Ding Dong the witch is dead

Hello everyone! This is my first post for the new term of VLVS! Today is a journal page.

I've been really liking the Oreo cookie ads that Have been in magazines the past few months. I saw the one for the Halloween Oreo's and knew I had to do a journal page with it and VLVS!stamps.:)

As you can see the cookies are legs of a witch.I instantly thought if the Wizard of Oz when the house Fell on the Wicked With of the East. I have to say I should of done this page on the other side, as would of liked the legs closer to the edge of the page, and not next to the holes. But the page turned out great!

The background I used two orange craft paints. a light orange and a bright orange  I put some on the page and with my pallete knife I spread the paint all over the page. I then took a baby wipe to spread the paint out  more on the page. I took the Star punchenllia that I was RAK'ed, with black craft paint put some on the page with a sponge. I then took a brick stencil and some Golden light molding paste(it was one of those little jars from the mediums starter set) and with the CLEAN pallet knife put the molding paste on the stencil. 

After it dried I deiced to leave it white. I took the tree background  and stamped the top pf the branches in Black archival ink pad around the edges of the page. 

I glued the Cookie legs on a piece of lightweight chipboard (cereal box) to give it some sturdiness. I put some foam tape in it to give it some dimension to the page. First time ding that on a journal page. I then stamped the Wicked Witch With Broom on white cardstock with black Memento ink pad. colored her face with green color pencil. fussy cut her out and put her on the page like she is standing on the legs of "her sister"

For the page title I went through my stash of alpha stickers and pulled out these green and black ones. Stuck then on to White glossy cardstock. The cut that out and glued the word blocks on the page. Then they stuck out like a sore thumb with all the white. So I took the Black Soot Distress ink pad and a water brush and painted the white glossy cardstock. 

Items used

Clairefontaine journal

Orange craft paints

star punchenilla

black craft paint

brick stencil

Golden light molding paste

pallet knife

white cardstock

glossy white cardstock

alpha stickers

foam tape

color pencils

black soot distress ink pad

black memento ink pad

black archival ink pad

water brush

Elmer's white glue

Stamps used

Tree background

Wicked Witch with Broom

Is It Fall Yet? Journal Page

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Still creating journal pages in my wonderful sketch pad from Clairfontaine!  Fall will be here soon and I thought to be a bit fanciful in how I think of the changing colors of the leaves.

Journaling the magic change in fall I used one of my favorite VLVS images (I have so many of them) paint tube and paint brush!  Then there is the little gnome, a pear, and a fairy...along with the falling leaves being painted.

It was easy to add color right to the paint brush!  Watercolor pencils, watercolor, and Copics were used to color the pieces.

 

 

VLVS images:

 

2977 Chinese White Paint

1073 Paint Brush

7993 Fallling Leaves

17601 Small Gnome (Comes in medium and large too!)

5888 Steampunk Alphabet (Codex)

14752 Angel Fairy

9862 Pear

 

Create your own page using a focal point (the mat) and create stamped art around it to express what you feel.  Behind it, I drew wavy lines, then drew them in permanent ink pen.  I erased the pencil lines.  Then I wrote what I felt in permanent ink pen. 

Stamp, stamp/cut/collage images to fit what you want to express.  For those who scrapbook, add family or friend's photo's; maybe at a pumpkin patch or some other pictures and use the stamps to add wording or accents around the picture.

Waiting for the leaves to change color and all the magical fairies to come out!

Cre8tiveLea Yours - Lea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

art journaling and summer distress inks

Last month each of theViva LasVegastamps! Design team were each giving a Clairefontaine journals. For the month of August you seen what my fellow Design team members did with their journals. Today is my turn. 

-All month long, twice a week, the VLVS! DT is featuring sketch journals by Clairefontaine.

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brands_clairefontaine.shtml

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 As part of this month long event...Viva Las Vegastamps! and Clairefontaine are hosting a contest this month--comment on all the Clairefontaine posts throughout the month to get a chance at a free journal and a $15 coupon to the VLVS! online store! Great prize!! Good luck!! Remember, you can't win if you don't enter!!!  So be sure to check out everyone on the DT's journal pages!

The journal is about 12  long by 8 1/2 wide. The cover is clear.It does have a band closure. The paper in the  journal is a drawing paper with a 85lb weight to it. The paper has a good thickness to it, so I was wondering how it will hold up with what I do. I've worked in journals of all sizes. And each one takes a bit to get use to. I'm getting use to this one too.I did 3 pages of the journal. I'm going to show 2 that I completed.

I just got my Summer Distress ink pads when I got the journal. So I took each of the 3 colors and swiped it on a different page. I then took some water and a brushed and applied water on the page to spread the ink.

The last color I did was the Salty Ocean. And that was the first page I worked on. Right after I put water on the page I put some rock salt down on the page. I let it air dried a bit before I used the heat gun to speed up the drying process. I shook the salt off, and got a cool effect. I stamped the Water Drop Background using the same ink pad. I stamped too much of it, to my liking. so I took out the brush with water and brushed the page. And tried it again with the rock salt. I then stamped the Water Drop Background again. and like it much better.

I then stamped some of the 2 of the kayak stamps I have and the 2 girls on boat stamp. Colored them with Prismas color pencils. I wanted a vacation quote, I looked at brainery.com and found one. Went into word and type the quote 3 different fonts. Cut the words out and glued them on the page. I added some more of the blue color to the word to blend in the page. The page needed something else, I used some punchinella as a stencil and some white paint on the page.

Items used:

Salty Ocean Distress ink

white cardstock

prisma color pencils

white craft paint

punchenilla

rock salt

water

Stamps used:

Water drop background

Top view kayak

Man kayaking

two girls on boat

This is the second page I did. This page I used the Picked Raspberry distress ink. I then spritz some sprays on to the page and let it drip down. I then used some of the punchinella from the Gauche Alchemy kit in pink, white and black craft paints. The woman was from the vintage sears catalog that was in my kit. I did color her up a bit with color pencils. I took a piece of Kromecote and brayered  the same ink color that was on the page. I spritz it with some water  for some texture. The stamp I used is I read recpies the same  on black memento inkpad. I cut the words apart and glued them on the page with glossy accents. I did go around the edges with marker.

Items used:

Picked Raspberry distress ink

Black, Pink, and white Craft paints

Various punchinella

pink and black spray

ephermra

Kromecote

water

Stamp used:

I read recipes the same

31 days has December

One of the Viva Las Vegastamps! August 2012 releases 

is the Numbers Plate 1430!  

Yes, 31 days has December...

also... January

March 

May 

July

August

and

October!

The rest of the months are taken care of 

since they have less than 31 days!!!

Think of the fun you could have with the numbers!

Make calendars

Advent Calendar

Create lists of

Favorites 

Ten best

Countdown Days until

Summer

Halloween

Vacation

Retirement

Use them in titles

Birthday cards

Anniversary cards

Pages for youngsters to count

Let your imagination go!

I use journals to try techniques and test my stamps.  On this page of my journal I was playing with texture and numbers to see when stamped what they looked like. I must say I am pleased with my number stamps! In addition to the numbers there is a set of lower case alphas.

Starting with a white page in my Clairfontaine journal I sprayed it with Sandlewood LuminArte Shimmering Mist. With two sizes of Punchinello from Gauche Alchemy stencil the background.  Inks from right to left: ColorBox Fluid Chalk Burnt Sienna, CTMH Red Barn, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Barn Door and ColorBox Fluid Chalk Alabaster. 

On top of the stenciled backgroung randomly stamp the numbers to see how the look.  The journal paper had a little texture and a couple look better on smooth paper so I stamped them on ledger paper and adhered them to the journal page. 

HAVE FUN WITH NUMBRS!!!!

The numbers are sold as PLATE 1430 only.  

Stamp-Boards in my Clairfontaine Journal

I have always wanted to try my hand at a stamp-board, you may ask what am I referring to? Instead of always having to buy your background papers for your cards and scrapbooking make your own!  

With my awesome journal from Clairfontaine I have been dabbling with stamp-boards.  The 83lb paper is the perfect weight, I have sprayed each page with a mist before stamping and they didn’t buckle!

All pages were misted first, set aside to dry and stamped.  All stamps are from Viva Las Vegastamps! 

WRITER - DRAWING

Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Wheat Grass 

Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Dye

Pen Tips 

Stafford Bottle Ink  

Pointed Pen Tip 

Fountain Pen 

Spilling Ink Bottle 

Draw 

The above listed stamps are available on Plate 1424 

Fountain Pen 

 DOILIES

 

Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Iridescent 

Ink:  Color Box Fluid Chalk - Rouge

Large Doily 

Medium Doily 

Small Doily 

All available on Plate 1427 

PARIS

Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Sparkling Silver

Ink:  CTMH Barn Red (Stamped off)

Paris Address 

Paris Eiffel Stamp Cancelled 

Paris Grunge 

Paris Champs-Elysees Cancellation 

Eiffel Tower Medium

Swirl 

STEAMPUNK

 Mist: Stewart Superior Memories Mist-Sparkling Silver

Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Barn Door(Stamped off)

Key 3/4 x 1 1/4 

Key 1 x 1 3/4 

Fancy Key Vintage

Pocket Watch 

Nesting Gears 

Four Gears Rotating 

Try making your own stamp boards!

The month of August, twice a week, the VLVS! Design Team is featuring journals entries   in “Carnet de Voyage Travel Album” by Clairefontaine. You can see Clairefontaine products HERE. As part of this month long event, Viva Las Vegastamps! and Clairefontaine are hosting a month long contest--comment on all the Clairefontaine posts throughout the month to get a chance at a free journal and a $15 coupon to the VLVS! online store!  You can't win if you don't enter!!! Good Luck!

The next Clairefontaine post by will be Friday by Aimee. 

yo ho ho and some art journaling too

Today I get to share with you the project I've completed using these gorgeous Clairefontaine journals. Throughout the month of August, twice a week, the VLVS! Design Team is featuring their
sketch journals. You can see their entire line of product here. You can check up on all things journal related at the Rhodia Drive blog and also on their Facebook page.









Even before Jack Sparrow walked the plank on the big screen, my family was fascinated with all things pirate thanks to our Medieval adventures at Renaissance Fairs. My child has been a pirate more than once for fairs, Halloween and costume parties. It's fun to play pirate and to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day in September--ARRRG! For this post I have refrained from posting in Pirate--yes, I know we are all thankful of that--but I'm super excited to have these awesome pirate stamps to play with on my beautiful art journal from Clairefontaine.

The process.

I began by turning the journal on its edge [spiral up] so that any mists and sprays I did would run down the page. I misted with a combination of water, Maya Mist in Mica Pearl and a homemade mist  from a Distress Reinker and Perfect Pearls with water. I did layers drying with my heat tool in between to get the look I wanted--the Mica Pearl being added last.

The Clairefontaine Journals have 83lb drawing paper in them which holds the mists and medium extremely well with relatively little buckle in the paper!

Next I stamped all of my images onto book paper with Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black and painted the images with Twinkling H2Os--love that shimmer. I added the stamped pieces to the page with Crystal Lacquer and stamped my pirate  saying on the seawater by the pirate. Finally I added sea glass and sand to the page with Crystal Lacquer.   I love how my page turned out. I hope you enjoy it too!

For this page

Viva Las Vegastamps! and Clairefontaine are hosting a contest this month--comment on all the Clairefontaine posts throughout the month to get a chance at a free journal and a $15 coupon to the VLVS! online store! Great prize!! Good luck!! Remember, you can't win if you don't enter!!!

Thank you for looking! ~leslierahye

Taking a Bite out of Art Journaling in my Clairefontaine Journal!

Happy Monday - Welcome to Viva Las Vegastamps!!! Susan here with my top of the month post. Throughout the month of August, twice a week, the VLVS! Design Team is featuring sketch journals by Clairefontaine. You can see their products HERE.

You can check up on all things journal related at the Rhodia Drive blog: http://rhodiadrive.com/ and also on their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhodia-Drive/98458096197.

As part of this month long event...Viva Las Vegastamps! and Clairefontaine are hosting a contest this month--comment on all the Clairefontaine posts throughout the month to get a chance at a free journal and a $15 coupon to the VLVS! online store! Great prize!! Good luck!! Remember, you can't win if you don't enter!!!

I have made an Art Journal page in my Clairefontaine Journal - using Viva Las Vegastamps! and a technique using my little "happy accidental invention"...MIXERS MIST!

Today I am sharing some in-depth instruction as to how to make your own mists using Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer with Terri Sproul Mixers. I have been loving the bronze mist I made and am so excited to make more colors to play with.

This was my HAPPY ACCIDENT...Terri Sproul MIXERS MIST!!!!

My DISCOVERY: I took the contents of my water cup containing the glittery goodness leftover from washing my brushes while painting with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers and I poured this into an empty spray bottle. This is a lovely, sheer shimmery spray - very subtle on light paper. I now have a large spray bottle of this and I am using this mixture as a base to make a whole family of mixer mists!

 

To do this I have rummaged my house and reclaimed every spray bottle I can get my hands on. I have here an assortment of recycled travel size hair/body sprays, some Ranger Mini Misters, and some small mini sprayers from Sky Blue Pink.

**PLEASE NOTE** The wash water is directly from the cup. I'm not sure how much Crystal Lacquer is actually in it. But the bronze mixer - I made from scratch. I filled about 1/2 bottle with water {one of those 1 oz. travel size sprayers}, a few scoops on a toothpick of bronze & copper penny mixers and a squirt of CL. Not so much that it's sticky - just enough so the shimmer will stick to the paper you spray it on. The mini mister tubes don't hold very much liquid {maybe a dozen sprays or so}, this is why I started with the wash water mix as a base. There is nothing else in my wash water except for Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul Mixers.

Below are the tester papers I made for the colors I've mixed so far. I added a swatch of black paper to each so I could see how these worked on dark papers. The bronze, gold, silver and interference colors worked best on the black paper. An unexpected result: the colored mists really didn't show up at all - they just leave a white splatter. On white - all of the colors worked beautifully - even the interference violet. The scanner and photographs can't capture all the shimmer reflections - but I promise, the glittery goodness is there!

  

  

I labeled each card with the color combinations. I'm so excited to play with these!

With my MIXERS MISTS in hand - I got out my stamps, resist ink and black ink, some sea salt granules and punchinella to make a fun background in my art journal. I sprayed several colors on first layer then let dry and then heat set to make sure it was entirely dry.

This art journal page feature these VLVS stamps: Shark Head Large #4018, "Some Days I Feel Like..." #891 quote bubble, Sailboat Harbor #9863, Design/Tight Curlyques #9795, and Texture/Yarn Balls #9731. I love to use the stamps to build scenes, and use stamps to give detail or texture.

The lovely Clairefontaine Journal features an 83lb pH neutral, acid-free drawing paper with a smooth satin finish, solid hardboard covers and a flexible plexi protective front cover. I was so happy to have a shiny new book in which to art journal in and this book has a nice large spiral to allow my pages room to grow  with my chunky mixed media creations.

I stamped my images with black Memories Ink by Stuart Superior and masked areas I wanted to protect from colored mists. I also used Ranger Resist Ink pad to stamp texture with "Texture/Yarn Balls" to simulate splashed water.

I sprayed several layers and colors of my mixers mists. I also sprinkled sea salt granules around shark base and fins - this will repel color as it drys and give a nice bleach texture.

Detail of salt granules as misted colors dry.

Page when dry and salt granules and masks removed. I really love the variegation of the color mists. To add color and detail, I drew and colored on top with Ranger Distress Markers and the paper texture was perfect {no pilling or fiber breakdown}. I also took care in not over-wetting or rubbing the damp paper too much. I finished off by dry brushing water splash with ice blue acrylic paint and white gesso. I stamped along the bottom with the curlyques and hand drew in some waves with Black Soot Distress Marker.

I have to say the paper in the Clairefontaine Journal has a wonderful smooth texture and held up nicely to the misting with limited warping. I have made a couple other pages that applied several layers of colors using stencils and I was really impressed with the durability of the paper.

Thanks so much for dropping by today! Pop on over to the Viva Las Vegastamps! store - loads of new stamps have just been added - Halloween, Christmas and many more! Check your latest newsletter - there is a free shipping coupon code that is good through August 8th!

If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. I'll be back with another stamping adventure on August 12th. Hope you have an inky day! Sb