Underwater Scene

Hi

The Weeks just seem to fly by these days I turned around and The Craft Barn have announced another letter in the Alpha Challenge I am trying to keep up with lol.

This time the letter is S and the twist is use a shell, well I immediately thought seaside......wish I was there.........but after reading through my dictionary I found the word Seaweed so I ran with it.

on my page I have included several S words......Seaweed, Seahorse, Shells in my Underwater Scene

Firstly I washed over the whole page with Aqua Tint Inks using lots of water, next I wiped over with a damp baby wipe to lighten areas. 

My stamps are from Sheena Douglas A Little Sketchy Range - I used 3 sets in all I will put all the details at the end of the post, using  2 different colours of Aqua tint Colour I painted them  onto the seaweed stamps they were quite wet and stamped I love the effect this gives and was really pleased with the resulting seaweed which really looks like it is under the water. 

I had to add a Seahorse to the scene as I adore these cute little animals they fascinate me and the male looks after the babies!!, would love to see one in real life.
The seahorse was inked up with distress inks peacock feathers and over stamped in vintage photo, there is one solid stamp and one detailed which is great for this effect.  The little fishes were stamped in vintage photo and with damp paint brush I moved the ink around the images.

Lastly I stamped the shells in distress paint -  fossilized amber and tea dye, there was a lot of paint on the image which I painted into  the shell shape which gave an opaque cover, dried this with heat gun and over stamped in vintage photo and spiced marmalade to give back the shell definition. The edges of the pages were inked with vintage photo, also the dictionary quote edges and the letter S which was firstly painted with the same distress paints and lastly there is a great quote stamp with the set and it just seemed to fit........

To discover a seashell is to discover a world of Imagination - Michelle Held

Phew hope you hung on in to the end lol,  this took longer to type than to make. I had great fun making my mixed media Art Journal page and am really pleased with the result, thinking I might make another one in a similar way but on canvas and hang in the bathroom I have just the space........

Many thanks for the lovely comments left on my last AJ page post everyone is appreciated very much.

I would also like to join in the following challenges

The Artistic Stamper - All things Distress
As You Like It challenge - Favourite animal and Why - Seahorse-they fascinate me
A Bit More Time to Craft -Anything goes

Ingredients used

Sheena Douglass A Little Bit Sketchy Stamps range, Hidden Stars - Seahorse, seaweed; Underwater Angels - Seaweed; Sea Shells.

Spectrum Noir Aqua Tint Inks -  Bright and Beautiful set;

Distress Inks - peacock feathers, vintage photo, spiced marmalade; Distress Paint - Fossilized Amber, Tea Dye;

'till next time

Pretty in Pink

Hi everyone

Todays post is another AJ page, as you know I have been playing along with the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge and the letter for this 2 weeks  is D with a twist Pink has to be included! I have missed the last two challenges but I do intend to do the pages so my journal is complete.

Dragonfly and Spring popped straight into my head and I have this fabulous stamp set  from Sheena Douglass Range of stamps with matching dies, I  love this set, and any excuse to use it and I'm there.

I used distress Inks picked raspberry, mown lawn and vintage photo, using a stencil again from Sheena Douglass range I inked the wild flowers moving stencil across page, I then blended the same inks over the page and spritzed with water, the flowers wicked slightly, I really like this effect it softens the stencil a little and the background goes nice and splodgy....I like that word lol......

The Dragonfly was stamped in vintage photo straight onto the page, also stamped and die cut twice from copy paper and white card.  The Paper Dragonfly was coloured with picked raspberry and then stamped in black archival, I also used  gold pebeo gilding wax on the wings this really shines in real life photo doesn't really pick it up, the card dragonfly was painted in gold metallic paint and stamped over in archival ink.  I choose to cut them out first and then stamp them I find it an easier process.

Lastly I used the beautiful corner stamp in vintage photo and the word Dragonfly both stamps come in the set.

I would also like to join the following challenges

A Vintage Journey #40 - Spring is in the Air
Country View Challenges April - Spring
The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog- All things Distress
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Pink and Green
Craft Stamper Magazine Make It Take It April Challenge - Spring Flowers

Time for Love

Hi
Today I am here with my AJ page for the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge with the letter L, I have gone with the word Love not very original I know but while I was sorting out some stamps I came across a set of  Hearts and this beautiful verse and a page was born.

my page was firstly brushed with pink and lilac acrylic paint I then stamped with the various heart stamps in same paint (this doesn't show up in the photo, then using various distress inks I built the layers of stamping.  The verse was stamped in versafine black and lightly brushed with same paint as it was far to bright and clean for the page. In real life you can read the verse still the photo seems to have dulled the ink........sorry.  I added the definition from the dictionary and with a black fine line pen I have drawn some hearts and written the words LOVE and SWALK in various places over the page.  Together and Cherish die cuts were added to the page and brushed over with the paint.
Thiss page also fits in with the challenge at Our Creative Corner - Return of the Challenge.

I have chosen to revisit challenge August 1st 2013, Words Words Words, this is a great challenge, also great fun.

I would also like to join in the following challenges

Creative Artist Challenge - anything goes
The artistic Stamper Creative Team blog - Springtime
Mixed Media World - Love is in the Air
Our Creative Corner - The Return of the Challenge - Chosen - Words Words Words August 2013


until next time
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Feathers

My AJ page today is F for Feathers joining in at The Craft Barn Alpha/Dictionary Challenge

My main chosen stamp was from the  A little Bit Sketchy collection from Sheena Douglass - Falling Feathers.
I gathered some paints and inks together, Pebeo Iridescent Gold was brushed directly onto the stamps and randomly stamped, this paint is gorgeously iridescent but unfortunately not showing very well in photo.
I also used up some Spectrum Noir inks which had dried in the palette I sprayed with water and applied to the stamps these were very wet and soaked into the water colour paper giving a lovely washed look, lastly I used Memento ink pad London Fog, a nice light grey colour.
Bird stamp is Tim Holtz and stamped with spectrum noir inks spritzed with water.
A Grungeboard "F" was painted with the gold paint and stamped over in memento grey with the small feather stamp.

Thanks for looking, 'till next time

Q is for Quote

Another Art Journal page for today Q is the letter The Craft Barn have asked for this fortnight in the Alpha/Dictionary challenge.  I am just in under the wire due to illness these winter bugs are really a pain will be glad when spring comes.
Anyway today between coughing fits I managed to finish my page.

I have used various ~Tim Holtz stamps and others on the background which was firstly given a wash of greens and blues, this was a bit bright I felt so I dry brushed some white gesso over and blasted with heat gun.

I really like how the background stamping onto water colour paper makes for a distressed look faded in places darker in others. I stamped in Adirondack Denim, Distress inks vintage photo, chipped sapphire, broken china, brushed corduroy.

Stamps were Tim Holtz Fairytale Frenzy and selection from Visual Artistry collections.  This AJ page will also fit in well with the  Country View Challenge - make your own backgrounds.  Lastly the "Quote" is one of my favourites in Tim's collection which I stamped in denim onto a piece of card I had in my stash which already had a wash on it, I stamped in denim and used vintage photo and chipped sapphire to distress the panel after I had distressed edges with tool.  Butterflies were found in my bits and bobs box and same inks were used to age them.

I would also like to play at

Craft Stamper Make it Take it - Text Me

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps - anything goes (with a Stamp)

till next time

Crazy Birds

Hi
The Craft Barn have a new Alpha/ Dictionary challenge running and as I had so much fun joining the last one which was 2013........where did that time go........I was amazed! Anyway to say I was excited to start a new journey with this challenge is an understatement really love to play with stamps and inks and this is why I have chosen to do Art Journaling Pages, with the dictionary meaning for each word added to the pages |(one of the rules). All the details are on their blog follow the link above.

the letter chosen for this first challenge  is "B".  My chosen AJ is watercolour paper pad and I have strengthened the perforated edge with tissue tape to ensure the pages stay put.  I will decorate the front cover along the way.

I have used the Crazy Birds stamps and dies for this my first page.......they were a Birthday present last week and I just had to use them for the first time, I love their quirky characters, they were stamped in versafine on a background created with water colour paper using aquatints inks.

The page background was created firstly with gelatos which I have not used before...they were a free gift with a magazine. I was amazed at the colour they hold, I scribbled them over the page and created a wash with water, will be using these again I'm sure.

My next step was to take anything that was on my desk for adding layers........distress inks through stencil, splatters of distress stains, text stamp Tim Holtz,  and a lid dipped into Aquatints Ink.  After much enjoyment the time was to stop........I do find this step hard to do ......lol.  Lastly stick Crazy Birds on their perches.  Dictionary definition was cut from dictionary.

Hope to see crafters from challenge 2013 along the way.  The Link to my 2013 Alpha challenge is here where you can see my altered dictionary pages.

I would also like to play along at the following challenges

One Crazy Stamper - anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More - Make your Mark

Craft Stamper Take it Make it Challenge - Take a Stamp - anything Goes

'till next time