#52 Cafe Journals Prompt no 5 over at Maremi's Cafe

I've been busy sorting out my studio in our new rented flat in Berlin.  I will do a post about that as soon as we have wifi...

But for now, the first thing I have created, just for the sake of creating is this journal page!  I joined in over at Maremi's Creative Cafe on Facebook where there are weekly prompts.  This is #5 of  #52  Cafe Journals.  Marta posts this when she gets a gap in her week.  Here is the prompt:

I started by spraying the middle of my journal with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide spray and the edges of the page with Dylusions Shimmer spray in Bubblegum pink.

I then added some stenciling using Picked Raspberry distress ink

Chose a cupcake napkin

Cut it out and placed it

Then after adding the napkin with gel medium, I cut the title for my page and a few other die cuts.

To use the lace effect prompt, I stamped my lettering with two different lace stamps in Archival Jet black.

Once I had glued everything down, I started adding drop shadows.  Here you can see the way it makes the word LIFE pop of the page a bit better.

I followed the shadow with a white highlight as per the prompt to do white doodles... well technically mine aren't doodles... but I used a white pen!

Using black acrylic paint and a brush, I then blackened the edges of the page.

The page looked a little unbalanced to me, so I added a Tim Holtz cupcake to the doily on the left hand page.

Finally, to fill some of the gaps, I used a stamp with Picket Fence Distress Paint.