Seth Apter stamps and dies

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing an art journal page created using products that I got from Art Inspirations. They have a wide range of Seth Apter dies and stamps.

To begin I cut one of my wet strength tissue gelli plate backgrounds to fit the page. I had used Art Inspirations Nature Prints Circles Print and Leaf Fall stamps on the gelli plate with acrylic paint to create this piece.

I stamped the Frame Ups 3 and Turnarounds 3 stamps, using Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves, on to a piece of watercolour card. I springled TCW color sparks crimson, sepia and olive green on to the images and spritzed with water. I left this to work and dry before cutting them out.

I added an eyelet to the centre of the circle image.

I die cut two of the fence die, from Borderline die set, out of dark brown card.

I used a wet glue to add the square image to the page.

I then cut the two die cuts so that I had four pieces and glued them to the page.

Next I used foam pads to add the circle piece.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Clarity Stamps Words Stickers by Leonie Pujol. 

Products used:

Art Inspirations 

. Circles Print stamp set 

. Leaf Fall stamp set 

. Wet Strength tissue paper 

. TCW Color Sparks

Spellbinders Seth Apter 

. Frame Ups 3 stamp 

. Turnarounds 3 stamp 

Sizzix Seth Apter

. Borderlines die set 

Clarity Stamps 

Words Stickers by Leonie Pujol 

Versafine Clair 

Fallen Leaves

From My Stash

Copper Eyelet and setter

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Three small abstract art pieces

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a quick guide to creating these three small abstract art pieces.

For the first piece I loosly applied green acrylic paint to a page in my 4" art journal.  I added some scribbles using a yellow green Neocolor II crayon, which I blended out with a waterbrush. I added some asemic writing using a cobalt blue Neocolour II crayon and blended slightly with my finger. I cut some shapes from an offcut of gelli print background I had previously created and stuck them to the page. I used a stencil brush to apply black gesso through a small circle stencil. After this had dried I drew around the shapes with a black posca and added white posca marks on the black circles.  I added black zig-zag lines with a fineliner and added white gesso circles using an old electric toothbrush head.

For the second piece, I had cleaned my stencil from the previous page on this page, so I added a couple of drops of orange and pink ecoline liquid watercolour to the page and spritzed it with water. I left it to dry naturally. Next I added white gesso through a numbers stencil and added white and gold posca pen mars to finish the page.

For the last piece, I began by gluing a couple of pieces of old book page to my page. I added Dina Wakley Media mustard and sunshine acrylic paint and left it to dry. I then applied black soot distress ink through my chosen stencil and left this to dry. I added two scrible lines using an Aquirellable black pencil. I then added white marks using a ehite pisca pen. To finish I used a red pencil crayon to add asemic writing.

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Zouki Poppie Tag

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag using products from AALL and Create. 

To begin I die cut the two parts of the tag and the largest butterfly. 

Then I created a mask for the flower from the Lovely Coquelicots stamp set. I used a post-it note.

Next, I stamped the flower and the small circular stamp, beginning in the middle and working out. I used the mask to when appropriate. 

I used the circles stamp to add colour to the background.  I used seedless preserve and broken china distress ink for this.

Next, I glued the two layers of the tag together.

Then, I die cut the Bursting Buds die out of white card and glued it to the tag. 

On separate card, I stamped the Zouki Poppie stamp, then I coloured her and cut her out.

Then I cut the butterfly in half and glued it to the back of the Zouli Poppie image.

I added foam tape to the back of the Zouki Poppie image and added her to the tag.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Words Stickers by Leonie Pujol. 

Products used:

AALL AND CREATE 

. Starflight die set

. Lovely Coquelicots stamp set 

. Bursting Buds die set

. Zouki Poppie stamp set 

Claritystamps Words Sticker Collection by Leonie Pujol 

Distress ink - seedless preserve,  broken china 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Nature Prints and ZinskiArt

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Art Inspirations Nature Prints,  Texture Backgrounds and their ZinskiArt Sign to Shine stamp set. 

To begin, create a background by blending salty ocean distress oxide in the centre of the page in an 8x8 inch journal. Then blend uncharted mariner distress oxide around the edges of the page. Next spritz with water and pat dry with a piece of kitchen towel. 

Next stamp the nature print circle print stamp centrally using Versafine Clair twilight ink. 

Then place the branch part of the Nature Prints Silhouette Flower stencil override the stamping. Using some watered down Kuretake Gold Sumi Mica Paste, with a dipping pen, draw around the inside of the branch and leaves. When done, wash the palette, pen nibs and stencil immediately as the paste can not be reactivated when dry.

To make the branch stand out more, place the mask part of the set over the image and gently brush black soot distress oxide from on the mask onto the page to create a shadow effect.

Stamp the border, from the Texture Backgrounds stamp set,  using Versafine Clair twilight ink,  in the top right and bottom left of the page.

Using the floral cluster, from the ZinskiArt Sign to Shine stamp set, with Versafine Clair Arctic ink, add around the edges of the page to give the background another layer.

On separate card,  stamp the standing silhouette,  from the Sign to Shine stamp set, using the twilight ink pad. Cut out leaving no border.

Add the silhouette image to the page and using a chipped sapphire distress crayon a ground for her to stand on.

Add a sentiment from Clarity Stamps Words Stickers by Leonie Pujol to finish the page.

Here's another look at the finished page. 

Products used:

Nature Prints Circle Print stamp set 

Nature Prints Silhouette Flower stencil and mask

Texture Backgrounds stamp set 

ZinskiArt Sign to Shine stamp set 

Clarity Stamps Words Stickers by Leonie Pujol 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

The Sound of Spring

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using LuMania's The Sounds of Spring mixed media book and sticker collection.

To begin, I chose a backing paper, which I cut to fit in my black art journal, so that it left a border around it. I used matte medium to glue it in.

Next I chose some ephemera from the Mixed media book and cut it out, leaving a small white border.

Then I chose a few stickers from the sticker pack and roughly cut them out. As they are on a clear background you don't need to to be as accurate with cutting them out.

I, then, arranged them on the page and glued them in place with a mix of foam tape and wet glue.

Finally, I added the sentiment sticker to a piece of white card, cut it out and used foam tape to add it to the page.

Here's another look at the finished page. 

Products used:

The Sounds of Spring Mixed Media Book 

The Sounds of Spring Mixed Media Stickers

Matte Medium

Foam Tape

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Tree Home

Good morning today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using products from Art Inspirations. 

To begin, I  sponged yummy yellow and lippy lime vivid ink through the never-ending link stencil. 

Then I used Lisa Horton's Cloud 9 Margarita ink to stamp the large rectangle from the Leonie Pujol Textures on the Block stamp set. 

Next I used Lisa Horton Picked by Paula Georgia Moss ink to stamp the four squares stamp from the Textures on the Block stamp set several times. 

The I used the Lisa Horton Anthracite ink pad to stamp the small lines stamp from the same stamp set. 

Next, on separate card,  I used Versafine Clair nocturne ink to stamp the tree home stamp. I coloured it with the Kuretaki Gansai Tambi Granulating 3 and Graphite watercolour paints. I added white pen highlights. I cut it out and glued it to the page.

Then I stamped the Border stamp from the Texture Backgrounds stamp set using Lisa Horton Margarita ink.

I used a black fineliner to add a scribbly border to the page. 

I decided the background needed more, so I stamped the small circles stamp using Versafine Clair nocturne and coloured some of the circles with white pen.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Leonie Pujol Words Stickers Collection.

Products used:

Art Inspirations 

. Vivid Inks

.Never-ending Link stencil 

.Textures on the Block stamp set 

.Texture Backgrounds stamp set 

. Brejanz Tree Home stamp set 

. Kuretake Gansai Tambi Granulating 3 paints

. Kuretake Gansai Tambi Graphite paints 

. Word Stickers Collection by Leonie Pujol 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison