Art Journal Page in my "Faces" Art Journal

Hello and welcome to my blog today!

This is my second post for the June Challenge over at Country View Challenges. This month´s theme is "It´s a bugs life". I have chosen to use a butterfly again.

This is the reference photo, I found on Pinterest

Pinterest - Epic Firetruck's Black & White ~

This is what I did:

I´m sorry, I only made this only one photo while creating.

I started by glueing down some pieces of old book pages and a lot of washi tape stripes from Tim Holtz. The washi tape fits perfect for the challenge theme - there are many butterflies and moths on it! After that I painted the pages with watered down white Gesso and added white crackle paint on random parts.

After everything was dry, I started to sketch the face with a HB pencil. I darkened some parts with brown ink and brown stabilo all and brown charcoal and black stabilo all and black charcoal and brown and black Inktense pencils....., lightend other parts with white charcoal pencil, white Inktense pencil and white stabilo all, ......... and set highlight with a white posca pen - well I fiddled around for days. It was really a challenge and I was struggling with some parts of the face, e. g. the mouth and the nose.

But I am pretty satisfied with the result 😊.

Next I stamped some background stamps from LaBlanche with black ink, very subtile only.

Now I wanted to add some color - not too much, only a hint of color, very gently. I used acrylic paint in a yummy violet, getting a gorgeous magenta when watered down and a green metalic paint from finnabair.

The lovely butterfly is from Rubber Dance, he is stamped with black ink and colored with the same colors I used for the background. Here I used a bit more color.

The words are from the same stamp set. I also stamped them with black ink and cut them out.

I was missing a little something, so I put modeling paste through a stencil from AAl & Create and when the paste was dry, I painted it with brown acrylic paint.

I glued all down, framed the words and shaded the butterfly. Then I made some splatters with black, white, green and violet paint and colored the edges of the page with brown stabilo all to frame the pages. The last thing I did, I made some clear drops with a pearl pen - and that´s it!

Now I hope you like my journal pages as much as I do!

Oh, and don´t forget to join in with our challenge! There is enough time left!

Thank you so much for your visit today!

Tag with Grungy Butterfly for Rubber Dance

Hello dears,

today I want to show you a little sneak peek from the tag, I made for Rubber Dance.

If you want to see the full post with tutorial, please hop to the Rubber Dance blog!

Thank you for your visit today!

Art Journal Page #4 for Rubber Dance

Hello all,

today I want to share with you page #4 in my Happy Journal for Rubber Dance!

Here is a sneak peek

If you want to see more, please hop to the Rubber Dance blog!

Thank you for your visit.

Have a wonderful week!

Butterfly birthday card for Country View Challenges

Hello lovelies, welcome to June!
This time the theme at Country View Challenge is "It´s a bugs life!", chosen by my talented teamy Jane.
I made a card with this beautiful butterfly.

I created a wrinkle free background with 3 colors of Distress Oxides (peeled paint, picked raspberry, mermaid lagoon) and dried it with a heat tool.

after that I stamped  the flowers from the stamp set "Mindscapes" from Inkadinkado with the same DO randomly to the background.

Now I stamped the beautiful butterfly from the same stamp set with VersaFine Clair nocturne and heat embossed it with black embossing powder. Then I colored it again with the same DO inks. I set highlights with a white posca pen.

Then I stamped the birthday wishes , colored the paper and cut the words.

For more interest and a great contrast I diecut the Tim Holtz wild flowers out of black cardstock, I also diecut the "grass" with a icecles die from Joy!Crafts and glued everything to the background and glued it to the card.

That´s it for today! Don´t miss to visit the CVC blog to see the gorgeous makes of my lovely teamies.
We hope to see your projects in our challenge!

Birthday Card with Merry Magpie from Rubber Dance

Hello my friends and welcome to June!

My first post today is a birthday card with the lovely stampset Merry Magpie from Rubber Dance. 

I made this for the June Challenge at Rubber Dance after this mood board:

For more informations and how you can join in with the challenge please hop over to the Rubber Dance blog!

I´ll see you later here today with my second post.

Have a wonderful sunny June!

Flower Birthday Card for CVC

Hello dear visitors!

I hope you had a beautiful May so far. Temperatures are slowly getting higher and more and more flowers start growing and blooming.

So I decided to make a flower card for my second take on the May Challenge at Country View Challenges.
And as the theme this month is "Opposites", I chose huge and tiny.

I started to create my background. First I picked DecoArt acrylic paints in different shades of pink and spread them on the watercolor paper. I made sure to vary the light and darker colors for more interest. When I was happy with the result, I took the tiny little flower stamps from the PaperArtsy stamp set Eclectika EEG22 by Emma Godfrey and stamped them randomly to the background. I used Archival ink Cactus Flower and Plum.

To make my focal point stand out more, I took DecoArt acrylic paint Buttermilk and painted a thin layer where I wanted to stamp them flower and the stamen.

For my focal point I took one of the lovely stamps from the stamp set STAMPBM27 from art by marlene I bought a while ago. I used my Tim Holtz stamping platform, stamped the flower with black Archival Ink and, when dry, I colored the flower with DecoArt acrylic paints in different shades of pink and purple. For some shades I used teal.

I left my stamp on the platform while coloring. That´s important, because acrylic paints are not translucent and you will loose some of the lines and details of your stamp. By leaving the stamp in place, you can stamp again your image onto the colored pic as often as needed and you will always hit exactly the same place again!

I accentuated parts of the flower with black and white posca pen and surrounded the flower white to make it stand out even more. Last I created some shading with a black charcoal pencil.

I really liked the result!

As it is a birthday card, I added stamped wishes. I wanted to merge the words with the background, so I stamped it on vellum and heat embossed the sentiment. Then I teared the paper and glued it with Matte Medium to the card.

At last I sprinkled watered down acrylic paint in black, white and teal on top, framed everything with Archival ink in Plum and glued the picture onto a card.

I hope you liked my - admittedly pretty pink - card and feel inspired to join in with our challenge this month, there are still some days left! Don´t forget to have a look at the gorgeous takes of my lovely teamies, there you can find many gorgeous ideas for the theme!

As usual you have the chance to win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop.

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful rest of May!

Art Journal Page #3 for Rubber Dance

Hello all!

Nice to have you here today. I want to show you a little sneak peek of my next art journal pages in my Happy Journal for Rubber Dance.

If you want to see more, please hop over to the Rubber Dance Blog