Double art journal page - Under the golden sun

Hi and welcome :0) Today I have two smaller pages 7" x 5" (cca 17,5 x 13 cm). They are my entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Anything goes.

Because I love how my last denim tags turned out, I decided to use another fabric as the base. I glued a Tim Holtz´s linen textile surfaces on the cardstock and and frayed the edges. I stenciled on it with a very old brown Memento marker, so the color is quite muted. Than I drew a circle and applied the gilding glue  from Stamperia and golden flakes on it. For my focal collage I used elements from Kate Curry´s collage books and from sticker book I found in my stash (I glued the stickers and other images on the cardstock before I fussy cut them, so they are much sturdier). I´m so happy with the outcome - I love the look of the final pieces and feel of the real linen fabric :0)

Thank you for your visit and have a very nice day :0)

5. 5. 2025 Under the golden sun

Art journal page - Ellegance diary journal

Hi and welcome :0) Today´s page is ca 6.5" x 8.5" (cca 16 x 21,5 cm). 

I started with a coloured paper tag. I did some stenciling on it with an Iced spruce and Vintage photo Distress inks and than I added a bit of stamping on it. The same stamp I used on my "old book" background papers together with a layer and splatters of a diluted gesso. Finally I created a small collage with these photos of elegant ladies from 20´s and bits and pieces I found in my stash :0)

Thank you for your visit and have a very nice weekend :0)

18. 4. 2025 Ellegance diary journal

Round art journal page - Dream Boho Soul

Hi and welcome again. This page is also from 7" (ca. 18 cm) Arteza round art journal.

I still played with layered background. I stamped a big background stamp on the page, covered the page with Distress brown and orange inks, layered a stencil pattern over it with Versafine Clair permanent ink and applied a white gesso with a sponge through the checkerboard and star stencils. I coloured the gessoed patterns with Distress inks to muted the white colour down and added the final collage and a quote. And I like this page a lot :0)

Thank you for your visit and have a very nice weekend :0)

20.1.2025 Dream Boho Soul

Round art journal page - Lost and found on the chessboard

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

I played with layered background. I used Distress inks - Vintage photo, Rusty hinge and some others. I stamped an Aall and Create chess border stamp on the bottom of the page and chess figures all around the page (although they ended up covered with other layers). I used white gesso an applied it with a brayer and with a sponge through the Tim Holtz´s stencil. I covered the gessoed parts with Ranger´s Perfect pearls. Finally I added my focal point girl with a chess pawn and the quote :0)

Thank you for your visit and have a very nice week :0)

15.1.2025 Lost and found on the chessboard

Art journal page - Jump high and fly

Welcome :0) Today's page is in Dylusions classic ca. 8"x11" (cca 20 x 28 cm) journal and I enjoyed again beautiful images from Maremi´s small art collage autumnal and halloween books. The page is an entry for Stencil Fun "October challenge". 

For the sky I´ve chosen Distress Oxide inks in blue, violet and black colours, together with Damask and text stencil. For those I used black archival ink and a stencil brush. I stamped some bats from my stash and create stars with white gel pen, Distress Picket fence ink and cotton swab. On the bottom of the page I glued re-colored stripe of a rice paper. Finally, I added my quote die-cutted from a black velvet paper and highlighted with the white gel pen. 

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

28.10.2024 - Jump high and fly

Art journal page - Light up your inner light

Hi and welcome :0) This is another page in 6" x 8" (cca 15 x 20 cm) Hahnemühle journal book. It is my entry for Stencil Fun´s  July challenge. 

I mixed two Lindy´s Stamp Gang Magicals powders with water - Edelweiss moss green and Sparkling sunset - and applied them with a brush. The page is very shiny with them. I added some stamp pattern with VersaFine Clair green ink and fern and cog wheel stamps, but at the end this layer is almost invisible. I splattered over Lindy´s California poppy gold and Bayou boogie gold sprays and on the top used Super hero rays stencil from Paper Rose with golden pigment ink. The images are again from Etsy - some numbers and lovely Art Nouveau lamp and as my focal point a charming lady from MilesBeyondTheMoon shop (which has the most beautiful "paper doll" images I´ve ever seen) .

I´m very happy with this page - although it looks like a very simple one :0)

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

6.7.2024 Light up your inner light

Art journal page - Moment of beauty

Welcome and thank you for visiting my blog :0) This is another smaller page (20.5 cm x 14 cm / 5.5" x 8") for this year, an entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Fun With Stencils", for Allsorts challenge "Week 766" and also for  Stencil Fun "February challenge". 

I started the page with a few spritz of coffe and added some brown Distress inks over it to make it darker. I embossed the background with starry 3D embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp and enhanced the stars with Finnabair´s gold wax. Circle of watercolor paper was again sprayed with coffee and colored with brown Distress inks and turquoise acrylic paint. I used Tim Holtz´s Harlequin stencil for it. I added some brown stamping with text stamps from AALL & Create, gold ink through the Tim Holtz´s floral stencil and lines with Posca gold acrylic pen. I stamped the moon with gold ink, colored it a bit with very diluted Scattered straw Distress ink and added a butterfly, a quote and a gold metallic string on the edges. My focal point is from Etsy. 

Have a nice day and see you :0)

7.2.2024 Moment of beauty

Art journal page - Bloom and Shine

Hi and  welcome again :0) Today's page is still in my 6" x 8" (cca 15 x 20 cm) Hahnemühle journal book. and it is a second entry for Simon Says Stamp's Monday challenge What is your favorite color?.

Another of my favorite colours is blue and I really like this Lindy's Stamp Gang magical's Dragonfly Denim. I like Lindy's colours, but you need more layers to obtain really dark colour, because they dry much lighter than they look after the application. Especially when you use more water for your technique.

This time I started with the combination of the Dragonfly Denim spray and Have a Scone Heather Lindy's magical shaker applied with a brush. Than I used two stencils from my stash and Distress Micro glaze to create a resist and applied these two colors over it again few times. The outcome was nice, but too subtle. So I decided to add swirl die-cuts from Tim Holtz coloured with these two colors, but this time with more Heather's violet pink. My focal point is again from Etsy and I'm happy how the finished background contrasts with yellow flowers :0)

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

21.9.2023 Bloom and Shine

Art journal page - Everything you can imagine

Hi and welcome :0) This is a page from my smaller 6"x8" (cca 15x20 cm) art journal from Hahnemühle.

This pate is an entry for Stencil Fun blog September challenge.

I created a background with water and more layers of Lindy's magical shakers Lizzy's Cuppa Tea Teal and Spill the Tea Teal.  I added stenciling with Dylusions small Suits You Sir stencil and Salvaged Patina and Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxides and finished the background with 49 and Market and Tim Holtz rub-ons and a quote.  As my focal point I used another image from Etsy :0)

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

8.9.2023 Everything you can imagine

Art journal page - Faraway adventure

Hi and welcome :0) This page is again from Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10") and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp's Monday challenge Transport it.

I started with a background sprayed with Mustard seed and Rusty hinge distress Spray Stains. I created my own background patterned paper with some stamps with an ocean theme stamped in different directions with Kaleidacolor Cappucciono delight dye ink - it is a rainbow inkpad with very nice matching colours. I embossed the whole background with wood grain stencil and used a brayer with Rusty hinge and Ground espresso inks to make the pattern more visible. The final result reminds me water waves :0). As my focal point I made a collage of few images I found recently on Etsy and I really love the outcome :0)

Thank you for your visit, feel free to leave me a comment and see you next time :0)

19.7.2023 Faraway adventure

Art journal page - Do anything

Hi and welcome back :0) Today's page is another one in Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10"). 

I sprayed blue and green Distress Spray stains on my background and added blue Distress Oxide ink through the puzzle stencil. I framed the pattern with a light blue acrylic pen. I stenciled a world map, coloured it with shades of brown and yellow and framed with black acrylic pen. Than I added some text with the stencil and Hero Arts white pigment ink and highlighted the words with brown and white acrylic markers. Finally I glued my focal image coloured with Ohuhu water-based markers and black acrylic pen. 

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

15.7.2023 Do anything

Art journal page - Imagination

Hi and welcome again :0). Today's double-sided page is 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) and it is my entry for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Make your mark.

I created both backgrounds with the help of the big blot stencil and Saltwater taffy, Salvaged patina and Uncharted mariner Distress inks. I also used mix of black inks and Kuretake's Gansai Tambi White gold pigment colour diluted with water which I splashed with the small brush as stars. With the black acrylic marker I blocked shapes of the colours from my background to create the final design.

Then I added my focal images coloured with alcohol markers and water-based markers. 

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

24.4.2023 Imagination

Wish card

 Hi :0) Today I have one bigger wish card I created recently. 

I used three of Tim Holtz's Colorize dies - Gertrude, Winifred and  Gladys and also a cute bunny die. I combined them with clover dies from my stash and a background made with distress inks and an older leaves stencil.  

Thank you for your visit , have a nice Saturday and see you next time :0)

Dylusions art journal - Laid-backers

Hi and welcome :0) This page is in the 8"x8" (ca 21x21 cm) Dylusions journal. 

All the stamps I used for this page are from Lesia Zgharda Stamps - leaf, foxes and hares and also the circles (base for the picture of a record). I like these stamps a lot - I think that for the first time I used the stamps immediately I've receive them :0) First I've created main image and than a background "over it". Background was created with blots of gray colours (with the help of a plastic foil and water sprayer) and Tim Holtz's old alphabet stencil. I masked the pictures to protect them during the process. I coloured everything with Zig Clean color real brush markers and black and white acrylic markers. 

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

13.3.2023 Laid-backers

Art journal page - First snowflakes

Hi and welcome back :0). This is a another 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal page, an entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Stencil it and also for bastel-traum.ch challenge #119 Schneeflocken | Snoflakes (#btchallenge119).

For my background I chose blue Distress Spray stains with a silver shimmer spray and stenciled a Tim Holtz's Snowflakes over it with a Stamperia Sparkling white Glamour paste. Then I cut out some snowflake dies - each of them twice from 300 gsm white paper and once from silvery sparkling cardstock very similar to the paste. The shimmer is subtle but very nice in the real life. I glued all three layers together to get a better dimension for my focal images which I coloured with ZIG Clean color brushes pens. I like a lot how detailed are brushes of these markers so I can coloured easily even small images and parts of them. And although they are very juicy, they did not destroy the Bristol paper I used. I also added a black carstock layer under the dinosaurs to make them more visible and used black acrylic pen to re-defined all the stamped lines (they always fade a bit after colouring).  

I'm so happy how this page turned out :0)

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

18.11.2022 First snowflakes

Art journal page - Boo and welcome

Hi and welcome :0) Today I would like to show you a new page in my Canson Mix Media middle art book - 17 x 25 cm (cca 6.5" x 10").

This page is an entry for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Stamp it".

This page is about an idea of one friendly night visit - a little bit interactive page. I created my background with Distress Oxide inks and a moon mask from Tim Holtz. Than I stamped a tree and a grass and stenciled the bats with very dark black Versafine Claire ink. But later I also traced all these images with black acrylic pen, so they ended up much darker. 

I used some patterned papers and dies from my stash to create a house, a path and a door (I embossed them with Tim Holtz 3D embossing folders lumber and cobblestone) and stamped my monster's friends, an eyeball and a pumpkin with Gina K. amalgam obsidian ink. I coloured them with Ohuhu water based markers and Seedless preserves distress ink applied with a brush. This ink I also used to create my wallpaper in the house - I darkened light violet paper with Seedless preserves distress ink and stamped with the same ink a damask background stamp on it. The result is very nice. 

Finally I added some lights with a white gel pen, shadows with the markers and I darkened again every stamped line and every single edge of my die cuts with the black acrylic pen so they stand out nicely against the darker background.

I'm happy with this page and I although I spent a few nights with this page I don't regret the time :0)

Thank you a lot for your visit, have a nice day and see you next time :0)

11. 9. 2022 Boo and welcome

Tag - Seas the day

Hi and welcome :0) Inspired by my last post I created a new Nr. 10 manila tag (ca 21,5 x 10 cm) for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge "Fun with stencils". 

I like the idea with decorative edges so I found a waves die from my stash to complete this beach scene. I used Honey Bee waves stencil in the background with Tim Holtz Distress oxide colours - Tumbled glass, Mermaid lagoon and Uncharted mariner. For the beach I've chosen Distress ink pad Vintage photo. I coloured all the images with Ohuhu Water based markers. 

I like this playful scene and I really would like to be there too... :D 

Thank you for your visit, have a nice day and see you next time :0)

19.8.2022 Seas the day

Art journal page - Your colours always cheer me up

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

I played with 3 random colours of my distress spray stains - Kitsch flamingo, Squeezed lemonade and Cracked pistachio. I applied light layer with my brush, added stamping and embossing with pearl white embossing powder and put an another layer of the same colours through Tim Holtz Splatter stencil. I love the final background :0) 

I found some funny character stamps from my stash and coloured them with Ohuhu Water-based markers and Distress ink re-inkers - the 3 same colours I used already (re-inkers are more concentraded than Spray stains). I only added Crackling campfire as my red.   I used new Dylusions washi tape from Dyan Reaveley, I incorporated my quote in to the design and framed the whole page with black and white marker.

This page was created as en entry for Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge Bright & Cheerful and I think that it is really very bright (and hopefuly cheeful too) :0)

Thank you for your visit and have a very nice day :0)

13.6.2022 Your colours always cheer me up

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

Birthday card 2020

 Hi and welcome again :0) This is a birthday card created for my mum this year :0)