Enjoy the Moment

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using a mixture of different companies products. I love having some me time to just play with whatever I grab from my crafty stash.

To begin, I sprayed the page with list shadow and pumice stone distress oxide spray. I left this to dry.

Next I blended weathered wood distress oxide through one of Bee Crafty's texture discs from set 2. 

On seperate card I stamped the large clock from Bee Crafty's Wasted Time  stamp set. I cut it out and lightly blended list shadow distress oxide over it.

Next, whilst using the clock to help with positioning, I stamped leaves and swirls, from Shady Design's building blocks, celtic square and celtic circles stamp sets, directly on to the page. 

I then cut out some ephemera and a sentiment from Ciao Bella's  LuManua Quintessential Mixed Media book. 

Finally I glued the click, ephemera and sentiment to the page and added three cogs.

Products used:

Bee Crafty

Clocks - Wasted Time stamp set 

Inkables Texture Discs set 2

Shady Designs By Louise Sims 

Building Blocks stamp set 

Celtic Circles stamp set 

Celtic Square stamp set 

Ciao Bella Papers

LuMania Quintessential Mixed Media Book

Thank you for taking a look and I hope I've inspired you to create something using all the different products kn your stash.

Aluson

JMC Designs Woodland Dwellings

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using one of JMC Designs new Enchanted Forest release with some of their older stamp sets.

To begin I created a simple watercolour background, which I left to dry.

Next, I stamped the images I wanted to use and coloured them with my polychromos pencils. See product list for stamp sets used.

Then I cut all the images out.

Next I used matte medium to glue the images to my background.

I used distress watercolour pencils and a wet paintbrush to add shadowing and to blend cut edges into the page.

I added some of the grass stamp from the My Deer stamp set, usin peeled paint distress oxide ink. I felt this stood out to much so blended it more into the page with a damp paintbrush. 

Then, I added highlights with a white posca pen.

Finally I stamped and cut out the sentiment from the Woodland Dwellings stamp set and added it to the page. I added a border to the sentiment using a fineliner.

Products used:

Woodland Tots Collection.

Enchanted Forest - Woodland Dwellings

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour paints 

Distress Watercolour Pencils 

Versafine Clair nocturne 

White Posca pen 

Black fineliner 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

LuMania Urban Blue Denim

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the new LuMania range from Ciao Bella. For this page I've ussd the Urban Blue Denim mixed media book.

To begin, I used matte medium to glue one of the vellum papers to the page. As the matte medium I used was quite wet, I got several wrinkles in the vellum, but I'm not worried about that as it adds another texture to the background.

I then chose the ephemera I wanted to use from the Urban Blue Denim mixed media pad and cut it out. The bird came from one of the papers in the pad and I kept some of the bits of paper that I cut from around it.

Now the matte medium was dry, I applied ground espresso distress oxide through the Enigmatic Essence stencil and fadd jeans distress oxide through the Beaded Curtain stencil to add depth to the background.

Finally I added the ephemera to the page using matte medium.

I hope you like what I have created and here's a list of the products I've used.

Alison

LuManua Mixed Media Craft Mix - Urban Blue Denim

LuMania Mixed Media Book - Urban Blue Denim 

Enigmatic Essence stencil

Bead Curtain stencil

Ciao Bella Paper Mixed Media A5 Journal

Distress Oxide - faded jeans, ground espresso 

Stampers Anonymous Mixed Media Stamp and Stencil Set #18

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created with one of the new Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mixed Media stamp and stencil sets.

To begin, cut a piece of the Men's Jeans card to fit the journal page. Add scorched timber distress ink through the stencil dotty part of the stencil.

Using blue jeans distress ink and the numbers part of the stencil add to the background.

Next, take the row of stars and stamp it several times using Scorched Timber distress ink.

Add more to the background by stamping the stamp here words using Faded Jeans distress ink. 

On seperate card, stamp the man and two clocks using scorched timber and three light bulbs and the numbers using faded jeans. Cut the images out, leaving a small white border. Ink the edges with walnut stain distress ink.

Ink the edges of the background piece with walnut stain and glue to a page in an art journal.

Glue the stamped images to the page.

Stamp the sentiment with scorched timber and cut out. Edge with walnut stain and add to the page.

Products used:

13 Arts Mr Handsome - Mens Jeans 12 x 12 card

Stampers Anonymous Mixed Media Stamp and Stencil set 18

Distress Ink - walnut stain, scorched timber, faded jeans 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

Friends are Always There

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this quick and easy card using Timestamps Creations newest release.

To begin I cut a piece of kraft card to 2.75 x 5.75 inches. I then pushe a small lucky clover ink pad directly onto this piece of card.

I spritzed this with water and dried it with a heat gun.

Next I chose the groups of people from the stamp set and stamped them and the sentiment with Versafine Clair nocturne ink. 

I then used a black pen to edge my piece of card.

Finally I glued my piece to a 3 x 6 inch card blank.

Products used:

Kraft card

Lucky Clover Small Distress Ink

Timestamp Creations - Friends are Always There stamp set

Versafine Clair nocturne ink pad 

Black pen

Thank you for taking a look 

Alison

Sunflowers

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using stickers and torn paper.

Begin by blending vintage photo distress ink around the edge of the page. 

Tear a vertical strip of text paper and glue to the centre of the page.

Choose the stickers and paper frame.

Add the film strip stickers. One set vertically and the other horizontally. 

Add the paper frame. Don't glue the bottom part for now.

Add the girl, carefully tucking the end of her legs under the frame. Now glue the bottom edge of the frame to the page. 

Add the sunflowers in a jar sticker to the bottom right of the page. 

Add the two smaller flower stickers to the frame.

Add the flower and quote to the bottom of the page. 

Finally add the butterfly stickers.

Products used:

Selection of Journaling Stickers

Paper Frame

Strip of text paper

Vintage Photo distress ink

Blending tool

Glue

Thanks for taking a look. 

Alison 

Book Lovers

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the Ciao Bella Book Lovers Junk Journal and Ephemera Book.

To begin, I chose the possible ephemera from the book, as this will guide the colour palette for the background.

To create a background on the page, I blended dusty concord and milled lavender distress ink through the flower part of the Dream On stencil.

I then added some of the diamonds, from the same stencil, using dusty concord and finally through the text part of the stencil.

Next I cut out the ephemera, leaving a small border around them. As I cut each piece out I placed it on the page approximately where I wanted it on my finished page. This was when I decided I didn't need the bicycle.

After I had placed the ephemera on the page, I decided the background was missing something, so I stamped some text using iced spruce distress ink.

I then glued the ephemera to the page using collage medium. 

Finally I chose some words from the book, cut them out and glued them to the page.

Products used:

Ciao Bella - Dream On stencil 

Ciao Bella - Book Lovers Junk Journal and Ephemera Book

Mama Makes - Small Script stamp

Distress Ink - dusty concord, milled lavender, iced spruce

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison