Sparkle

I created this based on a challenge at Scrapping the Music.  The featured song this week was "Sparkle," by Rubyhorse.  This song has beautiful lyrics and the verse I quoted reminded me of an angel in the sky.  Someone I know recently experienced the untimely and unexpected passing of someone very close to him.  I thought that the lyrics of this song would give him comfort. 

I started this with gesso stamped with a paisley stamp to give it texture.  Then I wiped blue and white paint on top with a credit card, which creates a great scratchy field over the gesso texture.  I added a tree stencil on the top and on the bottom, and also used Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Blazonry stencil on the bottom for more trees.  I used some star and leaf stamps as well, and a mix of my handwriting and various stamps for the letters.  The woman is collaged and painted with acrylics and Sakura pens.  Overall, I'm very happy with how this turned out!