Art journal page project

Hello happy journalers ! 
Do you like art journaling ? I hope so, since our May challenge is  Journaling your heART out!
For those of you who are not at ease with art journaling, I will share this project with you. I got inspiration from Tracy Scott's art.

Materials :
paper or cardboard
acrylic paint
white gesso
black Archival ink
Artistic Stamper Mask : Large Dot 
Artistic Stamper stamps :
- Backgrounds : Hessian, Cogs,
- Katy Leitch : Messy Art, Encyclopaedia Botanica 
- Seaside : Seaside No. 1 # 018
- Neil Walker : Alphabet Soup

Start by painting the page with yellow, green and pink acrylics, and then stencil the large dots with gesso :

Stamp Dots Background with gesso and Hessian with black Archival :

Stamp Hessian, Cogs and Messy with black Archival, and again Dots Background with gesso on other places :

Draw circles with black acrylic paint on a thin brush, let it drip here and there, allow it to dry and then fill the circles with acrylic paints. 
Create shadows around the circles with paint or charcoal :

Stamp Alphabet soup with white acrylic, and with black Archival ink blots (from the Messy Art plate) and text (from the Encyclopaedia Botanica one) into the circles :

And here is the final page. Since my pictures from Gil Bruvel were relating to the sea world, I have finished by stamping some shells and starfishs :

Once you’re done with your art journal page, you can post it here to participate in our May challenge to win some fabulous Artistic Stamper stamps !

Thanks so much for stopping by,

your comments are very much appreciated.

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Dragonfly Card

Hello to you all Wishing all of you a very Happy New year!

I hope you all had a very good Christmas and are 

looking forward to a very crafty 2015.

I was very lucky my son's bought me the distress stains for Christmas 

and this is my first play with them.

For my first post of 2015 I have created a card made from the Artistic Stamper's

 fabulous Neil Walker stamps and the dragonfly from the insects &

butterfly plate and lots of lovely embossing.

1. Distress inks in the following colours:- iced spruce, vintage photo, wild honey, fired brick & walnut stain.
2. Distress stains spray in the following colours:- wild honey, fired brick, iced spruce & tarnished brass.
3. The following Artistic Stamper Stamps:- Neil Walkers alphabet soup & boarder set + the dragonfly off the insects and butterflies. 
4. Gold & clear embossing powder. 
5. Small coloured beads and home made beads for the centre body please see my blog.
6. Ranger distress stickles in the following colours:- aqua & copper.
7. Versamark.
8. Deco art liquid glass.
9. Gold ink pad.
10. Viva Ferro, ledger stencil.

Firstly I coloured a piece of white card with distress inks blending off a craft mat.

I used wild honey, vintage photo, iced spruce and fired brick.

I sprayed water onto my fingers the flicked it across the card and mopped up with tissue

& repeated it until I was happy with the result. I then used my distress stained iced spruce 

and lightly spritzed it. I inked the Neil walker alphabet soup stamp in gold

and stamped the bottom and top right.

You can just see it faintly, next I inked up the boarder stamp with

Walnut stain distress ink and gently put gold embossing

 powder so it didn't cover the entire stamped image,

then heat set.

I cut out a square and from the piece of coloured card I then cut 

another piece off and a third and arranged it 

out on the original cut square.

I then inked up the boarder stamp with walnut stain. Without 

putting it on a block I just placed the stamp where I wanted it

 on the third piece and then covered it in clear embossing 

powder and heat set. Ferro paste was put through the date 

on the ledger stencil on the bottom left hand side.

The edges were run along the versa mark ink pad then swiped 

through gold embossing powder to finish the square off. 

For the dragonfly I inked it up with walnut stain stamped it 

onto distress coloured card which was clear embossed.

I sprayed the wings with tarnished gold, wild honey 

and fired brick spray stains. Decoart liquid glass was 

applied to the wings and allowed to dry.

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The main body of the dragon fly is made up with a bead I made 

please see my blog. The head is again beads made up 

from sequins and from my stash also copper stickles. small seed beads

were glued around and then I a dot of aqua stickles to finish.

Wire and a bead were used for the antennae. Finally mounted onto 

black card and attached onto a white card. Well that's it for today

 I hope you have all enjoyed this post please feel free to

 leave a comment or two.

Cheers Dee x

A Doodly Twosome

Hello all!  Alison (butterfly) here again, this time with a pair of tags which are not quite in my usual vein - though they are in some of my favourite colours!

I used the new Alphabet Soup by Neil Walker as my starting point.  I clear embossed the background onto a tag.

Then I sprayed lots of lovely Dylusions colour onto it, and dried it with a heat tool.  I love the squiggly doodly lettering.

The next step was to cut Umbrella Man with the Sizzix die (did I dream it, or did I read that he's been discontinued?  In any case, he's still available here at Artistic Stamper for now).

I hadn't really planned on making two tags, but as soon as I'd cut him, I realised I had the makings of a 'positive' and a 'negative' version.

For the backgrounds, I just blended on various Distress Ink colours from grass to sky and gave both tags a good old spritz and flick with some water.

The words are all from the fabulous Journalling Words #5 set.  I stamped them onto another inky tag I had lying around on the desk, in a combination of Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers, and clear embossed the result.

I cut them and inked the edges and mounted them on padded tape for a little pop of dimension.

I altered a couple of Muse Tokens with Distress Paint, then sanded back to the metal underneath.

As soon as I saw the silvery detailing, I wanted to echo it on the rest of the tags.

So I used some silver gilding wax to edge the words and the tags themselves.

I ended up adding quite a lot of silvery sheen to the embossed Alphabet Soup too because I really liked the look of it.

A couple of twirls of metal wire finish off the tags at the top.  It's just some more of the rescued wires from some spiral bound notebooks that were being thrown away... 'waste not, want not', as they say!

And that's pretty much that... I hope you like my doodly tags.

Thanks so much for stopping by - I always love to hear what you think.

Oh, and we'd also love it if you came along to play in our July challenge By the Seaside - can't wait to see your creations.  See you again soon.

Ingredients used

Artistic Stamper Stamps:  Neil Walker Alphabet Soup, Journalling Words #5
Sizzix Umbrella Man die
Dylusions Sprays - Polished Jade, After Midnight, Cut Grass
Distress Inks - Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Faded Jeans, Gathered Twigs
Versamark Ink Pad
Clear Embossing Powder
Idea-ology Muse Tokens
Distress Paints - Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass
Manila Tags
Foam Pads
From my stash - gilding wax (but these are similar) and wire from a spiral bound notebook