Journal Page - Wedding

I have weddings on my mind as we have 2 coming up in our family.  I guess love is in the air.  It inspired me to make a wedding page.  I already had a Julie Nutting stamp which screams wedding gown so, I centered the page around that.  Here are the steps I took to complete my page.  It's a mixed media page.  I only wished I could have used 3D flowers but, the journal is already getting too fat and that would have put it over the top.

I start with torn up pieces of black and white paper.  I glued it in place with Gel Mat and then used modeling paste around the edges of most of the papers to make the transition between the papers smooth

Gesso over the top of everything after it dried

Painted with pink and white acrylic paints.  Softly painted so the papers underneath show through

Stencil on top of the pink using white paint

While the journal dries, I switch to making the doll.  I stamp it twice.  Once on white paper and once on a paper with lace etc.  The doll is colored in, cut and a layered back together

The doll is moved around to determine exactly where to glue her down

I make a pattern for the cake and then emboss each layer

The layers are glued down with white lace at the bottom of each layer.  The doll also has white lace on her dress.  She also has some sparkly silver mesh behind her.

I color around the cake and doll to make a shadow effect.  I made a banner that said "Forever on it".  The banner did not turn out so I tossed the idea.  I did not like the way I lettered it plus, I used pop ups underneath it and the journal had a hard time closing.

Finished page.  The last touches were butterflies, some stamped with a light pink dye and some punched.  The ones by the cake were stamps that were colored and cut out.
For the top, I cut strips of 3 different colors in varying lengths and glued them down