Her hand in motion - backgrounds

So as I mentioned on Saturday.. I was creating a page that was totally inspired by the picture with the arm chair and rug.
I just  loved seeing the doily on the floor and then the shoes sitting over there in the corner.
As i was sitting there thinking about this concept  I wanted to apply, I got creating with my background.
Now, all I decided was that I wanted to use was shades of  teal and bright blue.
Then I grab all my sprays, mists,and inks in those colours.

Now I have a lot of sprays, mists & inks.But always room to add more to the collection!
Remember I am an orgainsed scrapper. I cant scrap in  mess!
I have this folder and in that folder I have it divided into sections, by brands.
Then i have sprayed or inked a sample of each colour and then written the name of each colour.
So now that I had decided on what colours, all I had to do was refer to my folder and grab those products out.
Then I could start on my background.

As you will notice, how could you not.. haha.. but I love using white as my background.
I think its because white is so crisp, its bright, its pure...  something so versatile.

anyways.. here is a little step by step.
I think I need a video camera!! its so hard photographing what I do! :(

Step 1 - Pour Gesso straight onto my page and then move it around the page with an old card.
I love using the Liquitex brand because it leaves a nice grainy affect on my page, which adds a little  subtle texture to the background.

Step 2 - Spray randomanly Sea Glass Glimmer mist all around the page.
As you can see because spray  the subtle texture in the Gesso becomes quiet visble.

Step 3 -Then grab some paper towel and start splodging the glimmermist.
Just removing the excess from what hasnt soak into the Gesso.

Step 4 - Then use a mask. mine is just a rubber doily - sprayed with a darker mist Trunk bay. Before removing the mask, I again dabbed off the excess with paper towel.

Leaving this little pattern :)

Step 5 - Then reapply your mask and started using a dabber in Pool colour again dabbing the excess.Now it didnt quiet turn out how I wanted it to be, so I dabbed most of it off, and ended up back at square one. haha. I probably didnt need to include this step, but I wanted to show to you, that somethings just dont work out how you think, so you just keep changing and run with that happens!

Step 6 -  then came in with Shimmeringz baby breath also adding a little sparkle to my page.

Step 7 - I apply some texture paste lines to the background with an old card and then sprayed with Shimmerz vibez Jem B Bleu.

close up: the masked background sneaking through

 close up: Prima birdhouse, resin flower from Polly! scraps

close up:  manohouse creation flower, Prima and inspire lovely tag

close up: a lil something bird. Butterfly cut with MDF die using the cardstock resist.

Happy Friday :))