Monday 20 May 2013

Art Journal: amazing world





This afternoon I sat down to do another Art Journal page. Hunk is one of my favourite Stampotique stamps and I thought I dress him up a bit. As always I started off with Gesso on the pages after which I painted them blue. I distressed the edges with Archival ink in manganese blue. I used the same ink for the blue dots which were made with a homemade stencil. Also used two TCW stencils, small bricks (white Versa Magic ink)  and mini Daisy Cluster (Peeled Paint Distress Ink). I stamped some script around the edges and used a small black star stamp to fill in some spaces that I thought were too empty. I put some washi tape down to put Hunk on. Hunk was stamped with StaZon and coloured with watercoulour pencils. The wings are from a photo of a butterfly. The hat is from the Dyslusions stamp set : bags of bunting. Lastly I stamped the sentiment and glued everything down on the page. 

Saturday 18 May 2013

Art journal: the right hat



It was great fun creating this page this afternoon. I started with gesso on the page and then painted the page pink. I used a few stencils, Dylusions and TCW. Stamped a ledger stamp from Paperartsy around the edges and aged them with black ink. The figure is Batboy from Stampotique and because of his nice hat I thought the quote was very apt. I made a little base for him to stand on out of Washi tape from Tim Holtz.
I hope you like him; leave a comment if you want (even if you don't like him)......

Thursday 16 May 2013

Simons Says Stamp Challenge : Flower Power


I made this card this afternoon to enter into this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge : Flower Power
Materials used: white card stock, black cardstock, distress inks Broken China and Salty Ocean, Stampendous flower stamp, Stampotique's Mary (stamped on book page) and Hello; I can't remember what brand. Also used some baker's twine in black/white.







Wednesday 15 May 2013

Forgot to mention that I entered this Artjournal page into the Stampotique Designer Challenge no. 100, anything goes.....
Fingers crossed........

Art journal "smile"



This is my first entry on my brand new blog. Not sure how it all works, but I will find out soon I hope.