Art journal page - Ellegance diary journal

Hi and welcome :0) Today´s page is ca 6.5" x 8.5" (cca 16 x 21,5 cm). 

I started with a coloured paper tag. I did some stenciling on it with an Iced spruce and Vintage photo Distress inks and than I added a bit of stamping on it. The same stamp I used on my "old book" background papers together with a layer and splatters of a diluted gesso. Finally I created a small collage with these photos of elegant ladies from 20´s and bits and pieces I found in my stash :0)

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

18. 4. 2025 Ellegance diary journal

Round art journal page - Dream Boho Soul

Hi and welcome again. This page is also from 7" (ca. 18 cm) Arteza round art journal.

I still played with layered background. I stamped a big background stamp on the page, covered the page with Distress brown and orange inks, layered a stencil pattern over it with Versafine Clair permanent ink and applied a white gesso with a sponge through the checkerboard and star stencils. I coloured the gessoed patterns with Distress inks to muted the white colour down and added the final collage and a quote. And I like this page a lot :0)

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

20.1.2025 Dream Boho Soul

Round art journal page - Lost and found on the chessboard

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

I played with layered background. I used Distress inks - Vintage photo, Rusty hinge and some others. I stamped an Aall and Create chess border stamp on the bottom of the page and chess figures all around the page (although they ended up covered with other layers). I used white gesso an applied it with a brayer and with a sponge through the Tim Holtz´s stencil. I covered the gessoed parts with Ranger´s Perfect pearls. Finally I added my focal point girl with a chess pawn and the quote :0)

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

15.1.2025 Lost and found on the chessboard

Art journal page - Another fall

Hallo and welcome back :0) Today´s page is ca  6" x 8.5" (cca 15,5 x 21 cm) and it is an entry for Simon Says Stamps´s Monday challenge "Fall Mood Board". 

Again a simple collage with images and quote from Maremi´s small art Autumn stories and Fungos collage books. As a background I used a wonderful 3D Oak Forest embossing folder from Spellbinders together with orange textured paper which I colored with darker orange Distress inks and Champagne metallic ink applied with a brayer. I finished with a few accents with black and white marker.

Thank you for your visit, feel free to leave me a comment and have a very nice day :0)

15.10.2024 Another fall

Art journal page - Ready to go

Hi and welcome :0) This is ca  6" x 8" (cca 15 x 20 cm) page. 

I love this new Honey Bee Air Mail 3D embossing folder. I wanted to use it in my journal as soon as possible and don´t cover it much and I like the outcome a lot :0) 

I used Tim Holtz´s Distress inks to make a splattered background, stamped some text and postal stamps over it and embossed it. I enhanced the raised areas with the same inks to make them darker and then applied a layer of white ink over it. It created a beautiful effect. I framed the page when I glued it on another page colored with the same inks and stamped with the same stamps I used before. My focal images are from Maremi´s small art´s beautiful collage books I bought on Amazon. 

Thank you for your visit, feel free to leave me a comment and have a very nice day :0)

28.8.2024 Ready to go

Art journal page - Moment of beauty

Welcome and thank you for visiting my blog :0) This is another smaller page (20.5 cm x 14 cm / 5.5" x 8") for this year, an entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Fun With Stencils", for Allsorts challenge "Week 766" and also for  Stencil Fun "February challenge". 

I started the page with a few spritz of coffe and added some brown Distress inks over it to make it darker. I embossed the background with starry 3D embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp and enhanced the stars with Finnabair´s gold wax. Circle of watercolor paper was again sprayed with coffee and colored with brown Distress inks and turquoise acrylic paint. I used Tim Holtz´s Harlequin stencil for it. I added some brown stamping with text stamps from AALL & Create, gold ink through the Tim Holtz´s floral stencil and lines with Posca gold acrylic pen. I stamped the moon with gold ink, colored it a bit with very diluted Scattered straw Distress ink and added a butterfly, a quote and a gold metallic string on the edges. My focal point is from Etsy. 

Have a nice day and see you :0)

7.2.2024 Moment of beauty

Art journal page - Searching for the good life

Hi and  welcome back :0) Today's page is again in 6" x 8" (cca 15 x 20 cm) Hahnemühle journal book and it is an entry for Simon Says Stamp's Monday challenge What is your favorite color?, for Allsorts challenge Week 746 and also my second entry for Stencil Fun September challenge. 

I admit that I have more than one favorite color, but one of them is definitely an orange.

I started with Lindy's orange magical powder Teenie weenie bikini applied with a brush and few layers of water droplets.Than I used Barbary stars stencil from AALL and Create together with Distress inks Spiced marmalade, Carved pumpkin and Rusted hinge and Memento dual marker (and more water). For the lower part of the page I used chess board stencil from Clarity stamps. This time I added also Vintage photo and Ground espresso Distress inks. And water droplets of course :D

I finished the page with one of the beautiful images from Etsy, Tim Holtz's and 49 and Market's rub-ons and a printed quote. And I need to say, how much I love the contrast between green and orange colors, they nicely fit together :0)

Thank you that you've stopped by, feel free to leave me a comment and have a very nice Monday :0)

P.S. I'm very happy that this page was in Simon Says Stamp "What is your favorite color?" Designer spotlight :0)

18.9.2023 Searching for the good life...

Art journal page - Time for everything

Hi and welcome :0) This is a page in my smaller 6"x8" (cca 15x20 cm) art journal from Hahnemühle.

This page was highly inspired by Nuneka. I was in love with the stripy page she made and it's colour combination so I needed to create my own version :0)

I masked some stripes on my page with a masking tape and painted the rest with blue shades of Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst sprays. Than I added a texture with stencil and texture paste. I printed a photo as my focal point and framed it with the circle. The inner circle was stamped with a stencil sprayed with orange Starburst spray and coloured with Distress Spiced marmalade ink. I finished the design with greenery die-cuts coloured with the same Lindy's colours and also darkened with Distress Mermaid lagoon ink. 

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

28.5.2023 Time for everything

 

Art journal page - Pleasure of art

Hi and welcome again :0). Today's page has ca 9.5"x 8.5"  (cca 24 x 21 cm).

I am enchanted with the new Lisa Horton Crafts 3D embossing folders - Visteria, Gears and Pipework. I wanted to combine them on one page and I am very satisfied with the outcome :0) I used Peacock feathers and few other blue-green Distress inks and also brown Distress inks to achieve the final colours I like. I enhanced the details with Finnabair's Gold wax. I loved the page as it was, but I decided to add three observers as a "visitors in the gallery" (Katzelkraft) :0)

Please feel free to leave me a comment, thank you for your visit, enjoy the rest of the week and see you next time :0)

11.5.2023 Pleasure of art

Art journal page - We all have DREAMS

Hi and welcome back :0). Today's 8"x 8"  (ca. 20 x 20 cm) art journal page is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Add texture. 

I played with Visible Image's tiger and cats stamps. For the background I used Lost shadow, Hickory smoke and Black soot Distress inks and I stamped my images with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. This oil  based ink is beautifully intensive and black. I coloured the cats with Karin Brushmarkers PRO. For the eyes and splatters I used Kuretake's Gansai Tambi Yellow gold pigment colour. This pigment watercolors have a lot of mica in it and they are really shiny. They also have so thick consistency that you can feel them under the fingers, when you touch the page. Finally I added some texture with a small notches around the sides of the inner page. 

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

7.4.2023 We all have DREAMS

Art journal page - Destiny

Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I have a bigger page - 8"x10" (ca 21 x 25 cm). 

For this page I combined Stampscapes stamps with randomly picked stamps from my stash e.g IndigoBlu unicorn (the second unicorn was created with mirror-stamping technique on the gel plate). I used Distress oxide colours for my background and Distress inks to color my images. I enhanced the details and lines with black Ohuhu Water-based marker and black and white acrylic paint pens. For my main focal points I've chosen Carabelle studio girl stamp and also texture plate with the beautiful astrological circle. 

Thank you for your visit and have a great creative time :0)

19.9.2022 Destiny