working so hard to be the perfect manger and stop setting unrealistic targets to prove myself to others. I only need to prove it to myself and you know what, I'm doing a pretty good job and so is that kind work colleague.
Hugs
Jo
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