Lucky is a State of Mind -

Ok, Ok, so this isn’t a real repurpose…but I had an idea and I rolled with it so bear with me! LOL!

This page is done with Tim Holtz photos and paper dolls but it could totally be done with repurposed old photos! So there is my repurpose! See…I redeemed myself! LOL! Anyway, let me fill you in on my thought process behind this page and how I made it happen.

I’ve had a lot on my mind lately and with the balance of life and juggling different hats so when I came across this phrase “lucky is a state of mind” I had the perfect idea for it. I decided what if I showed my state of mind and what’s on it. What if I could hedge back my little head and show you all that things bouncing around in it.

I started by diluting some “hippie in high heals” Haute Mess acrylic paint and making an abstract poof like shape on the black page of Cobble Stone Lane journal. While it was still some what wet I added some “make it rain” acrylic paint and continued to dab it with water to blend it a bit. Then I blended in a bit of diluted “Torrid” acrylic paint just at the lower left corner of the poof and made some shading.

As it dried I added some Haute Mess glass bead gel to random areas then dripped some Haute Mess “naked” acrylic paint in as well as a bit of gold metallic from my stash. Next I took a plastic gift card and dipped it in a bit of “bad and tatted” acrylic paint and sort of stamped it at different angles to form the design in the corner. Finally, I rubbed the raised glass bead areas with the same metallic gold I used earlier.