Dolly Dimples Harmony

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using Dolly Dimples Harmony stamp set and other products.

I had a page in my art journal where I had cleaned my Circles Layers stencil. I had used it with the peacock feathers distress spritz on another project. I used a black sharpue to draw a border around the inky area.

On seperate card I stamped the Harmony stamp, one large butterfly and two small butterflies from the Festival Dollies Harmony stamp set. I coloured them with distress watercolour pencils and cut them out. I then glued them to the page. 

Finally I added a sentiment from the Celtic Whispers Sentiment Collection. 

Products used:

Circle Layers stencil

Festival Dollies Harmony stamp set 

Distress Watercolour Pencils 

Distress Spritz Peacock Feathers 

Celtic Whispers Sentiment Collection 

Black Sharpie 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

La Vie en Rose

Good morning, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to how I created this art journal page using papers and rice papers from Stamperia.

To begin I created two areas of white gesso. These were approximately square.

Next I decide which elements I wanted from the La Vie en Rose rice paper. To remove them from the sheet I went around each one with a wet paintbrush and then carefully tore them out.

Then I cut some elements out from the House of Roses paper pad.

I returned to the background and applied picket fence distress ink through the Bee Crafty text 6" inkable.

I added the rice papers using distress collage medium.

I added texture paste for some dimension. I used Bee Crafty's 6" distressed diamonds inkable.

I added white splats using the tube inside the Dina Wakley white gloss spray. 

I then added the elements I had cut out from the paper pad, but decided not to use the tag, but some flowers and leaves from another paper in the pad.

Finally I added a Bee Crafty Transparency Prints sentiment from the Creative Words sheet.

Products used:

White gesso

Bee Crafty Transparency Prints Creative Words 

Stamperia Rice Paper La Vie En Rose

Stamperia 8 x 8 pad House of Roses

Bee Crafty Inkables - text, distressed diamonds

Creative Muse smooth texture paste

Dina Wakley gloss spray white

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Hug in a Mug Collection

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this card using Julia Mcneil Designs new Hug in a Mug Collection. 

Cut a strip of the striped paper to 1 inch by 8 3/4 inches and a piece of the spotty paper to 4 1/2 inches by 8 3/4 inches. Glue them to an A5 card blank, overlapping slightly.

Cut out two of the flower pairs from the paper in the pad.

Decide on the ephemera from the bit box bits pack.

Decide on the composition by placing on the card.

I felt the flowers needed leaves so I stamped both the tea stains stamps on to the green strip from the paper where I cut out the flowers then cut them out.

Glue everything in place and stamp the sentiment from the Frosted Marshmallow stamp set vertically in the top left side of the card.

Products used:

Sweet Peppermint Collection paper pad

Bit Box Bits Mocha Mix

Honey and Lemon stamp set

Frosted Marshmallow stamp set

Versafine Clair nocturne ink 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Stencils, stencils and more stencils

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a page where the majority of the products used are stencils.

To begin I used a pencil to draw through the Bee Crafty Inkables heart easy frame.

I then used my Himi Gouache paints to add colour to the page.

I added black soot distress ink through the arrows of the Dylusions dyalog stencil border it.

Next I added a row of circle at the top and bottom of the page using Dylusions A Stitch in Time small stencil with black soot distress ink.

I then used a black sharpie to draw over the pencil line of the heart. I also added some lines to the page using a Bee Crafty dinkable from set 8.

Next I added some text to the page using versafine clair charming pink through Bee Crafty's Text 6" inkable. I also added fots by blending versafine clair warm breeze through Bee Crafty's Perspective Circles inkable. 

Finally I added a sentiment using the Walk Your Own Way transparency prints from Bee Crafty. 

Products used:

Bee Crafty

6 inch heart inkable easy frame

6 inch perspective circles inkable

6 inch text inkable 

Dinkables set 8

Transparency Prints Walk Your Own Way

Dylusions

Dyalog stencil border it 

Small stencil A Stitch in Time 

Himi Gouache waterciur paints

Distress Ink - black soot 

Distress collage medium

Versafine Clair - charming pink, warm breeze

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Tracy Evan's - Insects

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Tracy Evan's latest release.

To begin I wiped some tumbled glass distress oxide onto a piece of acetate. I then spritzed it lightly with water. Next I dabbed it onto my page. 

I repeated this with uncharted mariner drying the colours before adding the second. 

Next I spritzed the page with tumbled glass distress spritz and left this to dry.

I stamped the Art Background stamp using versafine clair twilight ink.

I stamped the large element from the insect stamp set using twilight ink.

I then added the leafy branch from the insect stamp set using twilight ink.

Next I added two of the small insects from the set using the same ink.

On seperate card I stamped the larger image from the set using versafine clair bali blue ink and cut it out. I glued it over the corresponding part of the page.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Les Sentiments pack from AALL & Create. 

Products used:

Distress Oxide - Uncharted Mariner, Tumbled Glass

Acetate

Spritz Bottle

Tracey Evans Boutique Designs - 

Art Background TE17

Insect TE 27

AALL & Create - Les Sentiments

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Hug in a Mug

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Julia McNeil Designs  Hug in  a Mug Collection.

To begin, I created a watercolour background using a light blue and two shades of pink Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour paints.

Whilst the background dried, I stamped the characters that I required, onto a separate piece of card, coloured them with watercolour pencils and white pen. Then I cut them out.

Now that the background was dry, I could stamp the  stars from the Iced Coffee stamp set using salty ocean distress oxide. 

I decided there needed to be more in the background, so I've used the evergreen berries stencil with worn lipstick and tumbled glass distress oxide to add more detail.

I then glued the characters to the page and added a sentiment from the Iced Coffee stamp set.

Products used:

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour paints

Frosted Marshmallow stamp set

Iced Coffee stamp set

Distress oxide - salty ocean, tumbled glass, worn lipstick 

Evergreen Berries stencil

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Rodrigo Assi Stamps

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Art Inspirations new Rodrigo Assi stamps.

To begin I created a blended background using the antique linen, lost shadow, black soot and hickory smoke distress oxides. Then I blended black soot distress oxide through the explode stencil.

On separate card, I stamped the Ghost from the Boo! stamp set and the cat from the Magic is Withon Us stamp set using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. I then cut them out.

Next, use the ghost as a template to line up the lines and bats stamp, so that it is mostly above the ghost head then stamp using versafine clair nocturne.

Next, I stamped the two spiders web stamps, using the ghost to help me line them up and get them in the correct position.

I stamped the spider under the right-hand side web and used a black pen to draw a line from the web to the spider to make it look like it was hanging.

Next, I glued the ghost and the cat to the page using PVA glue.

I used a pumice stone to distress crayon to ground the cat and as a ghost floats it did not need grounding.

I then added the small hanging spider, from the Magic is Within Us stamp set, and extra bats, from the Boo! stamp set, to the page to add to the background.

Next I added the boo! and the I don't fear sentiments to the bottom right of the ghost.

Finally I added to the shadowing to the ghost using the pumice stone distress crayon and a wet paintbrush. 

Products used:

Art Inspirations - Rodrigo Assi Explode stencil 

Art Inspirations - Rodrigo Assi Boo! stamp set

Art Inspirations - Rodrigo Assi Magic is within us stamp set 

Distress Oxides - Black Soot, Antique Linen, Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke 

Versafine Clair - Nocturne 

Distress Crayon - Pumice Stone

Thanks for taking a look. 

Alison