Art journal page - Thankful for the moonlight

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

Tag - Travel with the autumn wind

Hi and welcome :0) Today I have another Nr. 10 manila tag (ca 21,5 x 10 cm) for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Fabulous Fall Mood Board" and also Wednesday challenge "Fall colors"

For my background I've chosen two embossing folders from Lisa Horton and Whimsy stamps and sprayed it with Broken China and Prize Ribbon Distrass Spray Stains combined with Snow Flurries Distress Mica Stain. I found nice leaves stamps from Simon Says Stamp and for my focal point Aall & Create Squirrels. All the images were coloured with Faber Castell Pitt pens, Ohuhu Water-based markers and coloured pencils. 

I like a lot the brightnes of the tag and I wish you an equally shiny and colourful autumn :0) 

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

16.10.2022 Travel with an autumn wind

Birthday box card one :0)

First of two birthday box cards I made this year. It was quite an adventure again. As usually when I create something for the first time...a lot of fun and a lot of to learn :0)

 29.5.2018 "Garden" birthday box card

Scrap art journal 3 - Bubbles

"Bubbles" - third page in my Scrap art journal series (square 28 x 28 cm /cca 11" x 11").

For this page I've chosen the same pattern paper with stripes and the same Bloom girl from Prima Marketing as for my previous "Tell him..." scrap journal page.
I tried to transform this paper a bit differently with help of Tim Holtz Harlequin stencil, Peeled paint, Ground espresso and Black soot Distress inks. Then I created the bubbles with white gesso and white Caran d'Ache Neocolor 11 water soluble wax crayon. The rest is just stamping with black archival ink and coloring with white acrylic paint marker and black india ink marker. For the girl I used my alcohol markers again.
This page could be the sister of the previous one, but I'm very happy, how different they are :0)

Thank you again for stopping by, enjoy your crafty days and "see" you next time :0)

11.7.2017 Scrap art journal 3 - Bubbles

Creative weekend 8 - "Spring wind"

Spring wind - an art journal page in Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal.

Pastel colors background created with a few stencils (Tim Holtz) and stamps (Crafter's Companion) using Tsukineko VersaMagic Dew Drops chalk inks and stencil brushes. Some brushes I used were from Clarity stamps and some just no-named, but the same shape, cheaper brushes from hardware store. The results are the same - very nice :0) For this page I was inspired by Sari Hänninen's recent stenciling technique shown in the second half of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcPliZiM6Sw&t=61s.

The final background reminds me a mosaic floor, so I wanted to stay mostly 2D with my page. I used Tim Holtz Kraft-core gold metallic cardstock to die cut my letters (Memory Box) and a compass (Cheery Lynn) and white cardstock for my feathers (Simon Says Stamp) which I colored with the same VersaMagic chalk inks used on the background. Only the feathers I wanted more dimensional, so I used a bigger blobs of 3D matte gel to glue them down and the gel does a really great job :0)

Have a nice spring days and thanks for stopping by :0)

4. 4. 2017 Spring wind

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Playful art journal page 13

After a long time a new art journal page titled "Oh, what a world I am dreaming about?" :0)

Background was made with Distress ink pads - Seedless preserve and Mermaid lagoon. Firstly I applied the colors with sponge applicator and than I stamped two text stamps from Carabelle studio over it with the same ink pads. After that I sprinkled the page with water and dry it with dry paper towel and than with my heating tool. I wanted to make a bokeh effect with white pigment ink -  Hero arts Unicorn and Lots of dots clear stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. The result was quite different and surprising than expected, but still wonderful, although when the pigment ink dried completely, the circles changed a color a lot as the ink took the colors from the distress background :0)

Theme of the page was a dreamy scene, so I left my main character - the girl, which dreams - in brown colors and the dream itself is colorful. I stamped her and other images with Coffee archival ink pad on the Tim Holtz plain tissue wrap paper and embossed them with Wow ultra fine embossing powder. Then I cut everything out and glued it on the page with Tim Holtz Collage matte medium. But before I glued the girl, I stamped her lightly directly on the page with Sky blue archival ink pad and colored the face, hair, hands and apron with Tim Holtz Picket fence white paint. Tissue wrap paper is too transparent when you glue it with the medium directly on the page and the background would be too visible through the glued picture without it (but she has a blue tint of the background regardless of it). I also used Tim Holtz mini bricks stencil and with the help of the paper mask I made a path with Coffee archival ink pad. I colored the glass tubes with alcohol markers and stamped my quote with Unicorn white pigment ink and highlighted the letter with Sharpie white paint marker. Finally I made some highlight all over the page with white Gelly roll pen from Sakura.

19.7.2016 Playful art journal page 13