Believe In Magic Art Journal Page

Good afternoon

I am a bit early today, I normally post on a Wednesday but seeing as how tomorrow is Christmas day I thought I would share my post with you today.

Today's post is about an art journalling page.

This  page is whimsical, with pastel colours

I have recorded the process of this simple page. You can see the video here.

I am using a page out of my disc bound journal which started life as a Happy Planner notebook. I have glued two pages together with Gel Medium and given one side of the page a coat of white Gesso.

The colours for my background are Pan Pastels. I have applied Phthalo Blue Tint, Turquoise, Orange Shade, Permanent Green Tint, Hansa Yellow and Bright Yellow Green randomly all over the page, with a sponge. I then sealed the pastels by lightly spraying with water. Once this was dry I applied another coat and sealed it in the same way as the colour was lighter than I had planned.

I used TCW81 Swirls and Dots stencil to apply Faber Castell Texture Luxe - Pearl all over the background. Some of the paste got under the stencil which I do not particularly like but it worked out OK.

The unicorn image came from a book with animal images in it. I photocopied the image onto the smooth side of some watercolour paper. Using my Semco Pearlescent water colours I coloured and shaded the image.

The image was then fussy cut ready to attach to the background.

Before I attached the image I added some stamping using a clear stamp, unfortunately I don't know the name or the brand of the stamp, with both black StazOn ink and Encore gold ink. I was very light handed with the black as I did not want it to overpower the page and used the gold to fill the background.

I attached the unicorn using Matisse Mat Gel Medium, which of course, took the pearlescence away from the image so I gave it another coat of the watercolour.

Next step was to add the detail back into the image. I did this with my Fude ball black pen and a Uniball eye micro black pen

I used my Stabillo All pencil (black) to add some shading around the unicorn and add a border to the page. I also added a scribbly boarder using my Fude Ball pen.

The title was cut from black cardstock using Sizzix Cherish Alpha dies. This was attached to the page with Aileens Original Tacky glue.

Don't forget you can watch the whole process over on my YouTube channel here.

Thanks for visiting my blog today and spending your time here with me.

Till next time
Hugs
Julie

Scrapbooking Layout "Year Six Social"

Good morning,

It is getting close to Christmas now, only one week to go.

My layout today is not a Christmas one but a layout to record the memories of my Grand-daughters first school social.

I recorded the process and you can see the video here.

I purchased a Kaisercraft 12" x 12" paper pad of the "Rosabella" paper range because the colours in it went well with the colour of the dress in the photo.

I created a sketch to give me an idea of how this layout would look and worked from that.

My background is a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock, to this I added some Mont Marte Modelling Paste that I had coloured with some Duncan Plum Blossom acrylic paint and put through a Kaisercraft 6" stencil. I did not cover the whole background, just here and there. I then set that aside to dry.

I chose 6 patterned papers from the paper pad and cut them to the sizes I had drawn in my sketch.
Patterned paper No. 1 - 1 @ 4.5" x 9", 1 @ 7.5" x 1.5", 1 @ 2" x 1" and 1 @ 1.5" by 2.5"
Patterned paper No. 2 - 1 @ 4" x 7.5"
Patterned paper No. 3 - 1 @ 1.5" x 11" and 1 @ 3" x 0.75"
Patterned paper No. 4 - 1 @ 6.25" x 1.5", 1@ 1.5" x 0.5", 1@ 2" x 0.5" and 1 @ 2.5 x 0.5
Patterned paper No. 5 - 3 scalloped circles 1 @ 2", 1 @ 3" and 1 @ 4"
Patterned paper No. 6 - 1 @ 4.25" x 1.5" and 1 @ 1" x 0.5"

For the circles I used my Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circle Large and Lifestyle Crafts Nested Lace Circles dies. I then used Couture Creations "Washed Away" embossing folder to add a bit of extra detail. I wiped my black ink pad lightly over the circles to help the embossing stand out.

I then inked all of the edges of all of the patterned papers and attached them to the background.

Once I had my basics in place I played around with the layout a little adding a few more strips of patterned paper where I thought it needed it.

The photo started out as a 5" x 7" but I trimmed it down to 2.75" x 7"
I had the small photo left over from some other photos I had printed for the second of this two page layout so I decided to add it to this layout. I matted it on some white cardstock and used cardboard behind it before I attached it to the layout so it had a bit of extra height.

It was at this stage that I decided to add the pennants. I wanted some embellishments but did not want to use flowers hoping for a more fun look to the page. I used a die to cut the three layers of each pennant in a different patterned paper, inked the edges and then assembled them using foam squares between the two triangular shapes. These were then attached to the layout using glue.

I put a white brad on the inside edge of each pennant run and then I applied a fine row of glue at the top of the pennants, wound some white crochet cotton around the brads and stuck it along the top of the pennants.

A crystal gem at the centre of each pennant and a very small title attached to one of the strips of the layout, finished this layout off.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my layout, but don't forget you can see the whole process over on my YouTube channel here.

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Thanks for sharing your time here with me today
Till next time
Hugs
Julie

The last 15 Christmas cards for 2019

Today's post is a bit different to my normal posts. There will not be a description of how each card was created......just photos.

There are 15 photos in this post so it would go on forever if I wrote how each one was created.
I think the best thing would be that if you want directions on how to create a particular you can leave me a question in the comments and I can give you the directions you want.

So let's get started....

Well I hope you like the cards.

There is a video showing a walk through you can watch here if you want a bit more detail.

Don't forget if you have questions leave them in the comments and I will get back to you.

Thanks for dropping by
Till next time
Hugs
Julie

Christmas Cards No 13 - 15 2019

Good morning

Three more Christmas cards today. I will be making one more video after this one for Christmas cards and that will be it for Christmas cards this year.

I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas cards and have given some of them a try. They are mostly simple designs and would look great in any Christmas papers you might have in your stash.

Once again I have videoed the process while I made these cards and you can see the video here.

These are the cards I want to show you today

I have used the DCWV Merry & Bright paper pad that I have been using for all of my Christmas cards this year and all of the cards have a 5 1/4" square white card base cut from sheets of white cardstock.

All of the papers and embellishments have had their edges inked with a black ink pad.

Let's start with this card.

This is a double Z fold card. The base card was scored at 2 5/8" and 5 1/4".  The first score is a mountain fold and the second is a valley fold.

The top Z was cut to 9 1/2" x 3 1/2" and also scored at 2 5/8" and 5 1/4". The first score is a valley fold and the second is a mountain fold

I chose a patterned paper (White and Gold) and cut 1 piece 5" square and 2 pieces 2 3/8" x 5". These were attached to the 3 top areas when the card is fully opened.

From the second patterned paper (Pink) I cut 1 piece 4" x 3 1/4", 2 pieces 2 3/8" x 3 1/4" and one piece 3 1/2" x 2 3/4"

The largest piece and the two smallest pieces were attached to the top of the smaller z folded card. Be sure to have the largest section to the left when attaching these papers.

I cut a piece of a third patterned paper (Black) 3 3/4" x 3" and attached that on top of the largest pink piece.

The last piece of pink patterned paper was then attached on top of the black patterned paper.

I used a Christmas tree die and cut three Christmas trees from Gold cardstock. Two of these were attached to the front of the card and the third was attached to the first inside panel of the smaller Z fold cardstock. I used glue to attach these embellishments.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 1 7/8" x 2 3/4" and attached that to the last inside panel so I would have a place to write my personal greeting.

The Greeting on the outside of the card was cut using Elizabeth Craft Designs 745 Merry Christmas die and black cardstock. This was attached at the bottom of the card using glue.

I had a change from Christmas trees to stars for embellishments for the next card

I cut the first patterned paper (Black) to 5" square and the second patterned paper (Pink) to 4 1/4" square. I also cut two pieces of white cardstock, one was 4 1/2" square and the other was 3 3/4" square.

To make the stars I used the fourth smallest die from the Nellie's Multi Frame Star Die set, and cut 12 stars in assorted patterned papers.

All for the patterned papers and white cardstock were layered on top of each other in decreasing order and then the stars were arranged in a wreath shape on the top.

The greeting uses the same die as the previous card but this time I cut it with gold cardstock, attached it to a piece of white cardstock and matted that onto some of the black patterned paper that I had used in the layers.

Foam squares were used to attach the greeting in the top left section of the card front.

It was back to Christmas trees to embellish this last card. It has a front circle overlap, short of a gate fold card but not really.

I have chosen three patterned papers for this card, although you can only see two. The third one is on the inside of the card and does the same job as the main patterned paper (Pink) on the front.

From the first patterned paper I cut a 5" square and the second largest circle from Spellbinders Standard Large Circles die set. I cut exactly the same from the second patterned paper to use inside the card.

The third patterned paper (Black) was cut to 2 3/4" x 5"

I cut some white cardstock 3" x 5 1/4"to mat the black patterned paper and the largest of the circles from the Spellbinders Standard Large Circles set.

Both patterned paper circles were attached, one each side, of the white circle and a score line was added about 1/2" in from the edge. This was folded in and attached to the inside right hand edge of the card base using glue. The 5" square piece of patterned paper two was attached over the top of the join to disguise it.

An embossing folder was used to emboss a Christmas tree pattern on some gold cardstock. I am not sure what brand the embossing folder is, it came in a set I think and I have thrown the packaging away. I fussy cut around the edge of the tree and matted it on some white cardstock so it would stand out more against the patterned paper.

To assemble the front of the card I attached the 5" square pice of patterned paper then the white cardstock so it was approximately 1/2" from the left hand edge of the card and then the black patterned paper on top of that. Next the embossed Christmas tree was attached on top of the black.

The two Christmas tree embellishments on the circle were cut using a die and black gloss cardstock and attached using glue.

The same Merry Christmas greeting that I used on the previous cards was attached to the inside of the card to finish this card off.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cards today. If you want more details you can check out the video here.

Thanks for spending your time here with me today
Till next time
Hugs
Julie