Art Journal Canvas

Well I was resistant at first and I don't know why...I had not tried this "art journalling" before and I was provided a prefect combination of opportunity and inspiration from my co-designers at Scrap'n With Flair (those ladies are so talented) and the Art on the Severn Art Show I help organize decided to have some committee members show their work as well.

I used the Scrap'n With Flair July Plumeria Kit and some old canvases I had kicking around!  I also used mat gel medium and gesso to get the first few layers down.  Then added some great embellies some from my stash but most of the flowers, bling, pearls, jewels and trim were from the add-on kit. Then I played with adding some colour by using inks that came in the kit and some acrylic paint.

My partner and I just bought a house so we are going to put these in our new living room!  

Happy Scrappin!

Challenge 6 - Hunting for Eggs

Phew I was a little late getting this up, yikes what a crazy week!  Check out all the great looking pages of inspiration at Color-Me-Scrappy and play along with the challenge.  This month there is a mystery bag full of goodies!  Working with a colour palette is really fun, you can combine it with your favourite sketch site to really push the envelope!  Have fun ladies and happy crafting! 

 These colours did not seem hard to me but once I started I became challenged as to how I would get that red in the page!  Nothing like a ribbon flower to fix that! I complimented it with some red letters and a touch of red in the circle paper.  I used CTMH cardstock and patterned paper, Core'dinations embossed, cardstock, Jillybean Soup patterned paper, CTMH shaped acrylic and chipboard shapes. American Crafts and basic Grey letters, CTMH ribbon, rub-ons and brads, Maya Road Button and Fabircland cording trim.

I made these flowers with ribbon and a hot glue gun.

This was an embroidery floss bracelet my bonus daughter made and I twisted
it up to make this cute button embellie!

Scrapn With Flair Mini Album and Masking Technique Tutorial!

This is my first tutorial and my third creation with the Scrapn With Flair June Kit this kit is full of fantastic goodies from FabScraps (paper and a min-album) and I am Roses (flowers) plus some other add-ins like an assortment of trim and lace.  At last check with Leanne at the store there are still some left so be sure to click on the link above to purchase one before they are all gone...

I have featured the Mini Album finished product first and the tutorial on masking will follow...

Cover

The chip board FabScraps Mini Album came bare with the cutouts you see here and the decorative chipboard die cut on the lefthand side.  I covered it with the paper from the kit.  Everything you see in the next series of photos is from the kit with the exception of the stamps, the ribbon on the album rings (left) and the cutie pictures of my ballerina!  Everything else came from or was made with the products in the kit!

Detail of embellishments, flower and trim.  I just love the metal accents :)

This is the inside of the first page, there was not much to work with on the inside of the cover so I covered it with gesso and stamped a script stamp randomly around the page, then when dry I added some ink to provide some colour in the script impression.  The silhouette is from the masking technique which I will cover later in this post!  The fan flower is provided in the kit (some assembly required...glue dots are your friend!)

Detail of the I am Roses that I coloured with Lindy Stamp Gang mist, I added a second colour with a  bingo dauber applicator connected to a different Lindys Ink to get the more red tips.  I also made a paper flower by cutting a spiral out of some scraps of paper from the kit.

Page 3 and 4: The pearls, trim, jewels and stickers you see here all came from the kit.  The ribbon on the tag did not.

Here is a close-up of the tag I made using some paper scraps from the kit.  The stamped images of the dancer and phrases is all from a Close to My Heart stamp.

Page 5 and 6: Again some great embellies from the kit including yet another fan flower, more trim, and jewels!  I carefully covered the faces of the dancers for their protection.

A detail of some more tags, again the ribbon on the tags are from my own supplies!

This is the back cover!

TUTORIAL ON MASKING

An age old technique in scrap-land but one that can be used again and again, and often gets forgotten.  So  lets back up the train to simple for the next few photos and see how this simple technique can really make a scene!

First: lay stamp down on the page or area that you want to mask.

Then you use any type of mist, for this, I used Lindy Stamp Gang.  It has some great colours and wonderful finish with a nice shine to it!

Spray on the mist.

Then remove the stamp, let it dry.

For this next step I am going to proceed on a different page of the book, where I used this same technique on a paper page, vs the textured page on the previous image.

So here you see the silhouette of the dancer, this image shows how it looks when the mist is dry.

Next step, stamping in the shadow left from the mask technique.  Take the same stamp used for the mask technique place it on a block and get it inked up!

Stamp the inked image in the silhouette left from the masking. Centred

And then you have a stamped image with a glow around it!
Beautiful.

I used this technique throughout this book!  Go to ScrapnwithFlair to order yours!