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 - We all have DREAMS

Hi and welcome back :0). Today's 8"x 8"  (ca. 20 x 20 cm) art journal page is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Add texture. 

I played with Visible Image's tiger and cats stamps. For the background I used Lost shadow, Hickory smoke and Black soot Distress inks and I stamped my images with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. This oil  based ink is beautifully intensive and black. I coloured the cats with Karin Brushmarkers PRO. For the eyes and splatters I used Kuretake's Gansai Tambi Yellow gold pigment colour. This pigment watercolors have a lot of mica in it and they are really shiny. They also have so thick consistency that you can feel them under the fingers, when you touch the page. Finally I added some texture with a small notches around the sides of the inner page. 

Thank you for stopping by, have a nice Sunday and see you next time :0)

7.4.2023 We all have DREAMS

Art journal page - Best tea

 Hi and welcome :0) Today's page has 8x8 inches (cca 20x20 cm). 

I used one of the green-blue color backgrounds I made recently with Distress Spray Stains. I added some stenciling with water (lifting technique) and an another layer with Distress inks. My focal points are stamps from Visible image colored with the alcohol markers and some washi tapes from my stash. For the dots on the hat I used copic opaque white paint, so they stay white (marks with a gel pen always take on the colours of the background). 

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

15.4.2022 Best tea

Art journal page - All time of the world

Hi again :0). This is another page for a 6.5"x 6.5" (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal.

I played with Distress ink sprays, negative and positive print with the stencil and some white pigment ink stamping on the background. Then I colored a huge poppy flower from IndigoBlu and this beautiful figure from Hero arts with Karin brush pro markers and added my quote - sometimes I wish I also had so much quiet time :0)

 

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

13.4.2021 All time of the world

Art journal page - Hocus pocus

Hi and welcome back :0) It's been a looooong time since my last art post and I am very happy that I have a new  journal page in my Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10")

I just started with a simple background - combination of Distress ink pads and Distress Oxide ink pads in blue and brown shades. I added some stenciling on the edges and a then applied Finnabair's soft matte gel through a tea themed stencil from Paper Artsy all around the page. I love this feel-dimension and second photo shows  great shadows of this raised texture :0)

Used stamps are from Visible image and Impression Obsession, coloured with alcohol markers and for the quote I used Halloween chips from Tim Holtz and some washi tape from my stash. 

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

15. 8. 2020 Hocus pocus

Alcohol inks journal - "Just dance like no one's watching"

Hi and welcome :0). Today I would like to share my new DIY disc bound alcohol inks 8"x 8" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal. 

These DIY journals are highly popular these days and I saw some awesome ones on Youtube. It is a perfect option for my alcohol inks background on Yupo paper. I wanted to try the alcohol inks on this surface for such a long time and I finally found enough courage to do it and I'm very happy I did it :0)

I splashed an Alcohol inks blending solution from Ranger on the clean Yupo, than dropped in some colours of alcohol inks (blending solution makes them movable easily and longer), blow them around with a straw and let them dry after I was satisfied with the mix they've created. Because alcohol inks can be a bit sticky on the places with higher concentration of colours, I used this feature and rubbed metallic foil over these spots, so the foil become a part of the background. The dryer the inks are, the less of the foil will stick on the page.

I was so thrilled, that I've created 7 backgrounds at once, with different colours and foils :D I hope I will use them all for my new art journal.

First page is full of ballerinas from Hunkydory and Visible image dancing in the moonlight and I only regret that it is almost impossible to show, the silver foil on the page, it is really wonderful effect :0)

So that's it for today, thank you a lot for your visit and see you next time :0)

20.11.2018 Just dance like no one's watching