Art journal page - Discover LIGHT

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

2017 Christmas cards

I would say, that the theme for the Christmas cards 2017 was "calm and peace" :0). I decided to create inner part of each card as a small gift for the recipients - a snowglobe Christmas tree decoration and I hope, that they brought a piece of joy into those festive days :0).

Cards are a mix of coloured and embossed patterns and I really like how they look. I created five different patterns for the fronts of the cards, the snowglobe motif is then identical for all of them. Stamped patterns are coloured with Tombow and Marvy Brush markers, for the decoration on the envelope I used Hero Arts Unicorn white pigment ink :0)

So here they are...enjoy them with me and have a great, joyful and peaceful year 2018 :0)

 

Art journal page - Gallery Of Roses

"Gallery Of Roses" -  double page from a small Dylusions journal (cca 20 x 25 cm / 8" x 10").

I played with a background a little bit, I sprayed through a Tim Holtz Floral stencil with Dylusions Ground coffee spray, let it dry and over spray the page with Dylusions Lemon zest and Pure sunshine sprays. On the dry page I then use another Tim Holtz stencil - Dot fade - with Lemon zest Dylusions paint. Acrylic paint is still visible, even on the places where I stamped Kaisercraft medallions and silhouettes stamps with black archival ink.

U die cut the frame from ordinary paper, scanned it with my Scan-n-Cut machine, re-sized it a bit (I needed it bigger and a slightly narrower) and cut it with the machine from the cardstock. The final frame is painted with the black Dylusions paint and "dry brushed" with Viva Inka gold wax (Old gold color).
The background of the frame is again the black painted cardstock with gold embossed letters. For the ornaments I used Versamark ink and gold Pan pastel brushed over it. Central picture is a die cut oval painted with yellow Dylusions paints and sprays and a silhouette die painted with black Dylusions paint.

Finally I embossed the roses stamps from Studio Light with black embossing powder, cut them out and colored with yellow and green Color Burst powder pigments. The embossed lines make a nice boundaries for this watercolor coloring.

This page is also my entry for a Simon Says Stamp new Wednesday challenge: Anything goes. You can visit it here.

Thanks for stopping by and see you next time :0)

30. 4. 2017 Gallery Of Roses

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Art journal page - (Everything you dream of) it is this way

"(Everything you dream of) it is this way" -  double page from small Moleskine journal (cca 21 x 26 cm / 8" x 10").

Firstly I stamped the sign stamp with white Distress paint all over the page and let it dry. Then I used Distress ink pads and mixed Worn Lipstick, Seedless preserve and Mermaid lagoon with blending tool. It is easy and smooth background with some splotches of water, although I need to say, that my Moleskine journal paper does not react with water so nicely as other papers I use e.g. Dylusions cardstock, because it lifts too much color of the page and can damage the paper. So I dried carefully all the page with a paper towel and heat tool and covered the splotches with another layer of the same distress inks. Then they are still lighter than original color, but nicely blended in the rest of the background.

I used dies with ordinary black cardstock to cut out the greenery (Kaisercraft) and birds (Tim Holtz) and  Moleskine journal paper for the moon with stars (Tim Holtz).  An arrow was just drew on the black cardstock and cut out with scissors.
Stars and moon were then dabbed with white paint and salty ocean Distress ink and around the edges I used black marker, so they stand out more. Finally there is a layer of clear Wink of stella on them for a gentle shimmer, which is unfortunately not visible on the picture. I used it also on the edges of the birds and greenery, just as a touch of "starry and moon light" :0)

I wanted the stars to be more dimensional, so I used a ball point tool on the back sides to curve them a little bit and in the middle I put a bigger blob of 3D heavy matte gel from Prima. It is a strong glue, dries in the shape and keep them dimensional. It's very nice feeling when you touch the page :0)
For a sign I used black archival ink and the same stamp as in the background, for a quote I the tiny letter stickers from Prima and for the white details a Sakura gel pen.

And it's all for today. Thanks for stopping by and see you next time :0)

28. 3. 2017 (Everything you dream of) it is this way

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Art journal page - London bridge

After a very looong time a new journal page out of the bounded journal book - a double page taken out from small Dylusions journal (cca 20 x 25 cm / 8" x 10").  It is so nice to have the freedom of the separate sheet of paper again. I need to admit, that working in the bounded book can be sometime a little bit limiting for me. I absolutely enjoyed all the sprays I used this time :0)

So here it is - Dylusions sprays background with Bubblegum pink, Funky fuchsia and Calypso teal and some water droplets. Then I used Black soot Distress ink pad and Carabelle studio stencil and on the bottom of the page Black marble Dylusions paint with older The crafter's workshop stencil. London double-decker buses are stamped with Dylusions Postbox red spray and Distress Candied apple ink. I cut them out with white border and then glued on the black cardstock which I cut out again, so they have both white and black border. It makes them pop up more on this colorful page. The buses, Big Ben tower, an emblem and London are from the same stamp set (Paper Wizard). Rope is a small stamp from Kaisercraft  and the cards are just real playing cards :0) And this time I used a nice script stamp set from Echo park. Unfortunately there are no upper-case letters for these lower-case ones. White highlights are made with a gel pen.

This page is also my entry for a Simon Says Stamp new Monday challenge: Transport it. You can visit it here.

I really enjoyed creating this page and I love its double meaning....I hope you will like it too :0)

21. 2. 2017 London bridge

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Creative weekend 3 - "Rose is a rose is a rose"

Simple "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" page in my new Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal :0) Distress ink pads background, stenciling through two stencils lying on each other, stamping without and with masking technique and coloring with Distress ink pads, Distress markers and white colored pencil...

9.10. 2016

Playful art journal page 6

Today I tried another variation of Versamark and Pan pastel technique background. I have a new 6 Dylusions paints in my stash, so I wanted to see how would they look like in my journal book. When I put these colors in my Dylusions color swatch, I cleaned the foam applicators in my journal. And than I decided to transform this really colorful background in a new journal page :0). I used Versamark stamping (few different stamps at one time) and white Pan pastel over it again. Than I recolored roses with black ink marker. Border, on the other hand, I stamped in black Versafine ink and than put white pastel on it, so the result is more grey now. And the Pan pastel covered the shapes perfectly again. After polishing the page with dry cloth all was perfectly fixed.
There were only two surprises - when I wanted emboss the words under the shoe (clear embossing powder over black stamping), I did not use the baby powder first, so embossing powder covered also the surrounding of the letters, especially the parts stamped with Versamark and covered with pastel. Another thing was, that when I stamped my quote with Versafine, this Versamark/pastel text was still quite visible through the ink, so I went with my black marker over it again. The images of the shoe and owl are also stamped in black and embossed with superfine clear embossing powder, so I could colored it easily with Dylusions sprays in waterbrushes with colors corresponding with background Dylusions paints. I finished the page with white Signo uni-ball pen.

So there it is, a result I like a lot, colorful journal page Nr. 6 in a Seawhite hardcover art journal (25x19 cm / 10"x7.5").

25.3.2016 Playful journal page 6

Art journal page - Autumn

Hi,

today I have an art journal page with autumn theme. I wanted to make an impression of changing colors of the autumn nature. Therefore, I have a two-tone background this time :0) I used leaves stamps from Penny Black and some old clear (no name) stamps, mushrooms from Chocolate Baroque and Sheena Douglass and rose hips and chestnuts from Chocolate Baroque. Trees are just hand drawn and for more interest used a wood texture stamp from Kaisercraft.  This time I colored all images with Distress ink pads - I used mini ink pads, put them on my craft sheet and used them as a palette. The alcohol markers I used just for shadows of the object on the background. For better control of the color intensity I used just an ordinary small round brush dipped in water droplets, not a water brush. At the and of the coloring I covered all the objects (except trees and mushroom legs) with Ranger Distress micro glaze, so they become waterproof and the colors intensified. Background is a combination of two Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays (Bayou Boogie Gold, Cajun Carnelian Red), Prima Marketing Color bloom sprays (Sorbet, Gilded), gesso and water droplets.

Square 28 x 28 cm (cca 11" x 11")

I hope you like it and I would be happy if you would leave me a comment :0)