Art journal page - A green home magic

 Hi and welcome back. This is a last page in my 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal for 2021.

I used an embossing folder with Dylusions paints, greenery background paper from Mintay Papers with stamps from My Favorite Things. I coloured them with Brushmarkers PRO from Karin. 

I can not imagine any home without houseplants so this page is definitely my cup of tea :0)

29.12.2021 A green home magic

Art journal page - All systems are go...congrats!

Hi and welcome again :0). A new art journal page for my 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal is here.

I spent one afternoon trying one "shining moon technique"with Distress Oxide ink pads. Unfortunatelly the outcome was not very good - too much water I suppose :D. 

Still, I decided to use one of the backgrounds I made and transform it into something. And because the colours I used - Black soot, Chipped saphire and Crackling campfire - remined me of the universe, I went through my stash and found some corresponding stamps from Whimsy Stamps and My favorite things. I colored all pictures with Tombow and Marvy brush markers and brightened also the cental star (or planet?) with them, because the original Oxide colours were too dull after all my experiments. Black and white gel pen here an there and there it is :0)

 

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

19.10.2020 All systems are go...congrats!

Creative week 17 - "It doesn't have to be Halloween"

Hi and thank you for your visit again :0). As I promised last time, here is a new art journal page from my Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. 

I think that Halloween is not the only day or night when witches make their magic. I had this idea in my head for some time , so I'm very happy with the final page :0). Especially because of the alcohol markers colouring I did this time - it is really not my cup of tea .0). I used ShinHan Touch Twin alcohol markers and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers together with white and black gel pens. 

I stamped all my images from an awesome "Witch way is the candy" stamp set from My Favorite Things (just the nice broom is from Chocolate baroque) with Memento Tuxedo black ink pad and enhanced the black lines after colouring with Memento Tuxedo black marker. 

Background is a combination of Distress sprays - Seedless preserves, Faded jeans and Chipped sapphire - and water. For white droplets I used white gesso mixed with water. The more is the gesso diluted, the more the droplets obtain the colour of the background from Distress sprays before they dry, so the white of the gesso is not so shiny at the end. It is also possible to use the same colours of Distress inks over the dried page and muted the white dots with them as I did. 

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

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

10.11.2018 It doesn't have to be Halloween

Art journal page - Autumnal stories

Hi and welcome back :0)

It's been a long time when I created a large square 28 x 28 cm (cca 11" x 11") art journal page. But I had this awesome poster picture of a vintage typewriter and recently I received a real similar writing machine - so the inspiration for this page is quite obvious, I think :0) 

I used one of my heavy weight pattern papers for the background and then I played quite a while with the rowan berries. I found the way how to coloured them on the dark and a bit rough surface. First I stamped them with Versafine, then I coloured every berry with two layers of white Uni posca paint pen and then with alcohol markers till I was happy with the result. At the end I re-defined the berries with a black liner pen.
After that I stamped multiple layers of script stamps using the paper-masking technique and finished the page with typewriter and the typewriter alphabet stamps I like a lot :0) Aaaand that's it - easy page, but a lot of pleasure for me :0)

Thank you for stopping by, have a very nice day and enjoy your crafting moments :0)

15.11.2017 Autumnal stories

Art journal page - African moments

"African moments" - black and white vs. colors art journal page (cca 22 x 34 cm / 8,5" x 13,5").

I started with black and white background - simple 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation stamping of a few Sheena Douglass and Darkroom door stamps with Ranger black archival ink on a white cardstock - one page with elephants oriented to the right side and one with giraffes going to the left. Then I cut the pages in stripes, defined the edges with Distress black ink pad and placed them in a collage on a black cardstock, together with white ribbon stripe and black filmstrip die cut in the middle. Because I love this background so much, there are also some pictures of this process ...

Then I cut 3 postal frames from black cardstock, put the white cardstock pieces in them and stamped my African sunset scene. I also stamped 3 extra trees on a white cardstock and glued them on the black cardstock for extra dimension. For my quote I used Tim Holtz smaller alphabet stamp. I colored all this elements with Distress inks - Scattered straw, Mustard seed, Spiced marmalade, Rusted hinge, Vintage photo, Tumbled glass and Broken china. Finally I added a few highlights with a white gel pen and a shading around the focal points with smudged black pastel pencil.

My goal for this page was a combination of black and white background with colorful focal points and it was pleasant experiment and surprisingly challenging. Maybe you will like the outcome as much as I do :0)

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

20. 6. 2017 African moments

P.S. ...to see more details, open the pictures (link) in the new tab :0)

2016 Christmas cards

Christmas cards for 2016...that was quite an adventure :0) Sometimes your idea seems to be easy and then, during a realization itself, you find out that things go wrong or at least other way than you've imagined. So you change your plans and start again and leave this part and add another....and at the end there is the day when you really need to finished it all and send all your best wishes to your beloved as soon as possible. So you focus hard to make the cards almost perfect...during the morning, during the day, during the afternoon and evening and even the night...and at 6:30 a.m. you decide not to go to bed at all and keep your eyes open even a while longer so you can go to the post office after they open :0))

But i think it was worth it and I'm very happy that this year I also included a small gift for everybody - the bookcase with wishes of "Happy year" made with love, because I think that we all need a happiness in our lives :0)

Embossed white cardstock base colored with archival and distress ink pads plus colour cardstock background embossed with white embossing powder and colored with archival inks / colour cardstock background embossed with clear embossing powder and colored with archival inks.

Medallions: colour and white cardstock colored with distress ink pads, stamping with Ranger Black soot archival ink. Bunnies and trees colored with Distress markers and sealed with Distress micro glaze wax. Silver "mirrored" stars. Dimension to the frames added with white craft foam circles.

Bookmarks: background colored with alcohol markers, bunnies and books with Distress markers sealed with Distress micro glaze. Embossed with Wow! Metallic gold rich pale embossing powder and gilded with double sided tape stripes and gold foil from Prima. Text stamped with great "Perfectly penned" alphabet stamp set from Concord & 9th. White ribbon colored with matching alcohol markers. 

So have a great year 2017 and a lot of happiness in it :0)

Creative weekend 1 - a few eclectic pages :0)

Just a few small pages I made this weekend in my new Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal :0)

29.7.2016

30.7.2016

31.7.2016

31.7.2016

1.8.2016
(very difficult to make a picture of this, I used Distress Mermaid lagoon and Salty ocean inks and also Wink of stella clear glitter pen and Tim Holtz Rock candy clear glitters with sticky embossing powder and nothing of this is visible on the photo...)