Art Journal Page "Be You"

Hello and happy June!

For the new challenge over at Country View Challenges with the theme "Vintage" I made an art journal page.

This is what I did:

(I apologise for the bad quality of the pictures, I guess I had bad light)

I wanted to try out the faux bleeching technique, which Tim Holtz showed in one of his lives.

I prepared my pages with some snippets of old bookpages to cover some paint and then I spreat white Gesso over the whole page and let it dry.

Now I took DO speckled egg, salvaged patina and uncharted mariner and blended the colours from light to dark from the top of the page downwards. I used a blending brush.

Time for stamping!

I used  one of the floral trims stamps and Versafine  onyx black ink and stamped around the pages.

Now I used a waterbrush and lifted some of the DO ink to "bleech" the florals. The result is sooo amazing!

I prepared another piece of paper, stamped the floral trim again, "bleeched" the flowers and cut them out.

I chose one of the paper dolls Portraits, put some foam pads to it´s back and glued it to the page. The fuzzycut flowers I glued around the portrait. Now I only had to glue down the saying (TH label stickers "thoughts"). 

Here are some close ups:

I hope you like my pages as much as I do and feel inspired to make something vintage for our challenge this month. As always you can win a 20£ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit!

Relax and Go Your Way!

Hello and happy 1st of May!

For the May challenge at Country View Challenges "Vehicles", hosted by the lovely Monika, I made a art journal page with a vitage vehicle stamp.

I started my page with acrylic paint and a stencil. I used Lukas Cryl Terzia Yellow Ochre and spreat the paint all over the page.  In the still wet paint I placed a stencil (LaBlanche) and took away some paint using a baby wipe, I dried the page with my heat tool. Then I added some Amsterdam Standard Series Acrylic paint Phtalo green and Lukas Cryl Terzia Prussian Blue randomly to some places.

Now I needed some lighter areas on the page. For this I used again Lukas Acrylic paint, this time I used Titanium White. To get a good coveridge, I needed to do 3 layers. For more dynamic I brushed slightly over the edges of the areas - I like, how this turned out!

Time for stamping now!

I stamped the two men on the vehicle on tissue paper with versafine pigment ink for fine detail in oniyx black and glued it to the page with Liquitex Matte Medium. I did this, because the paper of my art journal is not smooth and the stamp image would not turn out crisp. If you glue down the tissue paper to the page with matte medium, it is not visible, that there is another layer of paper!

I coloured the stamped image with my Faber Castell Polychromos and added some black charcoal to ground the image.

I also stamped some pattern to the background with a stamp from the eccentric  stamp set CM448 from Tim Holtz and a compass stamp from LaBlanche to add more interest.

Next I used a cheap napkin with a leave pattern, cut out some of the branches and glued them down with matte medium. You really have to be careful to avoid tearing the napkin! I outlined some of the leaves to make them stand out a little bit more.

Lastl step was to print the words withmy Dymo lable maker. I cut the words and coloured them with a green and a brown felt pen, glued them to the page and scribbled around them with a black fineliner.

That´s it for today! I hope, you will find time to join in with our challenge this month! As you know, you can win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a sunny month!

 

Explore!

Hello and Happy Easter to all of you!

Today I want to share with you my second post for the April challenge "Things with Wings" at Country View Challenges.

This time I made a art journal page.

 I had much fun to create the page, using a picture of a magzine from the Supermarket 😉😊.

The page is quite easy to make:

First I gessoed the paper to prepare it, then I used some magical sifters from Lindy´s (Octopus Eyes Aqua, Sea Turtle Teal and Jellyfish Sting Pink). I spritzed water onto the page and sprinkled the magicals on top. Some more water helped to spread the colour. After drying the ink, I took a homemade collage tissue and teared it in pieces, which I glued down randomly using matte medium. You really have to be careful and only tap with a brush on the tissue, it is very fragile!

I ripped out the little Lady from a magazine, gave her some transparent wings (Tim Holtz) and glued her to the page.

Now I did some stamping with some of my favourite stamps from LaBlanche with Versafine fine detail ink in onyx black, took then a black fineliner and doodled arround the edges of my colour. I also glued down one more transparent wing on one of the branches.

I wrote the word "Explore" with a white gelly Roll pen, made a lot of white tiny dots, set some highlight here and there - and that´s it!

Now I hope, the Easter Bunny brought you some yummy eggs and may be, you´ll find time to make something with wings for our challenge!

Thank you for your visit today and again Happy Easter!

xxx

Art Journal Page with a Heart

Hello all!

Today I want to share with you my second project for the February challenge at Country View Challenges. This month the theme is "Be Sentimental".

This time I made a Art Journal page.

This is what I did:

I chose a page from one of my art journals, which was already prepared with some stamping and parts of old book pages. I went over it with some Gesso and when it was dry, I stamped a heart from a Rubber Dance stamp set with embossing ink and heat embossed them.

Next I used my Marabu acrylic spray paint. I took red, magenta and lime green.

The next step first looked a little bit ugly - but wait, until you see the end result.

I took black Gesso and spreat it on some parts of the page with a brush. I also made some marks with the brush on the edges.

The black Gesso was still wet, so I took a knitting needle to create some doodling. I drew some spirals. The result remids me on a artwork, childs love to make with black crayon. Do you remember these magical pictures?

The Gesso had to dry and meanwhile I picked out a fitting paper for the focal point. I used one from the bunch of Gelli prints I made last year. I sketched a heart and cut it out.

To make it stand out more on the page I surrounded it with a black posca pen and doodled white points. I then used a little heart stamp from another Rubber Dance stamp set and stamped it randomly onto the heart with Magenta Hue Archival ink.

I glued down the heart to the page with thin foam tape, did some more doodling with white posca pen and some more background stamping with black Archival ink and an old script stamp from LaBlanche.

Then I stamped the sentiment (Rubber Dance) with embossing ink direktly to the page and heat embossed it with black nuvo fine detail embossing powder.

Here are some details:

I hope you like my page and feel inspired to make something for the challenge!

As always you can win a 20£ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful weekend!

Time Flies!

 Happy New Year all!

I can´t believe it - another year has gone bye so fast - time really flies!

So for the first challenge at Country View Challenges the theme, that this time I have chosen, is  "time - clocks and clockfaces". 

I made a art journal page.

I wanted to make a process video and filmed this time with my mobile, but I had much trouble with the upload - sorry, no video. If I will get it to run, I will upload it later. So I am very sorry!

So I will discribe you, what I did.

I primed my page with Gesso and after drying I started with stamping a lot of clockfaces to my page. I used stamps from visible image and LaBlanche with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

Next I used some acrylic paint from DecoArt (Americana Cherry Red, Khaki Tan, Asphaltum). To tone all down a little bit I used some white Gesso. Now I took a stencil from 13Arts and stenciled the triangles with the Americana Asphaltum paint.

Now it was time for the diecut letters. I used a die set from Alexandra Renke (Alphabet Vic) from white cardstock and glued two of them together for more dimension. Then I painted them with again Americana acrylic paint (Cherry Red and Asphaltum) and glued them to the page. The word "flies" I stamped with VersaFine Clair Pinecone with the stamp set Alphabetical from Visible Image and distressed the edges with DI vintage photo. I also distressed the edges of the page and the clockfaces from LaBlanche, I glued down to the page, too.

Last I added some dots with a pearl pen in red and clear and did some spritzing with black and white paint.

Now I hope, you will have a happy and healthy new year and I hope, you have fun with the first challenge!

Thank you for your visit today, I will be back with my second project at the 3rd, so stay tuned!

Halloween Castle

 Hello lovelies, nice to have you here!

My second project for the October Challenge "Halloween or Harvest" at Country View Challenges is a art journal double page.

I wanted to make a mystical, spooky page and this is what I did.

After preparing my pages with white Gesso, I started with some stamping. I used some old background stamps and black permanent inks.

Then I took a finnabair stencil and white crackle paste. I also put some of the paste randomly onto the page.

I added Lindy´s Magicals in 3 colors, activated them with water and spreat it around until I was happy.

Then I colored some cloth and glued it under the picture with the spooky castle. I added the little witch and the saying "Happy Halloween".

Now I hope to see some makes of you, you know, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit today!