Art journal page - Another fall

Hallo and welcome back :0) Today´s page is ca  6" x 8.5" (cca 15,5 x 21 cm) and it is an entry for Simon Says Stamps´s Monday challenge "Fall Mood Board". 

Again a simple collage with images and quote from Maremi´s small art Autumn stories and Fungos collage books. As a background I used a wonderful 3D Oak Forest embossing folder from Spellbinders together with orange textured paper which I colored with darker orange Distress inks and Champagne metallic ink applied with a brayer. I finished with a few accents with black and white marker.

Thank you for your visit, feel free to leave me a comment and have a very nice day :0)

15.10.2024 Another fall

Art journal page - Embrace the journey

Hi and welcome :0) This is ca  7.5" x 9" (cca 18.5 x 22.5 cm) page. 

For this journal I´ve chosen products from Maremi´s small art  - pictures from her collage books I bought on Amazon and one of rice papers I ordered directly from her webshop.

I dry embossed 300 gsm watercolor paper with a new Simon Hurley´s Plaster 3D embossing folder from Spellbinders. It´s texture is really stunning. I covered it up with a rice paper so the texture of the folder is still a bit visible. I added smaller shapes on the sides of my main panel and framed all parts with brown cardstock. I glued my focal points from Maremi´s autumnal collage books and quotes from Stamperia´s Secret diary paper collection. As final touches I shaded the images a bit and used white Gelly roll pen for the highlights. 

Thank you for your visit, feel free to leave me a comment and have a very nice day :0)

30.9.2024 Embrace the journey

Art journal page - Vacation is coming

Hi and welcome back :0) I continue in my smaller 6"x8" (cca 15x20 cm) art journal from Hahnemühle. 

I wanted to try another colour combination with Distress Spray stains and Distress Oxide ink pads - this time Wilted violet and Peacock feathers. I also added some stamping with white pigment ink and black archival ink. Meerkats are from Katzelkraft, post stamps from Spellbinders and big background stamp with tags from Hero arts. 

This page was created as en entry for Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge Anything goes.  

Thank you for your visit, have a very nice Sunday and don't forget that vacation is coming :0)

28.5.2022 Vacation is coming

Art journal page - Enjoy the moment

Hi and welcome. This is my second 7" (ca. 17,8 cm) round art journal page :0)

I enjoyed Lindy's magical so much last time, that I used them for this page too. Still inspired by Nuneka I used Martian Magenta  Nuneka's Outer space Magicals and Foxglove fuchsia from Mountain meadows Flat magicals set. I added some texture paste through Spellbinders stencil (I lightened the stars with silver wax paste), die cuts from a gold mirror paper and photo from my stash. 

I thought that my last page was bright, but these colours are in the real life really vibrant :D

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

7.2.2022 Enjoy the moment

Birthday box card two :0)

Second of two birthday box cards I made this year. I used what I learned during a creation of the first card in May, but still a lot of new things and techniques to learn....made with love and fun :0) Last photo was taken in the sunlight and shows a Wink of Stella shimmer shine on the water lilies and moon. Unfortunately other pictures did not take this nice detail at all...

4.6.2018 "Waterlily pond scene" birthday box card

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

Scrap art journal 2 - Tell him...

"Tell him..." - second page in my Scrap art journal series (square 28 x 28 cm /cca 11" x 11").

This time I've chosen one pattern paper with stripes and combined it with gold round paper plate from my birthday cake and some stamping :0) I used one of the Prima Marketing Bloom girls stamp and a crystal stamps from Spellbinders.  For the stamping on the gold-foil plate I used black Staz-On ink, for the rest Memento ink and alcohol markers and a gold acrylic marker.  

Thank you again for stopping by and "see" you next time :0)

7.7.2017 Scrap art journal 2 - Tell him...

Birthday card one :0)

First of two birthday cards I made in May :0)

 29.5.2017 "White" birthday card

Playful journal page 16 - Phoenix and Dragon

Phoenix and Dragon - an art journal page inspired with Chinese decor :0)
According to the Chinese mythology the Phoenix was a symbol of the Empress and the Dragon with five fingers belonged to the Emperor. For a long time a yellow color was reserved for a monarch and in the Chinese culture has a very important meanings still. 

For the background I used one of Spellbinders Medallion dies. I cut it 6 times and glued the decor on the page. Then I covered all the page with the black Dylusions paint and highlighted the medallions with an Old gold metallic wax (Inka gold) from Viva Decor.
I painted white cardstock with Calypso teal Dylusions paint, stamped the clouds with clear Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder. Then I teared two stripes off it and used the same gold wax on the edges.
On the white cardstock sprayed with Lemon zest and Pure sunshine Dylusions sprays I stamped the Phoenix and the Dragon, again with Versamark, and embossed them with the gold embossing powder. I used one of my label dies to cut them out. The same technique I used for the coins, which were stamped on the white cardstock painted with the mix of Pure sunshine and Calypso teal Dylusions sprays (they mix in a beautiful range of greens).
At the end I painted a brown ribbon with the gold wax and fastened the coins on it with a small pieces of wooden skewer painted with a black Dylusions paint. All stamps I used for this page are from two very nice sets from Local King rubber stamps.

Because I used a limited range of colors, the whole page is nicely consistent and with the all gold accents looks really beautiful.

If you like the page too, feel free to leave me a comment. Thank you for stopping by, have a nice days and see you next time :0)

21.4.2017 Playful art journal page 16 - Phoenix and Dragon

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Two birthday cards

Hi :0)

It's been a long time since I posted something new, but I had a few busy weeks - summer has come and it is always travelling and family vacation time :0) So today I would like to show just two birthday cards I made...

Have a nice sunny days and enjoy creating for your relatives :0)

25.5.2016 "Secret garden" birthday card

30.5.2016 "Forest scene" birthday card

Playful art journal pages 4 and 5

Another two small art journal pages today. It is mostly about background. I wanted to try a Versamark or Watermark ink technique with a combination with Distress ink pads and Pan pastels.

I need to say, that first trial - Nr. 4 is a quite out of my comfort zone - red color for the background and green (complementary color) leaves in foreground, that is definitely not my cup of tea. On the other hand I wanted something a little bit romantic what would fit with my background Vintage alphabet stamp. Unfortunately this time I did not the technique correctly and the final result was not according to my expectations, so I also used some stencils to finished it. But I like a lot the watch and squirrel :D

Second trial - journal page Nr. 5 - is much much better :D. I like it a lot. I used Distress ink pads, stamped the lattice background stamp with Versamark ink, spritzed the page with water and dried it with heat tool and paper towel. I used Distress ink pads again a little bit to softened some lighter spots. Than I stamped the leaves and applied the white Pan pastel with Distress foam applicator. The result was magical, especially when I burnished the whole page with dry paper towel, so the Pan pastel was fixed on the stamped places and the colors became a little bit more pastel. Finally I used this technique again with music notes stamps. For the image I wanted to use a one layer technique, so I stamped Gorjuss girl stamp, masked it with low tack paper mask and stamped a beautiful tree stamp from Chocolate Baroque over it. The tree stamp was originally bigger and there were two birds, but i masked them out with masking tape before stamping and than I used just a part of the stamp, so it is narrower now :0)

For both pages I used Seawhite hardcover art journal again (25x19 cm / 10"x7.5").

20.3.2016 Playful journal page 4

23.3.2016 Playful journal page 5