Art journal page - First snowflakes

Hi and welcome back :0). This is a another 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal page, an entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Stencil it and also for bastel-traum.ch challenge #119 Schneeflocken | Snoflakes (#btchallenge119).

For my background I chose blue Distress Spray stains with a silver shimmer spray and stenciled a Tim Holtz's Snowflakes over it with a Stamperia Sparkling white Glamour paste. Then I cut out some snowflake dies - each of them twice from 300 gsm white paper and once from silvery sparkling cardstock very similar to the paste. The shimmer is subtle but very nice in the real life. I glued all three layers together to get a better dimension for my focal images which I coloured with ZIG Clean color brushes pens. I like a lot how detailed are brushes of these markers so I can coloured easily even small images and parts of them. And although they are very juicy, they did not destroy the Bristol paper I used. I also added a black carstock layer under the dinosaurs to make them more visible and used black acrylic pen to re-defined all the stamped lines (they always fade a bit after colouring).  

I'm so happy how this page turned out :0)

Thank you for stopping by and have a nice weekend and see you next time :0)

18.11.2022 First snowflakes

Art journal page - Thankful for the moonlight

Hi and welcome :0). This is a new 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal page, an entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Thanks/Thanksgiving.

For the background I chose blue Distress Spray stains with a silver shimmer accents and embossed it with SSS Pumpkin patch embossing folder. It is a beautiful pattern. I found nice older leaves die in my stash and cut them out of the yellow-orange-brown colored paper I made. For the city I painted Dylusions black shimmer paint over the black cardstock, cut the shapes out and combine them to create nice cluster of roofs and buildings. Finally I colored the moon with antique linen and mustard seed Distress inks and white Dylusions shimmer spray. 

I love this page, especially how vibrant are the orange yellow colours against the blue background :D

Thank you for your visit and have a nice day :0)

15.11.2022 Thankful for the moonlight

Art journal page - Don't let your idea disappear

Hi and welcome. This is a new page in my 7" (ca. 17,8 cm) Arteza round art journal :0) 

This page is an entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Art Journal".

I played a lot with colours this time. Because it is a waterolour paper it holds a lot of water and I used this ability a lot before I found the colour combination I like ,0) 

I stamped Dina Wakley's tags with black archival ink and I overstamped everything with  Tim Holtz's stamp in different blue shades. Then I took a brush and coloured the tags with blue Distress Spray Stains and framed them with black Dylusions Shimmer spray. For my background I used Victorian Velvet Distress Spray Stain, but I was not satisfied with this colour combo. That's why I overpainted the tags with yellow Distress Stain to create a green shade and the background with black Shimmer spray. For the focal images - a light bulb from Katzelkraft and a bird from Prima marketing - I chose different yellow Spray Stains with a little bit of Victorian Velvet for the shadows. Finally I added some green gems and enhanced every image with a black acrylic pen. 

The page turned out a lot different than I expected, but I still like the outcome :0)

Thank you for your visit and have a very nice weekend :0)

11.11.2022 Don't let your idea disappear