Art journal page - Time for everything

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

This page was highly inspired by Nuneka. I was in love with the stripy page she made and it's colour combination so I needed to create my own version :0)

I masked some stripes on my page with a masking tape and painted the rest with blue shades of Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst sprays. Than I added a texture with stencil and texture paste. I printed a photo as my focal point and framed it with the circle. The inner circle was stamped with a stencil sprayed with orange Starburst spray and coloured with Distress Spiced marmalade ink. I finished the design with greenery die-cuts coloured with the same Lindy's colours and also darkened with Distress Mermaid lagoon ink. 

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

28.5.2023 Time for everything

 

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 - Own your story

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

I've chosen Dylusions sprays this time - Lemon zest, Funky fuchsia and London blue. I mixed them with my brush directly on the wet paper and added some water splashes. I applied Stamperia Black silver Glamour paste through an older Finnabair stencil , let it dry, made a few circles with a white gel pen and added my focal image - beautiful Audrey Hepburn. For the leafy "frame" I used Alexandra Renke dies. And final touches - white rub-ons from Tim Holtz - stars and quote. 

Thank you for your visit, have a beautiful Sunday and see you next time :0)

23.7.2022 Own your story

Art journal page - Charming, timeless and free

Hi and welcome :0). This is an another 6.5"x 6.5"  (ca. 16,5 x 16,5 cm) art journal page.

Last time I created two yellow-orange backgrounds with Distress stain sprays at once, so I wanted to use the second one in some different way than the previous. 

I covered parts of the background with a copper metal texture paste through dotted stencil and teared numerous stripes from it. Then I found a nice Tattered Lace text embossing folder as my first layer and I glued four of the stripes on it. I used older koi stamps and a girl stamp from Pink ink designs. I colored everything with my PITT artist brush pens and white Prismacolor premier colored pencil. For the details and hair of the girl I used also Arteza white gel pen and a black acrylic paint pen. Finally I choosed my quotes from Tim Holtz Big chat stickers. 

I think I fulfilled my goal - this page is totally different than the last one :D

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

8.4.2022 Charming, timeless and free

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

Scrap art journal 1 - Turtles

"Turtles" - first page in my Scrap art journal series. It is a return to my big square 28 x 28 cm (cca 11" x 11") pages and a beginning of my personal challenge. I have no idea how long this journey will be, but this is the first step :0)

Point is, that I have a lot of patterned papers I don't like. It's quite normal, I thing. You buy some paper pad, but not every single page is your favourite one and you know, that these left over papers you will probably not use...maybe never. So I decided to use these paper "scraps" and transform them into something more pleasant to me, preferably art journal pages.
I feel this decision very challenging and I hope, this will last for some time and I will use as many of these "outsiders" as possible ,0)

For my first page I've chosen two papers connected with aqua color, although one had was very busy pattern and second one very simple. Then I used The Crafters Workshop stencils for a sea grass, the turtles and shells, some of them with Tim Holtz white texture paste and white and black acrylic markers. The seashells are also colored with gold acrylic marker and turtle shells with green Pitt artist pens and gelatos. To make the turtle shells glossy I used Triple thick glossy glaze from Deco art.

I'm very surprised with the outcome, it is better than I hoped, so I will definitely continue this journey :0)

Thank you for stopping by and "see" you next time :0) And if you would like to leave me your comment I would appreciate it a lot :0)

5.7.2017 Scrap art journal 1 - Turtles

Tim Holtz Creative chemistry 103 adventure ends....or maybe not :0)

So here are my tags from Tim Holtz's Creative chemistry 103...

Day 1 techniques:

Distress DIY ombré (tags 1-3), Distress highlight stamping (tag 4), Distress off-set stamping (tag 5), Distress washed watercolor (tag 6), Distress Micro-glaze resist (tags 7-8)

Day 2 techniques:

Distress paint resist (tags 1-2), Distress paint lifting (tags 3-4), Distress stain rub resist (tag 5), Distress luminous mica (tags 6-7), Distress marker spritzed watercolor (tags 8-10)

Day 3 techniques:

Distress layered collage (tag 1), Texture paste coloring (tag 2), Texture paste embossing (tag 3), Texture paste resist (tag 4), Distress grit-paste grunge (tag 5)

Day 4 techniques:

Distress crayon smudge (tag 1), Distress crayon gesso fresco (tags 2-3), Distress crayon texture resist (tag 4), Distress crayon watercolor resist (tag 5), Distress crayon blended background (tag 6), Distress crayon layered coloring (tag 7)

Day 5 techniques:

Alcohol ink stamped resist on Yupo (tags 1-3), Alcohol ink texture resist on Yupo (tag 4), Alcohol ink painting on Yupo (tag 5), Alcohol ink faded layers on Yupo (tag 6-7), Alcohol ink liquid landscapes on Yupo (tag 8), Alcohol ink splattered florals on Yupo (tag 9)