Swirls and Hearts Journal Page

I started out with my Golden Fluid Acrylics in the squeeze bottles and used them to draw on my page.  Instead of using water to get them to drip, I used a purple Perfect Pearls Mist.  Lots of shiny purple that you can' really see in the photos. Next I used modeling paste and the Dina Media heart stencil.   After that it was filling in with Stencil Girl stencils, little paint rings, and splashes of black paint.  I had fun creating this page.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

August Art Journal Page Swap

For my August art journal page, the recipient's theme is "silly birds".  On this page, I glued down an old dictionary page, and used a circle stencil with Dylusions green and orange paint.  The yellow is Dina Media paint.  I used a Stencil Girl word stencil here and there.  I applied a light orange washi tape in several places.  The birds are from the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamp set.  I colored them with watercolors.  I used a Dina Media stencil with glitter bead gel.  Love that stuff!  The saying is from Dylusions.

This page is all Dina Media - stamps, paint and stencils.  The hearts are cut from a vintage book.  I used an orange inktense pencil and a yellow china marker for highlighting some of the elements. The birds are painted with the Dina Media paints.  I used an alphabet stamp that is NOT Dina Media for a little texture.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Mixed Media ATC's

The June ATC swap at the Collage Stuff yahoo group has a birds, bugs and butterflies theme.  This is my art for the swap.  I made a gelli print background on deli paper and glued the deli paper to white cardstock.  I used a Dina Wakley insects mask and applied black paint around the mask.  I used a white Posca paint pen to make the white dots.  The stickers are Tim Holtz small talk stickers.  I found the tiny white flowers in my stash.  I think  my favorite one is the middle in the bottom row.  How about you?  Which is your favorite?  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Mixed Media Birthday Card

I finished this birthday card tonight.  I've been cleaning off my brayer (when making gelli prints) on a vintage book in the French language.  I used one of these pages for the background.  I tore it out of the book, so the left edge is torn. The paints are Dylusions. The woman image is a stencil from Stencil Girl.  I used a Dina Wakley alphabet stencil.  The book page is adhered to a 5x7 white card.  First I had the card front in a hot pink, but it looked off, so I added the black paint around the edges.  The stickers are from Tim Holtz.  I printed the black/white checks off on my computer.  I outlined the words with a black glaze pen.  I have several more brayer cleaning pages stenciled with this image that I'm going to use in my art journals.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Stenciled and Gelli Printed Tags

This afternoon I wanted to play with my stencils, gelli plate and Dylusions paints.  These tags are the result!  They are for sale in my Etsy store.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Waiting Art Journal Page

This is the first page in a new small Dylusions journal.  The background is mainly made from mopping up stencils used on other art journal pages.  I added numbers, circles, text from a stencil and the flowers (Dina Wakley stamps).  The flowers are watercolored.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Come to my Party Art Journal Pages

Here's a spread in Lin's journal.  We work in each other's art journals.  Products used are from Dina Wakley, Collage Stuff, Stencil Girl, Hidden Vintage Studio, Colorbox and Tim Holtz.  Thanks for coming by my blog.

Opposites Attract Art Journal Spread

 

I got the new Ranger Transparent Texture Paste in at Collage Stuff, so I thought I'd test it out.  The consistency was that of soft gel medium - not what I expected.  First I applied gesso to the pages.  I used a The Crafter's Workshop template and traced the circles on the page.  Then I traced the circle on an old dictionary page and cut out enough circles.  I applied the circles with a glue stick.  I applied the texture paste over the circles with the stencil.  I wanted to see if it would act as a resist for the spray inks I used.  It did, sort of.  The lines were made with a Stencil Girl stencil.  I used the new Dina Wakley Insects Mask/Stencils to apply the butterflies and bee.  I used a The Crafter's Workshop 4x4 stencil for the black/white tiny boxes.  I stamped the word "fly" on Tim Holtz labels and applied those last.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Discover Yourself Art Journal Pages

 

Here's another art journal spread made with lots of paint, stencils, and modeling paste.  The bees are Dina Wakley stamps.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Spirited and Strong Art Journal Pages

 

I finished up this art journal spread last night.  I recently bought some Spellbinders dies on clearance and used one set for this spread.  I love these arch dies. The stamps are from Dina Wakley.  I used stencil from Joggles, Stencil Girl, The Crafter's Workshop, Tim Holtz and Dina Wakley.  The hearts were made using a stencil and flexible modeling paste. I colored the women with Copic makers.   Thanks for coming by my blog!

Fearless Mixed Media Art

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, we are doing a mixed media collage art swap.  This is my finished piece.  I used a variety of stencils, acrylic paint, vintage text, and modeling paste.   Thanks for coming by my blog!

The Redhead art journal page

Another art journal page.  I'm having fun painting faces.  I need to get some better small paint brushes.  I used Dina Wakely and Stencil Girl stencils.  Thanks for coming by my blog!