Look at this.....2 Layouts published in the latest Scrapbooking Memories

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Flutter Art Journal Page

I am back with my pink page.

I have taken a piece of cardstock, painted it with the darkest colour from the background, stamped it, then put it inside the frame. I have painted the frame black and made another butterfly, that I  coloured with white pearlescent water paint. The title is made with glitter letter stickers.

You can see my original post about this page here.

I am much happier with this page now. I have maintained my monochromatic colour scheme and the minimalists  look I had in mind.

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The Earth Laughs in Flowers Art Journal Page

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Today I am sharing an art journal page that has heaps of texture.

I covered the page with crumpled tissue paper, applied some texture paste that had been coloured with acrylic paint, through a stencil then used Color Crush powders (Wheat Green, Blue Heaven & Pineapple) to colour the whole thing. A bit of background stamping using Black Archival Ink was added next. To finish off the background I sprayed it with Gold Spritzing Ink to give it a beautiful sparkle.
I then used a flower stencil and Texture Paste to add the flowers.
Detailing on the flowers and leaves with Acrylic paint, black pen and a black Pitt pen.
Title was stamped on using Black Archival ink

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Pink Butterfly Art Journal Page

I am working on this art Journal Page at the moment and seem to have got lost.
I will add a title but I am wondering what else I should do to it.
These are colours I don't normally work with.
I am happy with the progress so far but am open to any suggestions that may improve my page.

I used 3 pink/mauve acrylic paints on the background just wiped across the page with an old credit card. Texture paste through a stencil and some stamping followed. Wrapped some string around the page and secured it with staples. I painted the chipboard frame with acrylic paint and added some stamping and the butterfly was stamped onto white cardstock, painted with pearlescent water paints.

To me the frame and the butterfly get lost on the page and I need a way of making them stand out more. Perhaps I should have done them in different colours but I was sort of aiming for a monochromatic look.

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Baby Wipe Flower

I watched a video on youtube the other day by Maremi's Small Arts and she made a flower using a dry baby wipe that had been used to clean up her work area as she made an art journal page. I thought I would give it a go.

This is the flower and the art journal background I was creating when I used the baby wipe.
You let the baby wipe dry then cut it into circles and heat the edges of it with your heat gun to give it a few crinkles. I found that it had to be very hot to get it to crinkle. Then stick at all together with a hot glue gun and add a gem. Marta makes her flower in 1 minute, I had to heat mine for longer than that to get any sort of movement in it. Check out Marta's video here

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Perfect Beauty Art Journal Page

A page I have just completed in my Art Journal. I have taken all of the pages out of my spiral bound journal to make it easier to work on them. The spiral binding was getting so clogged up that the pages would not turn.

I printed the flowers from the internet and then coloured them with my Derwent Intense Water colour pencils. The background started with a layer of Tim Holts printed tissue with a lightly scraped coat of Gesso here and there, then some Modelling paste through a stencil, background stamping, water colour paints and some Color Crush powders. All shading done with Faber-Castelle Big Brush Markers. Detailing on the flowers with a Uniball Micro Waterproof pen.

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Daniel's Engagement Card

Sharing an Engagement Card I made for my nephew.

A very simple card with heat embossing and Dimensional Magic for highlights.

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Art Journal - Be Who You Want To Be

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Sharing a page I created for my Art Journal

I cut squares and rectangles from scrap cardstock and stuck them to my page. The page was then covered with Gesso. I sprayed with red, orange and yellow delusion ink sprays for the background colour. Circles were created using a cardboard roll and Gesso then coloured using Gelatos. Some background stamping using Stayzon ink in black, white and silver. A few splatters with Glimmermist and Gesso.
The image is a stamp by Nathalie Kalbach for Stampendous. The paper for the dress is white cardstock coloured with some Semco Pearlescent watercolours which I stamped the image on then cut the clothing out. The title is stamped on using Stayzon Ink and a Pebbles alpha stamp set. All shading has been done with Faber-Castell PITT artist pens. I then sprayed it with Crystal Kote Matt fixative which I noticed made the ink run on the stamped title. Perhaps it hadn't dried well enough.

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Class with Heather Mc Mahon

On the weekend we went to Ballarat for A Rock n Roll festival they have there each year. Imagine my delight when I realised that Heather Mc Mahon was holding a workshop on the Saturday. I enrolled straight away and this is the layout we made.

We used water colours for the background, in particular, Colour Crush powders. They are similar to Brushos and Magicals. Loved it. I had to buy some because I know I will be using this technique again.

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Cricut Cut Card

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Today I am sharing a card I have made using my Cricut. A friend gave me a beautiful finely cut card for my birthday that she had purchased and it gave me the idea for this card.

The card she gave me was a delicate design of a dessert trolley which was tied at the top in one spot.

I could not find any fine patterns in the Cricut Cartridges I own so I used this design just to try it out.

The Cricut also cut out the plain shape at the back of the card to correspond with the detailed cut.

There are lots you could do with this basic card.... you could put a different coloured card as the background, you could colour the flowers, you could cut the design in different colours and make a collage. All good food for thought there.

I put a couple of eyelets through the back of the card so the ribbon is held in place and does not slip around.

I am going to start looking around now for some other designs I could use for this style of card. I will also be checking out dies that might be able to be used like this.

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