Be yourself!

As promised here is the journal page I made inspired by the Pride parade in Manchester last weekend.

 I was lucky enough to acquire a copy of Vogue magazine - there are some fabulous photos in it and I intend using some for image transfers, but this one made me think back to the parade! There were some very glamorous outfits and I don't know (and don't need to) what gender the wearers were!
I started off with a plain background - watered down Fresco paint smoothed on with a sponge.

 I added stencils and stamping until I was happy with the coverage.
I used my set of little flowers that I bought in the Orsay Museum in Paris last year.

As you can see I also added some home made tape...

I picked up some dried paint from my plastic lid 'paint palette'with some clear tape and added it straight to the page.

I attempted to stamp the sentiment onto the page but the ink just wasn't going to dry on that tape!! I stamped onto a piece of paper that I covered in the same Bora Bora paint that I used on the page and cut it out.

I added a fussy cut butterfly that I had inked and added white pen to as I though all those flowers would surely attract brighter butterflies than those I had stamped on the page.

I am entering the 'Count Your Blessings' chosen by Elizabeth at Art Journal Journey. We are blessed that more countries in our World are  becoming accepting to the LBGT community and certainly in my adopted  home town of Manchester!

I would also like to enter at 
More Mixed Media - Anything Goes - optional 'Brights'

Rubber Dance challenge Colour theme and/or Nature as this will be the last time I can enter this challenge (they are moving to face Book which sadly I will not be joining)

I must apologise to anyone I haven't made a comment to recently but  using the keyboard or my phone is quite painful - a temporary situation hopefully!

Thanks for looking, Chris