Nourish your soul - Art Journal by Cheetarah

Hi Everyone, it's Cheetarah here and I have this colorful and whimsical journal page I'd like to share with you today.

I really love Mary Vogel Lozinak's whimsical designs and this fairy lady I used is so fun! It's a step-out tutorial, so take a cup of your fave drink, come back, relax and read along here :) As always a full list of stamps and materials used is at the bottom of the post.

1) From my scrap box I took a piece of paper to work on. It had some texture on it already by me wiping off some excess modeling paste through a few stencils. With some gesso I created an even coating on the page and trimmed it to postcard size for my "index card size" Art journal.

2) To add a base color I have used some Paper Artsy Fresco Paints with a brush. Apply until your satisfied with the saturation and color combo.

3) Now for some "magic" - I have made some sprays with Lindy's Magical Hi Maintenance Magenta and Magical Shaker Guten Tag Teal and used these on the painted card. The teal on one end and the magenta on the other, sprayed with water and mixed until I was satisfied. The page has a nice shimmer over it now. Teal and magenta is definitely one of my fave color combo's.

4) Let's do some stamping! I've used some yummy mixed media stamps, some of my current faves. Stamped with these permanent ink pads from Staz-On to add some texture and interest to the back ground.

5) Focal Image placements: I wanted to use the Fairy lady as a focal point and have stamped her and the sentiment on empty tea bags. This was a tip from a friend of mine, it behaves just like tissue paper but is sturdier to handle and less wrinkly when applying. LOVED this tip, so I am paying it forward! I also stamped the coffee rings stamp as a "tether" for the Fairy to be placed upon.

6) After adhering the images with a bit of gloss varnish, I found the images disappeared too much into the background. Time to make them stand out! I stamped the fairy on sticker paper and the sentiment on a piece of scrap paper left over from my last art journal page. The color of that suits this page perfectly. I also created a border with Distress Crayon Chipped Sapphire and distress stain in antique bronze.

7) I colored the fairy with letraset pro markers which are alcohol based, fussy cut and adhered her to the page. It's a good thing she was already adhered with the tissue papers as all the little details were now also there. I gave her some highlights with a white gel pen and the rings some dimension with the water soluble pencils and turned them into bubbles. Adhered the sentiment with Miracle tape, added some spatters with the bronze distress stains and called it done!

I'm really happy how it looks in my little pocket postcard sized journal.

A close up shot of the finished page.  And I definitely agree with that sentiment!!

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Stamps used from VLVS!:

Whimsical Fairy Lady 2 by Mary Vogel Lozinak

Wire Rings by Cat Kerr

Numbers Set

Doodle dots

Measuring tape Section

Double Coffee Rings

If it doesn't Nourish

Others:

Miracale tape

Crafter's Workshop Fluffy Modeling paste

Claudine Helmut's Studio gesso

Paper Artsy Fresco paint; Hint of mint, Captain peacock, Squid ink, Sugar Plum

Lindy's Magical Hi Maintenance Magenta and Magical Shaker Guten Tag Teal

Staz-On inks: Cherry Pink, Royal Purple, Midnight Blue, Vibrant Violet

Letraset Pro markers (alcohol markers)

White gel pen

Stabilo Marks All pencils in blue and white

Pentel Water Brush

Zig Wink of Stella clear

Distress Crayon Chipped Sapphire

Distress stain in antique bronze

Find Your Tribe | Fiona Paltridge

Hello VLVS! peeps Fiona here with you again to share a little card tutorial.

I want to show you how I got this Whimsical Fairy Lady to look like she's poking out from behind the tree.

First I made a mask of the stamp and placed it in my embossing folder where I wanted to stamp her later on. Then using some Distress ink I stamped the Brick Background stamp directly onto the inside of the embossing folder. You have to stamp on the non raised side (the side the writing in on in this case).

Next I stamped the Fairy lady. This time I used archival ink as I wanted it to be really black and permanent so I could do some Distress Ink blending later on and it wouldn't be disturbed.

I also got a wet wipe and removed any excess ink from inside the tree embossing part so it wouldn't transfer onto my card when I ran it through the machine. Seeing that it is Archival ink I did use a little bit of Stazon remover to help with this part.

After running it through my Big Shot I used a brayer and some more Distress Ink to add some ink onto the front of the tree. Later on I blended some ink over the top of it very carefully as well.

I have to be honest, I was worried ..... I was very worried when it first came out of the machine but after some additional Distress Ink blending and the addition of the Stitching stamps (everything looks better with a stitch stamp) plus a title, I was much happier with the results in the end.

Viva Las Vegastamps! used:

Brick Background

Whimsical Fairy Lady

Plate 1478

Find Your Tribe by Cat Kerr

Stitching

Stitching Lines

Sawtooth Stitching Lines

Thanks for popping by xo