Art journal page - We are all mad here

Hi and welcome :0) Today's page is in Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10"). And it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Anything goes. 

I started with a sun rays stencil and two shades of blue Distress ink - Tumbled glass and Salty ocean. With a Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide stamped a bigger background stamp over it and added white pigment ink through coffee beans stencil over the lighter stripes. And I did not like the outcome. So I sprayed Black marble Dylusions spray over everything and a miracle happened. Oxide and pigment ink partially resisted the dye spray and the page looked much better :0). 

Than I stamped with Versamark through a Visible image's hat stencil and added Ranger's Perfect pearls and a mist of water. I stamped Visible image's stamps from Alice in Wonderland collection and coloured them with water-based markers. Finally I framed all with black and white acrylic markers and added my quote from Tim Holtz's Snarky chat. 

Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)

30.6.2023 We are all mad here

Art journal page - Ghost ship

Hi and welcome :0) Today's page has ca 8"x 5" (cca 20 x 14 cm) and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Add Texture".

I created background texture with an embossing folder and I played with Distress Spray Stains and Distress Oxide sprays - Broken China and Speckled Egg. To enhance the texture I used brown Distress and archival inks. I cut a ship window and an anchor from Tim Holtz's silver Metallic kraft-stock, scratched it with a sand paper and coloured with different brown inks and black acrylic pen.  

Rest of my images I coloured with Tim Holtz's Distress watercolor pencils and Distress inks and black and white acrylic pens. The lovely ghost stamp is from Sweet November Stamps as well as the floor stamp. The background tree design is a very nice new Hero Arts stamp. 

Thank you for your visit and see you soon :0)

3.4.2023 Ghost ship

Tag - Classified

 Hi and welcome :0) Today I have just small 8" x 4" tag (cca 20x10 cm). 

I played with Tim Holtz Uncharted mariner Distress ink combined with Salvaged patina Distress ink. Patina is not much visible, but it definitely changes the final blue color of the background. This combination is really very nice. I used one of Tim Holtz paper doll and some ephemeras and stickers from my stash. I found also some interesting stamps from Alexandra Renke for my background and quote. I did not have any plan, just followed the flow and like the final outcome, especially the blue-red contrast :0)

Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)

20.7.2022 Classified

Birthday card 2020

 Hi and welcome again :0) This is a birthday card created for my mum this year :0)

 

Art journal page - I saw my soul in the mirror

Hi and welcome :0) This is my 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal page for SimonSaysStamps Monday challenge "Four Legged Friends".

I was inspired by the words of one song I heard recently and this is an idea that came to my mind - do you  also feel this way sometimes? :0) 

I used Peacock feathers and Salvaged patina Distress inks and Salvaged patina Distress oxide for my bacground together with Honey Bee leaves stencil. My brown colours are a combination of Wild honey, Tea dye and Black soot Distress inks and Mustard seed and Fossillized amber for my yellows. I found these funny stamps from Katzelkraft and very nice old frame die from Spellbinders. Curtain is a stamp from LaBlanche.  

Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)

22.5.2021 I saw my soul in the mirror

Art journal page - It's all perspective

Hi and welcome back :0). Today it is again one page for my a 6.5"x 6.5" (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal.

I played with the blue shades of Distress inks and a new Kitsch flamingo pink colour. I was inspired by my new nice Stampendous background stamp and I wanted to create some "tree scene" with this gorgeous bird stamp from Tim Holtz. I colored my birds with PITT artist brush pens from my stash and I was surprised how well they blended on my mixed media cardstock even if it is porosu serface. My first idea was totally different, but I'm happy with the final outcome. Sometimes it happends, that the page has it's own mind and life :D 

Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)

18.5.2021 It's all perspective

Art journal page - I am dreaming of a rainbow holiday

 Hi and welcome back :0). Here is a new art journal page - 6.5"x 6.5" (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm).

I want to start my creative flow again, so I decided to just pick up randomly something of my stash and create a page and do not think much about it. I started with an embossing folder with a knitting pattern and then I found some nice tags stamp with a traveling theme. And this is an outcome - rainbow holiday dream for one penguin. He lives in a quite white world so why not. And I also remember one song I've heard recently...."I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." :0) 

I simply used some Distress inks and Black soot archival ink and this cute penguin from Katzelkraft.

 

Thank you for your visit , happy new year and see you next time :0)

21.1.2021 I am dreaming of a rainbow holiday

Art journal page - Some friendships are timeless

 Hi and welcome back :0). Today there is an another journal page in my 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. 

Simple stamping and coloring, but funny - at least for me - idea :0)
I used a craft paper and some older animal stamps from Katzelkraft and a new flower stamp set from BoBunny. Everything is stamped with vintage photo Distress ink and coloured with Caran d'Ache Luminance pencils.

Thank you for your visit and see you next time :0)

12.10.2020 Some friendships are timeless

Creative week 16 - "Awesome AUTUMN beauty"

Hi and thank you for your visit :0). I'm back again with an art journal page from my Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. 

This time I was strongly inspired by the last beautiful. sunny, warm and colourful autumn days we had here in a past few weeks. It was just awesome go out, watch the leaves in their transformation and be surprised by the nature life everywhere around - birds, fish, insects (e.g. ladybug flying around me which found its place on the page) - although we could say that winter is almost here, just around the corner :0)

Background was created with a combination of blue Distress inks and Distress oxides which I like a lot  (Distress wet on dry layers basic background technique). In reality are the colours much darker, and deeper, with an awesome contrast and final effect. Die-cuted leaves, ladybug and pumpkin were also coloured with Distress inks. For a pumpkin which I drew myself I used also Distress markers to achieve darker shading. At the end I used Nuvo Crystal glaze on the ladybug and a peace of natural corrugated paper - stained with Distress inks and sprayed with water - as my ground (it is not much visible, but it really fits there) :0)

This page is also my entry to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. 

And it is for today. I hope I will be back soon with another page. Thank you for your visit and if you would like to come again, see you next time :0)

04.11.2018 Awesome AUTUMN beauty

Creative week 15 - " Time keepers" - with DIY resist spray background

Hi and thank you again for your visit :0). I finally finished another art journal page from my Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. I played with a small 4"x6" stamp set full of cute little (too little for me) robots and here is the final page with my Time keepers :0)

I have a bunch of these small stamp sets, the stamps are mostly very cute characters, but also very small, great for card making, but unfortunately not so great for art journaling or scrapbooking. Therefore I had a bit hard time to find out how to create a scene with this robotic set, although I like it a lot. Maybe it could help to stamp them, scan them into a computer, re-size them and print again....hmm, that could be an option...

In any case I'm trying to find my way to use all my small stamps, not just to have them in my stash and admire them :0)

But for sure I wanted to use this background I made with my DIY resist spray. I saw the Creativation demos with Tim Holtz new Resist spray a month ago and I really love this idea, but I was a bit impatient to try it, although the spray was not in the stores yet. So I started to think about a DIY version. Do you remember Ranger's Glue n'seal - multipurpose glue and sealer which Wendy Vecchi love so much? I still had a two in my stash - matt and glossy. But they were a few years old and a partially dried out and were not useful as a brushable glue anymore. But I did not throw them away yet. So now I used one of them and mixed it with enough water (I used distilled one, but I think is not actually necessary) to create a liquid usable in a Ranger bigger mister bottle. It really looks similar to the Tim's spray, milky white, creating a super tiny and fine mist as you can see on the letters of my background. And it works as a great colour resist, although the sprayed layer can also keep a lighter version of the colour which you will apply on the top, if you will not wipe away throughly with a damp cloth. Here I used it in a combination with blue Distress ink pads.

This background is actually multi-layered. First I created a background with light blue Distress inks, blending tool and TH Argyle stencil. Than I took a Claritystamp  alphabet stencil and sprayed the DIY resist spray through it and dried it with my heat tool. After that I applied another layer of Distress inks - a bit darker than the first one, so the sprayed letters appeared. 

Next I took another Claritystamp stencil with gears and sprayed through it again with the DIY resist spray and dried it again and used a much much darker blue Distress inks over it. I revealed the final pattern - the combination of the two sprayed stencils and and also the first layer with he Argyle stencil is still a bit visible in the alphabet letters.

And - of course - I immediately washed my stencils after I sprayed through them, so there is no glue residue on them.

My DIY spray is probably a bit too thin - I mixed more water in it than I should (1 part of the glue and 3 parts of water should be good enough to prevent the clogging of the spray bottle), but it still sprays beautifully fine mist, although it does not leave the raised texture on the paper as Tim's one does. But I should probably leave my bottle opened over night, so the part of the water could evaporate and it should make the consistency of the spray a bit thicker. 

BTW now I also received the Tim's original Resist spray, so I will have a comparison soon :0).

OK, that was a background. My robots and signs I coloured with alcohol markers and silver paint pen and some highlights with a white gel pen. The "paths" are made from white Prima wire coloured with silver paint pen too. Few shadows with a black marker and that's all :0)

Thank you for stopping by - I apologize for such a looong article, have many nice creative days and see you next time :0)

12.3.2018 Time keepers

Creative weekend 9 - "Spooky night"

Spooky night art journal page is a test of a new Dorée paper pad with slightly creamy 20x20 cm (ca 8"x8") papers. 

It is a drawing and sketching pad, but I wanted to try how this paper will work with some of the creative media I normally use in my art journals - Distress inks with water droplets, paint pens, coloured pencils, Pitt brush pens with India ink and even clear gesso and pastel ground medium.

The outcome is not bad, although it is necessary to be careful and don't rub the surface when it is wet, because it damages the paper. But otherwise I'm quite satisfied, the paper is only 170 gsm (115 lb), tu is sturdy enough to work with, although it would be probably not good to use a lot of spray inks or so. 

So as I said, I used Distress inks with water droplets technique for the background and white Distress ink with a spiderweb stencil over it. Then I used stone wall stencil for the foreground and Stampscapes trees, Inkadinkado owl, Penny Black pumpkins and Chocolate baroque cauldron stamps. Bat is a part of the another, Halloween, stencil from Tim Holtz. 

I played a lot with the pumpkins. I wanted to colour them directly over the background colours, so I used Luminance coloured pencils, but the final colours were not so bright I wanted, so I covered all the pumpkins with a beige pastel ground medium, which creates more tooth to hold the pencils better. It helped, but not so much I hoped, so I added another layer over them with a clear gesso and over this final, now non porous, surface I used Pitt brush pens which are filled with permanent India inks. Finally I rubbed some colours of with a cotton swab as my highlights. Owl is quite dark, so she was coloured directly with Pitt pens over the surface. As a final layer for her eyes I used glitter gel pen and the same pen I also used for some details on the page. Moon and a steam from the cauldron were coloured with white paint pen, bats with a black Pitt pen through the stencil. 

Thank you for stopping by again, have a nice Sunday evening and see you later :0)

18.11.2017 Spooky night

Creative week 12 - "Just a dream"

Hi, how are you today? :0)

Today it is "Just a dream" - another art journal page from my Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. 

This page is an experiment. I used this page as an underlay paper sheet when I framed the edges of my last journal with a brown Distress ink and a blending tool. I turned this page many times during this process, so I ended up with a quite interesting background patter of overlapping "squared or so" shapes.
I found out, that I see three Egyptian pyramids in the final pattern and that was a beginning...so I just accentuated them a bit and added the Nile - as a brown patterned stripe - and other elements, the waterlilies and a quote from Art journey stamps and a older boat stamp from my stash, to create a dreamy atmosphere of this page. Milky Way and other stars were created with water-diluted gesso and a tooth brush. And at the end I highlighted a few bigger stars with white paint pen.

I used Vintage photo and Peacock feathers Distress inks for the background, Potting soil Ranger archival ink (stamped few times with my Misty tool) for the stamping, Ground espresso Distress markers for darker details and a border and a few (mostly in a range from creme to brown) Derwent Coloursoft pencils to colour the elements and the moon...

So that's it for today, thank you for stopping by and see you next time :0)

29.10.2017 Just a dream

Creative week 9 - Stampscape art journal - Golden Stars of California

Hi, welcome back :0)

Today's art journal page - Golden Stars of California - is a scenic jump into my Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal.

Again it is a mixed scene with Stampscape stamps and other stamps from my stash. When I saw a cine camera stamp and a desert scene from Stampendous, it reminded me immediately California and its movie stars :0) 

So here it is, a simple journal page stamped in black and coloured with a few Distres ink pads and white paint pen...and of course with golden stars projected by the cine camera on the California's night sky. I embossed them with Ranger Gold tinsel embossing powder and then I cut out the letters from a gold washi tape (I stuck the tape on the stripes of a wax paper, so I can then remove my "letter stickers" from it easily). To unify the different golden shades of the powder and the tape I used an yellow ochre alcohol marker which can be used on the non-porous surfaces. As a finishing touch I added a film strip die cut as my thematic label. 

This journal page is my entry for Simon Say Stamp Monday challenge "It's written in the stars".


12.9.2017 Golden Stars of California

Stampscape art journal - SPACE A-LIVE

I have one more post today, an Stampscape art journal page SPACE A-LIVE on Clairefontaine Paint On Multi-Techniques paper  (250 gsm / 115 lb and ca 21x30 cm / 8"x12"). 

For the elements on the page I used Canson Bristol smooth paper (260 gsm/ 100 lb and ca 23 x 30,5 cm / 9" x 12"). Surprisingly is this paper is very sturdy and it's easy to work with if you need to cut out something even quite small as my astronauts so I don't afraid to make my them dimensional. 

Actually I was experimented with sprayed colours and wrapped kitchen foil technique. I used Distress sprays colours let them mix on the paper and put the kitchen foil over the page, made a wrinkles and let it dry with foil on it over night. When I removed the foil I found a very nice texture effect. I made two backgrounds like this, lighter and darker and for this page I used the darker one, because it evoked me the space. 

This scene is actually a broadcasting of the TV - a SPACE A-LIVE channel and the astronauts are the reporters recording the encounter with the giant space fish species :0)

Although I used just a few stamps from Stampscape Spacemen set  (asteroids belt and astronauts) I include this page into my stampscapes, because still, it is a scene right? :0) 

I used my Misti tool and Marvy and Tombow markers to colorfully stamp the shadow-stamp fish from Local King rubber stamps and Memento inks and Caran d'Ache Luminance coloured pencils for the bigger asteroids. Beside my main white stars I used also a silver glitter Gelly Roll pen from Sakura for a smaller star dots. They are very subtle, but they nicely complete the page. Unfortunately they are not much visible on the main picture so I enclose another one from the angle so you can see them better

This page is also my entry for both of the Simon Say Stamp Stamptember challenges - Monday challenge "Stamp It" and also the Wednesday challenge with the same name :0)

I hope you like this page as I do, thank you for stopping by and see you next time :0)

8.9.2017 Stampscape art journal - SPACE A-LIVE