Land Of Enchanment, A Give Away & New Journal Page

I have some very exciting news; my friend Kris who owns Retro Cafe Art Gallery has just signed an agreement with the insanely talented Debrina Pratt to sell her collage sheets in Retro's store!  This means that for the first time Debrina's images are going to be available in a form other than digital--Kris will have them in paper, fabric, transparency, sticker paper and vellum!  And this is no mean feat considering that Kris will be carrying over 200 of Debrina's sheets!  Holy cow that's a lot of collage sheets!

 

To celebrate this amazing joint venture Debrina has created an original piece to give away as part of the launch!  Isn't it just too adorable? 
                                               
If you're interested in the giveaway you can read about it here and if you want to see all the amazing sheets that Kris is selling you can view them here. 

 Kris sent me some of the images to create an DT piece for her to go with the launch so I made a new art journal page:

I took the image and did a transfer onto a vintage flashcard.  I really love how cleanly it turned out.  Then I got this crazy idea to see if the varitone ink would work on top of the transfer.  For those of you who don't know what varitone ink it's an ink created by Coffee Break that turns brown when you heat it, so it looks burnt and distressed.  The cool thing about it is once it's been heated, its permanent-so you don't have to worry about the color running or changing if you do something on top of it. What wound up happening was that the ink took to all the spots where the transfer tore, so that once I heated it, they turned a lovely distressed brown.  I also sponged some around the outside of the image and heated it.

I then airbrushed with my copics for the bird (which is a new coffee break stencil) and the splatter stencil.  This is actually just the first page of a 2 part spread in my journal--I'm working on the right hand side to go with it.  Hopefully I'll have it done and up in a few days! 

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!