Art journal page: Soar

Happy Holidays! Today is the first night of Hanukkah and Christmas eve. This morning while waiting to for packages to come in the mail, and for something good to come on TV. I decided to play in the Mix Media Moods challenge hosted by DeeDee Catron andMixed Media Jen. Each month they have a mood board to inspire our project. I did a journal page.

From the mood board seen at the link above, I was inspired by the blue colors, hexagons and the birds. The process Video of this video will be up tomorrow. 

products used:

Folk art craft paint Patina

American craft paints Desert Turquoise Bahama Blue

Apple Barrel craft paints: Black and Bronze

Deco Arts 12x12 Hexegon stencil

FaberCastel stencil

Diane Wakley: Flock of birds stencil

Elephant Machine stamps by VLVS!

Girl on hanging swing frm VLVS!

butterfly stamp from VLVS!

Hellen Keller quote from Artistc Outost Quotes and Quotable stamp set

Coffee, coffee, coffee

Yesterday I got a new plate of stamps (plate 1480) from Viva Las VegaStamps! Today I played with a couple of them.

I tused the coffee cups embossing folder from Tim Holtz and sprites some Molted Chocolate Dylusions spray inside embossing folder. then ran it through my big shot. While that was drying I stamped the coffee guy. colored him with Prisma color pencils. I stamped the coffee cup on white cardstock and then stamped it again on Kraft for the sleeve.Once the embossed paper was dried, I used Miracle tape to attach it to the Kraft card base. I taped the guy to the cup with Miracle tape. I put foam tape on the cup and stuck it to the embossed. I stamped the coffee cup again on white cardstock just for the sleeve I then stamped the "coffee,coffee,coffee" stamp on the sleeve. cut it out and used foam tape to attach it to the card. 

Coffee: feeds the soul.

New Month new Challenge over on Viva Las VegaStamps! And its all about coffee!

I made this card using The Tim Holtz coffee cup texture fade. I sprayed some home made coffee spray on the cardstock. I stamped the coffee ring stamp, numbers and starry background stamps in Distress ink pads in Walnut stain and Vintage photo. The beans is from TPC Studip Cafe Mocha stamp set. I would of used some coffee beans that i have a Silhouette file of but didn't have any on hand, and didn't want to turn on my cameo just to cut out 3 little beans. I stamped on the background and white cardstock and use foam tape to attach them on the card front. The coffee cup I stamp on white card stock and colored with my Peerless Watercolors. I cut and popped that out with foam squares. Once the front was done. I used 1/4 Miracle tape on the front and taped it to the card base. Lastly for the front of the card. I stamped the free your soul on white card base.

Inside the card I stamped the morning without coffee. with Black Versafine ink pad and then I sprayed some more coffee on the inside.

Color me positive Jounal 52 week 11

Color me positive I kinda did my own thing. the alternative prompt was use an animal.

Journal 52 was imaginary creatures. I used stamps from VLVS! they were perfect for this prompt

Banksy+Neon=Fun!

So yesterday I showed you the prints I did with my Geli plate. Today I show a journal page  did with one of them. And I'm going to enter this in the Andy Skinner monthly challenge.  The theme is bright and you can't get any brighter than Neon!

I took the print and cut it to the size of my journal. I used Elmer's school glue to glue it down to one of the pages of the journal. I poured a little bit of 3 of  the American neon craft paints. Electric Blue Screeching Yellow and Thermal green. I took the Andy Skinner's Old film 12x3 stencil and sponged the Electric Blue. I then took the Thermal Green with the Snakes Web 6x6 stencil. And finally I used the Screeching Yellow with the Alphabet Spaghetti 8x8 stencil.

I then stamped with Black Onyx Versafine ink pad Banksy Rain under umbrella girl. I had to stamp her twice on the page.I was very careful stamping her again over the first stamp image. I then stamped Banksy girl floating with Balloons. I then took 3 sentiments stamps from VLVS! (Banksy stamps are also VLVS!) and stamped those on the page

Febuary VLVS! Challenge

Its time for another monthly inspiration board challenge over on the Viva Las VegaStamps! blog. okay the challenge started 13 days ago, and I did this tag about a week ago. But I'm finally blogging about it.  And I'm happy to announce that I won the October challenge! Woot!

For this months challenge I did a tag. The tag is watercolor paper from Prima. I used a layer of black craft paint over the whole tag. Then I used Dylusions crushed grape paint on part of the tag. While the paint was still wet I took the chunky circle stencil from UmWowStudio on the tag and took a baby wipe and took off the purple paint, leaving the black underneath, I did the same thing in the other half.

When that dried I used the Squiggle heart with a white pigment ink pad.  I also used some punchenllia with white paint lightly. My fried Dede had sent me some ide cuts she did on her Cameo way before I had won mine. I used one of the cut out she sent me and glued it on the tag. 

On white cardsock with Black Versafine ink pad. I stamped the striped legs , whimsical woman in dress and butterfly wings (2). I colored the butterfly and  woman with pearlesent watercolors. I cut a bit of the dress of the woman and glued it to the stripped legs. Then cu and glued the wings to her back. attached her to the tag. I stamped the be true on scrap piece of cardstock,. and colored it with the pearlesent water color. and attached that on the tag. I used a scrap piece of lace that was on my desk and attached the top of the tag.

fall/Halloween postcard swap

This past fall I participated in another swap over at the VLVS! Groupies facebook group. The swap was postcards with a fall/Halloween theme. I chose to do a Halloween theme.

I started out taking some photo paper(pacts that you get free when you buy printer ink) I first played with alcohol ink, but wondered how Dylusions spray would react to the photo paper.Its awesome on photo paper! The paper does get tacky while the spray is wet, but once its dry its fine. The color are so bright and vibrant on the paper. After it was dried. I took a spider web that I cut out on my Cameo. and used Spackle through the die cut. I knew the spray would come through., and I was fine with that. 

While that was drying I stamped the Skeleton family, the all day sucker on white card stock with black archival ink pad. I colored the sucker with Be Positive Glimmer glam from Tatter Angels. Fussy cut the skeletons out (no one was harmed while doing that) and the sucker. Glued the sucker to the hand of the main guy. Then glued tat to the post card. I then stamped the bats on to the postcard. Finally I printed a couple of signs that are a wingding. Colored them in color pencils in a orange and yellow. glued that on the page. Then added some crackle accents to the signs.

Everything has beauty

Okay this post is a little late, but better late then never. :)This is another art journal page that I did at the Art journal class with DeeDee Catron taught last month. DeeDee is now starting to put the classes up on video that can be found here, so those in other states or countries can check out the classes. And the price is cheap 2  video classes for $10! that's $5 a class!

Here is the background Using gesso star confetti stencil and star chipboard confetti by UmWowStudio. Also gray and pink (shocking craft paint). It was our homework to finish the page after we did the background 

Close up

Here is the finish page in my journal.  

I still had the butterflies we used for the gel medium transfer journal page from the begining of the year so I cut some of those out and did a transfer with them. I then stamped the wildflowers silhouette  from Viva Las VegaStamps! on the bottom of the page with Versafine ink pad. I then used Ultra High Gloss clear embossing powder on the wildflowers. It needed something else on the page. I took some  Daler Rowney FW artist acrylic ink in Process Magenta, put a few drops in my paint pallet and add some water and made some splots all over the age. I then cut the paper to fit the journal pages. I used Miracle tape and Glue. I then found a qute wrote it on a piece of scrap paper, glued it on the page and then outlined it with my black Stabilo pencil. 

Whats in a name?

Today is art journal class and her I am blogging about the class we had last week. :)

Last week the focus was on using Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing casting resin. It was a fun class.We molded out first initial from alphabet blocks you get in the toy store or toy section in a stote (Target, Walmart). After the mold was made we poured the resin and let it sit to cure while we worked on the journal page.

When I came home I finished the page by gluing my molded piece to the journal paeg. Cut the page to fit my journal and glued it to the journal.

I had a scrap of the background from cutting the page So not letting it to go to waste I cut it in to 2 ATC cards and made ATC's with them.

I did added the Grid washi background and the line of chevron stamps from VLVS! to the background. I stamped a Mary Vogel Lozinak image and the small striped butterfly images fussy cut them out and glued the wings to the girl and glued them on the atc(they were extra from a spool swap I'm in over at the VLVS! groupies FB group). Stamped a couple of VLVS! sentiments, glued them on and I gt to use my black Stabilo pencil for the first time. 

NaNoJouMo day 3

day 3's song was "If I could Fly" By Charity Chapman

When I saw the title I knew what I wanted to use for the page. I used a page that had some left over green spray on it from when I used star punchenilla from Gauche Alchemy.  I used some water down green and a blue craft paints. Dd some drip with water down craft paint. I wanted to still see the stars, thats why I used the water down craft paints. Next I took the cloud stencil by Crafter's Workshop and some glass bead gel and did the clouds. I got this idea from a previous page I did in this journal. Thought it would work with this age too. After most of the clouds had dried I stamp some Whimsical clouds From VLVS! on the page. I stamped the boy from VLVS! on white Bristol(it was a scrap from another project I was doing) lightly colored him with water colors. I put him on the page with foam tape. The letters are I think from Making Memories (got them at a thrift store) I glued those on. I took a black Bic pen and outlined the clouds.