The beginnings of Vol 2 of my Travelogue Album

Fortunately I purchased a couple of these albums ahead of time

and it paid off as noted in this post.

This is a 6x8 chipboard album that I get at Hobby Lobby.

HL is reducing their scrapbook products sadly and

I'm hoping they continue these.

It comes with page protectors and of course extras

that can be purchased.

I do gesso the entire album prior to slapping paint on.

So I happen to be a fan of Susanne Rose Arts and she

does alot of journals, artist cards, mixed media, stamping, etc.

So I looked up acrylic paints and she

does some really cool things finger painting it on.

So I did.

I used every paint color I had.

🤣

And I love the results.

Well now, it needed something BIG and COLORFUL.

Thankfully, I didn't give up some of the 4x4 Quickutz dies

because I was going SMALL.

Anyway I'm glad I kept this flower and swirling thing.

I also did some stamping on the background and sploshed it

with white flecks using the toothbrush method.

I love the look but it is quite messy because it goes EVERYWHERE.

I also decided on the front cover to use go with two flowers

I did each flower a different way - one I used

the die cut remains as a "stencil" which went well

BUT

I am not the best painter and it was hard to stay in the stencil,

so I decided to trace the cut out and still

had the same problem staying in the lines.

I decided not to put a flower on the back, but just use some

reandom stamping.

I really LOVE the '70's psychedelic vibe.

I also made an opening page - using the tag

to journal that this is part 2.

I really wanted Oregon to complete the first album,

but it would make it too bulky so

now its Oregon part 2.