Live Fully Art Journal page

A quick share tonight before I head off on a 5 week holiday overseas.

This page was started ages ago and I can't really remember what was used on the background. I am going to start noting what is used when I do backgrounds from now on so I can always repeat it if I want to.

The pink flower in the top right hand is texture paste that has been coloured pink and applied through a stencil and the flowers in the bottom left hand are a paper napkin that has been attached to the page using Gel Medium.

I have used a Sharpie Fineliner for the black detailing on the paper napkin flowers and a white All pencil to shade a bit around the pink flower just to make it stand out from the background a little. The Live Fully title is a "Kaisercraft" stamp that was stamped with Stayzon Black ink. I did use my stamping platform because I knew I would not get a good stamp because of the textured background.

I used my fineliner bottle with some white acrylic paint to scribble a border around the page, re-trace the text in the title and add a little detail to the centres of the 2 flowers at the bottom of the page.

A reasonably quick page.

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Julie

Happy Birthday Double Layout

Good Evening everyone

Tonight will be my last post for 5 weeks as I am heading off overseas and I don't know when or where I will have internet. I have made no arrangements to take internet with me and am going to rely on free WiFi when it is available.

This is a double layout I have made for my granddaughters yearly album to showcase the events on her birthday

Once again a very simple layout which I finds works best in this 8" x 8" album. In this first layout the photo is 7" x 5" so there is not much room for anything else.

The circles were cut out using a punch and an assortment of papers from the Kaisercraft "Party" paper pad I bought to use throughout this album.

A little scribbly line bordering the page finishes it off.

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Julie

Year Five 2018 Layout

Good afternoon.

Each year I make an album for my granddaughter showing her year in review. Usually I hand-make the album but this year I decided to use an 8" x 8" scrapbooking album.

The first page of the album is always her school photo for the year. This is the first page for this year.

I started with a piece of white cardstock and applied some Texture Paste through Kaisercraft's Script stencil. When this was dry I took a blending tool and lightly applied some Broken China Distress Ink randomly onto the background.

I am using a paper pad from Kaisercraft called "Party" for this whole album.
The die for the die cut piece below the photo is from Magnolia.
The butterfly 3D sticker is from The Craft Stall.

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Julie

"Unique" Art Journal Page

Good Afternoon

Today I am sharing an Art Journal page I have just finished.

This page has been in the making for ages, I did the background months ago and it has just been sitting around waiting for me to do something with it. There is another background just like it waiting to be "loved"

This is the completed page

To give you an idea of what I started with this is the page that has the same background that is waiting for me to finish it off. There is a lot of texture in there.

Because the background was quite dark and busy I swiped over it with some white Gesso to lighten it up in the hope that the flowers would stand out more.

The flowers were stamped onto watercolour paper using Stayzon Ink and then coloured using an assortment of permanent markers

These were then attached to the page using Gel Medium, I found that the Gel medium dulled the colour. Don't know weather that was because I put it on too thickly or a normal consequence of using Gel Medium over markers. To fix this I went over the flowers with my Big Brush Markers because I know that once they are dry they will not move.

I then added the stems, a bit of shading and some detail. For the detailing I used a Fude Ball 1.5 pen and a Mitsubishi UB245 black fine pen.

I then stamped the "Unique" title using Stayzon Ink.

To finish off I did some stamping with Gold ink and the same flower stamps, along with a circle stamp in Yellow and Blue. I then framed the page with my Black Big Brush Marker and a gold pen.

Here is a close up for a little bit of the detail.

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Julie

ARRC 21st Birthday Layout

Good Afternoon

The inspiration for this layout came from Pinterest. Oh how I love Pinterest, there is soooo much to see there. Unfortunately, lately, I have spent more time looking at everyone else's lovely work and not doing any myself. It is so easy to do isn't it.

The photo's on this layout were taken in one of those photo booths that you often see around and each  photo block has 4 photos on it.

The papers are from a pack I bought but I have thrown the original packaging away and do not know what brand it is.

I have definitely got a thing for banners.

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Julie

NYE 2006 Layout

Good Evening

It has been a fair while between posts.....I have been away celebrating my sisters 60th birthday and visiting my Mother.

Well it has finally happened, this is the last layout from the retreat I attended in April.

I will have to get busy now and make some new layouts to share with you, maybe even some more Art Journal pages

Another fairly "clean" layout using a colour that I very rarely use, Navy Blue.

The patterned paper is complimented by the clean white background, which is framed with navy cardstock. Navy cardstock seems to be very hard to come by. I had none in my stash and when I tried to buy some I could not get any. (I tried again today at Kaisercraft's 50% off sale but missed out again) I managed to scrounge this sheet from somewhere. I cut the middle out of it and used that to mat the photo, the journalling block and the triangle in the top left hand corner and create the strip with the torn edge that runs under the photo.

I double matted my photo with some velum which I tore along the top edge. The scallops on the music patterned paper at the bottom of the layout were drawn using the bottom of a Glimmermist bottle then cut with a pair of scissors.

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Julie

"Houses" Art Journal Page

Good afternoon paper people

A bit of a change today. I am sharing an art journal page. I have not done any AJ pages for soooo long so thought it was time to get back into it.

I bought a new stamp, which turned out to be too small, but I used the image on the stamp to draw  houses on watercolour paper.

But let me start from the beginning.......

This page is from my Finnabair Art Journal and is 9" x 7"

I had previously started this page and did not like it at all. The background was good but the houses were too small and too colourless.

To be honest I did this page so long ago that I can not remember what I have used on the background. I can see Gesso, Texture Paste through a stencil and some stamping but I cannot remember what I used to colour it.

The houses are a stamp by Nathalie Kalbach (N*Studio). You get the Foam solid background stamp and then a seperate stamp with the design lines on it. Great stamp but just not right for this page.

So I gave it a make over using the design from the new stamp I bought. Using some grey paper I collaged small pieces to the bottom of the page and then stamped on top of it with black ink to create a "footpath" look.

I drew the houses on some watercolour paper and coloured them with my Jane Davenport watercolours. I then attached them over the top of the other houses I had on the page using Gel Medium. I had to be very careful doing this because the gel medium smudged the water colours. I used my Big Brush markers to shade around the houses then I detailed them using black acrylic paint in my fineliner bottle. I cut the grass out of some green paper and stuck it on. The detailing was done with a white gel pen, a lime green alcohol marker and a black sharpie.

It was looking pretty dark so I gave it a white border using white acrylic paint in another fineliner  bottle. I also gave all of the windows a coat of Glossy accents.

Much happier with it now and I have called it finished.....although I am tossing up weather to put some tiny flowers amongst the grass.

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Julie

"On This Day" Layout

Good Afternoon

Today I am sharing another layout from the retreat, this is the second to last one.

I have used Kaisercraft's "Always & Forever" paper collection.

Have I mentioned previously that I have a "thing" for banners. Here are a few more.

There is not a lot to say about this simple layout. There is no mixed media on the page at all.

All of the patterned papers have had the edges inked before they were layered onto each other to form a base for the photo. I filed around the edge of the photo to make it stand out more an the black mat.

I love this paper range, the colours and the neutrals are beautiful.

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Till next time

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Julie

"Christmas Day 2011" Layout

Good morning

Today I am sharing a layout I did while we were in Queensland recently.

I did not take many supplies with me so it is once again a minimalistic layout

These photos were taken at my nephews place on Christmas Day 2011 showing my Grand Daughter and Husband playing with my nephew's pet snake "Fluffy".

I have used American Crafts paper range called Play. All of the patterned paper is matted on red cardstock for a bit of a Christmas touch. Not really your typical Christmas layout.

I have splattered some Glimmermist in red and black on the background. The middle banner behind the photo is Velum with gold stars printed on it. I have finished the layout off with some doodling.

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Julie

"Love This" Layout

Hi There

So we are back from Queensland and boy is it cold here. I am taking a while to acclimatise from the 23 degrees C up there to the 13 degrees C here. I have got so many clothes on I can hardly walk and the heater is going overtime. I can't complain I have had 7 weeks of beautiful Queensland weather.

I have been busy with all the things you have to do when you get home from holidays and tomorrow I go to the hairdressers so I think by lunchtime tomorrow I will be back to "normal", whatever that might be.

The papers used on this layout are Kaisercraft's "Dream Big" collection.

The horizontal strips are Washi tape. Some collectable, hand made tags, Glimmermist splatters in the background and an edge punch by Martha Stewart make up this layout

I have only got 2 "Retreat" layouts left to share with you so I had better get busy and start making some more.

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Till next time
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Julie