Colorful Travel Journal

Hello all, welcome to my blog!

Here is my second project for the challenge "Travel" over at Country View Challenges this month.

Last month I showed you my art journal pages, prepared with leftover paints from another project. I promised, to show you the project, where I used the paints. 

As you may know, I am an adventurer at Wanderlust 2016. One of the very first classes was the one from Kate Crane and I utterly enjoyed her work and wanted to try it out, but as you all may know, some things need a little time.

In July a dear friend of mine celebrated her birthday and I knew, that she wanted to go to Danmark for some weeks. So this was a very good reason to make this travel journal as her birthday gift!

I made this little journal after the class of Kate Crane, so I can´t tell you too much about the making of and the techniques, but I´ll show you the close up photos from all the pages - front and back. So grab a cup of coffee, there are a couple of pictures ;-)

The front and the back are made from a canvas covred greyboard, steciled with modeling paste and painted. The butterflies are highlighted with some pink Inka Gold.

The first pages:

much painting, stamping making marks and doodling

The next pages:

The same techniques, but here are some other patterns.

 At the right page there is a little pocket. I inserted some stamped tags, where one can write some important things, glue tickets, ..... whatever

The third pages:

 The back pages:

Here are some blank pages in the middle for some writing. I used my sewing machine. 

That´s my little Travel Journal! I hope you liked it, I had so much fun making it and it definitely won´t be my last one.

Thank you so much for dropping in here today and may be you find time to participate in our Travel Challenge this month!

 I will join in following challenges:

Wanderlust Book 2016 - January, the first pages

Hallo zusammen, schön euch hier zu haben! 

Heute möchte ich euch meine ersten Seiten in meinem Wanderlust Book 2016 zeigen.

Wie ihr vielleicht gesehen habt, hat im Januar der Online Kurs "Wanderlust 2016" angefangen - und ich bin dabei! Die ersten Videokurse sind schon gelaufen und waren sehr informativ und inspirierend.

Wir sollten ein Wort benutzen, das beschreibt, wie man sich momentan fühlt. Ich habe "promising" gewählt, was soviel bedeutet wie: hoffnungsvoll, vielversprechend, erwartungsfroh - kurzum ein positiver Blick in die Zukunft.

Hi all, nice to have you here!

Today I want to share with you my first pages of my Wanderlust Book 2016. May be you´ve seen, that started at January 1st, a one year long event of art classes and exploration, "Wanderlust 2016" .  This is the project I created after watching the first two videos, which were very informative and inspiring. If you don't know about Wanderlust, do check it out here.

We were supposed to choose "One word that describes me today." My word is "promising".

 

I went after the color palette of Lindy´s Stamp Gang January 2016 Color Challenge and used the following colors:

Ich habe mich an der Farbpalette von Lindy´s Stamp Gang January 2016 Color Challenge orientiert.

Folgende Farben habe ich verwendet:

Sweet Violet Purple Teal

Tea Pot Purple

Gag Me with a Spoon Gray

Brushed Nickel

Magicals: Sweet Violet Purple Teal, Witch´s Potion Purple and Screamin´ Banshee Black

Hier meine Seiten:

Here are my pages:

Noch kurz, wie ich der Reihe nach vorgegangen bin:

- weißes Gesso

- Papierstreifen und -stückchen aufkleben

- Texture Crackle Paste durch eine Schablone von 13@rts, trocknen lassen

- Einfärben mit Farbsprays, Magicals (Pigmentpulver), Gesso, ein Hauch von Inka Gold 

- stempeln mit 2 verschiedenen Stempeln

- Akzente setzen mit wasservermalbarem Farbstift und weißem Marker und lila Fineliner

- Bild unterlegen (4 Schichten) und aufkleben, Schmetterlinge aufkleben bzw. -rubbeln

- handschriftlich das Wort "promising" mit Schreibfeder und schwarzer Tinte und am Rand 

  mit lila Fineliner schreiben

A quick step by step:

- white Gesso

- glue down paper stripes and shapes

- Texture Crackle Paste through a stencil of 13@rts, let dry

- colouring with mists and Magicals, Gesso and a hint of Inka Gold

- stamping with 2 different stamps

- setting accents with watercolour pencil, white pen and purple fineliner

- layering the picture (4 layers) and glue down, embellishing with butterflies (fuzzy cut and 

  rub on)

- handwriting the word "promising" with a pennib, ink and a purple finliner around the edges

Hier ein paar Details:

Here some details:

Hier noch ein Foto in einem anderen Licht - man sieht hier so schön, wie die Texture Crackle Paste erhaben ist!

Here a photo in another light - you can see how the Texture Crackle Paste stands out!

Ich hoffe, meine Art Journal Seiten gefallen euch! Vielen Dank fürs Reinschauen!

Now I hope you like my art journal pages! Thank you for dropping in here!

In following challenges I want to participate:

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.de/2016/01/january-2016-new-creative-challenge.html
http://studio75pl.blogspot.de/2016/01/wyzwanie-1-challenge-1.html
http://blog.lindystampgang.com/2016/01/01/january-2016-color-challenge/
http://craftstamper.blogspot.de/2016/01/take-it-make-it-challenge-january_8.html