Grungy Monday - Colorwash Sprays

This weeks challenge is to use Ranger's Colorwash sprays.  These are not the sprays with glimmer in them, but just rich Adirondack colors.  There are so many ways to use these; check out Tim Holtz's blog or the Ranger site for lots of inspiration.  And you can find all the Grungy Monday information over at the Studio L3 blog - good stuff!

I used the Denim and Stream colorwash to create some background papers.  Spray liberally onto watercolor paper then place some plastic wrap over the paper and let it dry.  When you removed the plastic wrap you will have some color designs and colors, almost jewel like. 

This is a 7-day Gratitude journal that I'm working on, I'm trying to get the journal ready and then will pick a week to do some art journal work each day.  The journal is made from a file folder. I folded up about three inches across the bottom to make pockets for the tags and then folded up to create an accordian like formation and then a spine glued on to keep it together like a book.  For some of the tags I used the Colorwash paper and other I gave a quick spritz of Colorwash and then stamped on top of that.  The backside of the tags have an assortment of lined ephemera papers to write on.

I used an assortment of decorative papers, stamps and stickers and lots of ephemera to creat the covers and to decorate the tags and pocket fronts.  I'll post more later as it gets used.

Supplies:

Ranger Adirondack Colorwash sprays (Denim & Stream)

stamps: Unity Stamp Company - Melody Ross Line

Stickes: Club Scrap and 7 Gypsies

fibers: Club Scrap

other: vintage ephemera