Be Yourself Colourfully and Bravely

Hello All

 

Today I am bring you something a little extra.

Just recently I have been brave enough to put my photos into video format and that is what I am sharing with you.

I have created an art journal page

 

 

Some close ups

 

Please follow the link below to view my video

https://youtu.be/JpL7ZMBn7eg

 

 

Happy Creating

 



Free Spirit

Hello Everyone,

its Deena on the blog with you today.

 

I am always excited and on tender hooks to see what I receive in my design team package. This time the box contained the January Mixed Media Kit. Yikes was my first response, that means I have to write instructions that you all will understand. I put that though aside and starting pulling out the kit and oh my, it is packed full of goodies.

 

I decided to create an Art Journal page.

 

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Happy Creating

 

Life

Hello,

 

Its Deena here today sharing my process on an art journal page that I created just recently for the current challenge we have running in the Shop and Crop Scrapbooking Facebook page.

 

Here is the mood board, so much inspiration, it was hard to choose where to go.

 

I had fun with this process and I loved the way the background turned out.

 

I wanted to use the whole of the stencil so I place my watercolour paper on my mat and then placed the stencil where I wanted it. Then using painters tape I taped down the stencil close to the edge of my paper. This not only kept the stencil in place but also my paper. 

 Here is the fully stencilled page.

Next I added colour. I had certainly colours that I wanted to use so I put the colour on my mat and then added it with a paint brush. First I sprayed my page with water so that once I added the colour it would run in all directions. I kept my page gently wet, so that the colours would keep mixing together when they got close. Once I was happy with the colours I dried them off with my heat gun.

 

Close ups

 

To add another layer to my page I did some stamping, it is very light. Between inking my stamp and stamping it onto my art journal I stamped on a scrap of paper first to take some of the ink away.

My next step was too splash some pink onto the page, the same pink you saw on the butterflies and quote in the first photo of my post. The funny thing is that on the purple and blue once dried it was a silver shimmer. Not what I was expecting but all ok.

 

Close up view

 

Once my page was completely dried I added the quote which I typed and printed from the computer, punched the butterflies from a piece of tissue paper and then colour all of them.

 

Would love to see what you create so please follow the link above to our facebook group.

 

Happy Creating

 

Paperific Expo Melbourne

Hello,

Deena here with you today.

 

I cannot believe that it was a month ago that I was at Paperific here in Melbourne. I hadn't attend a show in years certainly not since it has been at the Royal Melbourne Show Grounds. This experience was totally different as I was actually working. If you call standing around talking to lots of friendly people and sitting and getting messy work, then yes I was working. When it came to saying goodbye I didn't want to leave, I had an amazing time meeting and working sided by side with Kylie and Darryl who own and run Shop and Crop Scrapbooking and also having a blast with fellow design team member Donna. I love making cards and I will keep doing it but watching Donna create was the next level. You can find the cards Donna made at Paperific HERE.

 

So what did I get to play with? I played with Expo Kit No. 4. which was designed by another design team member, the talented and gorgeous Elisa.

 

 

 

Instead of creating a layout a created a mixed media canvas (canvas not included in kit)

To start the canvas I spread a layer of gesso unevenly over the surface of the canvas. The reason for this was because I wanted to create texture (I love texture and layers) and I wanted to stamp into the wet gesso to create more texture.

 

I dried the gesso with a heat gun then using the same stamp that I stamped into the gesso with I used a waterproof black ink to stamp the image. Because the surface of the gesso was a little shiny I did hit the ink with a heat gun to make it was completely dry.

 

When I first started this canvas I really had no idea what I was going to do once I had completed the background. So at this point I had to stop and think. I had these amazing chipboard pieces that I really had to use. I found a black paint so I could colour the chipboard and set it aside to dry.

 

While the chipboard was drying, I added colour to my background. I used the dylusion spray that was in the kit and added water to make it run. You want to make sure that the colour spreads across you canvas, so that it brings the texture you have created to life. If you add too much water then add more colour and vice versa.

Once happy with the colour added I dry the canvas with a heat gun. Also included in the kit was a gold mousse, that's so versatile. I rubbed it over the background to show more texture, I rubbed it on the chipboard circles. I also added it to the row of triangle but I added it with a palette knife so it was thick and lump.

 

After gluing the chipboard pieces to the canvas, I added black paint splatters. I couldn't find a paint brush at the time so I improvised and used my palette knife. Love the result.

 

I also created a couple of backgrounds.

 

 

These were done on a pieces of mixed media paper, the can be cut up to be used in a layout, another canvas, as an art journal page or even on cards.

Happy Creating

 

Much Ado About Nothing

Hello

It's Deena here with you again today. I bring you a little something extra an art journal page.

Recently I was away on retreat with a room filled with very talented ladies and so much inspiration.

I was sitting there on the last night wondering what I was going to create next. I was looking through my things and I came across my scribble sticks. Now so far I have not been a huge fan of them, I had used them a couple of times and I will be playing with them in the future. I decided to play with them.

 

Here is my art journal page

My art journal page was really about nothing special just playing. That's the thing with art journaling you can do anything you like. Try new products, try a new technique or what ever comes out.

 

To start with I had a piece a heavy watercolour paper that I covered with a layer of gesso, 95% of the time i cover my art journal page in gesso. It helps with the movement of products across my page and it also reduces the product soaking into the paper, so you use less product, which is a win in my books.

The next step was to find a piece of book text which I tore into strips, nothing was measure or cut just torn which gave me different size strips of paper. I then attached them to my page with matte medium vertically and horizontally.

Once they were all attached I then scraped an extremely thin layer of gesso over the top.

I then found a stencil in my collection and my texture paste I used the whole of the stencil across my page.

 The next step was to choose scribble stick colours and randomly scribble across the surface of my page. Once my scribbles covered the page I then got out one of my big watercolour brushes and loaded it with water and began moving the pigment. I think I did this step a couple of times making sure that I dried in between the layers of scribble and water.

While I was laying down the strips of paper I just happened to lay the words Much Ado About Nothing at the top of my journal page. This became my title. I made sure that I didn't cover it with gesso or texture paste so that it stood out from the rest of my page.

 

Scribble Sticks are available in the store

 

Happy Creating

 



Follow Your Dreams

Good Morning,

 

Have you seen the challenge that Shop and Crop Scrapbooking have running? If not here is a link to the post on the blog, where you will find lots of inspiration from the Design Team. To enter you need to belong to our Facebook group and add your creation into the correct album. You have until the end of the month to do so.

 

The challenge is a mood board

 

 

How much fun can you have with this, we would love to see what you create.

 

I took my inspiration from the colour palette and the quote and created a journal page.

 

 

I had soooo much messy fun creating this page, would you like to know how I did it? If so please keep reading and I will share my process with you.

 

I am not a huge bound journal lover, I do have them but my favourite way to create a journal page is either on mixed media paper or very heavy watercolour paper, which I cover with a layer of gesso. After making sure the gesso was dry I found some old book pages that I torn up and glued down with matte medium. There was no order to where I put them it was just rather random.

 

After cutting off the pieces of paper that were hanging over the edge using my palette knife I spread a thin layer of gesso all across my page. I didn't want to completely cover the text just incorporate it into my the background. 

 

I always make sure that once I have finished a layer it is completely dry before moving on to the next one. I would be totally lost with my heat gun. Although in saying that for this step again using my palette knife I spread crackle medium across my page in different thicknesses but I didn't use my heat gun. This crackle medium I needed to let it dry naturally.

The bigger the crack the thick the medium.

To bring the cracks to life I used black paint and acrylic glazing medium to create a glaze. This means that the paint will take longer to dry and is more fluid than when it came out of its container. You have to be brave with this step, as you paint your entire surface and leave it to dry. Don't let it dry completely as you want to be able to remove some of it.

I wasn't brave enough for my liking so I actually did it twice. To remove the paint and medium, you need to use a wet cloth, baby wipe or paper towel. I used a baby wipe.

This technique brought the cracks to life, as you can see the medium and paint has got between the cracks.

The next step in my art journal page was to use paint on a makeup sponge through a stencil, keeping with the colour palette of the mood board.

My palette knife is something else I would be lost without. I have 4 of them but one favourite that I always go looking for to use. Using my palette knife I lightly spread the black and titanium paint over the surface of my page, drying between each application so the colours didn't mix.

Before this next step I needed to make sure that my page was completely dry so I went and did some mummy things (washing, cleaning, you know that fun stuff) for a couple of hours. When I came back using a stencil and a very, very, thin glue through a stencil I make sticky marks over my page which I then stuck my mega-flakes to. Love the shine that it added to my page.

 

When deciding on doing an art journal page and using part of the mood board I printed the text Follow your Dreams in a couple of different sizes so once the back ground was finished I could choose which size I wanted to use. I add the text and black cotton and my page was finished.

 

products used that can be found in the shop:

 indigoblu mega-flake: autumn blaze

the crafter workshop 6x6 template: mini texturized

 

I hope that you play along

Happy Creating

 

Let them Eat Cake

Hello

Its Deena here with you today

 

First I would like to share with you a layout I created using the My Mind's Eye paper collection Hooray.

 

 

This is a photo of my daughter's first birthday and back then she loved cake, can you tell by her face. She is now 9 and is not really a great lover of it now.

 

Here are some close ups for you

 

 

Please find a list of the products that can be found in the Shop.

My Mind's Eye - Hooray,

TCW - Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste.

 

 

For my next share I created an art journal page. The products from the Shop that I used are Chartreuse Iridescent Creative Medium,

Colour Blast Shimmer Pot Water Colours - Snow White and Royalty,

Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals Freaky Franken-Lime and Witch's Potion Purple,

Dusty Attic Stencil - Circuit,

Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil - Stripes

Archival Ink - Jet Black

 

 

Below are some close ups to show more of the details

 

This is actual what my original background looked like before I went to town on it.

 

The amount of shimmer that the creative medium creates is just gorgeous, I applied it quite thick in some places so that I could create the circle indents with a cardboard tube, which I them coloured with the Magical - Witch's Potion Purple.

 

 

This is my favourite spot on the whole of my journal page.

 

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Happy Creating