Upcycled project for Love 2 Create challenges with Polkadoodles

It's another new challenge over at Love 2 Create with Polkadoodles and this month I have created a journal page. Gonna be honest, my final page was not my original plan. When I created my first page, it ended up an awful mess: jumbled images, dire colour choices & no cohesion. I was just about to bin it, when a momentary "flash of inspiration" appeared! Instead, I cut the piece up in to 3 parts and then mounted them on to a black journal page instead. What did I have to lose? I was going to throw it anyway ...

MY PROJECT
Cutting up my original project wasn't hard, as I really, really, really didn't like it one bit. After mounting the 3 pieces on to black card, I then added them to a new black journal page.

I roughly worked out where each piece was going to go and using Fireworks 1 & 2 clear stamps, stamped on to the black journal page with my Distress Oxide inks.

I added the pieces and doodles around using   stencil & gold Sakura Calligrapher pen. Next I added my sentiments - from Super Sentiments clear stamps - colouring around the edges with the same gold pen.

My original images were all based around circles. I filled each circle with stamped images & peeled paint oxide and then water coloured using Koi Brush pens. A few more circles and doodles were added but because my base layer was "intense", the original designs started to disappear.

As a finishing touch, I added extra stamped butterflies and "stuff" I found in my "don't throw it away, just in case" box.

I'm now quite happy(ish) how the design turned out and think will revisit other pieces I'm not 100% happy with, to see what I can do with them.


FLORAL FIREWORKS
In my project I have used the new clear stamp release from Polkadoodles called Floral Fireworks collection. You can catch the HOCHANDA shows below - fast forward to 3:01:55

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Right, can't put it off any longer ... got to clear up my craft area. There are bits everywhere: stamps, inks, stencils, paper pieces from die cutting, pens .... yadda, yadda, yadda. Can you tell how enthusiastic I am, not! I'm not a housework person, love it when done but need to motivate myself to do it. Do you have any tips to help with my motivation? The Hinch thing didn't work either; loved the idea, but not my thing.

Have a great Sunday everyone and see you soon.

Lou
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I would like to enter my journal page in tot he the following challenges:
Avenue 613 - scrap your stash
Corrosive Challenge - anything goes
Artistic Stamper - mix it up
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - anything goes
Do-Al(l) Creative - anything but a card
Mix It Up - anything goes + water colouring
Stamplorations - stamps & circles
World Wide Open Design Team - anything goes