Gear up for Christmas

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using Stamperia's Gear up for Christmas Junk Journal and rub-on kit.

To begin, I cut a puece of background paper to fit my A5 journal and used matte medium to glue it down.

I then added the holly border rub-on down the left hand side of the page.

I added two presents and the car stickers to the page.

I pushed out two of the tags, two of the images, one of the snow globes and several gears. I used an emery board to remove the pips. I added twine to the tags and glued the images to them.

Next, I added these to my page.

I then added another rub-on, with words, today the top right hand corner.

Finally I added a border strip to the bottom of the page. 

Products used:

Stamperia 

Junk Journal Gear up for Christmas 

Rub-on kit Gear up for Christmas 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Tag Inspired by Lou Sims

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag which was inspired by a blog post by Lou Sims. https://lulucardmaking.blogspot.com/2025/10/5-creative-ways-to-use-distress-crayons.html

To begin I scribbled areas of the three colours of distress crayons. I then blended these using my finger.

I then placed the stencil, from Lu Mania, over the tag and rubbed a wet wipe over it to remove some of the colour on the tag. This was left to dry.

Next, I stamped the Winter Wishes stamp over the tag using strawberry Versafine Clair. 

On separate card,  I stamped the Winter Wishes and Festive Finery stamps, using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. I cut out the word Winter and the bauble. I coloured the bauble using distress crayons with a damp paintbrush. 

I used a clear glue to stick the word Winter over the stamping at the bottom right of the tag. 

Finally I added the bauble and used a black fineliner pen to draw the string and a bow.

Products used:

Tim Holtz mixed media tag 

Lu Mania triple stencil set 1

Shady Designs 

.  Winter Wishes stamp set 

. Festive Finery stamp set 

Distress Crayons 

. Tree Lot

. Holly Branch 

. Peppermint Stick

. Winterberry

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Autumn

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using products from Stampers Anonymous and Tim Holtz.

To begin I edged the page with scorched timber distress oxide.

Then using the circles part of the stencil, from the Autumn set, with rusty hinge, carved pumpkin and candied apple distress oxides add to the background. 

Stamp the oak leaf in the four corners of the page using Fallen Leaves Versafine Clair ink.  Change the orientation to fit each corner. 

On separate craft card, stamp two oak leaves, one sycamore leaf and the largest frame using the Fallen Leaves onk. Colour the leaves with watercolour paints. Cut everything out. 

Glue the frame to the page, then added the leaves. Raise the central one by using foam pads.

Stamp the bird and then cut out.

Add it to the page so that it is sitting on the frame.

Add a sentiment from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Small Talk. 

Finally add some white pencil work and some splatters.

Products used:

Stampers Anonymous

. Tim Holtz Mixed Media Stamps and Stencil - Autumn

. Tim Holtz Mixed Media Stamps and Stencil - Silhouette Birds

. Tim Holtz Collection- Label Frames

Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Small Talk 

Versafine Clair  - Fallen Leaves 

Distress Oxides - scorched timber, rusty hinge,  carved pumpkin,  candied apple 

White Pisca Pen

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Meaningful Memories

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using Ciao Bella products.

To begin, I cut a strip of the text paper to fit approximately half the page and glued it in place with Cadence Matte Bond and Seal. When this was dry I edged the page with Hickory Smoke distress oxide.

Next I cut out the face and glued it to the page.

Then I cut out three flowers and a butterfly and added them to the page. 

I then coloured just the face using my distress watercolour pencils. 

Finally I chose a sentiment and glued it to the page.

Products used:

Ciao Bella Lu Mania - Meaningful Memories Mixed Media Book

Ciao Bella Mixed Media Art Journal

Cadence Bond and Seal

Hickory Smoke distress oxide 

Distress watercolour pencils 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Moths

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Bee Crafty's brand new Moths stamp with other products from my crafty stash. 

To begin I spritzer a hessian page in my Dina Wakley journal with scorched timber distress oxides spray.

Next I tore two vertical strips of the jumbled letters collage paper and used matte medium to glue them to the page. 

I tore two pieces of old paper and added them to the page.

Then I tore two pieces of the grid collage paper and added it to the page.

Next I tore out two of the words from the text collage collage paper and added them to the page.

Next I added a die cut Frame. I left the page to dry thoroughly.

I stamped the three largest Moths on to watercolour card using Versafine Clair nocturne. I coloured them with distress oxides and then cut them out.

I used matte medium to glue the Moths to the page, using blobs behind the largest to raise it off the page.

I then added the snip art trellis, tucking  one end under the wings of the raised moth.

Finally I coloured the back of the transparency print with a white posca pen, cut it out when it was dry and glued it to the page.

Products used:

Bee Crafty - 

Moths stamp set

Transparency Prints Walk Your Own Way

Dina Wakley Collage Papers - 

Jumbled Letters 

Grids

Text Collage

Snip Art -

Small Layers Set

Distress Oxide - brushed corduroy, rusty hinge

Distress Oxide Spray - scorched timber

Versafine Clair  - nocturne 

White Posca pen

Matte Medium

Hello Fall

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a quick and easy page in my Ciao Bella art journal using the Hello Fall Junk Journal and Ephemera book.

To begin I cut out the large leafy background sticker and carefully added it to a page in my Cuao Bella A5 art journal.

Next I blended Antique Linen distress ink around the edge of the page.

I then cut out some of the ephemera from the book.

I then glued the ephemera to the background.

Products Used:

Ciao Bella Hello Fall Junk Journal and Ephemera book 

Antique Linen distress ink

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Dina Wakley Collage Papers

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Dina Wakley collage papers. 

To begin I spritzed the page with waterand sprinkled 3 different pixie powders on it. I spritzed it a secknd time with water and left it to dry naturally.

Whilst it was drying I ripped a long, thin strip and two smaller rectangles of the grid collage paper. I also ripped a long strip of the jumbled alphabet collage paper. I then used matt medium to adhere them to the page.

When the matte medium was dry, I freehand stamped some of the script background stamp, from Bee Crafty, ising Versafine Clair nocturne ink. 

Using a damp paintbrush, I drew round one of the moths, from the Flying Things collage papers, and then carefully tore it from the sheet, following the water line. I used matte medium to adhere it to a piece of card. 

I edged this with a black pen before gluing it to the page. 

Finally, I added one of the wax seals that were in my homework pack from Leonie Pujol. 

Products used:

Lamali Journal

Dina Wakley Collage Papers  - 

. Flying things

. Grids

. Jumbled Letters

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders - 

. Lava Red

. Burnt Orange

. Rich Gold

Leonie Pujol Homework Pack

Bee Crafty - Script Background stamp

Versafine Clair - nocturne 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison