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Sonntag, 21. August 2016

Lazy Summer Days


Hallo zusammen, schön, dass ihr bei mir vorbeischaut!
Heute habe ich eine Doppelseite in meinem großen Art Journal, das ich mir unlängst gekauft habe, für euch.
Ich habe sie für Country View Challenge gestaltet, um euch eine weitere Inspiration für  unsere Challenge "Hot Summer Days" zu geben. Unten findet ihr auch eine Schritt für Schritt Anleitung, wie ich die Seiten aufgebaut habe. Also viel Spaß beim Anschauen und vielleicht habt ihr ja Lust teilzunehmen, ihr könnt einen £ 20 Gutschein gewinnen! Ein paar Tage habt ihr noch Zeit!

Hello all and a warm welcome to my blog!
Today I want to share with you a double spreat page in my new big Art Journal.
I made it for Country View Challenges to give you another inspiration for our Challenge "Hot Summer Days". Below you find some step x step tutorial to show you, how I made it.
So have fun watching it and may be you´ll find time to join in, you can win a £ 20 voucher! There are some days left!

 Here some step x step pictures:





I started with a page, on which I had brayered some left over paints from a project, I did short time ago (you will see this next month ;-) ).



I prepared the pages with some white Gesso first.




For the right summer feeling I think there must be some roses. So I took the upper layer of a napkin, tore it apart and glued the parts down.




Now I painted the white space with the same colors, I used at the beginning......





 .... followed by some stenciling with Archival Inks.

I prepared some parts for stamping with white Gesso and stamped two images from LaBlanche on top. Later I decided, I want only to use one of them and painted over the other one. Being not that happy with, I also stamped the one, I wanted to stay, later onto an extra paper to make it more visible. The stamped image I colored with Distress Inks.




Now I did some background stamping with Archival Ink in olive. The stamp is from LaBlanche too.









To get even more into this summer feeling, I wrote a poem, called "summer", on the background. Well, later it will not be very much visible, but I liked it very much. Sorry, I didn´t translate it, so, my English speaking friends, you might try to translate it with the help of "Aunt Google". ;-)
The poem I found here
  Im Sommer





Dünnbesiedelt das Land.


Trotz riesigen Feldern und Maschinen


liegen die Dörfer schläfrig


in Buchsbaumgärten; 

die Katzen trifft selten ein Steinwurf.





Im August fallen Sterne.


Im September bläst man die Jagd an.


Noch fliegt die Graugans, spaziert der Storch


durch unvergiftete Wiesen. 

Ach, die Wolken -


wie Berge fliegen sie über die Wälder. 





Wenn man hier keine Zeitung hält


ist die Welt in Ordnung.


In Pflaumenmuskesseln


spiegelt sich schön das eigne Gesicht und

feuerrot leuchten die Felder.  



(Sarah Kirsch)   




In the next step I used a brick wall stencil with Archival Ink Potting Soil....



...and some stone paste, I have for ages in my stash






Then I die cut leaves with the "spring greenery" die from Tim Holtz, grabed several of my green mists to color them and left them to dry.


Meanwhile I wrote my words with a black marker, surrounded them with a white one, cut them out and distressed the edges. To make them fit better, I colored the white background with DI spun sugar.
Then I put everything in place and glued all down.




Some final steps later (setting highlights with acrylic paint, spritzing deluted white Gesso, painting the middle of the leaves) my page was ready!

 Here are some close ups:






I want to join in following challenges:
http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.de/2016/08/challenge-16-shabby-garden-mood-board_5.html
http://craftstamper.blogspot.de/2016/08/take-it-make-it-challlenge-august.html
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.de/2016/08/august-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.de/2016/08/august-creative-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.de/2016/08/welcome-to-creative-artistes-challenge.html
http://thingstoalter.blogspot.de/2016/08/things-to-alter-august-challenge.html
http://www.vintagejourney.com/2016/08/stencil-it_5.html

Zum Schluss möchte ich euch noch ein paar Eindrücke von meinem (zugegeben etwas verwilderten) kleinen Garten geben. Es war so ein wunderbarer Sommertag mit einem blitzblauen Himmel, das wollte ich euch einfach zeigen.
Last I want to show you some garden impressions of my little (I admit a little wild) garden. It was such a wonderful sunny day with a lighning blue sky, I wanted to show you.





Eine der unzähligen Blüten eines meiner Eibisch Sträucher. Ich liebe sie, sie blühen so wunderbar!

One blossom of one of my hibiscus bushes. They are blooming so wonderful!
So, das wars für heute. Vielen Dank, dass ihr bei mir hereingeschaut habt und ich freue mich sehr über eure Kommentare!
That´s it for today. Thank you for stopping by here and your lovely comments are always appreciated!

21 Kommentare:

  1. Fabulous art journal pages, Evelyn! Yes you are right, the roses are definitely summer flowers and your hibiscus is beautiful! xx

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  2. Evelyn these papers are beautiful, and I really enjoyed seeing how you created them. Have a lovely weekend xx

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  3. Lovely project Evelyn,great tutorial too!Can't wait to see what you've prepared for next month...

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  4. Such a lovely piece for my Hot summer days theme Evelyn...the roses look brilliant x

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  5. Such a lovely piece for my Hot summer days theme Evelyn...the roses look brilliant x

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  6. This is so beautiful! I love how you blended in the magazine pages. Great touch and beautiful project!

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  7. A gorgeous creation and such lovely colours, many thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations challenge.

    B x

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  8. That's a stunning page Evelyn! Great mixed media techniques! I can learn a lot from you, I see that now!

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  9. Beautiful! What great how you made this.
    Thank you for joining at Stamping Sensations this month.

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  10. Love it Evelyn !!!
    Adorable roses.great result !
    Hugs.
    xx

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  11. Ganz zauberhaft diese Rosenseiten Evelyn. Toll wie du die Rosenfarben mit den Hintegrundfarben verbunden hast, diese Schablonenmotive und diese Efeuranke als 3 D-Element gefallen mir sehr. Eine gelungene Komposition. WOW!
    Liebe Grüße
    Sabine

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  12. So many fantabulous mixed media techniques used for this double page spread! Wowzers! The layers upon layers you achieved are lovely and created the perfect backdrop to your shabby garden! The sentiment is so fittingly astute for this design. Awesome sauce and so fun!

    Thanks for joining us at Anything But Cute for our "Shabby Garden" challenge! Hugz! ~Niki DT

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  13. Stunning journal page ..... fab step by step too! Thank you for playing along with the Craft Stamper Challenge xx

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  14. Great journal page, thank you for joining in this months challenge at The Artistic Stamper.

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  15. What a gorgeous page spread, Evelyn, with the glowing colours of a summer garden. I love how the colours echo your own "wild" garden, and the ivy vines work so well to lead the eye around the page. Lovely!
    Alison x

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  16. Hi this is stunning. Thank you for joining us at <a href='http://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.co.uk/’> Creative Artiste Challenge Blog </a> for challenge 17 Anything Goes and the sponsor is Stamplorations. Hugs Jackie DT

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  17. Oh wow, this is absolutely stunning!! I love seeing how you put this together!! The layers and details are amazing!! What gorgeous pages these are!! Thank you so much for playing along at Anything But Cute for our Shabby Garden challenge!!

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  18. A fabulous creation for our Challenge at Stamping Sensations! Beautiful! Thanks for joining us this month and good luck!

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  19. Amazing pages, Evelyn! I love that beautiful rose garden for the backdrop to the brick wall, the window (with the kittie on the ledge!), the lattice and that trailing ivy! So gorgeous AND so creative! A huge round of applause for this! While I'm here I want thank you, too, for entering it into our Shabby Garden Mood Board challenge at Anything But Cute. Hugs! Sara Emily DT

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