Hi and welcome :0) Today´s page is ca 6.5" x 9" (cca 16 x 23 cm).
I started with a backround colored with Distress inks in brown colors, embossed with an older embossing folder. For the collage I used images from Maremi´s Small Art ephemera books. I fussy cut them, inked the edges and combined them to the final image. Very easy page :0)
Thank you for your visit and have a very nice day :0)
6. 4. 2025 My happy place
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Hi and welcome :0) Today I have a big art journal collage page (28x28 cm / 11"x11") and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge Use Patterned Paper.
I started with sea themed patterned paper for my background, I distressed the edges a bit and coloured them with Vintage photo Distress ink. I added smaller pieces of another patterned paper as a background for my crew member pictures and also distressed them. Then I created the central pergamen map when I played with brown colored patterned paper and the same brown ink. I fussy cut the rope frame and shaded it with a gray pen and a black liner pen. All other elements are from the Kate Curry´s Cut and Collage Ocean life ephemera book vol. 4 and Navigation ephemera book. They are on the black cardstock to make them more sturdy and framed with black pen. I created my scene and finished it with some white splatters muted with the brown ink and a quote. To intensify the colours and to protect the papers I covered everything with Lascaux Satin matt acrylic medium. It is very liquid, but it does not smear the images at all and the brown ink just slightly.
Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)
16.5.2024 All aboard?
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Hi and welcome :0) Today's journal is cca 24,5 x 15 cm (9.5" x 6") and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Emboss it" and Wednesday challenge "Easter/Spring".
I cut Tim Holtz's birds out from the black cardstock and embossed the rest of the cardstock with stone wall embossing folder. Then I cut out birds again from white patterned paper, colored them with green and brown Distress inks and inlay them into the openings. I added my quote from the same patterned paper.
I added background layer - white cardstock embossed with Lisa Horton's palm leaves embossing folder and colored with green Distress inks. I drew a peace of earth with the note comming up of it and colored it with black glaze pen and brown Distress watercolor pencils. The glaze pen I used also for eyes and hearts of the birds.
Thank you for your visit, have a very nice Easter and see you soon :0)
16.3.2024 The music wall
Welcome and all the best in 2024 :0) This is my first journal page of this year (23 cm x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9") and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Add Some Texture".
Usually I don´t make New Year's resolutions, but if I would, for this year it would definitely be "buy less and create more" ,0). It would be great to use finally all the beautiful crafty things I already have. Or realize the ideas which are waiting in my head for such a long time.
So today is the day.... I love smell of the coffee, although I dont drink it and I wanted to create some page stained with it. I made a few of them very long time ago and these pages still smell wonderfully... Today´s page is a combination of coffe and Distress inks and smell in my craft room is just awesome and intense (maybe because I dried papers with my heat tool) ,D
I used brown tinted papers in two shades for the background and all the 3 tags. I stained them more with a strong coffee, added some embossing (with a damask folder on the background and with a gold powder on the tags). I stencilled the tags with Distress inks and stamped some tiny text with Distress Archival inks in Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso. I colored white ribbon with Distress Spray stains and cut the letters with Tim Holtz alphanumeric Tiny Type die set. My focal points are digital images from Etsy finished a bit with gold acrylic pen.
And this is it for today. Thank you for your visit, stay happy and healthy and see you soon :0)
24.1.2024 Happily foolish
Hi and welcome :0) This page is again from Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10") and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp's Monday challenge Transport it.
I started with a background sprayed with Mustard seed and Rusty hinge distress Spray Stains. I created my own background patterned paper with some stamps with an ocean theme stamped in different directions with Kaleidacolor Cappucciono delight dye ink - it is a rainbow inkpad with very nice matching colours. I embossed the whole background with wood grain stencil and used a brayer with Rusty hinge and Ground espresso inks to make the pattern more visible. The final result reminds me water waves :0). As my focal point I made a collage of few images I found recently on Etsy and I really love the outcome :0)
Thank you for your visit, feel free to leave me a comment and see you next time :0)
19.7.2023 Faraway adventure
Hi and welcome :0) Here is a new page in my smaller 6"x8" (cca 15x20 cm) art journal from Hahnemühle. It is my entry for the Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge "No patterned paper".
For my background I combined yellow, orange and green Distress ink colors spritzed with water and applied with a plastic foil. I added brown Distress colors through a stripes stencil and also some splashes with a brush. The letters are Tim Holtz's Varsity alphabet die and coloured them with the same brown inks and darker brown marker. I used different water-based markers to colour my focal images.
Thank you for your visit and have a nice relaxing day :0)
7.5.2023 Relax
Hi and welcome again :0). Today's double-sided page is 6.5"x 6.5" (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Make your mark.
I created both backgrounds with the help of the big blot stencil and Saltwater taffy, Salvaged patina and Uncharted mariner Distress inks. I also used mix of black inks and Kuretake's Gansai Tambi White gold pigment colour diluted with water which I splashed with the small brush as stars. With the black acrylic marker I blocked shapes of the colours from my background to create the final design.
Then I added my focal images coloured with alcohol markers and water-based markers.
Thank you for stopping by, have a nice week and see you next time :0)
24.4.2023 Imagination
Hi :0) Today I have one bigger wish card I created recently.
I used three of Tim Holtz's Colorize dies - Gertrude, Winifred and Gladys and also a cute bunny die. I combined them with clover dies from my stash and a background made with distress inks and an older leaves stencil.
Thank you for your visit , have a nice Saturday and see you next time :0)
Hi and welcome :0). Today's 6.5"x 6.5" (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal page is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Anything goes.
I played a lot with the background. I chose Distress brown ink pads for my final colour and added a stencil pattern with Finnabair's clear gel. I created the moon with yellow Distress Mica stains and a white Dylusions Shimmer spray. Green and brown Distress Mica stains I used also to colour my images. I combined them with Candided apple, Aged mahogany, Antique linen and Forrest most Distress inks.
BTW would you believe that the background was originally violet? ,0)
Thank you for stopping by, have a nice Sunday and see you next time :0)
02.12.2022 To the MOON
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
Hi and welcome :0) Today I would like to show you another page for my Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10").
This page is an entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Spooky".
For this Halloween performance scene I used Distress inks and Ecoline watercolour brush pens and a lot of stamps from my stash, older and new and I enjoyed the process a lot :D
Thank you for your visit, have a nice creative day and see you next time :0)
25.10. 2022 Pumpkin patch and BOO!
Hi and welcome :0) Today I would like to show you a new page in my Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10").
This page is an entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Stamp it".
This page is about an idea of one friendly night visit - a little bit interactive page. I created my background with Distress Oxide inks and a moon mask from Tim Holtz. Than I stamped a tree and a grass and stenciled the bats with very dark black Versafine Claire ink. But later I also traced all these images with black acrylic pen, so they ended up much darker.
I used some patterned papers and dies from my stash to create a house, a path and a door (I embossed them with Tim Holtz 3D embossing folders lumber and cobblestone) and stamped my monster's friends, an eyeball and a pumpkin with Gina K. amalgam obsidian ink. I coloured them with Ohuhu water based markers and Seedless preserves distress ink applied with a brush. This ink I also used to create my wallpaper in the house - I darkened light violet paper with Seedless preserves distress ink and stamped with the same ink a damask background stamp on it. The result is very nice.
Finally I added some lights with a white gel pen, shadows with the markers and I darkened again every stamped line and every single edge of my die cuts with the black acrylic pen so they stand out nicely against the darker background.
I'm happy with this page and I although I spent a few nights with this page I don't regret the time :0)
Thank you a lot for your visit, have a nice day and see you next time :0)
11. 9. 2022 Boo and welcome
Hi and welcome :0) Inspired by my last post I created a new Nr. 10 manila tag (ca 21,5 x 10 cm) for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Fun with stencils".
I like the idea with decorative edges so I found a waves die from my stash to complete this beach scene. I used Honey Bee waves stencil in the background with Tim Holtz Distress oxide colours - Tumbled glass, Mermaid lagoon and Uncharted mariner. For the beach I've chosen Distress ink pad Vintage photo. I coloured all the images with Ohuhu Water based markers.
I like this playful scene and I really would like to be there too... :D
Thank you for your visit, have a nice day and see you next time :0)
19.8.2022 Seas the day
Hi and welcome back :0). This is a Nr. 10 manila tag for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Spritz and Splatter".
I found older Ranger big manila tags in my stash and I wanted to combine one of them with Alexandra Renke's awesome border film strip die. I've chosen 3 Tim Holtz Distress Mica sprays - yellow, green and violet to create my background and enhanced the colours with 3 similar distress inks. Than I splattered some water droplets on it and dried them with a paper towel and a heating tool. For my focal points I used only dies today - Tim Holt'z new Otis moon with bats and older cauldron, beautiful clover leaves and some grass. Some of them I cut out from the black velvet paper and used an offset technique for them.
I think that Otis has a very happy surprise look :D
Thank you for your visit, have a nice day and see you next time :0)
11.8.2022 Happy Halloween
Hi and welcome back :0). This is a page for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Make your own background".
After a small holiday break I was looking forward to try a new Distress colour from Tim Holtz - Uncharted mariner. This blue is a much more green-blue colour than on my photo and really very nice one. I'm happy to have it in my collection.
I started with a simple layering background and added some rub-ons, collage elements and also my focal point and quote. I wanted to stay mostly monochromatic so the "mariner" is still the main colour of my page. As a final "gentle" touch I found some butterflies and butterfly wings :0).
Thank you for your visit and have a very nice summer day :0)
14.7.2022 Good times
Hi and welcome again :0) This is a birthday card created for my mum this year :0)
Hi and welcome back again :0) Today's page has 10x6.5 inches (cca 25,5x17 cm).
Whole idea for my today's work were the night butterflies discovering the colours of the rainbow :0) And yes, I know that the moths are not so bright ,0)
I created grean background with my Distress inks and than stamped a Stampendous woodgrain stamp - I used VersaFine Clair Shady Lane ink pad - over it. I cut the stripes and framed them with my green alcohol marker and Shady Lane ink applied with a blending tool. I black embossed Kaisercraft's awesome lanterns and coloured them with Ecoline Brush Pens (they are basically liquid watercolour pens) so I can created a light effect in the lanterns. I put the transparen butterflies stikers on the white paper, fussy-cut them, shaped them a little bit and glued them on the possitions. Finally I cut out the letters L I G H T - twice from the black cardstock, once from the white - I colored the white ones with the same colours as my lanterns.
I like this page a lot and if you do too, please let me know :0)
Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)
20.4.2022 Discover LIGHT
Hi and welcome again and again - for the last time today ,0) I returned to my traditional 6.5"x 6.5" (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) and art journal page format to try "stamp and smudge" technique with Distress Oxide ink pads and this cute AALL & Create owl stamp set.
Have a lovely day and see you next time :0)
15.8.2021 Owl love
Hi and welcome again :0)
Have a small baby in a house is often very challenging. Stay calm is a kind of mantra I would like to repeat and feel every day :D
22.7.2021/ 29.7.20201/ 1.8.2021 - STAY CALM
Hi and welcome :0) This is a small 6 inches (cca 15.5 cm x 8 cm) tag I made for fun. This format is quite small for me, but I wanted to try :0)
