Art journal page: Currently

Hey everyone,

Natalie here with an art journal page that I want to share with you, along with an easy background technique. For this technique you just need a stencil and some spray inks. I'm sure it would work with a water reactive ink pad, too.

I picked three earthy and greenish color sprays from Lindy's Gang and started with the lightest one which was Opal Sea Oats. I sprayed my stencil with the spray and then pressed it onto the paper. Then I repeated the process on another spot of my page and let it dry. This is important if you don't want the colors to bleed into another.

The next color I used was My Mojito Green. Again, I sprayed ink on the stencil, but this time a little less, and pressed it onto the page. It was quite easy to align it right over the last imprint.

I did the same with the last color, Drop Dead Gorgeous Green, and a very light spritz of color.

On the following pictures you can see how I built up the layers.

While my page was drying, I decided that I want to use the bearded man as my focal image. And while browsing through my stamps I found a mushroom with the perfect size for him to sit on. I stamped both with Archival Ink, first in Coffee, then in Watering can. The two colors mixed to a grey tone with a little vintage touch. Using a stamping tool makes it easier to do this.

I cut out both images and added a little watercolor to them as well as I inked up the edges with a black marker.

Back on my page I stamped some flowers and a few other mushrooms to the bottom left corner of the background. I used Oxide Inks for all this stamping, just because they work well and I had some matching colors.

All I had left to do was placing my focal point on the page, backed with some thread for a little more contrast and texture, and adding a quote. Well, I didn't used a whole phrase, this word stamp "currently" was just saying everything that this page needed.

And because the top right corner looked a little too empty I grabbed the waybill stamp and added some stamping there, too.

Hope that my little tutorial inspired you. Here are some more photos of the completed page:

Stamps used:
Wild Flowers (18819)
Wildflowers Silhouette (19666)
Waybill/Invoice Background (19416)
Bearded Man Cross Legged (20087)
Mushroom (20046)
Mushroom (19118)
Tall Mushroom (19117)
Currently (20285)

Other material:
Art Journal (my page was cut from Canson watercolor paper)
Archival Ink (Watering Can, Coffee)
Lindy's Gang Starburst Sprays (Opal Sea Oats, My Mojito Green, Drop Dead Gorgeous Green)
Distress Oxide Inks (Forest Moss, Peeled Paint)
Stencil (TCW - Foral Radar)

Watercolor

Pitt Brush Pen (black)

See you soon!

"Magical" An Art Journal Page by Jenn Engle

Hey Folks! I have an art journal page to share with you today. I wanted to create a whimsical area for this adorable "Girl with Wings" stamp and the different sized Mushroom stamps are perfect for this!

All stamps I used & a process video are linked at the very end of this post.

STAMPS USED:

Girl With Wings

Mushroom

Tall Mushroom

Wildflowers Silhouette

Butterfly Specimens

Thanks for looking!

~jenn

More Mail Art Inspiration

Hello Again!

Tera Here for a quick share of 3 envelopes I created for a few swaps :)

Hope you all enjoyed this quick mail art post! 

Stay inky!! 

Pure Imagination

Hello all :) Nataliya is here :) Today I will show you my new wall art with VLVS!
About imagination, of course :)

In this time I been able to use the 15 stamps, this is my personal record! The moon is 2 stamps: Moon Circle and Art Doll Set-ATC Size.
A boy is part of the Children Playing on Toy Car, and then I given to him a star :) (Row of Stars)

I stamping with black StazOn and different violet ink (all on the one stamp, for ombre effect) and adding shadow with grey Faber-Casrell Pitt Brush.

And my VLVS!
Stars 2 x 2 1/4
Caterpillar 1 x 2 1/2
Moon Circle 1 3/4 x 1 1/2
Art Doll Set-ATC Size
Butterfly 3/4 x 3/4
Butterfly/Spotted Wing/Sm 1 1/4 x 1 1/4
Butterfly Side/Sm 1 1/4 x 1 1/4
Pure Imagination 3/4 x 4
Unicorn 3 x 4
Children Playing on Toy Car 1 3/4 x 4
Row of Stars 1 x 5
Mushroom 1 3/4 x 1 1/2
Small Mushroom 1 1/4 x 1
Tall Daisy Arrangement 1 3/4 x 3
Cow With Spots 3/4 x 3/4

 Have a day of pure imagination!

Dream..

Hi Everyone!

 Karen here with you today with my very first post for the new design team term! I'm so happy to be back and sharing some inspiration with you all again.  So I'll jump right in and share with you the tag that I created using the awesome new  July inspiration  challenge board

 

 

This board is just so me! , neutral colours, a bit of  dreamy, vintage grungy splotchy goodness.. and the colour green! 

 

Here is what this awesome board has inspired me to create..

 

 

I started off with some  Nature Walk from 7 Dots Studio  for my tag base, I couldn't decide which side of the  paper  to use, so I ended up using both.  I've used the Sunflowers stamp with my distress markers to add the base layer, along with the line of chevrons.

 

 

 I then inked up the  tall mushroom, along with this mushroom and the girl with wings and stamped them on some Kromecote paper, and added in some colour using a few more distress markers.

 

 

I then layered them on top of my tag base, using some foam mounting tape to give some elements a little extra height, and finished off by adding the word Dream, using some alphas from UmWow Studio

 

 

 

 

 

 I hope this is leaving you a little inspired, and wanting to join in the fun of this month's challenge! We'd love to have you join us!

 

Happy Creating

Karen xxx