"Art Journal"
Hello everyone! How are you all? Today I am sharing an art journal page,
a layout & a canvas! Yup I am mixing it up quite a bit these days!!
For this very simple art journal page I simply cut & tore up my off-cut pieces
into small rectangular shapes & collaged them all together using gel medium,
then sprayed & splattered some mists before adding my 2Crafty Chipboard
butterflies & my hand drawn arrows & title.
The Sharon's butterflies are my favourite out of all the butterflies!
I love the complexity of the cuts & as they are so beautiful they look
stunning with simple treatments. Here I simply inked them black.
I varnished them with some glittery nail varnish that looks shimmery & lovely in person but alas does not show in the photos! So the moral of this project? Don't over think it! Sometimes simple is enough :)
"Hello / Love"
Next up I made a layout of my daughter with a random shot I caught of her smiling at her mobile phone!
Technology is such a big part of life these days...have you remembered to capture it
"on film?"
Because my photo was so "white" I chose to use a dark brown background paper to
go with my daughter's hair. I think it makes everything "pop" so nicely off the
background so is perfect for some stencil/modelling paste work.
Once I had dried off my hearts design & splashed on some lovely gold ink I set to work on decorating my page with wonderful pieces from 2 Crafty. When I hauled out my brown cardstock pile I found these 2 off-cut strips of browny green on top of them & decided it was serendipitous!
So I added the border strips of brown & green spotted paper which really started the
WOW factor! Then I added my favourite 12 inch border strips - the Stitched Lace Border.
I cut off 2 Stitched Lace semi-circles from each border strip to allow for a bit of breathing
space, then I used my Aladine Izinks from France to ink them up in green & gold.
Next I added my photo, tilted at an angle & offset on top of some coordinating spotted paper
{these papers are VERY old - 2009! Just shows that classic designs never date!!} Then I
began my embellishing around the photo. Seeing as the theme of my page was
TECHNOLOGY I used the COG BORDER. I cut it into 3 pieces & tucked the
pieces into 3 sides of my photo after inking in 3 different rusty colours.
It is very easy to paint your chipboard this way if you start with the palest colour as
then it is not even necessary to wash off your paint brush in between & you waste
less medium this way.
Next I decorated around my photo & the cogs with various pretty flowers, leaves, tendrils, cotton reels & micro-beads before lastly adding a couple of Circle Words with the words HELLO & LOVE.
The LOVE circle forms part of my title ''LOVE Technology". I painted these with gold inks then sponged on a bit of white acrylic paint before adhering them then gluing on some micro- beads between the lines.
LOVED creating this page.
2CRafty Products Used
2 STITCHED LACE BORDERS
{with some off-cut pieces left}
1 COG BORDER
2 WORD CIRCLES
"Love -CANVAS"
My last share is a "canvas" that is actually just a thick piece of mounting card.
Canvases are quite expensive here in South Africa so I save anything I can
that will work as a suitable alternative {lids are great too!}.
This was really thick so worked PERFECTLY!
The measurement of this piece is 9 x 12 inches. I started by painting the entire board with white acrylic paint then I stuck some old stickers onto the base while it was still wet, to add some texture. I repeated the same method with some more white acrylic paint acting as my
adhesive, & added the negative area of the sticker sheet too.
I snapped a few photos along the way to show you my starting process. This is a great way of using up old alphas & things that you no longer like the colours or themes of as they end up getting mostly covered up & just add some textural interest.
Next I added some 2Crafty Chipboard pieces for textural interest.
I started with the sets of 3 circles from the mini-sampler set.
Next I added some SKELETON LEAVES - LOVE these!! Have been dying to use them!
I painted over the first layer with white acrylic then sprayed with mists then painted the second layer with green Izinks. I ended up using 9 leaves {1 1/2 packs}.
Next I added my other embellishments.
Once I had added my flairs, flowers & fabric leaves I felt that something was still lacking so I painted up & added 3 out of 4 of the set of MINI-FLOURISH BITS - these are SO handy - the perfect size!
I used my glue-gun to layer up all my elements {& my Tombo glue to adhere by chipboard pieces} then added some mica-flakes & a couple of sequin butterflies as my finishing touch. Thanks for visiting today!
2Crafty Products Used
1/2 pack mini-sampler set
1.5 packs of Skeleton Leaves
3/4 pack of mini-flourish bits
And here are the process photos to help you get started on a canvas of your own :)
For more tutorials visit my blog
HERE.
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